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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:17:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the 21st time around the Maypole Today is Humanist's 21st birthday! Some of you have been around since the very beginning, many for many years. So most everyone here knows that on 7 May every year I post a HAPPY BIRTHDAY message, taking a bit of time out not just to celebrate longevity but also to reflect on Humanist's conceptual wanderings during the year. This time allow me to do these things by drawing your attention to four bits of writing, whose conjunction to my mind sums up what this whatever-it-is has been about since it began, in 1987, when the humanities were nearing the end of their palaeo-electronic age. I come to the following construction because the necessarily extra-/inter-disciplinary position of humanities computing gives us quite a balancing act to perform, help with which is never superfluous. To put this another way, it is useful if not vital for us to be reminded that being in play rather than at rest, or in still another way, remaining in conversation rather than at the conclusion of whatever argument (or worse, persuaded by whatever sales-pitch), is the trick perpetually to be performed. We need our wakeup calls. So I give you the following: (1) The first three paragraphs in the Preface to Erwin Schrdinger, What is Life? (1943), in which he states his excuse for venturing beyond his area of specialization (theoretical physics, that is): >A scientist is supposed to have a complete and >thorough knowledge, at first hand, of some >subjects and, therefore, is usually expected not >to write on any topic of which he is not a >master. This is regarded as a matter of noblesse >oblige. For the present purpose I beg to >renounce the noblesse, if any, and to be freed >of the ensuing obligation. My excuse is as follows: > >We have inherited from our forefathers the keen >longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge. >The very name given to the highest institutions >of learning reminds us, that from antiquity and >throughout many centuries the universal aspect >has been the only one to be given full credit. >But the spread, both in width and depth, of the >multifarious branches of knowledge during the >last hundred odd years has confronted us with a >queer dilemma. We feel clearly that we are only >now beginning to acquire reliable material for >welding together the sum total of all that is >known into a whole; but, on the other hand, it >has become next to impossible for a single mind >fully to command more than a small specialized version of it. > >I can see no other escape from this dilemma >(lest our true aim be lost forever) than that >some of us should venture to embark on a >synthesis of facts and theories, albeit with >second-hand and incomplete knowledge of some of >them -- and at the risk of making fools of ourselves. (2) John Ziman, "Emerging out of nature into history: the plurality of the sciences", in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 361 (2003): 1617-33, of which here I give the abstract (the whole thing is in JSTOR): >The idea of a 'theory of everything' is >inconsistent with a natural feature of >biological evolution: the spontaneous emergence >of composite entities with completely new >properties. At successively higher levels of >complexity, from elementary particles and >chemical molecules, through unicellular and >multicellular organisms, to self-aware human >beings and their cultural institutions, we find >systems obeying entirely novel principles. The >behaviour of such systems is not predictable >from the properties of their constituents, so >distinct 'languages' are required to describe >them scientifically. The plurality of our >sciences is thus an irreducible feature of the >universe we live in. In particular, the >reversible time coordinate of mathematical >physics cannot cope with the natural 'path >dependence' of biology. In the human sciences >this extends into the imagined future as well as >the remembered past. Furthermore, science >nowadays usually arises in localized social >contexts, where the 'logic of the situation' is >continually being transformed by the emergence >of cultural novelties such as unpredictable >technological innovations. Thus, scientific >knowledge cannot be restricted to generalized >synchronic models, but involves historical >narratives of specific events and unforeseen circumstances. (3) G. R. Lloyd, Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), of which I will quote the first paragraph from the Preface: >This book derives from the interests that I have >had, over many years, in comparing the cognitive >capacities displayed and the modes of reasoning >used by the members of different societies, >ancient and modern. What are the commonalities >that link us all as human beings? What is the >extent, and what are the limits, to human >variability in this domain? Claims for >cross-cultural universals have been made, in >recent years especially, in such areas as colour >perception, animal classification, and the >emotions. How robust is the evidence for these? >At what points and in what respects do we have >to acknowledge that cognition varies as between >individuals or collectivities, in response to >cultural, linguistic, or even physical factors? (4) Ian Hacking, "How Shall We Repaint the Kitchen?" Rev. of Cognitive Variations, as above. London Review of Books 29.21 (1 November 2007), from which I quote the final paragraph (Hacking's "nature and nurture" being the poles between which Lloyd's argument has proceeded): >Nature and nurture are not exhaustive; indeed, >the action is mostly at the interplay between >the two. They should be regarded only as >signposts. Moreover, you should not assume that >nature gives what is universal in the human >condition, while nurture produces all the >variety. There is of course tremendous regional >variety in peoples around the globe, and lots of >cognitive variability within a single family; >conversely, there may be many facts about the >very possibility of human societies that make >for the cultural universals urged by >anthropologists as different as Claude Lvi-Strauss >and Mary Douglas. If I read the situation correctly, current writings in the history of science favour (2) over (1), e.g. Peter Galison's argument for "specific theory" (Critical Inquiry 30, Winter 2004) or Nancy Cartwright's "deeply dappled" world (The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science, Cambridge, 1999). Some who write about Schrdinger refer, with respect but at a distance, to his "belief" in the possibility of conceptual unification. No one I know remarks on his breathtaking intellectual bravery. Lloyd's beautiful little book puts the swings and roundabouts of such argument into a large historical and geographical context. But Hacking's review (which I'll send to anyone who asks) makes the point I think we need to have before us: "the action is mostly at the interplay between the two [universalism & particularism]. They should be regarded only as signposts." I suppose one could say in the spirit of his point that interdisciplinarity, such as we have before us to practice, is a way of acting in that interplay -- and of never coming to rest or tumbling into one ditch or the other. Ziman's strong argument keeps us honest -- not respecting the differences makes identities impossible -- but also points the bravery of Schrdinger, to venture not just where no one has gone before but where the going has no conclusion and admits of no certainty. Humanist hasn't a singular axe to grind, rather as many axes as can be found. But the grinding of axes (allow me to follow the metaphor, if you please) for the chopping of wood, to build our dwellings, keep us warm and cook our food, is the singular activity it is most certainly about. I suppose this 21st birthday -- to be celebrated, note well, at the Digital Humanities conference in Oulu, Finland, the last week of June (be there or be square) -- can signify some sort of maturity, which among other things means having that aboutness in mind. It means realising that although a sharp axe is at any one time the goal of grinding, when one looks back and considers all the wood chopped, it's the grinding that is to be celebrated. Axes, however substantial, come and go, get dull, and so need grinding again. Looking back on these first 21 years of axe-grinding, what strikes me is the potent mixture of stubbornness and love in equal measure that have kept it going. Or perhaps I should say, the stubbornness of love. Humanist certainly won't live forever. But even the most fragile of human productions -- notably ideas -- have longevity measured in millennia. Not that Humanist is anywhere near as epochal as the idea of the library or the idea of the university, but it participates in the elaboration, indeed in the defense of these ancient ideas. I here invite you to join me in optimism despite the formidable janitocracy by which we are currently managed. And so, in optimism, as we build our digital scholarly worlds, we need to be working quite self-consciously in the tradition of such ideas, realising that these are what matter. Humanist is a place in which to discuss them. It is also a manifestation of the discussing that is fundamental to everything the humanities have always been about. Just yesterday an old friend wrote to me that "individuals make the digital humanities, not centres, which all shrivel and die". I hope he is wrong about centres, at least those we have now, and one in particular. But he is certainly right about individuals, because of what they can do -- think, love, act. This collection of individuals does these things in language, by correspondence. In the 22nd year of Humanist, as the old English proverb goes, "Be bold -- but not too bold!" And don't forget to celebrate. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Brent Nelson (142) Subject: cfp: CaSTA 2008 [2] From: Stfan Sinclair (28) Subject: T-REX (text analysis tools event) [3] From: Miki Hermann (67) Subject: CFP: Workshop CEDAR 2008 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:21:59 +0100 From: Brent Nelson Subject: cfp: CaSTA 2008 A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008 CaSTA 2008 -- "New Directions in Text Analysis" -- will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon from 16-18 October 2008, featuring guest speakers: * David Hoover, Professor of English at New York University (keynote) * Hoyt Duggan, Professor Emeritus in English at University of Virginia * Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Professor in Humanities Computing and Multimedia at University of Alberta * Cara Leitch, PhD candidate in English at University of Victoria CaSTA 2008 will also feature a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture," with guest speakers: * Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University, and Executive Editor of Medieval English Theatre (new speaker, replacing Melissa Terras) * Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, University of California Los Angeles CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR "NEW DIRECTIONS IN TEXT ANALYSIS" The organizing committee of CaSTA 2008 also invites proposals from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working in any area of technical or textual studies addressing the conference theme, "New Directions in Text Analysis." This will be the sixth annual CaSTA conference, held in association with TAPoR (the Text Analysis Portal). The two days of the conference (17-18 October) will feature keynote and plenary addresses, papers, panels, and posters on a wide range of topics related to the future of digital text analysis. Presentations might address such topics as - changing notions of what constitutes a text - the relationship of the material text (its physical manifestation) to the ideal text (the text as an abstraction of words in a particular combination) - editing and publishing digital texts for a changing readership - new media and digital textual scholarship - new tools and methodologies for text analysis - digital texts and analysis in the scholarly mainstream - working with graduate students and research teams Abstracts of 500-700 words should propose presentations in one of three= forms: - Single papers (max of 3,000 words) - Panels (three to five papers on a common theme) - Posters (max of 750 words), either hard copy (approximately two square metres of board space) or digital with terminal access provided. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference and there will be a designated session time for presenters to discuss their work. Abstract proposals should include the following information: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate students, whose work is even now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will begin to explore. Cara Leitch (PhD candidate, University of Victoria) will conduct sessions of particular interest to graduate students and to projects that involve significant student training and participation. Travel grants will be available to students who travel to attend the conference. All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Abstracts will also be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Selected papers from the conference will be included in a special issue of the peer reviewed journal, Text Technology. Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson@usask.ca In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR "DIGITIZING EARLY MATERIAL CULTURE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY" The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity." Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century. Complete papers will be circulated in advance of the conference and participants (presenters and non-presenters) will sign up for and participate in two to three sessions on Thursday, 16 October, having read the complete papers (2-3 per session) in advance. Each session will comprise short introductory summaries by presenters (5-10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the circulated texts. Participants can expect to receive concrete and expert advice from other participants as they pool expertise (together with our invited speakers) to consider how the project, tool, or theory can be further developed toward publication or implementation. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Complete papers will be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Contributors to the seminar will also be invited to submit papers for a collection on "Digitizing Early Material Culture, from Antiquity to 1700," to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) for the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series at MRTS (series editors Ray Siemens and William Bowen). Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson@usask.ca. In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008, and complete papers will be due 15 September 2008 Please see the conference website for further developments: http://ocs.usask.ca/casta08 -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson@arts.usask.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:22:57 +0100 From: Stfan Sinclair Subject: T-REX (text analysis tools event) Dear colleagues, The Text Analysis Developers' Alliance (TADA) is pleased to announce T-REX, its inaugural text analysis tools event: http://tada.mcmaster.ca/trex/ As can be seen from the categories, T-REX is open to both tool developers and tool users: > Best New Text Analysis Tool (as web service) > Best Idea for a New Tool > Best Idea for Improving a Current Tool > Best Idea for Improving the Interface of the TAPoR Portal > Best Experiment of Text Analysis Using High Performance Computing The deadline for this round will be June 30th, 2008. Please see the website for more information. Tool developers and users of the world unite! Stfan (current future former director of TADA) -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:23:44 +0100 From: Miki Hermann Subject: CFP: Workshop CEDAR 2008 *********************************************************************** * * * Complexity, Expressibility, and Decidability in Automated Reasoning * * (CEDAR'08) * * http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~sofronie/cedar08.html * * * * Affiliated with IJCAR 2008 Sydney, Australia, 10-15 August 2008 * * http://www.ijcar.org/2008/ * * * *********************************************************************** Decidability, and especially complexity and tractability of logical theories is extremely important for a large number of applications. Although general logical formalisms (such as predicate logic or number theory) are undecidable, decidable theories or decidable fragments thereof (sometimes even with low complexity) often occur in mathematics, in program verification, in the verification of reactive, real time or hybrid systems, as well as in databases and ontologies. It is therefore important to identify such decidable fragments and design efficient decision procedures for them. It is equally important to have uniform methods (such as resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, ...) which can be tuned to provide algorithms with optimal complexity. The goal of CEDAR is to bring together researchers interested in problems that are in the interface between automated reasoning and computational complexity, in particular in: - identifying (fragments of) logical theories which are decidable, identifying fragments thereof which have low complexity, and analyzing possibilities of obtaining optimal complexity results with uniform tools; - analyzing decidability in combinations of theories and possibilities of combining decision procedures; - efficient implementations for decidable fragments; - application domains where decidability resp. tractability are crucial. Topics Topics of interest for CEDAR 2008 include (but are not restricted to): - Complexity: - complexity analysis for fragments of first- (or higher) order logic - complexity analysis for combinations of logical theories (including parameterized complexity results) - Expressibility (in logic, automated reasoning, algebra, ...) - Decidability: - decision procedures based on logical calculi such as: resolution, rewriting, tableaux, sequent calculi, or natural deduction - decidability in combinations of logical theories - Application domains for which complexity issues are essential (verification, security, databases, ontologies, ...) The goal of CEDAR is to bring together researchers interested in exploring the topics above, both at a theoretical level and motivated by applications, and to enhance the interaction between automated reasoning and computational complexity through invited and contributed talks. The ultimate aim is to expand the horizons of this area of research, deepen the interactions, sensibilize other people from the automated reasoning community to the complexity problems, and last but not least, offer persons working in research and development centers of software companies the possibility to get an overview of the problems. Invited speaker - Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden) Program and Workshop Chairs - Franz Baader (TU Dresden) - Silvio Ghilardi (U. Milano) - Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) - Ulrike Sattler (U. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Helma Dik (46) Subject: New version of Perseus Latin Texts under PhiloLogic [2] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2007 Annual Edition [3] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" (199) Subject: TL Infobits -- April 2008 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:24:12 +0100 From: Helma Dik Subject: New version of Perseus Latin Texts under PhiloLogic Dear all, -with apologies for cross-posting- I am very happy to announce that we now have a new version of the Perseus Latin texts under PhiloLogic. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/ Click "Latin Texts and Translations" Latin texts, specifically, available through the search form at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/latin.html Googling "Perseus under Philologic" will get you to the site easily. This implementation of Perseus under PhiloLogic has been worked on by Charles Cooney of the ARTFL project, and since the summer of 2007, by Richard Whaling, classicist and computer scientist all-in-one. Work was sponsored in part by the Perseus Project, for whose support we are very grateful. Besides the built-in possibilities of PhiloLogic (such as KWIC concordances, frequencies, and collocation data), of special interest in the current release are: -navigation and search results better reflect expectations of classicists (standard citations, which are also browsable). -line numbers in search results for poetry refer to the closest preceding 'milestone' -not the exact line. -morphological/lexical information directly from a Chicago server, by selecting a word and hitting d on your keyboard. -possibility to limit searches in comedy to the text of individual characters. -use the Cite Lookup box to navigate directly to your destination. Citations typically follow the OLD. It should be clear that there is both significant overlap with capabilities at Perseus and significant differences. This complementary implementation is made possible by the fact that the Perseus Project uses a Creative Commons License for its texts and thereby allows its significant investment in text encoding to be seen in places far beyond its own site, not restricted to its own set of reading and analysis tools. I look forward to further cooperative projects. Comments welcome! Please use the "Report a Problem" link to notify us of anything from textual errors to bugs in the system. In periodic (not instantaneous!) updates, we will try to address as many of these as possible. Enjoy! With best wishes, Helma Dik Helma Dik Dept. of Classics University of Chicago http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:24:35 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2007 Annual Edition The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2007 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. Each annual edition is based on the last HTML version published during the edition's year. The SEPB 2007 Annual Edition is based on Version 70 (12/18/2007). The printed bibliography is over 260 pages long. The PDF file is over 1 MB. In addition to updated URLs, hundreds of additional URLs have been added to the SEPB 2007 Annual Edition. (The additional URLs will be added to Version 72 of the SEPB HTML edition.) The bibliography has the following sections: Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans Open Access Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:24:57 +0100 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- April 2008 TL INFOBITS April 2008 No. 22 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitapr08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Report on E-Learning Returns on Investment Information Searching Behavior of "Google Generation" Students Publishing Policies for Faculty Authors and Open Access Using Leisure Devices in the Learning Environment Recommended Reading ...................................................................... REPORT ON E-LEARNING RETURNS ON INVESTMENT "Within the academic community there remains a sizable proportion of sceptics who question the value of some of the tools and approaches and perhaps an even greater proportion who are unaware of the full range of technological enhancements in current use. Amongst senior managers there is a concern that it is often difficult to quantify the returns achieved on the investment in such technologies. . . . JISC infoNet, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and The Higher Education Academy were presented with the challenge of trying to make some kind of sense of the diversity of current e-learning practice across the sector and to seek out evidence that technology-enhanced learning is delivering tangible benefits for learners, teachers and institutions." The summary of the project is presented in the recently-published report, "Exploring Tangible Benefits of e-Learning: Does Investment Yield Interest?" Some benefits were hard to measure and quantify, and the case studies were limited to only sixteen institutions. However, according to the study, there appears to be "clear evidence" of many good returns on investment in e-learning. These include improved student pass rates, improved student retention, and benefits for learners with special needs. A copy of the report is available at http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/publications/camel-tangible-benefits.pdf A two-page briefing paper is available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/bptangiblebenefitsv1.pdf JISC infoNet, a service of the Joint Information Systems Committee, "aims to be the UK's leading advisory service for managers in the post-compulsory education sector promoting the effective strategic planning, implementation and management of information and learning technology." For more information, go to http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/ Association for Learning Technology (ALT), formed in 1993, is "the leading UK body bringing together practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in learning technology." For more information, go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/ The mission of The Higher Education Academy, owned by two UK higher education organizations (Universities UK and GuildHE), is to "help institutions, discipline groups, and all staff to provide the best possible learning experience for their students." For more information, go to http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... INFORMATION SEARCHING BEHAVIOR OF "GOOGLE GENERATION" STUDENTS The British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) commissioned a study "to identify how the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or pre-school years (the 'Google generation'), are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years' time." How this group uses the Internet for information and research has implications for both instructors and librarians. Some of the group's characteristics revealed in the study conclude that: --they "have a poor understanding of their information needs and thus find it difficult to develop effective search strategies" -- they "have unsophisticated mental maps of what the internet is, often failing to appreciate that it is a collection of networked resources from different providers" -- they "find it difficult to assess the relevance of the materials presented and often print off pages with no more than a perfunctory glance at them" A number of popular myths about the Google generation were explored, with the researchers concluding that many popularly-held beliefs about the generation are, in fact, not substantiated by the research. The study's report "Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future" (January 2008) is available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is a strategic advisory committee working on behalf of the funding bodies for further and higher education in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. For more information on JISC, see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... PUBLISHING POLICIES FOR FACULTY AUTHORS AND OPEN ACCESS "[O]n February 12, 2008, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University took a landmark step. The faculty voted to adopt a policy requiring that faculty authors send an electronic copy of their scholarly articles to the university's digital repository and that faculty authors automatically grant copyright permission to the university to archive and to distribute these articles unless a faculty member has waived the policy for a particular article. Essentially, the faculty voted to make open access to the results of their published journal articles the default policy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University." The SPARC/Science Commons White Paper "Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution" (April 2008) describes Harvard's policy and provides a plan of action for other institutions contemplating similar policies to extend access to faculty publications. The paper is available at http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/opendoors_v1.pdf SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is "an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries." For more information, contact: SPARC, 21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-296-2296; fax 202-872-0884; email: sparc@arl.org; Web: http://www.arl.org/sparc/ ...................................................................... USING LEISURE DEVICES IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT "[T]he blurring of leisure and learning has corroded the respect that is necessary to commence a scholarly journey." In "Learning to Leisure? Failure, Flame, Blame, Shame, Homophobia and Other Everyday Practices in Online Education" (JOURNAL OF LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 9, no. 1, April 2008, pp. 36-61), Juliet Eve and Tara Brabazon "map a singular teaching hypothesis: when using platforms most frequently positioned in leisure-based environments, such as the iPod, text messaging, and discussion fora, there are institutional and ideological blockages to creating a successful learning experience and scholarly environment." From their in-class experimentation and the work of other researchers, they observed that the "user-generated content 'movement' -- including Flickr, wikimedia, blogs, podcasting, MySpace, Facebook and YouTube -- has provided a channel and venue for the emotive excesses of grievance, hostility and insolence against teachers, students and education." The paper is available at http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/volume9/jlt_v9_1_eve_brabazon.pdf The Journal of Literacy and Technology [ISSN: 1535-0975] is an online peer-reviewed international academic journal "exploring the complex relationship between literacy and technology in educational, workplace, public, and individual spheres." For more information, contact The Journal of Literacy & Technology, Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA; tel: 561-297-2623; fax: 561-297-2615; Web: http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. Shakespeare's Global Globe http://www.orbismundi.org/ Shakespeare's Global Globe, conceived by Michael Witmore an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, is "a web resource that provides an instantaneous visualization of all self-reporting readers of Shakespeare on the planet, viewable by region, genre and play. Upon arrival at the site, visitors are asked to indicate which Shakespeare play they are currently reading and where they are on the planet. The site then locates that reader and play at a particular point on the globe, which remains illuminated for two weeks. Site visitors can also explore what other readers of Shakespeare are doing in different cities, regions or continents using a range of display options." ...................................................................... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:01:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: history of literary computing As part of an ongoing research project I'm looking into the history of literary computing from the beginnings to ca 1989, i.e. over a span of about 40 years. Chronologies have been put together, notably by Susan Hockey, but as many here will know, we don't yet have a genuine history of any aspect of humanities computing. Indeed, we don't even have a proper history of computing, as Michael Mahoney has pointed out many times (see "Issues in the history of computing", www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html). The history I am attempting to write is in support of an argument about the future of the literary kind. The evidence I am turning up appears strongly to suggest that quite early on practitioners and commentators ran straight into deep problems that remain thorny today -- when we have the wit to talk about them. We rarely seem to do that, gripped as we are by the fever to implement, despite the possibility that we might now be in a position to do something about them. We can certainly keep them alive for the sake of our scholarly mental health. It is sobering to see the attention paid to such basics in publications such as the Times Literary Supplement all those years ago. A single example. In a review, "Keepers of rules versus players of roles", of two books on the social impact of computing, in the TLS for 21 June 1971, p. 585 (on the same page as a blurb for James Herndon's The Way It Spozed To Be, "A disturbing account of a year's teaching in a ghetto school in Washington"), the anonymous reviewer concludes thus: >Whether and, if so, how the playing of a role differs from the >application of rules which could and should be made explicit and >compatible -- this is the major epistemological problem of our time. >Computers raise it by implication. They may even help to resolve it >-- if their exponents can resist the temptation to bury it. The >temptation will be dangerously strong. Slave labour is so seductive. Indeed. That last sentence is worth holding in the mind for a time and will be especially meaningful to those here who have spent a time, or are still "eyeless in Gaza". My growing digital archive of materials may be of interest to some. If so, let me know. And allow me to whisper into the ear of anyone with their own collection of old stuff that scanning it could be a massive cottage industry -- the captaincy of which is an honour I hereby decline. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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ISSN 1583-1817 Ursulescu, Nicolae (2006) Dones rcentes concernant l'histoire des communauts nolithique de la civilisation Cucuteni. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, V. pp. 79-113. ISSN 1583-1817 Bacvarov, Krum (2006) Felines and bulls: Plastic representations from the late Neolithic site at Harmanli in the Maritsa valley. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, V. pp. 115-125. ISSN 1583-1817 Buzea, Dan (2006) Models of Altars and Miniature Tables belonging to the Cucuteni - Ariusd Culture, discovered at Pauleni Ciuc-Ciomortan "Dmbul Cetatii", Harghita County. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, V. pp. 127-157. ISSN 1583-1817 Sonoc, Alexandru Gh. (2006) Einige Bemerkungen bezglich der Grabstele eines Augustals aus Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, V. pp. 159-182. ISSN 1583-1817 Purece, Silviu Istrate (2006) A roman group of coins from Vlcea county museum. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, V. pp. 183-191. ISSN 1583-1817 Diaconescu, Dragos and Roman, Cristian C. (2006) A stone oven from the early Middle Ages discovered at Hunedoara-Gradina Castelului. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, V. pp. 193-209. ISSN 1583-1817 ----------- Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis, VI, 2007 'Lucian Blaga' University of Sibiu Institute for the Study and Valorization of the Transylvanian Patrimony in European Context Sibiu 2007 Editor:Sabin Adrian LUCA (Universitatea 'Lucian Blaga' din Sibiu, Romnia) Luca, Sabin Adrian and Diaconescu, Dragos and Georgescu, Adrian and Suciu, Cosmin (2007) Archaeological researches at Miercurea Sibiului-Petris (Sibiu County, Romania) The campaigns from 1997 to 2005. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, VI. pp. 7-23. ISSN 1583-1817 El Susi, Georgeta (2007) Archaeozoological records about domestic species farmed by Early Neolithical Communities from Banat and Transilvania. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, VI. pp. 25-51. 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ISSN 1583-1817 Schuster, Cristian and Morintz, Alexandru (2006) Zu den frhbronzezeitlichen Siedlungen und Bestattungen in Sdrumnien. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 43-50. ISSN 1583-1817 Gergova, Diana (2007) The eternity of the Burial Rite. The throne and the sitting Deceased. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 51-61. ISSN 1583-1817 Fialko, Elena (2006) Scythian material culture. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 63-75. ISSN 1583-1817 Boltryk, Yuryi and Fialko, Elena (2006) Barrows of the Scythian Tsars in the Second Half of the 4 th cent. B.C. 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ISSN 1583-1817 Martis, Tina and Zoitopoulos, Michalis and Tsaravopoulos, Aris (2006) Antikytera: the Early Hellenistic cemetery of a Pirate's Town. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 125-134. ISSN 1583-1817 Vaida, Dan Lucian (2006) Habitats et ncropoles celtiques au Nord-Est de la Transylvanie (IV e-II e sicles av. J.-C.). Etablissements et ncropoles. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 136-139. ISSN 1583-1817 Vasile, Ferencz Iosif (2006) Few considerations on the archaeological discoveries on the Middle Course of Mures River belonging to La Tne B2-C1. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 140-150. ISSN 1583-1817 Bochnak, Tomasz (2006) Panoplie de guerrier et tombe de guerrier. Problme de la pertinence des trouvailles spulcrales (d'aprs des exemples de culture de Przeworsk la priode prromaine prcoce). Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 152-163. ISSN 1583-1817 Srbu, Valeriu and Arsenescu, Margareta (2006) Dacian settlements and necropolises in Southwestern Romania (2nd c. B.C.-1st c. A.D.). Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 164-187. ISSN 1583-1817 Srbu, Valeriu and Luca, Sabin Adrian and Roman, Cristian and Purece, Silviu and Diaconescu, Dragos (2006) Dacian settlement and children necropolis of Hunedoara. An unique discovery in the Dacian world. Archaeological approach. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 164-187. ISSN 1583-1817 Sonoc, Alexandru Gh. (2006) Erz und Schlacke in provinzialrmischen Grber aus Dakien. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 210-223. ISSN 1583-1817 Pyrrou, Nikoleta and Tsaravopoulos, Aris and Bojica, Catalin Ovidiu (2006) The Byzantine Settlement of Antikythira (Greece) in the 5 th - 7 th centuries. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 224-238. ISSN 1583-1817 Ota, Silviu (2006) The relations between the settlements and the necropolises of the Banat territory in the 11th - 13th centuries. Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology, Special number (Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, XVII), V (1). pp. 240-248. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:14:56 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Summer School: Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining From: alexandra Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:03:13 +0100 Apologies for multiple copies. We appreciate if you can forward this Announcement to potential candidates. SUMMER SCHOOL NN2008 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 7-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2008@isep.ipp.pt GENERAL INFORMATION The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a POSTER/WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alexander Zien (Research Scientist at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Germany) Carlos Soares (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economy, University of Porto, Portugal) Christopher Bishop (Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK) Igor Aizenberg (Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA) Joaquim Marques de S (Full Professor, Dept. Electr. and Comp. Engineering, Fac. of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal) Jorge Santos(Assistant Professor, Engineering Polythecnic Institute, Porto, Portugal) Mark Embrecht (Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI Troy, New York, U.S.A.) Noelia Snchez Maroo (Assistant Professor, Coruna University, Spain) Paulo Cortez (Assistant Professor, University of Minho, Portugal) Petia Georgieva (Assistant Professor, University of Aveiro, Portugal) Yann Guermeur (Scientific Director of the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, France) COURSE CONTENTS Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Multi-Valued and UB Neurons , Functional Networks , MLP's with Entropic Criteria and Data Mining using NN. Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) IMPORTANT DEADLINES Early Registration: 18 May 2008 Poster Submission: 15 June 2008 Hotel booking : 15 June 2008 Summer School: 7-11 July 2008 All participants are required to register prior to the start of the School - until the June 15 - even if you choose to pay the late registration fee at the registration desk. Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted. REGISTRATION In order to attend the School you must fill in the registration form, available at the School web page. Please note that if you have any guests who would like to take part in the social programme, you must register them as well, by filling in the corresponding field in the registration form. SCHOOL FEES The registration fee for participants amounts to: - Early registration fee (paid before the 18th of May) * 350 Euro (students, ISEP and FEUP staff) * 400 Euro (all other participants) - Late registration fee (paid after the 18th of May) * 400 Euro (students, ISEP and FEUP staff) * 450 Euro (all other participants) The registration fee includes: * school package (manuscripts, lecture's notes, CD) * coffee breaks * daily lunch * welcome reception * school banquet NOTE: The registration fee for those who attended previous editions amounts to 25/30 euro per lecture and includes the school package and coffee-breaks. Please, contact the LOC for further details. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC) - Helena Brs Silva Assistant Professor, Dept. Mathematics, ISEP, Portugal - Jorge M. Santos - Assistant Professor, Dept. Mathematics, ISEP, Portugal - Rui Chibante - Assistant Professor, Dept. Mathematics, ISEP, Portugal CONTACT ADDRESS Local Organizing Committee (LOC) - Summer School NN2008 A/C Jorge M. Santos Departamento de Matemtica Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. Antnio Bernardino de Almeida 431 4200-072 PORTO / PORTUGAL Email: nn-2008@isep.ipp.pt NN2008 Secretariat Ms. Gabriela Afonso Email: gafonso@fe.up.pt Programme Chair: Prof. Joaquim Marques de S Tel. +351 225081828 - Email: jmsa@fe.up.pt ======================================== Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:16:04 +0100 From: "Steinberg, Jan" Subject: Development of OPUS 4 starts July, 1st 2008 Press release: Development of OPUS 4 starts July, 1st 2008 The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding of a new release of the institutional repository software OPUS. The project is carried out collaboratively by Stuttgart University Library, the Library Service Center Baden-Wuerttemberg, the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg, Saarland University and State Library, Bielefeld University Library and Hamburg University of Technology Library. The partners closely co-operate with the State and University Library Dresden. OPUS has been developed at Stuttgart University and is the most common software package for institutional repositories in Germany today (with more than 60 sites using it productively). Besides OAI it already provides interfaces to Online Library Catalogs, the German National Library (DNB), the national URN registry and to the print-on-demand service ProPrint. Development in the project will enhance this integration into service oriented infrastruc-tures for electronic publishing with special emphasis on the European DRIVER (Reposi-tories Infrastructure Vision for European Research) and the German OA-Network de-velopments. Furthermore it will look into the possibility of integrating or referencing primary scientific data and of connecting with current research information systems (CRIS). Technically development in the project will be based on the Zend framework. The partners are actively involved with the work of the DINI Working Group on Electronic Publishing. All partners are committed to develop a stable new release 4.0 of the OPUS software which will be maintained and supported well beyond the project lifetime. The project will be funded within the Division 'Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS)' of the DFG for twelve months. The project starts July, 1st 2008. Further information about OPUS can be found at http://www2.bsz-bw.de/cms/digibib/opus/ With best regards ------------------------------- Jan Steinberg Library Service Center Baden-Wuerttemberg, 78467 Konstanz, Germany phone: 07531 88-3040 http://www2.bsz-bw.de/cms/Members/Steinberg Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0N00EA09RNCQ00@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 10 May 2008 20:47:49 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx7.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0N00GJN9RKE930@mx7.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 10 May 2008 20:47:47 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.189]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sat, 10 May 2008 20:47:46 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4A8imLn028713; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:44:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4A4FOsS003810; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:44:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 19909708 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:35:30 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4A8UDhX024431 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:30:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4A8UCP8006139 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:30:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4A8UBuN006134 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:30:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail71.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 02AEA3F0FAC for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:29:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail71.messagelabs.com (mail71.messagelabs.com [193.109.255.131]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id HGIHmRRKHFNAbx1D for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 04:29:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 28890 invoked from network); Sat, 10 May 2008 08:30:10 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-13.tower-71.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Sat, 10 May 2008 08:30:10 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JukSp-00045M-NL for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:29:55 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JukSo-00043M-16 for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:29:55 +0100 Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:29:52 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.008 the fragility of boundaries X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080510082951.02AEA3F0FAC@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1210408191-300800db0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-13.tower-71.messagelabs.com!1210408209!53244113!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.008 the fragility of boundaries X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail71.messagelabs.com[193.109.255.131] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1210408192 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5292 signatures=391666 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0804140000 definitions=main-0805100005 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:54:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the fragility of boundaries Somewhere Clifford Geertz observed that confrontation with anthropological data has the disturbing tendency to unseat absolutes, to relativize. So also, it seems, the study of folklore. In the case of anthropology as Geertz saw it, the confrontation with things outside our ken leads to radical questioning of whatever reality we have inherited and taken to be cosmological. In the case of folklore one source is the familiar anxiety over disciplinary boundaries: how can one say what folklore is if saying what it is not proves impossible? Another is the historical set of contingencies responsible for the existence of the discipline. Thus Bruce Jackson, in his Presidential Address to the American Folklore Society in October 1984, "Things that from a long way off look like flies", begins: >FOLKLORE STUDIES, like any other kind of studies, don't just happen. >Fields of scholarship occur because specific technological and >economic and institutional resources are available and because >specific individuals utilize those resources in specific ways. >Whatever measure of intellectual or academic freedom we enjoy takes >place in a grid defined by pre-existent theoretical and social >models which we accept or with which we must contend, with machines >that help us deal in specific ways with the implications of those >models, and with rewards available to those of us who use both >models and machines in ways that seem valuable to the payers of >salaries and the givers of grants. (Journal of American Folklore, >98.388, 1985, p. 131) Jackson looks enviously over his shaky disciplinary fence at the folks in literary studies, who to him seem far more secure -- "the objects of literary study are uniformly and equally available; we can all buy a copy or travel to the library holding a copy of whatever it is we wish to read", he declares, whereas folklore only exists to those present, when it happens out somewhere "in the field". And out there, he notes, the sense of having to make choices and construct boundaries so as to be able to know what to collect can be overwhelming. >Once out of the field, we can see and hear only selected artifacts. >The observer forever defines and limits the text to which the rest >of us shall have access, and our access to the basic materials of >our discipline, therefore, is always secondary. Whenever our work >involves primary material reported to us by others, we are not >studying folklore so much as we are studying scholarly reports of >folklore.... We often pretend that our systems of classification are >derived from the raw facts of our research, and that our theoretical >models are in turn derived from our analysis of the systems. In >fact, the process works quite the other way around: we have our >models, and from them we derive our systems of classification. That >is why the systems of classification always make such perfect sense. >And it is why the facts we find fit our systems of classification so >well: the system tells us what bits of the world are facts and what >bits are inconsequential fluff or clutter. The difference between >meaningful and meaningless in any analytical context has to do only >with whether and how something fits the analytical structure-with >whether or not the analytical structure has a way to use the >information. (pp. 132f) This sort of talk I'd suppose anathema to our knowledge engineers or ontologists, especially because Jackson is talking not about high culture, which derives its dizzying height from the brilliancies of the creative imagination and consequent demands on sophisticated interpretative abilities, but about the everyday, about what plain folk do, out there in the field (which, as Jackson illustrates, includes a polite dinner party). The manipulatory abilities of our digital tools, too little exploited by those intent on building monuments of scholarship, are of course just the thing to translate anxious fragility of categories into amazing agility for categorizing and re-categorizing raw material. That much is plain. But what about the equally plain fact of the (truly) exponentially increasing volume of data? The problem, it seems to me, is not the hermeneutic nightmare of arbitrary, unjustifiable choice but the ease with which evidence for just about anything may be found. As Northrop Frye used to say, given enough data any statement can be connected with any other statement. Now we actually have the data, at the push of that lovely button. Comments? (In any case, I do recommend you read Jackson's address, which is to be found in JSTOR, blessed be its name.) Yours, WM Bruce Jackson American Journal of Folklore 98-388 (1095): Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:15:13 +0100 From: Brent Nelson Subject: reminder cfp: Digitizing Renaissance Material Culture (RSA panel) Digitizing Renaissance Material Culture, a panel for the Renaissance Society of American conference in Los Angeles, March 19-21, 2009 While digital media have enabled new and innovative access to Renaissance texts, these same media hold perhaps even more potential for investigating and representing the material cultures of the period. This panel of papers will build on recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing Renaissance material culture. Topics may address theory and/or practice in the application of digital technology to the study of material culture, including but not limited to art, architecture, cartography, the anatomical and cultural body, collections, antiquarianism and early archaeology, dramaturgy, arts and crafts, printed and manuscript materials. This panel will be sponsored by the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series. Please submit title, brief abstract, and statement of affiliation to brent.nelson_at_usask.ca by May 20, 2008. Accepted papers may also be submitted to be considered for a collection of essays in this series on "Digitizing Early Material Culture, Antiquity to 1700" to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London). -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ======================= my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson@arts.usask.ca ======================= Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0N008JT9EHZU70@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 10 May 2008 20:40:18 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx7.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0N00F1F9E5WJ40@mx7.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 10 May 2008 20:40:04 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.112]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty (62) Subject: open research positions, Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), Dublin [2] From: Willard McCarty (67) Subject: Intellectual Property Manager: Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) DCU, Dublin --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:34:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: open research positions, Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), Dublin Subject: Open Research Positions: Digital Content Management From: Rona Finn Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:32:49 +0100 Open Research Positions: Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) Dublin, Ireland. The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a major 5-year 16.8 million Euro research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Hosted at Dublin City University, the CNGL will involve more than 100 researchers across a consortium of leading Irish Universities (DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and 9 industrial partners. The CNGL will develop new technologies for localisation of digital content by adapting it to domain, culture and language. For more details see: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/newsitems/sem1_0708/josef/index.html. One of the major research strands within the CNGL is Digital Content Management (DCM) (other research activities include Machine Translation, Speech Processing, MT-Speech integration, Localisation and Systems Framework). I am pleased to announce openings for 1 post-doctoral researcher and _four_ PhD student positions based at Dublin City University to conduct research in the area of information access for multilingual content. The main areas that we intend to cover include: - adaptive techniques for cross-language querying (both text and speech) - improved content indexing for multilingual content - user modelling and query adaptation for improved multilingual search - evaluation of techniques for multilingual retrieval Positions are open to be filled immediately. Post-doctoral research positions are typically for a period of 3 years and are funded to provide a salary from 40,000 - 45,000 depending on the candidate's background and experience. PhD positions are typically for 4 years, and students will receive a stipend of about 16,000 in addition to payment of registration fees. Staff will work in the well equipped laboratories of the CNGL and there is ample opportunity for travel. Candidates for these positions will ideally have a strong background in computing, with a demonstrated interest in information retrieval and/or natural language processing. In addition, we would expect that post-doctoral applicants would have a track record of relevant publications in the area. To apply, please send by email: a CV, a short statement of why you are applying for this position and contact details of three references to Dr Gareth Jones, email: Gareth.Jones@computing.dcu.ie. In your application please indicate your preferred starting date if successful. Informal inquiries about the positions are very well welcome. Closing date for applications is 30th April 2008, although applications will be considered until all positions are filled. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:37:56 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Intellectual Property Manager: Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) DCU, Dublin Subject: Intellectual Property Manager From: Rona Finn Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:35:51 +0100 Intellectual Property Manager: Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) DCU, Dublin, Ireland Invent DCU is the commercialisation gateway for Dublin City University (DCU). Invent manages the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property for DCU through technology transfer, licensing and the creation of spin-out companies. We wish to recruit an Intellectual Property Manager on a fixed term contract basis with primary responsibility for managing the intellectual property generated in the new SFI funded Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) led by Professor Josef van Genabith. CNGL conducts research encompassing machine translation, speech processing and digital content management technologies. CNGL is a DCU led Science Foundation Ireland funded CSET (Centre for Science Engineering and Technology) and involves collaboration between DCU, TCD, UCD, UL and industrial partners who include world leaders in their respective fields. Duties and Responsibilities: The Technology Transfer Manager will report to the CEO of Invent. He/she will have primary responsibility for the identification, capture, protection and commercialisation of intellectual property (IP) arising from research activities within the CNGL and related interdisciplinary research areas involving computer science. He/she will also work with other Invent staff and CNGL partners to develop the full potential of IP through appropriate commercial and licensing mechanisms in accordance with the formal IP arrangements agreed between the partners. Requirements: The IP Manager is a key post within Invent and CNGL and the successful candidate will be expected to have the required breadth of education, relevant experience and self confidence to have an immediate impact in a leading computer science research centre by devising and implementing procedures and practices that enhance the identification, assessment and protection of intellectual property. The appointed person will have: -- A post-graduate qualification in computer science, computational linguistics, speech processing or a related discipline, preferably to PhD level. -- Experience of intellectual property management, including patenting, licensing and commercialisation ideally gained in an industrial setting. -- An understanding and appreciation of the IP issues arising in the context of academic research and in particular computer software. Salary Scale: Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Closing Date: 16th May 2008 For informal discussions contact the CEO of Invent Richard Stokes at Richard.Stokes@invent.dcu.ie. 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Gill pp. 283 - 300 Learning robots interacting with humans: from epistemic risk to responsibility Matteo Santoro, Dante Marino, Guglielmo Tamburrini pp. 301 - 314 Caregiving robots and ethical reflection: the perspective of interdisciplinary technology assessment Michael Decker pp. 315 - 330 From the ethics of technology towards an ethics of knowledge policy: implications for robotics Ren=E9 Schomberg pp. 331 - 348 Ethical regulations on robotics in Europe Michael Nagenborg, Rafael Capurro, Jutta Weber, Christoph Pingel pp. 349 - 366 The social impact of intelligent artefacts Richard S. Rosenberg pp. 367 - 383 Implications of an ethic of privacy for human-centred systems engineering Peter J. Carew, Larry Stapleton, Gabriel J. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Peter Shillingsburg (27) Subject: Textual Studies Event at DMU [2] From: c.h.messom@massey.ac.nz (47) Subject: CFP: ICARA 2009, New Zealand --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:44:04 +0100 From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Textual Studies Event at DMU Reminder Textual Studies Workshops and Symposium Announcing back to back events at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK May 26-28: Workshops in Textual Studies for Post Graduate Students (there is no registration fee) Session leaders include Sakari KatajamE4ki, James McLaverty, Federico Meschini, Peter Robinson, Peter Shillingsburg. Further information (note: cts website works better with Firefox than Explorer) Note: Although May 26 is a Bank Holiday, the event will be held as scheduled.) May 28-30: Fifth Annual Symposium in Textual Studies Post-Graduates and Colleagues are welcome (there is no registration fee) Participants include Kathryn Sutherland, Dirk Van Hulle, John Young, Sally Bushell, Wim van Mierlo, Gavin Cole, Andrew Van der Vlies, and Simon Frost. Further information Registration There is no fee for these events, but we would like to know who is coming. Please register your intention to come and submit any questions by sending email to pshillingsburg@dmu.ac.uk Peter Shillingsburg Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:44:54 +0100 From: c.h.messom@massey.ac.nz Subject: CFP: ICARA 2009, New Zealand The Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents February 10-12, 2009, Wellington, New Zealand http://icara.massey.ac.nz Call for Papers The School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT), Massey University, is pleased to announce that the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2009) will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 10th to 12th February, 2009. ICARA 2009 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of autonomous robotics and agents. ICARA 2009 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. The review process will be double blind and author details will not be divulged to the reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent Control DNA Computing for autonomous agents Biorobotics, Biomechatronics Implantable sensors for Robotic Applications Artificial Intelligence in Biosystems Autonomous Systems Multi-Agent Collaborative Systems (MACS) Robotics, Humanoids Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion Cooperative Robotics Robot Soccer Systems Entertainment Robotics Human Robot Interface Distributed Intelligent Control Systems Real Time Supervisory Control Embedded Systems Educational Technology Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Biped and Humanoid Robots Rough Sets, Data Mining Navigation and Path Planning Genetic Algorithm (GA) Evolutionary Computation (EC) Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Real Time Evolutionary Computation Evolutionary Systems and Algorithms Vision Systems for Robotics Artificial Neural Networks in Biorobotics [...] Return-Path: Received: from fep13.clear.net.nz (fep13 [192.168.16.114]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0S007ONL5O5N10@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 06:35:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NEH grants in Humanities Collections and Resources From: Lodato, Suzanne Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:39:12 -0400 NEH DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS -- HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS AND RESOURCES GUIDELINES The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in Humanities Collections and Resources. These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference materials, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. Please note the following changes: --The application receipt deadline this year is July 31, 2008. --Research and Development applications are being accepted and should be identified as such and submitted to the July 31 deadline for Humanities Collections and Resources. --Projects proposing to unify, integrate, or aggregate humanities collections and resources are strongly encouraged. --Long-term projects without a plan to sustain the resources created by the project may allocate up to $50,000 of their request for consultants' fees or other costs associated with developing a sustainability plan. The new guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, can be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Collections_and_Resources.html. The application receipt deadline of July 31 is for projects beginning May 2009. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of the 2007 awards is available at http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/preservationFebruary2007.html. Suzanne M. Lodato, PhD Director Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20506 (202) 606-8570 FAX: (202) 606-8639 e-mail: slodato@neh.gov Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 06:33:37 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 2 The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 2 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 06:41:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: messages going missing Dear colleagues, This is another alert to the fact that messages to Humanist are going missing due to the huge volume of spam with which the Virginia server is daily flooded. The volume is so great that I no longer have the time to sift through all the unwanted invitations and offers. Until Humanist is fixed by the total rewrite of its software now in progress and by its move to a safer location, please send all submissions directly to me and let me know of any that are not published within a day or two. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:06:12 +0100 From: "Olga Francois" Subject: C Symposium Live: face-to-face, online, and in Second Life! Live from the UMUC Inn and Conference Center, the Center for Intellectual Property presents its Eighth Annual Symposium on copyright-face-to-face, online, and-this year-in-world in Second Life! Copyright Monopoly: Playing the innovation game May 28-30, 2008 ONLINE ACCESS! http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/simulcast.shtml For those who are interested in participating in this symposium, but are not able to travel to Adelphi, MD, the CIP is pleased to offer two online opportunities to attend the program and to participate in the discussions. For the first time, you may now join this event in the Internet-based virtual world of Second Life. Whether you are already active in Second Life or have never entered this online world, you may register to attend and to participate in this unique online program, which is being hosted in a secure academic virtual conference center. What better way to explore this year's symposium theme of playing the innovation game than to do so within the Second Life metaverse, an environment rich with innovation and creativity? If you are interested in participating in this online offering of the symposium program but you are either technologically unable or would prefer not to do so via Second Life, you may still join us through our traditional webcast. This live webcast stream is accessible either as an individual or with colleagues from your institution for a special group rate. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Christopher Burlinson (59) Subject: jobs in the Cambridge Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (50) Subject: Research Innovation Manager job at Alberta [3] From: Susan Schreibman (70) Subject: Shawn Day and Matt Zimmerman join Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:03:31 +0100 From: Christopher Burlinson Subject: jobs in the Cambridge Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online Senior Research Associate and Research Associate Vacancy Reference No: GG03380 Salary: GBP 34,793 - GBP 44,074 or GBP 25,888 GBP 33,780 Limit of tenure applies. Final year of research project. Cambridge University, in association with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, wishes to appoint one Senior Research Associate and one Research Associate, both for a period of one year, with effect from 1 October 2008, to its project entitled Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, based in the Faculty of English . Candidates will need high-level bibliographical, codicological, and palaeographical skills relevant to English manuscript study in the period 1450 - 1720, and should be familiar with (or ready to develop expertise in) HTML and XML, as well as javascript and database-driven projects, and the processing and handling of digital images. The SRA and RA will be responsible for organizing colloquia and handling project communications, and for co-ordinating manuscript-based research, developing both electronic and print outputs, and producing written research at the highest level; candidates therefore must have a doctorate in a relevant period and discipine (or comparable research excellence), experience in handling medieval and/or early modern manuscripts, and excellent oral and written communication skills. Those with a proven research record, and with experience with one or more of the manuscript subject areas (e.g. English and/or Latin poetry, heraldry, law, medicine, theology), will be preferred. Faculty-based mentoring will be available. Further details and an application form for both posts can be downloaded from the English Faculty website or obtained from the Secretary to the Appointments Committee, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP (tel: 01223 335074, email: va215@cam.ac.uk). Candidates should indicate in their application whether they wish to be considered for one or both posts. Referees should be asked to write directly to the Secretary to reach the Faculty by the closing date of 6 June 2008. Interviews will be held on 27 June 2008. See also -- Dr Christopher Burlinson Emmanuel College Cambridge Senior Research Associate Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk Faculty of English 9 West Road Cambridge Tel.: 01223 331970 (college) / 767310 (faculty) e-mail: cmb29@cam.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:04:18 +0100 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Research Innovation Manager job at Alberta The Arts Resource Centre at the University of Alberta is looking for someone to fill the position of Research Innovation Manager. A full description of the position can be found at ________________________ The Arts Resource Centre within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta is seeking an individual for the position of Research Innovation Manager. The successful candidate will be appointed to a Faculty Services Officer II position and is expected to be active in teaching, research and service. The position includes eligibility for promotion and tenure, has a competitive salary range of $57,618 - $81,642 (2007-08 scale), and a comprehensive benefits program. The Arts Resource Centre is a service department serving all 15 departments, 18 research institutes and 7 IT Intensive Research Studios in the Faculty of Arts. For information about our department, please consult our website at: http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arc/ The Research Innovation Manager promotes and supports the use of technology intensive research and is responsible for providing leadership and coordination on the use of technology in research, and the development and maintenance of a quality research environment in the Faculty. This includes the provision of comprehensive services; managing access to or development of appropriate facilities; establishing and maintaining quality relationships with researchers; consulting with researchers on infrastructure and staffing needs; advising researchers on technologies that will better facilitate their research; developing applications for Arts research projects; serving as project manager, where appropriate, for the computing aspects of major research projects and initiatives; and serving as technical manager of the Faculty's IT Intensive Research Studios. Additionally, the Research Innovation Manager ensures that the Arts Resource Centre and its Research Innovation Group are a responsive, centralized resource on research computing issues and trends to meet the needs of the Faculty. Candidates should hold a post-graduate degree (PhD preferred) in Humanities Computing or related field, 5 years experience working at the post-secondary level, and some supervisory experience. They should have an ability to provide information and advice to all levels across the Faculty of Arts and external agencies with expertise in research computing specifically for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Fine Arts. Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, time-management, and interpersonal leadership skills are required. This position will supervise 3 programmer analysts, so expertise in programming, building software and computing systems, and web-site design for journal and research project sites is essential. Interested individuals are asked to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names of three confidential referees by June 30, 2008. If required the competition will remain open until the position is filled. Online applications are accepted. _____________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:04:58 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Shawn Day and Matt Zimmerman join Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland The Digital Humanities Observatory , a project of the Royal Irish Academy, is delighted to announce the appointment of Shawn Day and Matt Zimmerman as a Digital Humanities Specialists. Both Matt and Shawn will join the DHO on 30 June 2008. Shawn Day joins us from the History Department at McMaster University (Canada) where he is completing a PhD specializing in the social and economic circumstances of the nineteenth century retail liquor trade. He applies digital, spatial and social network analysis to the study of the relationships between credit, respectability, and maintaining order in the Victorian community. His most recent articles have examined the social dimensions of the Victorian public mental hospital. Using GIS and statistical modeling tools, these illuminate the significant rural component of the urban asylum and raises new questions surrounding the foreign-born who find themselves confined to the institution. Shawn is involved in a number of successful and innovative digital humanities projects throughout Canada. Most recently he has worked with large manuscript census databases in the 1871/1891 census project (University of Guelph). He is a team member of the national TAPoR text analysis portal project and the Network for Canadian History and the Environment (NiCHE). Prior to undertaking the PhD, Shawn spent a number of years in the private technology sector where he founded a number of businesses and served in marketing, research and development management roles. Matt Zimmerman joins the Academy from New York University (NYU) where he currently serves as Manager of Faculty Technology Services, a group that advances teaching and research technology across the university in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Matt also worked as a Humanities Computing Specialist in NYU's Humanities Computing Group where he consulted on digital projects such as an electronic edition of Chaucer's /Clerk's Tale (part of the Scholarly Digital Editions /Canterbury Tale/s project) and the online version of The Public Writings of Margaret Sanger. In addition to his work at NYU Matt is a past chair of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and on the Executive of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Matt received his MA in English Literature from the University of Georgia where he studied Renaissance Drama and produced a thesis entitled: Chronicles and Characters: Representing Richard III. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory Pembroke House 28=AD32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org Return-Path: Received: from fep13.clear.net.nz (fep13 [192.168.16.114]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0U00J0BERG7N50@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 14 May 2008 17:22:12 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0U004B3EVOQB50@mx5.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 14 May 2008 17:21:28 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.112]) by mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:05:46 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY9.19 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 19 May 13, 2008 -- May 19, 2008 * Jeff Malpas does a reality check (a philosophical and virtual reality check, to boot) on the concept of virtual worlds; his paper is called, "The Non-Autonomy of the Virtual: Philosophical Reflections on Contemporary Virtuality." * The Malpas piece is accompanied by Ubiquity Associate Editor Arun Tripathi's insightful Preface. He writes: "We acknowledge that the natural body gives us extraordinary means of interacting with each other and with the world. But cyberspace has been built on the Cartesian ideals of metaphysical separation between mind and body. Is cyberspace creating a different world? Is cyberspace the extension of the real world? The making of cyberspace creates a problem with the notion of body and embodiment." *Philip Yaffe asks about the old TV detective-show Columbo: "What can a bumbling, inarticulate Los Angeles cop teach us about effective communication?" Well, that cop can teach us plenty. If you give presentations or write proposals, this little article is something you need to read. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:20:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new release of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) From: Lisa Schiff Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:14:12 -0700 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Schiff California Digital Library University of California, Office of the President 415 20th St., 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 587-6132 lisa.schiff@ucop.edu http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/xtf/ California Digital Library Announces New Release of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Oakland, CA, May 12, 2008 - The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce a new release of its search and display technology, the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) version 2.1 (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/xtf/). XTF is an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF offers efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces for distinct digital content collections. Highlights from the 2.1 release include: Extensive interface improvements, including new search forms, built-in faceted browsing, and a new look and feel. Increased support for document and information exchange formats. XHTML and OAI-PMH output NLM article format indexing and output Microsoft Word indexing Streamlined XSLT stylesheets for simpler deployment and adaptation. Updated documentation that has been moved to the XTF project wiki, allowing XTF implementers to share solutions with entire user community. "Freeform" Boolean query language, offered as an experimental feature. Backward compatibility with existing XTF implementations. A complete list of changes is available on the XTF Project page on SourceForge, where the distribution (including documentation) can also be downloaded. Since the first deployment of XTF in 2005, the development strategy has been to build and maintain an indexing and display technology that is not only customizable, but also draws upon tested components already in use by the digital library and search communities - in particular the Lucene text search engine, Java, XML, and XSLT. By coordinating these pieces in a single platform that can be used to create multiple unique applications, CDL has succeeded in dramatically reducing the investment in infrastructure, staff training and development for new digital content projects. XTF offers a suite of customizable features that support diverse intellectual access to content. Interfaces can be designed to support the distinct tools and presentations that are useful and meaningful to specific audiences. In addition, XTF offers the following core features: Easy to deploy: Drops directly in to a Java application server such as Tomcat or Resin; has been tested on Solaris, Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems. Easy to configure: Can create indexes on any XML element or attribute; entire presentation layer is customizable via XSLT. Robust: Optimized to perform well on large documents (e.g., a single text that exceeds 10MB of encoded text); scales to perform well on collections of millions of documents; provides full Unicode support. Extensible: Works well with a variety of authentication systems (e.g., IP address lists, LDAP, Shibboleth). Provides an interface for external data lookups to support thesaurus-based term expansion, recommender systems, etc. Can power other digital library services (e.g., XTF contains an OAI-PMH data provider that allows others to harvest metadata, and an SRU interface that exposes searches to federated search engines). Can be deployed as separate, modular pieces of a third-party system (e.g., the module that displays snippets of matching text). Powerful for the end user: Spell checking of queries Faceted displays for browsing Dynamically updated browse lists Session-based bookbags These basic features can be tuned and modified. For instance, the same bookbag feature that allows users to store links to entire books, can also store links to citable elements of an object, such as a note or other reference. A sampling of XTF-based applications both within and outside of the CDL include: -- Mark Twain Project Online (http://www.marktwainproject.org), developed by the Mark Twain Papers Project, the CDL and the University of California Press. -- Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.org/), a curated collection of primary sources keyed to the curriculum standards of California's K-12 community, developed by the CDL. -- The Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/), developed by the Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University -- The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/) and The Swinburne Project (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/swinburne/www/swinburne/), Indiana University -- Finding Aides at the New York Public Library (http://labs.nypl.org/2007/10/30/extensible-text-framework-xtf/) -- EECS Technical Reports (http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu:8088/xtf/servlet/org.cdlib.xtf.crossQuery.CrossQuery?rmode=btr), UC Berkeley ----------------------------------------------- Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead, Publishing California Digital Library 300 Lakeside Drive #745 Kaiser Center Oakland, CA 94612 510-987-0881 (t) 510-987-0243 (f) www.cdlib.org lisa.schiff@ucop.edu Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:30:49 +0100 From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) Willard and Humanist Readers, As you may have seen in the news, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities has recently announced our new Humanities High Performance Computing initiative -- HHPC for short. Our goal is to start a conversation about how high performance computers -- supercomputers -- can be used for humanities research. We are working with colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide information on how high performance/grid computing and data storage might be used for work in the humanities. We are also announcing a new grant competition with DOE to award time and training on their machines. We are also inviting teams of scholars and scientists who are working on HHPC projects to apply to our Collaborative Research grant competition for funding. I urge you to check out our HHPC Resources page for more information. Here is a Tiny URL that will redirect you to that page on the NEH website: http://tinyurl.com/68dg5x Personally, I'm very curious to see where this new initiative takes us. It started over a year ago when the Office of Science at DOE approached us about making supercomputers available to humanities researchers. We invited a number of humanities scholars and supercomputing specialists to meet with us here at the NEH last July so we could think hard about this issue. Certainly, I think that everyone in attendance agreed that there are only a limited number of humanities projects today that require high performance computing. But one of the things we learned from colleagues at NSF and DOE is that this was the also the case in the sciences in the not-too-distant past -- scientists also had to learn about supercomputers before they could begin applying them to their work. Computation has proven an effective tool for scholarship and while supercomputers may only be useful for a small slice of the humanities today, I think it is safe to say that slice will grow in size over time. So think of this HHPC initiative as way of opening doors; a way of starting conversations and getting scholars, computer scientists, and information scientists talking about ways in which their fields might work together. If you know of any humanities projects currently using HPC technology please do get in touch. My plan is to compile a list and highlight some exemplar projects. Some related articles of interest: * April 22, 2008. The Chronicle of Higher Education. "A Supercomputer Takes Humanities Scholars Into the 21st Century." See: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2580n.htm * May 9, 2008. HPCWire. "High Performance Humanities." See: http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/High_Performance_Humanities.html thank you, Brett ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/odh/ (202) 606-8401 bbobley@neh.gov Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0W007NKAF2A5B0@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:23 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx7.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0W00CPYAM86I20@mx7.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:32 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:32 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4F5fU1C004012; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Ryder, Sean" (14) Subject: Fellowship vacancy [2] From: Matthew Jockers (95) Subject: Software Engineer/Java Developer at Stanford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:28:58 +0100 From: "Ryder, Sean" Subject: Fellowship vacancy The EU-funded TEXTE project at the National University of Ireland Galway is seeking applicants for a six-month Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship. The Fellow will have a research record of international standing, and substantial experience in the theory and practice of scholarly editing and in the application of new technologies to the creation of editions and/or hypermedia resources. He or she will deliver seminars and workshops in his or her area of expertise, and will be available to support the research of other TEXTE project staff and researchers. The Fellow's own research will be facilitated while in residence. Details are available on the CORDIS website , or the website of the Moore Institute , or by emailing Dr Sean Ryder at: sean.ryder@nuigalway.ie . --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:29:44 +0100 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Software Engineer/Java Developer at Stanford Hi Willard, Sending this to Humanist, but also to you per your instructions. Matt ________ Job Opening at Stanford to post on humanist. Software Engineer/Java Developer for Digital Library Systems and Services, Digital Library Infrastructure Job ID 30271 Location University Libraries Category Information Technology Services Salary 4P4 Date Posted May 8, 2008 This is a 2 year fixed term position. The System Software Developer for Digital Library Systems will play an integral role in defining, developing and delivering information systems and infrastructure for the library of the future at Stanford University. As part of the Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) unit within Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), the successful candidate for this position will help lead SULAIR's development efforts to support scholarship in the digital age by delivering on the promises of the digital library. The incumbent will be a part of the Digital Library Infrastructure group, a dynamic team focused on realizing core components of the Stanford Unviersity Libraries' emerging digital library architecture. The team team focuses on delivering cross-cutting digital library services and infrastructure, such as metadata generation, transformation and management; service oriented library cyberinfrastructure ("lyberstructure"); and digital asset & rights management. This group works closely with peer teams focused on other aspects of digital library functionality, including Web/UI application development, in the creation of common and reusable technologies and components. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and initial development of key technologies needed to support Stanford's vision of the digital library of the future. Duties and Responsibilities: Principle responsibility for implementing the Digital Object Registry, a core XML- and RDF-based metadata management component of our digital library, plus critical related services. Lead role in defining and implementing an underlying strategy for a simple, REST-based service oriented architecture to deliver infrastructure services. Provide analysis and software engineering support for implementing and leveraging the open source Fedora framework as part of our overall digital library access and management architecture. Contribute analysis, expertise and development to other SULAIR cyberinfrastructure and content middleware efforts, e.g., digitization & workflow tools; metadata generation, transformation, editing & QA tools; personalization and collaboration. Work collaboratively with the the DLSS web development team, Stanford Digital Repository team, metadata experts, digitization staff and information architects to help define and develop an extensible, robust and modular digital library architecture, infrastructure and application environment. Qualifications: Proven success as a software engineer in a J2EE environment, and experience in contributing to and/or defining the technical architecture of complex systems. Demonstrated ability to write solid, simple, elegant code both independently and in a team-programming environment and within schedule limitations. Demonstrated success in working in an academic environment. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively on a project from specification to launch; and to work with multiple levels of staff, and colleagues at peer institutions and open source communities. Knowledge of agile software development practices and test driven design principles. Demonstrated understanding of best practices for software development, and an ability to introduce and reinforce application of those practices in a team environment. Expertise in Java, familiarity with C and C+. Working knowledge of, or ability to quickly learn, relevant scripting technologies such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, Python, AJAX, etc. Demonstrated expertise with XML and related tools and technologies (e.g., XML schema, schema management and databases, XSLT, X-forms). Familiarity with RDF and its relationship to Library metadata standards. Knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a complex and demand driven environment, to handle multiple priorities and deadlines. Demonstrated ability to develop new programming skills quickly, and to grasp unfamiliar architectures and application designs quickly. Creativity in problem solving to independently resolve technical issues as well as extrapolate from one situation to another. Masters degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Information Science or related field. Five or more years experience designing middleware, services or infrastructure for software systems. Desired: Experience in digital library community. Familiarity with library-related metadata and metadata standards, particularly MARC, MODS, METS, TEI, EAD. Software Quality Assurance (functional and performance) and testing experience with various applications. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University Return-Path: Received: from fep13.clear.net.nz (fep13 [192.168.16.114]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0Y000UQ6AK1260@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:07:07 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0Y00HEE6ASCX40@mx5.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:06:34 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:06:33 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4G638fY022513; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:03:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4G42fmw028582; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 19983152 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:01:02 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4G5snPo019585 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4G5snMb019967 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4G5smji019965 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail83.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9C3014C2DFE for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail83.messagelabs.com (mail83.messagelabs.com [195.245.231.83]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id NP0rMkfvJM7rshPG for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 8317 invoked from network); Fri, 16 May 2008 05:54:46 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-9.tower-83.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 05:54:46 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JwstU-0006ec-DW for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 16 May 2008 06:54:16 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JwstG-0006Uh-8d for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 16 May 2008 06:54:03 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:53:59 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.022 new online journal: Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080516055423.9C3014C2DFE@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1210917263-22dc020c0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-9.tower-83.messagelabs.com!1210917286!44477039!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.022 new online journal: Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail83.messagelabs.com[195.245.231.83] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1210917263 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5296 signatures=393149 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0805150255 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 22. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:34:48 +0100 From: "Nicola Masciandaro" Subject: new journal: Glossator Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/glossator/ Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory. **CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS** The Editors invite submissions for the first volume of Glossator, to be published in 2009. Glossator welcomes work from all disciplines, but especially from fields with strong affiliations with the commentary genre: philosophy, literary theory and criticism, textual and manuscript studies, hermeneutics, exegesis, et al. What is commentary? While the distinction between commentary and other forms of writing is not an absolute one, the following may serve as guidelines for distinguishing between what is and is not a commentary: -- A commentary focuses on a single object (text, image, event, etc.) or portion thereof. -- A commentary does not displace but rather shapes itself to and preserves the integrity, structure, and presence of its object. -- The relationship of a commentary to its object may be described as both parallel and perpendicular. Commentary is parallel to its object in that it moves with or runs alongside it, following the flow of reading it. Commentary is perpendicular to its object in that it pauses or breaks from reading it in order to comment on it. The combination of these dimensions gives commentary a structure of continuing discontinuity, which allows it to be consulted or read intermittently rather than start to finish. -- Commentary tends to maintain a certain quantitative proportion of itself vis-a-vis its object. This tendency corresponds to the practice of "filling up the margins" of a text. -- Commentary, as a form of discourse, tends to favor and allow for the multiplication of meanings, ideas, and references. Commentary need not, and generally does not, have an explicit thesis or argument. This tendency gives commentary a ludic or auto-teleological potential. Possible submissions include: critical, philological, and/or bibliographic commentaries on texts, art, music, events, and other kinds of objects. Editions and translations of commentaries, glosses, annotation, and marginalia. Historical, theoretical, and/or critical articles and essays on commentary and commentary traditions. Experimental and/or fictional commentaries. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Jeremy Hunsinger (59) Subject: CFP: Learning and Research in Second Lif e, Oct. 15 Copenhagen @ IR 9.0 [2] From: Arianna Ciula (47) Subject: TEI Members Meeting 2008: 5 bursaries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:13 +0100 From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: CFP: Learning and Research in Second Life, Oct. 15 Copenhagen @ IR 9.0 Call for Papers/Participation Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life(R) on October 16, 2008 in Copenhagen at Internet Research 9.0 (http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR9.0) Paper Deadline June 15th. Second Life is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab (R) which has captured the attention of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research? Our honored keynote will be Pathfinder Linden Researchers are requested to submit papers and short biography to slworkshop08@gmail.com, which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration. These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion). Subsequent invitations will be made based upon research/teaching statement and biography with priority given to people submitting full papers. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to slworkshop08@gmail.com. Decisions will be made by August 1st, barring incident. There is a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be simulcast into Second Life which will be organized by Jason Nolan. We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate. This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, and is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger, Rochelle Mazar, Aleks Krotoski and Jason Nolan. Lunch, coffee breaks and the room is included in participation. (And you'll probably get a t-shirt!) *We are also seeking additional sponsors, please contact jhuns@vt.edu if you would like to sponsor this workshop. _______________________________________________ jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:46:54 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: TEI Members Meeting 2008: 5 bursaries The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London is pleased to announce five bursaries for students and young scholars who wish to attend the TEI 2008 Members' Meeting and the conference event (http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/), which takes place Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 November 2008 at King's College London. Applications are invited from students and young scholars interested in the use of text encoding in scholarly activity in the humanities and other disciplines. The bursaries are intended to help towards conference expenses. Successful applicants will be able to claim funds up to a total of GBP500 toward the cost of accommodation (maximum GBP75 per night) and travel (economy class). Recipients must be affiliated with a TEI member institution or project, or must be individual subscribers to the TEI Consortium (information on how to join the TEI can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/join.xml). Preference will be given to post-graduate students (or graduate students in North America) and young scholars who have had a paper or poster accepted. The deadline for applications is June 10th 2008. If you have any queries about the bursaries, please contact: tei2008 [at] kcl.ac.uk If you wish to apply for a bursary please complete the application form on the conference website: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/bursaries/form.html Arianna Ciula and Paul Spence Local Organising Committee TEI Members' Meeting 2008 Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL (UK) tei2008 [at] kcl.ac.uk -- Dr Arianna Ciula Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/ Return-Path: Received: from fep14.clear.net.nz (fep14 [192.168.16.115]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0Y00MSJ6MKR170@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:13:41 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx6.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K0Y00AY26MO9ZAU@mx6.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:46:23 +0100 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: embracing science? Subscribers to Humanist will find this article of interest: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/11/measure_for_measure/ "Measure for Measure: Literary criticism could be one of our best tools for understanding the human condition. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:42 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a conference report, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the "University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections" contributed by Susan Schreibman. The articles include: PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata Brian F. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:47:54 +0100 From: "Klee, Jeffrey" Subject: RE: 22.008 the fragility of boundaries Forgive me if I've missed the train of Willard's thoughts on context/disciplines/boundaries but I am reminded of two bits of advice from my academic training, both of which seemed massively intimidating at the time, and therefore memorable. The first was from an undergraduate literature seminar: "pay attention to everything." ('Really, professor? *Everything*?') This was a mandate, of course, to read closely but also to be alert to the wider social world in which the written word is embedded. It was repeated in a graduate-level seminar on material culture, through Ian Hodder's *Reading the Past.* Hodder describes context as "the totality of the relevant environment," which, for the purposes of archaeological interpretation, is always a subset of that totality: that portion of it that is accessible to the interpreter. Scholars have always had to decide what is relevant to the explanation of a thing, and these decisions represent boundaries. Disciplines, then, are the product of long-established patterns of boundary-drawing. Scholars of architecture long held that all that was relevant to any discussion of a great building was the form of other great buildings (Pevsner was famously explicit about this: "A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln cathedral is a piece of architecture."). In time, with the emergence of architecture as a profession, attention turned to the biography of individual architects as a significant piece of evidence. Not relevant, however, were questions of contemporary social and economic practices, so it has only been in the last 30 years or so that slavery, for example, has been introduced into discussions of Virginia's plantation houses, or gender relations into the study of domestic space. Richly networked digital evidence represents, surely, a greater subset of relevant material than what a single researcher has previously had at hand. What this situation demands is that scholars who work digitally are self-conscious, and explicit, about how they draw those boundaries, which potentially extend quite a bit beyond where disciplinary habits might once have drawn them. I'm not sure that this situation shows the fragility of boundaries so much as their malleability. I will continue to study buildings; another will concentrate on novels; some others animals. If everything is digitized, everything is available as context, so our choices may be made more freely about where we situate our subject and how expansively to draw our boundaries. But digitizing everything is a more serious problem for some pieces of evidence than others. For those of us who work on the material world, or who understand the material world as a meaningful aspect of context, digitization is far from straightforward. I share Bruce Jackson's envy of literary scholars, whose subjects can be dis-embodied from their physical carriers and remain computable in a useful (if imperfect) way. Scanning a building, or a fork, or a landscape, is quite a different matter, as the results are very poor substitutes, as evidence, for the original. As with folklore, material evidence is always mediated and always collected according to contestible assumptions about what is significant. As we learn to do research in an ever-expanding environment of digital evidence, we should be mindful of how that evidence has been collected, which varies significantly according to subject (or, if you like, discipline). JEK Jeffrey E. Klee Architectural Historian Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 757-220-7656 -----Original Message----- From: Humanist Discussion Group [mailto:humanist@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:30 AM To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:54:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the fragility of boundaries Somewhere Clifford Geertz observed that confrontation with anthropological data has the disturbing tendency to unseat absolutes, to relativize. So also, it seems, the study of folklore. In the case of anthropology as Geertz saw it, the confrontation with things outside our ken leads to radical questioning of whatever reality we have inherited and taken to be cosmological. In the case of folklore one source is the familiar anxiety over disciplinary boundaries: how can one say what folklore is if saying what it is not proves impossible? Another is the historical set of contingencies responsible for the existence of the discipline. Thus Bruce Jackson, in his Presidential Address to the American Folklore Society in October 1984, "Things that from a long way off look like flies", begins: >FOLKLORE STUDIES, like any other kind of studies, don't just happen. >Fields of scholarship occur because specific technological and >economic and institutional resources are available and because >specific individuals utilize those resources in specific ways. >Whatever measure of intellectual or academic freedom we enjoy takes >place in a grid defined by pre-existent theoretical and social >models which we accept or with which we must contend, with machines >that help us deal in specific ways with the implications of those >models, and with rewards available to those of us who use both >models and machines in ways that seem valuable to the payers of >salaries and the givers of grants. (Journal of American Folklore, >98.388, 1985, p. 131) Jackson looks enviously over his shaky disciplinary fence at the folks in literary studies, who to him seem far more secure -- "the objects of literary study are uniformly and equally available; we can all buy a copy or travel to the library holding a copy of whatever it is we wish to read", he declares, whereas folklore only exists to those present, when it happens out somewhere "in the field". And out there, he notes, the sense of having to make choices and construct boundaries so as to be able to know what to collect can be overwhelming. >Once out of the field, we can see and hear only selected artifacts. >The observer forever defines and limits the text to which the rest >of us shall have access, and our access to the basic materials of >our discipline, therefore, is always secondary. Whenever our work >involves primary material reported to us by others, we are not >studying folklore so much as we are studying scholarly reports of >folklore.... We often pretend that our systems of classification are >derived from the raw facts of our research, and that our theoretical >models are in turn derived from our analysis of the systems. In >fact, the process works quite the other way around: we have our >models, and from them we derive our systems of classification. That >is why the systems of classification always make such perfect sense. >And it is why the facts we find fit our systems of classification so >well: the system tells us what bits of the world are facts and what >bits are inconsequential fluff or clutter. The difference between >meaningful and meaningless in any analytical context has to do only >with whether and how something fits the analytical structure-with >whether or not the analytical structure has a way to use the >information. (pp. 132f) This sort of talk I'd suppose anathema to our knowledge engineers or ontologists, especially because Jackson is talking not about high culture, which derives its dizzying height from the brilliancies of the creative imagination and consequent demands on sophisticated interpretative abilities, but about the everyday, about what plain folk do, out there in the field (which, as Jackson illustrates, includes a polite dinner party). The manipulatory abilities of our digital tools, too little exploited by those intent on building monuments of scholarship, are of course just the thing to translate anxious fragility of categories into amazing agility for categorizing and re-categorizing raw material. That much is plain. But what about the equally plain fact of the (truly) exponentially increasing volume of data? The problem, it seems to me, is not the hermeneutic nightmare of arbitrary, unjustifiable choice but the ease with which evidence for just about anything may be found. As Northrop Frye used to say, given enough data any statement can be connected with any other statement. Now we actually have the data, at the push of that lovely button. Comments? (In any case, I do recommend you read Jackson's address, which is to be found in JSTOR, blessed be its name.) Yours, WM Bruce Jackson American Journal of Folklore 98-388 (1095): Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Pols, A.J.K." (17) Subject: Associate Professorship at Eindhoven University [2] From: "Patrik Svensson" (46) Subject: Digital humanities and digital art fellowship positions at HUMlab (4 positions) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 07:46:07 +0100 From: "Pols, A.J.K." Subject: Associate Professorship at Eindhoven University The Section of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology seeks a candidate for the following position: An Associate Professor (1.0 fte) in Ethics and Technology (V39.442) http://w3.tm.tue.nl/en/subdepartments/aw/research/philosophyethics_of_technology/vacancies/v39442/ Application Please send a written (printed) application letter with a recent, detailed Curriculum Vitae, names and contact details of (at least) two referees, a sample of recently published academic work, and any available course evaluations to: Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Technology Management Personnel Department, Pav R.1.23 PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Applications should be received by June 15, 2008. Please include the job vacancy code: V39.442. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:14:57 +0100 From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Digital humanities and digital art fellowship positions at HUMlab (4 positions) Two postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities and two fellowship positions in digital art are now available at HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden from August 1, 2008 (the actual start date may be later). The postdoctoral fellowships are one-year positions, with a possible extension of one year. The digital art fellowships are one-year positions. For the postdoc positions, applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline (from a non-Swedish university) and a specialty in any of the following five research areas: participatory media, digital cultural heritage, digital art/architecture, electronic literature, and critical perspectives. For the digital art fellowships, applicants will be expected to have an M.F.A or the equivalent (from a non-Swedish institute/school). In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. Read more at http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs and make sure to apply if you are qualified and interested in becoming a part of HUMlab and Umea University! We are committed to taking good very care of visiting fellows. Fellows will normally have a double affiliation to the lab and to a suitable department/school and discipline. Deadline for applications: June 12, 2008. HUMlab is a lively and convivial studio space with a wide variety of activities, research, technologies and cross-disciplinary interaction. Umea University is a full, comprehensive university with some 28,000 students. HUMlab collaborates with the whole of the humanities and arts faculty as well as the Umea Institute of Design, Informatics, Computer Science, Sociology, Teacher education, regional companies, schools, local artists and many more. The fellowship program has been funded by the Kempe Foundations, and is part of a major initiative to strengthen the area of humanities and information technology at Umea University. This initiative also includes a major expansion of the lab (which will be finished in the fall of 2008) Patrik Svensson HUMlab Umea University http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ Return-Path: Received: from fep14.clear.net.nz (fep14 [192.168.16.115]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1400MDG4SS5S20@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Mon, 19 May 2008 23:19:43 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx6.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1400A5X4SS9ZFX@mx6.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Mon, 19 May 2008 23:19:40 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.189]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Mon, 19 May 2008 23:19:39 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4JBGrpS021643; Mon, 19 May 2008 07:16:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4J43rr4026903; Mon, 19 May 2008 07:16:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20009902 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 19 May 2008 07:16:19 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4J8wloJ007966 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4J8wlkt002966 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4J8wkRi002963 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail83.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0CAE613AE204 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail83.messagelabs.com (mail83.messagelabs.com [195.245.231.83]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 6ztaORXFpeNMXmxc for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 6966 invoked from network); Mon, 19 May 2008 08:58:43 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-2.tower-83.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Mon, 19 May 2008 08:58:43 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Jy1C7-0005Dl-FE for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 19 May 2008 09:58:11 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Jy1Bv-0004zY-5D for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 19 May 2008 09:58:00 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:57:57 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.028 more jobs: metadata manager at MITH; programmer at UNL X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080519085830.0CAE613AE204@emfw3.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1211187510-0ac2038e0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-2.tower-83.messagelabs.com!1211187523!47675866!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.028 more jobs: metadata manager at MITH; programmer at UNL X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail83.messagelabs.com[195.245.231.83] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1211187511 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5297 signatures=393905 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0805190029 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 28. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: metadata manager position at MITH [2] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: programmer/analyst position at University of Nebraska- Lincoln --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:53:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: metadata manager position at MITH From: Neil Fraistat Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:59:14 -0400 The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) seeks a metadata manager to work on in-house text encoding projects as well as a collaboration with the National Gallery in Washington DC on a new digital archive under development: "The History of the Accademia di San Luca, 1589-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato, Rome." The successful candidate will have experience with humanities encoding projects and knowledge of TEI (preferably P5). Experience transforming TEI via XSL and DOM manipulations is preferred. The ideal candidate will also have an active research agenda and interest in proposing and developing new digital humanities projects. This is a non-tenure track faculty position. MITH is the University of Maryland's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. MITH functions as an applied think tank for the digital humanities in its symposia and weekly seminar series; in its furthering the excellence of MITH Fellows' research; and in its cultivation of an innovative in-house research agenda that currently clusters around digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, and virtual worlds. MITH and the University of Maryland will host the international Digital Humanities 2009 conference. Salary range: $40,000 to $50,000 plus benefits. We will begin accepting applications immediately and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to MITH's assistant director, Doug Reside (dreside@umd.edu). -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:54:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: programmer/analyst position at University of Nebraska-Lincoln From: Katherine L Walter Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:42:30 -0500 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, is seeking a Programmer/Analyst II responsible for server-side programming in the Center for Digital Research for the Humanities. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, <, is a joint initiative of the UNL Libraries and the UNL College of Arts & Sciences. The Center is advancing collaborative, interdisciplinary research by creating unique digital content, developing text analysis and visualization tools for humanists, and encouraging the use and refinement of international standards. Duties: The individual will be building web applications intended to operate on a UNIX system. While the emphasis will be on development of open source tools for the humanities, development of commercial applications may be required as well. Must be proficient in at least one high-level language. Web applications will support research in the humanities, and it will be important for the individual to have knowledge of development processes and modern design issues, and to keep up with trends in the field. Back-end programming or application skills would be useful. Examples of research projects of the Center can be seen online at < Funding: Position funded for an initial period of three years with possible extension. Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's degree in computing, computer science, or related field. A minimum of one year of Java experience is required. Year for year experience in a high level programming language may be substituted for educational requirement. Must be able to work in a team environment. Excellent communication skills are essential. Preferred: Background or interest in the humanities and experience working with Unix O/S. Salary: Salary range is $50,000 to $55,000 dependent upon the qualifications of the successful applicant. Application deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but applications received by May 30, 2008 will be assured of full consideration. Candidates should submit a letter of application and current resumes, which explicitly addresses how their education, relevant experience, and other relevant qualifications meet the responsibilities and qualifications for this vacancy. The candidate should also submit the names, current addresses, and current telephone numbers of three references who are knowledgeable of the candidate's qualifications for this vacancy to: <. Job requisition number 080391. Available: July 1, 2008 For more information contact: Brian Pytlik Zillig, (402) 472-4547, bzillig1@unl.edu ***************************************** Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln NE 68588-4100 voice: (402) 472-3939 kwalter1@unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 06:33:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Donald Theall 1928-2008 From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Reply-To: hypermedia_joyce@yahoo.co.uk Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Trent University Mourns the Passing of Former University President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Donald Theall Friday, May 16, 2008, Peterborough The Trent University community is saddened to learn of the passing of former Trent University president and vice-chancellor Dr. Donald Theall. Following a brief illness Dr. Theall died at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre on Thursday, May 15, 2008. "I wish to express my heartfelt sympathies to the family of Dr. Theall," said Bonnie Patterson, president and vice-chancellor of Trent University. "The loss of a former university president is a profound one, especially for an institution as young as Trent University, where so many fondly remember Donald Theall's years here. Certainly, all of us benefit from his legacy as a leader and as an academic. He will be missed here at Trent and at the many institutions that he has influenced through his admirable administrative and academic work." "Dr. Theall's own passions and pursuits were so much a reflection of the institution he led for seven years," added Reid Morden, chair of Trent University's Board of Governors. "As a leader whose academic credentials were well-known in humanities circles internationally, he epitomized the benefits of a well-rounded liberal arts education. An effective and respected leader for Trent, he will be missed by many." Dr. Theall was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He earned his B.A. at Yale University in 1950, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1951 and 1954. It was at the University of Toronto where he began his long and distinguished career in the university sector, rising through the ranks from lecturer to professor from 1953 to 1965. During his final year at U of T, Dr. Theall was also chair of the combined Departments of English. In 1962, he edited and annotated selected poems of Pope for the last print edition of Representative Poetry. After becoming chairman and Molson professor with the Department of English at McGill University from 1966 to 1973, and then founding director and Molson professor with the graduate program in communications, from 1974 to 1980, Dr. Theall joined Trent University as president and vice-chancellor from 1980 to 1987. He stayed on at Trent as a professor until his retirement in 1994, when he was granted the title of professor emeritus. During his academic career, Dr. Theall also served on the Board of Directors with the International Communication Association (1979-81), was founding president of the Canadian Communication Association (1978-80), acted as first cultural exchange professor for Canada to the People's Republic of China (1974), and served as co-director of the National Film Board of Canada/McGill University Summer School on Media (1967-71). Dr. Theall was also well-known for his published works, which focused on a wide variety of topics, including: communication theory; Marshall McLuhan; poetic theory; science fiction; film theory; virtual reality; cyberspace; and the works of James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Alexander Pope, and Harold Innis. He was also the author of several books, including: The Virtual Marshall McLuhan, James Joyce's Techno-Poetics, and Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication. In 1975, he guest-edited a special McLuhan issue of the Canadian Journal of Communications with G. J. Robinson and published The Medium is the Rear View Mirror: Understanding McLuhan in 1971. Dr. Theall was also often described as a "pioneer in computing in the humanities", and made an extraordinary contribution to literature on-line with his web version of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Ulysses. As a tribute to his contributions to education over the years, Dr. Theall was presented with a Doctor of Sacred Letters, honoris causa from the University of St. Michael's College in 2006. Dr. Theall is survived by his wife Joan Ada Benedict and their six children: Thomas, Margaret Rose, John, Harold, Lawrence, and Michael. To celebrate the life of Dr. Theall, the following services have been= planned: -- Tuesday, May 20 - private graveyard service -- Thursday, May 22 at 2 p.m. - Celebratory mass at St. Basil's Church at the University of St. Michael's College (50 St Joseph Street, Toronto, Ontario), to be followed be a reception at Brennan Hall -- Friday, May 23 at 10 a.m. - Memorial service at Trent University, Senior Common Room, Champlain College, Symons Campus, open to the public In honour of Dr. Theall's service and leadership to Trent University, the flag atop the Bata Library has been lowered to the half-staff position. To access a selection of photos of Dr. Theall visit www.trentu.ca/donaldtheall For more information contact: Brittany Cadence, communications officer, Trent University, (705) 748-1011, x6185 HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz Programme in InterCultural Studies Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Prague Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K150063IK6H8WD0@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Tue, 20 May 2008 17:52:32 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx7.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K15002ZVKAX2810@mx7.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Tue, 20 May 2008 17:52:09 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.8]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Tue, 20 May 2008 17:52:08 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4K5n8Ix025493; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 06:36:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new titles from Litteraria Pragensia From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Reply-To: hypermedia_joyce@yahoo.co.uk Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:05:41 +0000 (GMT) LANGUAGE SYSTEMS: After Prague Structuralism eds. Pavel Cernovsky & Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-171-3 (paperback). 150pp. Publication date: December 2007 Price: EUR 12.00 (not including postage) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/structuralism.html ...contemporary theories of structure demand that we confront the question not only of our technological circumstances, nor simply the technologically inflected character of our various methodologies, but the very technological condition that is discourse, and which terms like ecology, economics, genetics, cosmology and cybernetics describe by facets... Contributors: Arthur Bradley, Laurent Milesi, Louis Armand, Stephen Dougherty, Roy Ascott, Niall Lucy, Christina Ljungberg, Benjamin H. Bratton. Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. Pavel Cernovsky is completing a PhD on "The Limits of Theory / Theory of Limits" in the work of Paul de Man and Jan Mukarovsky at the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. He is the coordinator of a group research grant, "Technicity: A New Critical Paradigm?" For a complete catalogue of Litteraria Pragensia books, please visit our website at www.litterariapragensia.com Suspect Cultures by Clare Wallace ISBN 80-7308-124-5 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/suspect_cultures.html After History ed. Martin Prochazka ISBN 80-7308-127-X http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/after_history.html Complicities(British Poetry 1945-2007) eds. Robin Purves & Sam Ladkin ISBN 978-80-7308-194-2 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/complicities.html Event States(Discourse, Time, Mediality) by Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-168-3 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/event_states.html Dynamic Structure(Language as an Open System) eds. Johannes Fehr & Petr Kouba ISBN 80-7308-139-3 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html Gender and Generation eds. Katerina Kolarova & Vera Sokolova ISBN 978-80-7308-184-3 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/gender.html Technicity eds. Louis Armand & Arthur Bradley ISBN 80-7308-125-3 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/technicity.html Monologues ed. Clare Wallace ISBN 80-7308-122-9 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/monologues.html Litteraria Pragensia is a scholarly series published by Charles University, Prague -------------------------------------------------------------------------- HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz Programme in InterCultural Studies Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Prague Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: James Cummings (26) Subject: Oxford Summer Schools on TEI, XML and more [2] From: "Peter Shillingsburg" (25) Subject: CTS Symposium on Textual Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:50:53 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Oxford Summer Schools on TEI, XML and more Join us at OUCS this summer for two workshops organized by the Research Technologies Service. During the week July 21st to 25th, the TEI team at Oxford is once again offering special training in text encoding principles and techniques. This year we have two workshops: * XML, TEI, and beyond: July 21st-23rd 2008 This three-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of large amounts of digital text, this course is for you. * XML processing using XSLT: July 24th-25th 2008 This is a two-day technical course is a practical guide to the use of XSLT to do more than simply render your XML documents. Aimed at project research assistants, encoders, and programmers, it provides in-depth coverage of the principles and practice of the W3C's extensible Stylesheet language, focussing on its use as a general purpose text manipulation and processing language. Interested? Please register as soon as possible, as places are limited. The two workshops are independent of each other, but we're pleased to announce a 20% discount is available if you register for both. For further information and booking, please visit http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/ -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:53:45 +0100 From: "Peter Shillingsburg" Subject: CTS Symposium on Textual Studies Reminder (Please forgive duplication) May 28-30: Fifth Annual Symposium in Textual Studies Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Symposium Leaders: Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of Bibliography, University of Oxford, and Peter Shillingsburg, Professor of English, De Montfort University. Other Participants: J. C. C. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:51:26 +0100 From: gardent@loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Subject: Postdoc position in NL Generation, Nancy, France Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France) Field: Computational Linguistics Topic: Natural Language Generation Deadline for application: May 30, 2008. Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) Nancy Grand Est (France) Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of a surface realiser for French. Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (PhD viva held in May 2007 or later) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing and a particular interest in NL generation. Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html http://www.inria.fr/travailler/mrted/en/postdoc/details.html?id=PNGFK026203F3VBQB6G68LOE1&LOV5=4508&LOV2=4490&LG=EN&Resultsperpage=20&nPostingID=1882&nPostingTargetID=4851&option=52&sort=DESC&nDepartmentID=19 Contact: Claire Gardent Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1700J5QIOOGCG0@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 21 May 2008 19:12:41 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K17002T2IP0X550@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 21 May 2008 19:12:36 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.189]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Wed, 21 May 2008 19:12:35 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4L79EB7013652; Wed, 21 May 2008 03:09:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4L46Ftg018934; Wed, 21 May 2008 03:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20030151 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 21 May 2008 03:00:40 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4L6xOhr006975 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 02:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4L6xOIZ001501 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 02:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4L6xM2U001498 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 02:59:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail78.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B270E6BEB82 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 02:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail78.messagelabs.com (mail78.messagelabs.com [195.245.230.131]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id IovOPdCPPs3U5kJv for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 02:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 29316 invoked from network); Wed, 21 May 2008 06:59:21 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-14.tower-78.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Wed, 21 May 2008 06:59:21 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JyiHy-0004sR-R9 for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 21 May 2008 07:59:06 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JyiHn-0004iK-8D for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 21 May 2008 07:58:55 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:58:52 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.033 costs for peer-review, e-distribution? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:52:10 +0100 From: Richard Poynder Subject: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals Dear All, I am trying to establish (in the specific context of scholarly journals) whether anyone knows of any research that has been undertaken to establish the dollar cost of a) implementing the peer review of a scholarly paper, b) distributing a scholarly paper electronically. If so, I would be grateful for details of what the estimated costs were, and links to any papers/reports that were produced as a result of that research (if they are available on an OA basis). Thanks in advance. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:53:11 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.20 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 20 May 20 -- May 26, 2008 AN ISSUE ON SECURITY AND SOFTWARE * In their informative article "Elliptic Curve Cryptography," Ramesh Singh and his colleagues Vivek Kapoor and Vivek Sonny Abraham explain the suitablity of elliptic curve cryptography for smart cards. Singh is with the National Information Centre of the Government of India, while Kapoor and Abraham are with the Delhi College of Engineering in that country. * Ubiquity Associate Editor Ross Gagliano gives a lively review of four useful books on different software issues: "Software Process Dynamics," by Raymond J. Madachy; "Software Development Rhythms: Harmonizing Agile Practices for Synergy, by Kim Man Lui and Keith C. C. Chan"; "Software Testing: Testing Across the Entire Software Development Life Cycle," by Gerald D. Everett and Raymond McLeod, Jr.; and "Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement," by Alain April and Alain Abran. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Cecile Guedon (43) Subject: Crossing the Boundaries A Conference on Interdisciplinarity and Research [2] From: Tommie Meyer (37) Subject: KROW@KR2008: Final Call for Papers [3] From: geoff@cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) (57) Subject: LPAR Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 06:30:08 +0100 From: Cecile Guedon Subject: Crossing the Boundaries A Conference on Interdisciplinarity and Research Crossing the Boundaries A Conference on Interdisciplinarity and Research Saturday 31st May, Birkbeck, University of London Disciplinary boundaries can be both prisons and safety zones. We are often tempted to transgress the boundaries of our disciplines, but at what cost and with what consequences? The Faculty of Lifelong Learning, Birkbeck, with Consortium Projects, invite you to a multifaceted conference celebrating and critiquing interdisciplinary work. As well as interrogations of the very concept of interdisciplinarity, specific issues within the fields of art, architecture, film, education, law, and literature will be examined. Speakers include * Marko Daniel, Curator of Public Programmes, Tate Modern (Chair) * Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University College London, and co-ordinator of the UCL Urban Laboratory * Dr Tim Boon, Head of Collections, Science Museum Date Saturday 31st May, 9.30am-5pm Venue Room B35, Birkbeck, Malet Street, University of London. See http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps for directions How to register Attendance is free, but places must be booked by emailing boundariesconference@yahoo.co.uk Subject: KROW@KR2008: Final Call for Papers Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008) September 17, 2008 Final Call for Papers A KR 2008 Workshop September 16 - 19, 2008 Sydney, Australia http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html KROW 2008 is one of two workshops forming an integral part of the program of the 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008). It is a continuation of the Australasian Ontology Workshop series: http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/aow/. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies The proceedings of the three workshops in the AOW series were published as volumes 58, 72, and 85 of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and the KROW 2008 proceedings will be published as volume 90 of the same series. Extended versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the journal Applied Artificial Intelligence. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 06:34:37 +0100 From: geoff@cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Subject: LPAR Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR'08 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 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 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 2008 edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Description logics * Interactive theorem proving * Non-monotonic reasoning * Implementations of logic * Specification using logics * Proof assistants * Logic in artificial intelligence * Program and system verification * Lambda calculus * Model checking * Constructive logic and type theory * Rewriting and unification * Computional interpretations of logic * Logic programming * Logical foundations of programming * Constraint programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and databases * Logic and computational complexity * Modal and temporal logics * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Proof-carrying code * Reasoning about actions * Translation validation * Proof planning * Logic for the semantic web * Effectively presented structures * Foundations of security * Logic of distributed systems Invited Speakers ---------------- It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community have accepted this invitation. * Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) * Amir Pnueli, New York University (USA) * Michael Backes, Saarland University and MPI-SWS (Germany) * Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna (Austria) [...] Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1D00KWW3UU3H00@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:37:45 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1D009123USFT00@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:37:42 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.112]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:37:41 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4O7YrMO000093; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:34:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4O451X6022368; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:34:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20063516 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:27:41 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4O7N11n028165 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:23:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4O7N1Ev001645 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:23:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4O7MuNT001569 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:23:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail71.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 109E75EC2E6 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:22:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail71.messagelabs.com (mail71.messagelabs.com [193.109.255.131]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id vVOUmBnVoJhn7RKs for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:22:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 3220 invoked from network); Sat, 24 May 2008 07:22:54 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-5.tower-71.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 07:22:54 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Jzo5A-0005Da-UF for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:22:24 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Jzo50-000562-NR for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:22:15 +0100 Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:22:10 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.036 getting carried away? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:25:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting carried away? Sometime between 1964 and 1965, in a conference at Purdue University sponsored by IBM, Professor William B. Kehl, then Director of the Computing Centre at Pittsburgh, said the following in a panel discussion: >Ultimately, I hope that somewhere along the way there will be one >man who will become so interested and so involved with the computer >and his own work that he will begin to develop some sort of >structures which may be defined only in terms of a computer; a >research project, in other words, in which the computer is implicit >in the structure that he is trying to analyze. Let me explain: Simon >and Newell (both of whom came from the field of psychology), in >their chess-playing program and their learning programs on the >computer, saw that the existing language was not sufficient for >them. They had more complex things to think about. In chess playing >they had to look ahead many moves, while in learning theory they had >to think of the fact of how things were structured. The same thing >was done with grammar, and so the linguists became so involved that >they designed a language which actually was almost a new computer in >itself. It totally restructured the idea of a computer. Now the same >thing is going to happen at some point in the humanities, at least >this in the area of written communication. I'm not talking about >linguists and the problems of parsing sentences, which are pretty >well simplified and solved, or about generative grammars; I'm >talking about a real structure to deal with problems in literature. >I don't say this is the path for everybody in the humanities, but >hopefully there is going to be one man out of a conference who will >become so involved with the computer that his whole concept, his >whole approach to research, is going to be involved intimately with >defining such a structure of which previously he could not have >conceived. (Edmund A Bowles, ed., Computers in Humanistic Research: >Readings and Perspectives, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 252) Any nominations? (Self-nominations accepted!) Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:29:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: testing time Sixteen years ago, in the Ninth British Library Research Lecture, "Computers and the humanities" (British Library, 1992), Sir Anthony Kenny surveyed "the use of computers in actual research" since the late 1940s. He sketched work on three levels across the decades he was then able to survey. At the lowest, most general, and most unambiguously useful level, he noted the employment of computers to perform humdrum tasks in less time than an unaided human could accomplish -- the kinds of things everyone now does without much if any thought and without help from experts. This sort, he pointed out, leaves little trace in the published work of researchers (though its mostly unstudied effects on scholarship are undoubtedly great). At the opposite end he put the showpiece explorations of computational methods by the most ambitious projects, which seek results "not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing". These "win acclaim in the literature of [computer science] but pass almost without remark in the parent humanities disciplines" -- and often never get beyond laboratory prototypes. His interest was, as ours is, in the middle ground between these two. And there he found a great absence: >in spite of the multiplication of new basic research tools in the >humanities, it is surprisingly difficult to point, in specific >areas, to solid, uncontroverted gains to scholarship which could not >have been achieved without the new technology. The high hopes which >some computer enthusiasts held out that the computer would >revolutionize humanistic study have been proved, over and over >again, to be unrealistic. Sometimes the initial claims made were >much exaggerated... But even in areas where there was no hubris in >the initial claims, the results delivered have often been >disappointing. Between humdrum research and showpiece research, >what, the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is >work which is both (a) respected as an original scholarly >contribution within its own discipline and (b) could clearly not >have been done without a computer.... >Indeed throughout humanities disciplines, after thirty-odd years of >this kind of research, there are embarrassingly few books and >articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests. >This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in ihe humanities >have an uncomfortable sense of crisis, a feeling of promise >unfulfilled. Gone is the glad confident morning in which Ladurie >could say, "L'historien de demain sera programmeur ou il ne sera >plus". The feeling of disillusion is indeed partly the result of the >misplaced optimism and exaggerated claims of some of the pioneers: >the belief was sometimes encouraged in the past that feeding data >into a computer would automatically solve a scholar's problems. Rare >has been the computer project which did not, in the course of >execution, bring to light an initial overestimation of the technical >possibilities, and an underestimation of the problems of data >preparation. The proliferation of personal computers in the last >decade has often, embarrassingly, gone with an actual diminution in >methodological sophistication. This is a deeply familiar observation, and especially among the text-analysis crowd, a frequent lament that continues to attract a number of diagnoses, the most recent I know of being in the first number of Literary and Linguistic Computing for 2008, by Patrick Juola. The immediately previous one, by David Hoover, appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly 1.2 (Summer 2007). The list is a long one, going back at least to the late 1970s. Rosanne Potter's retrospective in CHum 25 (1991): 401-29 fingers the most significant ones up to that date. I wonder, however, if the problem is as much in the question being asked as in the answer not forthcoming. For one thing, writers tend to assume one answer or failure to answer across all disciplines irrespective of their materials, style of reasoning and goals. Clearly that cannot be right. When your goal is, e.g. as in epigraphy, principally to report factually rich details of what you have seen that may not be there the next time someone wants to take a look, you may well regard digital imaging, markup, relational database and online publication tools to have made an enormous, discipline-changing difference. You may well be tempted to point out that now those stuck-up folks in literary studies have to revise their ideas of what, exactly, belongs in the corpus of literature. You may well have the sense of a new renaissance of discoveries. If your goal is to interpret the literature, you may well be glad for the additional text but then hasten to point out that other than delivering text obediently and allowing you to do all those humdrum things faster etc, computing has not really made much of a difference to what centrally counts: the interpretative operations of criticism. The best statement from this perspective to date is Jerome McGann's. Wouldn't it be better to ask what sort of differences are making real differences in what disciplines? Wouldn't be better to take account of what practitioners in each specialism are actually trying to do? Kenny concluded, in 1992, by saying, "the testing time has now arrived". Indeed -- and something else folks have been saying again and again for a long time. But if, as I think to be the case, humanities computing is fundamentally an experimental practice, then wasn't Kenny noticing a perpetual dawn rather than a final sunset? And where does all this anxiety about whether we are being seen to be useful come from? Are we quaking at the wagging finger of the ghost of Imre Lakatos ("Beware degenerate research programmes!"), or are we suffering from the general lack of self-respect afflicting academics these days? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:01:09 +0100 From: "OKELL E.R." Subject: call for studies: Using Images in Education If you use images in your teaching... TASI (the JISC Technical Advisory Service for Images http://www.tasi.ac.uk/) are looking for case studies to use in a free workshop focused on strategies for locating images suitable for use within teaching and learning with particular reference to avoiding problems with copyright. There will also be an online tutorial on searching for images. Case studies may illustrate either A) the problems people have experienced with using copyright protected images in their materials or B) success stories about using copyright-free images. The case studies will be very short but will illustrate to users of an online tutorial the benefits involved in changing the way they search for images. Possible subjects for the case studies could include: i) students that have had work rejected due to the inclusion of copyright protected images ii) lecturers that have had to remove content from VLEs or presentations/handouts iii) legal problems with use of copyright protected images on websites etc iv) benefits of using a copyright free repository/Creative Commons resources in terms of peace of mind, time saving etc. v) discovery of good locations for the provision of images perhaps within a certain subject or field of study which are free to use Please email David Kilbey (d.kilbey@bristol.ac.uk) if you would like to contribute and *please copy me* so that I can construct an annotated summary of resources available as a list on the website and as a pamphlet. I think this would be useful and while I know about the 'copyright cleared for teaching' collections of the Archaeology Image Bank http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/learning/image_bank/ and Vroma http://www.vroma.org/or, and the free use collections of images in Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ and of those under various commons licences held at Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, I haven't used them for teaching myself, so couldn't comment on their quality and there must be more that I don't know about (yet)! Many thanks, Eleanor Dr. E. R. OKell, Classics Academic Coordinator, History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre Lecturer, Dept. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:05:11 +0100 From: "OKELL E.R." Subject: Are you teaching in a virtual world? ReLIVE08 CfP ReLIVE08 has this call for *actual papers* and *virtual presentations within Second Life*. The deadline for abstracts is 2nd June 2008. 20-21 November 2008, Open University, Milton Keynes CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The call for abstract submissions is now open for ReLIVE08, an international conference on Researching Learning in Virtual Environments. This conference will be of interest to anyone researching learning and teaching in virtual world environments such as Second Life. The conference organisers are keen to construct a programme that features diverse and innovative research approaches to learning and teaching in virtual worlds. Given the emerging practice associated with virtual worlds, the conference committee is also keen to receive papers reporting on the experience of learning and teaching using virtual worlds that relate practice and outcomes to literature and research in this area. Submissions will reflect a range of research methods and will examine issues such as rigour, methods of sampling, relationships between researchers and researched, and the ethics and politics of the research process. All papers will be published in a conference proceedings and a selection of papers will be published in an additional academic format. For further information please visit the OU website (http://www.open.ac.uk/relive08/). Classics Academic Coordinator, History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre Lecturer, Dept. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Bethany Nowviskie (115) Subject: two positions at University of Virginia Library [2] From: Matthew Zimmerman (29) Subject: jobs in the digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:00:03 +0100 From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: two positions at University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library has created two new general faculty positions in support of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, and is now considering applications: Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library seeks a technically-grounded, visionary person with a deep understanding of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to shape the services of the Scholars' Lab and Digital Scholarship R&D departments around text-based digital humanities. The successful candidate will design and implement technical services that sustain legacy content while supporting current faculty development, are forward-looking to research trends such as data mining, visualization, and social, semantic, and web services, and that further UVA Library's reputation as a leader in the digital humanities. The Scholars' Lab is located in Alderman Library and is a collaborative venture between the UVA Library and ITC, the University of Virginia's Information Technology and Communications division. The Scholars' Lab combines the services of the former GeoStat and Etext Centers and is designed to provide faculty and students in humanities and social science disciplines with technology and guidance to support their interpretive and scholarly work in geospatial, statistical, and text-based computing. Research and Development is a unit of the Library's Digital Research & Scholarship department devoted to programming support for scholarly projects and interfaces. Information about both groups can be accessed at <http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/>. Responsibilities: Reporting to the Director of Digital Research & Scholarship, the Digital Humanities Specialist offers and coordinates support for scholarly projects and public services around text-based digital humanities. This individual will: consult with faculty on scholarly and technical goals and best practices; perform XSL work in support of faculty projects as needed and provide targeted TEI, XML, and XSLT training for faculty and students; collaborate with Digital Scholarship R&D on the development of faculty projects with significant textual components; pursue innovative solutions to problems of ontology, markup, data mining, visualization, and display; supervise XML/XSLT efforts by Scholars' Lab students attached to faculty projects; create and offer training programs related to text-based digital humanities, assist in ongoing corpus management work related to resources developed by the former Etext Center; and follow emerging standards and methods to ensure that UVA Library practices keep pace in public service and technology support. The Digital Humanities Specialist is further expected to engage professionally in digital scholarship by publishing and presenting original research or development work. Salary and Benefits: Competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. Review of applications will begin on June 16, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must apply through the University of Virginia online employment website at <https://jobs.virginia.edu/>. Search by position number FP644; then, complete a Candidate Profile, and attach cover letter, resume, and contact information for three current, professional references. For assistance with this process contact Library Human Resources at (434) 924-3081. Scholarly Outreach Liaison, Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library seeks a creative, enterprising person who can demonstrate a deep understanding of the intellectual and technical scene of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to coordinate outreach to faculty and students through the Scholars' Lab and to facilitate communication between the Library's research and development staff and their scholarly clientele. The successful candidate will design and implement consultative services to address the needs of humanities and social science scholars and will aggressively promote intellectual programming and outreach activity in the Scholars' Lab. The Scholars' Lab is located in Alderman Library and is a collaborative venture between the UVA Library and ITC, the University of Virginia's Information Technology and Communications division. The Scholars' Lab combines the services of the former GeoStat and Etext Centers and is designed to provide faculty and students in humanities and social science disciplines with technology and guidance to support their interpretive and scholarly work in geospatial, statistical, and text-based computing. Research and Development is a unit of the Library's Digital Research & Scholarship department devoted to programming support for scholarly projects and interfaces. Information about both groups can be accessed at <http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/>. Responsibilities: Reporting to the Director of Digital Research & Scholarship, the Scholarly Outreach Liaison is responsible for establishing goals for outreach and coordination of scholarly projects. This individual will: develop and implement an intake process for new projects, including assisting faculty in defining their research goals and conducting discipline-specific and technological literature reviews; develop project workplans and agreements; coordinate the activities of Scholars' Lab staff and student employees in support of this work as needed; and engage in targeted and general outreach, including organization of the Scholars' Lab's speaker series and luncheon talks and workshops and of the Library's Graduate Fellows Program in Digital Humanities. The Scholarly Outreach Liaison is further expected to engage in instruction and professional development by offering workshops to faculty, students, and staff, and publishing and presenting original research in digital scholarship. Salary and Benefits: Competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. Review of applications will begin on June 16, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must apply through the University of Virginia online employment website at <https://jobs.virginia.edu/>. Search by position number FP622; complete a Candidate Profile, and attach cover letter, resume, and contact information for three current, professional references. For assistance with this process contact Library Human Resources at (434) 924-3081. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, PhD. Director, Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library http://faculty.virginia.edu/nowviskie http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:02:15 +0100 From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: jobs in the digital humanities? Are you on the job market? Are you looking for general career advice in the Digital Humanities? Do you have valuable career advice to give? If so, I encourage you to participate in this year's ACH mentoring program. Each year the Association for Computers and the Humanities (www.ach.org) puts out a call to those who are looking for advice in beginning or advancing their careers in the Digital Humanities and those who can offer advice, or, even better, jobs! As in the past, the mentoring program is deliberately informal. After collecting names of mentors and mentess I then offer an introduction via email and the parties take it from there. Ideally you both will be attending the Digital Humanities Conference in Oulu this year so you can spend some time taking over coffee, but if not, no worries, a lot can be done over email. So, if you fall in to one of the above categories (mentor or mentee) please email at matt.zimmerman@gmail.com and let me know: 1. Whether you are looking to mentor or be mentored. 2. In what area(s) you feel you need help or could offer help (i.e. Libraries, Teaching, Technical) 3. If you will be attending the Digital Humanities 2008 conference in Oulu. Also remember our ACH jobs database at http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/ where you can search for jobs if you are on the market and also post jobs if you are an employer with openings. Thanks so much for you help in continuing what has been a very beneficial program for all parties involved in the past years. Matt Zimmerman Chair, ACH Employment Committee. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:04:34 +0100 From: Bertram Fronhoefer?= Subject: European Masters Programme in Computational Logic *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** european.computational-logic.org/ The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is a distributed MSc program which is offered by the following universities: * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Students select two out of the five partner universities, study for one year at each of the selected universities and will receive a double MSc-degree from the selected universities. NEXT APPLICATION DEADLINES: - 31 May 2008: deadline for all European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 July 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: There will be 12 consortium scholarships to waive one year's tuition fee of 3.000 ? for students who newly enroll in the winter semester 2008 and do not receive any other scholarship. These scholarships will be given on the basis of academic merit. Every year 10 EMCL students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 ? and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. APPLICATION: Check this web page for detailed info on applications: http://european.computational-logic.org/ THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Bologna 1st cycle or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Logic, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The program has various strength that make it unique among European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The program is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is one of the few European Masters awarded by the European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme from its first year of existence in 2004. The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third-countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third-countries. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). FURTHER INFORMATION: http://european.computational-logic.org/ Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universit=E4t Dresden 01062 Dresden, Germany phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40 fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42 email: sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1D00J543NYX710@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:34:39 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1D0092P3PLBQ00@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:34:33 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.189]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:34:33 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4O7VMv1027958; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:31:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4O424ng014221; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:30:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20063686 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:28:59 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4O7RuRl028393 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:27:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4O7RuXQ024631 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:27:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4O7RteS024629 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail115.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 32978B4D0DA for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail115.messagelabs.com (mail115.messagelabs.com [195.245.231.179]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id CVZDCzbfT93NDA60 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 03:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 4183 invoked from network); Sat, 24 May 2008 07:27:53 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-12.tower-115.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 07:27:53 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JzoA0-0000wY-Je for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:27:24 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Jzo9w-0000rD-HL for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:27:21 +0100 Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:27:16 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.042 LLC 23.2 for June 2008 X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080524072754.32978B4D0DA@emfw3.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1211614074-1db501640000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-12.tower-115.messagelabs.com!1211614073!46116485!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.042 LLC 23.2 for June 2008 X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail115.messagelabs.com[195.245.231.179] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1211614075 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5302 signatures=395534 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0805240002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 42. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:03:31 +0100 From: oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing, June 2008; Vol. 23, No. 2 Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: June 2008; Vol. 23, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol23/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomo Argamon Interpreting Burrows's Delta: Geometric and Probabilistic Foundations Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 131-147; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn003. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/131?etoc David Pritchard Working Papers, Open Access, and Cyber-infrastructure in Classical Studies Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 149-162; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn005. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/149?etoc Nicholas Smith, Sebastian Hoffmann, and Paul Rayson Corpus Tools and Methods, Today and Tomorrow: Incorporating Linguists' Manual Annotations Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 163-180; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn004. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/163?etoc Constantina Stamou Stylochronometry: Stylistic Development, Sequence of Composition, and Relative Dating Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 181-199; doi:10.1093/llc/fqm029. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/181?etoc Eveline Wandl-Vogt Zitate per Mausklick? Das Textkorpus zum WORTERBUCH DER BAIRISCHEN MUNDARTEN IN OSTERREICH (WBO) als leistungsstarkes Werkzeug fur die lexikographische Praxis Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 201-217; doi:10.1093/llc/fqm048. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/201?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Review Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Buckland What Does the Statistical Style Analysis of Film Involve? A Review of Moving into Pictures. More on Film History, Style, and Analysis Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 219-230; doi:10.1093/llc/fqm046. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/2/219?etoc Marc Ruppel From First Person to Second Person Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 231-239; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn006. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/2/231?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Terras Permanent Pixels: Building Blocks for the Longevity of Digital Surrogates of Historical Photographs. * Rene van Horik. Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 241-242; doi:10.1093/llc/fqm049. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/2/241?etoc Geert Lernout The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web. Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 243-244; doi:10.1093/llc/fqm047. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/2/243?etoc Melissa Terras Digital Heritage: Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage. * Lindsay MacDonald (ed.). Lit Linguist Computing 2008 23: 244-246; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn002. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/2/244?etoc Kim Luyckx Corpus Linguistics and the Web. * Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf and Carolin Biewer (eds). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:58:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how things looked 46 years ago In my trawlings for early views of computing one of the best finds has been a series of commissioned pieces published by the Times Literary Supplement in 1962 under the series title "Freeing the mind" and later that year as a booklet, Freeing the Mind: Articles and Letters from the Times Literary Supplement during March-June 1962 (London: Times Publishing Company, 1962), for the sum of 3/6. The main articles in this collection are: Research and the Library of the Future: D. J. Foskett; Mechanization in Lexicography: R. A. Wisbey; Electronic Storage and Searching: Ralph Shaw; The Kinds of Machine now in Use: Andrew D. Booth; The Future of Machine Translation: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel; The Intellect's New Eye: Margaret Masterman; Poetry, Prose and the Machine (anon). Perhaps the longest surviving one in the series was Masterman's visionary article, which was quoted approvingly by Allan B Ellis and F. Andre Favat in a book on The General Inquirer, ed Stone (1966), and sixteen years later, as a measure of what had not (and still has not) been achieved, by Susan Wittig in CHum 11 (1978). I quote below in its entirety the editorial introduction to Freeing the Mind as a general stimulus to historical thinking and as an example of the kind of thing I'm looking for. Notification of more of the same kind will be most gratefully received. Yours, WM ----- >INTRODUCTION > >Is THERE A DIRECT relationship between the growth of human >knowledge and the decline in humanity's ability to handle what >it knows? It often seems that there is. The development of >(at least) two cultures, the breeding of more and more specialists, >the mutual mystification of experts even within a single field of >knowledge: we know the symptoms only too well. In every >profession, in every branch of scholarship, it is becoming harder to >keep pace with current developments. Nor is this just because so >many actual discoveries are being made. The fragmentation of >knowledge itself leads to overlapping and duplication, to the scattering >of the relevant material through an ever-widening range of >publications; as the horizons close in there is more and more pointless >research. Keeping up with the real advances is only part of the >problem. Trying to identify them at all in the vast wastes of words >and effort: that is what takes the time. > > ----- > >We have often heard how this presses on the scientist. To take >the classic instance, the index to Chemical Abstracts for the decade >1947-1956 is three times the size of that for the decade preceding. >But at the same time the sheer volume of paper published is also >mounting on the non-scientific desk. Thus at a conference on >Information Methods of Research Workers in the Social Sciences, >whose report was published by the Library Association last year, >Mr. Donald MacRae complained of "the difficulty of knowledge of >and access to the mass of field studies and monographs" in sociology. >Again an article by Mr. Brian Rowley in the October-January, 1961, >number of German Life and Letters refers to a "jungle of secondary >sources" in his subject which the bibliographers no longer have under >control. Not only does research become increasingly fragmented >as a result, in Mr. Rowley's view, but the young scholar, pressed to >publish "original" work, may think he is doing so when the ground >has already been covered; he may be thickening the word-jungle to >no purpose. And there are many other indications that even if the >flow of new discoveries in other fields is less than that in science the >problem is still the same. For the scholar in the humanities cannot >afford to treat his predecessors' work as superseded. He has to keep >up with the present and the past. > >In the past ten or fifteen years a good deal of rather uncoordinated >thought has been given to taking some of this burden off the reader's >shoulders. Partly this is a matter of mapping the jungle by means of >abstracts (or brief summaries of books and articles), indexes and >bibliographies, all of which can be provided as a centralized service. >Partly it is a question of making the literature itself quickly accessible, >so that unnecessary time is not spent searching for references >or waiting for more or less unobtainable publications. Partly it is >a problem of how to cut down the sheer donkey-work of translating, >collating, copying, note-taking and compiling lists of references. >All these are aspects of academic work which could be simplified >by a more rational division oflabour and a more systematic application >of a number of new techniques. > > ----- > >The seven articles which follow discuss the progress being made >from various different directions towards this end. The facts and >the technical discoveries involved will not be entirely unfamiliar; >xerography and microphotography for instance are already in >fairly common use in this country, and a certain amount of attention >has by now been paid to the use of punched-card machines or >computers for mechanical translation and lexicography (though >less, in this country at least, to their use for searching an index or a >store of information). Nor is The Times Literary Supplement alone >in this concern with the literary aspects of the new mechanization. >Quite independently the publishing house of Bompiani in Milan >has decided to devote its Almanacco Letterario 1962 (2,500 lire) to >"the application of electronic calculators to literature and to the >moral sciences". Italy has been prominent in this field, thanks >largely to the lexicographical work of the Jesuit Father Roberto Busa >at Gallarate, to which reference is made in our second article. >A rather similar operation at Borgo Lombardo is described in the >almanac, while at Padua university the Institute of Glottology has >been using electronic machines to help analyse the phonetics of >modern Italian. > >A new German quarterly is also relevant in this connexion. >Boldly entitled "Language in the Technical Age" (Sprache im >technischen Zeitalter, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 14DM. a year), it is >edited by Professor Hollerer in west Berlin and sets out to combine >the study of such new technical developments with articles on >semantics and information theory, with social analysis of language >and literature and with criticism of some of literature's socially >interesting manifestations. So far two numbers have appeared, >including notably a most useful summary of the present situation >in machine translation by Heinz Zemanek of the Vienna Technische >Hochschule. This lists no fewer than thirty-two teams in different >parts of the world who are trying to crack this particular nut; >thirteen of them in the United States and nine in the U.S.S.R. >Besides the departments at Birkbeck, at Cambridge (Language >Research Unit), and at the National Physical Laboratory only two >European groups are given: Professor Ceccato's at Milan and M. >Tabory's at I.B.M., France. A delightful diversion in the second >issue is Herr Karl Markus Michel's attack on the drivel often >printed on gramophone record sleeves. > >In this country it seems probable that librarians are better aware >of the new possibilities than are most scholars, writers, and publishers. >At the Fedration Internationale de Documentation's >conference, which was held in London last September, a number of >revolutionary developments were discussed, among them the >F.M.A. "Filesearch" and I.B.M. "Walnut" methods of mechanically >searching a store of microfilm and projecting or enlarging the >required page, and the efforts now being made to mechanize the >Human Relations Area Files, the anthropological library at Yale. >Immediately before this conference there had been an international >conference on mechanical translation at Teddington, which was >the largest and most important yet to be held. > > ----- > >In the United States, where developments have been altogether >more spectacular, the Council on Library Resources was established >by the Ford Foundation in 1956 and was given a new grant of $8m. >last year precisely "to set up a laboratory to study photographic and >electronic techniques designed to cope with the deluge of publications >resulting from the accelerated rate of research". This and much >else has already been reported in the press. Yet each report so >far has been treated rather in isolation; many of the projects evolved >seem to have been planned without much idea of the scholars' >needs. Nor is it always clear how far they have got beyond the >theoretical stage. > >Development has been both piecemeal and one-sided. It has >not been easy for those interested to find a common language; >terms like "data processing" or "information reference arrays" act >as a barrier to all but the initiated. Moreover, although the technicians >in this field hopefully look to machines as "high-speed >idiots which will do the drudgery", their tendency has sometimes >been to think in terms of the machines available rather than of the >full extent of the problem or of the contribution which the non- >technical customer can make. Everywhere the problem has been >seen primarily as a scientific and industrial one; it is the needs of >science and industry, the armed forces and the strategists, which seem >to dictate every new solution. > >These are indeed the patrons who have initiated and financed >nearly all the progress so far made, from abstracting services to >automatic translation. None the less it may be dangerously shortsighted >to concentrate so exclusively on their requirements. It seems >doubtful, for instance, whether any satisfactory system of automatic >translation into English can be based entirely on experience with >Russian scientific texts (though machine translation up to now has >been virtually confined to this) or whether the principle of identifying >subject-matter by word-frequency will work outside a very limited >number of sciences (though this has been made the basis of mechanical >searching and of some experiments with the mechanical preparation >of abstracts). Nor should we overlook the possibly corrosive effect >of corrupt jargon and a debased technological style. Any system >built on the misuse of language is likely to impose its own distortions. > > ----- > >What we hope to do in our series of articles is to provide a rather >more general view of the whole scene, and to put a new emphasis >on those requirements and standards which seem so far to have >been overlooked. It is remarkable, for instance, that the kind of >abstracting, indexing and bibliographical service given by scientific >journals and industrial libraries-which nced involve no special >machinery-should scarcely at all be available to students of the >humanities and the social sciences. (An important article in the >December, 1960, number of The Library Association Record by the >first of our contributors discussed how much more could be done >in this respect.) It seems wrong that so many highly trained >research workers should have to waste time on what are virtually >routine clerical operations, such as the word-by-word analysis of >Goethe's works for the projected Goethe-Worterbuch, instead of >letting the job be done by machine. Admittedly, there are scholars >who associate moral virtue and academic discipline with such >drudgery; but this view shows a certain lack of faith in the wider >aspects of scholarship, and it is high time that it was dropped. So >long as he is still able to do his own searching and browsing when he >wants, any scholar must surely welcome the new developments, >and hasten to draw up his own demands on them. The more >sluggish his interest, the more chance of the needs of the humanities >being ignored. > >It is not just a matter of asserting the non-scientist's claims; for >as mechanical methods come to play an increasing part in our >studies they are likely to affect the printing, publication and indexing >of books, and even their actual style. The shortcomings of more >or less elegant English prose for expressing certain kinds of situation >seem to pass at present almost unnoticed; "experimental writing" >is directed almost anywhere sooner than to rectifying this. Already >it seems that the machines would have it otherwise, and are beginning >to need a more diagrammatic, tabulated form of notation of the >kind that Professor Anthony Oettinger in his book on Automatic >Language Translation (Harvard University Press) calls "flow charts" : > > The very properties of flow charts that make them such useful > tools are unfortunately not easily described verbally, because a > formal verbal description requires precisely the kind of intricate > prose that flow charts are intended to replace. > >Here is a challenge of quite a different order from that of the formal >experiments to which the past fifty years of avant-garde writing >have accustomed us: our whole way of writing may be drastically >changed. At the same time publishers of important books could >very well help mechanical scanning by making their indexes available >in a form that can be handled by machine. > >Admittedly, we are still in the preliminary, or science-fiction, >stage of the whole operation, when a wide range of possibilities seem >to suggest themselves and the most revolutionary implications >arise. As something of a safeguard the writers of the present series >of articles have been asked to stress the question of practical >feasibility, bearing in mind the likely cost and distinguishing between >theoretical spadework and actual achievement. None the less >science-fiction can come true, and it is not impossible that there >will be a mechanization of scholarship comparable in its importance >with the invention of movable types. > >This makes it important not only that its manifestations should >be most carefully watched but also that its proper objective should >be continually brought to mind. For it must be remembered from >the start that the aim is to lift the burden of routine searching, >collation, listing of possible sources and even perhaps taking of >notes off the brain-worker so that he can use his mind and his time >to better purpose. It has often been said that humanity is tragically >placed because it cannot apply to its social, moral and political >thinking the same scientific methods as it uses to transform the >material world. But perhaps now it can use them for something >even more fundamental: the liberation of thought itself. > >The Times Literary Supplement-March 23, 1962 Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1G000Z5SCTLB10@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Mon, 26 May 2008 19:19:43 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx7.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1G00C12SBS5100@mx7.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Mon, 26 May 2008 19:19:04 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Mon, 26 May 2008 19:19:03 +1200 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4Q7Fvnw001400; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:15:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m4P414xu027559; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:15:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20072943 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:07:21 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4Q76uW6011267 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:06:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4Q76uSt024544 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:06:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4Q76tW1024533 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:06:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail114.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A18DB15181C6 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:06:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail114.messagelabs.com (mail114.messagelabs.com [195.245.231.163]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id dNLKVR6jiMM3Yf4V for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 03:06:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 22735 invoked from network); Mon, 26 May 2008 07:06:26 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-13.tower-114.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Mon, 26 May 2008 07:06:26 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1K0Wmo-0000HP-DF for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 26 May 2008 08:06:26 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1K0Wme-0000AX-75 for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 26 May 2008 08:06:16 +0100 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 08:06:15 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.044 textual scholarship in N America and Europe X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080526070631.A18DB15181C6@emfw2.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.Princeton.EDU id m4Q76uW6011268 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1211785591-11a103930000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-13.tower-114.messagelabs.com!1211785586!15089769!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.044 textual scholarship in N America and Europe X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail114.messagelabs.com[195.245.231.163] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1211785591 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5302 signatures=395534 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0805250242 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 44. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Allison, Jonathan" (22) Subject: cfp STS at South Atlantic MLA [2] From: Joao Miguel Quaresma Mendes Dionisio (19) Subject: European Society for Textual Scholarship 2008 Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:24:48 +0100 From: "Allison, Jonathan" Subject: cfp STS at South Atlantic MLA Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Society for Textual Scholarship and SAMLA, I wish to draw your attention to the following call for papers: Call for papers Society for Textual Scholarship affiliated session, SAMLA, Louisville, Kentucky; 7-9 November 2008 Interpretation and the scene of editing: This session welcomes proposals on the scholarly editing of literary texts, broadly conceived. Possible topics include editing as interpretation; textual instability and problems in textual construction; the editing of Selected Works or Collected Works; material textuality; the interpretation and reproduction of bibliographic codes; electronic editing; radiant textuality; the uses of electronic archives. Please send 150-word abstract by 31 May 2008 to Jonathan Allison by email at jalliso@uky.edu or at the Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. Jonathan Allison Associate Professor Department of English 1215 Patterson Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:25:11 +0100 From: Joao Miguel Quaresma Mendes Dionisio Subject: European Society for Textual Scholarship 2008 Conference Reminder Fifth international conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship University of Lisbon, 20-22 November 2008. Call for papers ends on May 31st 2008 If you should like to send a proposal, please do so by addressing it to the email of the Program Chair, Prof. Dr. Burghard Dedner (dednerb@staff.uni-marburg.de ). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 06:38:29 +0100 From: "Allison, Jonathan" Subject: Deadline extension for cfp STS@SAMLA Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Society for Textual Scholarship and SAMLA, I wish to draw your attention again to the following call for papers. Please note that the deadline has been extended to 15 June 2008. Call for papers Society for Textual Scholarship affiliated session, SAMLA, Louisville Hyatt Regency, Kentucky; 7-9 November 2008 Interpretation and the scene of editing: This session welcomes proposals on the scholarly editing of literary texts, broadly conceived. Possible topics include editing as interpretation; textual instability and problems in textual construction; the editing of Selected Works or Collected Works; material textuality; the interpretation and reproduction of bibliographic codes; electronic editing; radiant textuality; the uses of electronic archives. Please send 200-word abstract by 15 June 2008 to Jonathan Allison by email at jalliso@uky.edu or at the Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 2 [2] From: ubiquity (24) Subject: UBIQUITY 9.21 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 06:39:05 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 2 The Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 2 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Google Book Search Bibliography Open Access Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 06:40:11 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.21 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 21 May 27 --June 2, 2008 * Ubiquity Associate Editor Espen Andersen, is also an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Norwegian School of Management and the European Research Director of nGenera Corporation. In his provocative essay on "Scarce Resources in Computing," Andersen sees the future and assures all of us knowledge-workers that information scarcity will be with us for a long time to come. * Phil Yaffe gives us a new look at Lewis Carroll's wonderful concoction of nonsense, mathematics, language and logic in his "Jabberwocky." Read it now, or you'll be doomed to live the Archival Life. * Kathryn Kelly of the Ohio Supercomputer Center offers information on the SC08 Conference and reaches out for new participants interested in assistance getting to this important event. * Giving a wake-up call to American K-12 educators, M.O. Thirunarayanan urges technology-based outsourcing of U.S. math and science teaching for primary and secondary students. Yes, you read that correctly. Yikes. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:39:59 +0100 From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: Call for Ideas: NEH Seeking Research Ideas using High Performance Computing CALL FOR IDEAS: NEH Seeking Research Ideas Using High Performance Computing The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. NEH established this program to encourage humanities scholars to think about how high performance computers might help them in their research, and to take advantage of existing high performance computer resources. However, we recognize that simply providing access to the resources isn't enough to spark new ideas. We don't expect that there are legions of humanists out there with software and datasets sitting idle and ready to use on high performance machines. Still, we want to stimulate and encourage promising ideas you may have for HHPC experiments and test projects. As we indicate in the HHPC program guidelines (and as we do in all our other ODH grant programs), we specifically encourage potential applicants to contact us with their ideas for new projects. The ODH staff frequently works with potential applicants to provide feedback on proposals and guidance on the most appropriate grant program for their project. If you are considering a humanities project that may require fast computation, I encourage you to send us an e-mail (odh@neh.gov) with your ideas or draft proposals. We don't expect that you've necessarily worked out all the details -- you may simply be at a stage where basic research and experimentation is in order. We will work with you to help find the most suitable NEH grant opportunity and make suggestions on how to turn your draft into a full-blown proposal. We will also consult with our partners at the Department of Energy to seek their advice, as appropriate. Our hope is that this call will help turn some of your ideas into excellent projects that will be valuable to the nascent HHPC community. We look forward to hearing from you. For additional information, please do consult our HHPC Resource Page. Please see this same posting on the ODH Update page for links: http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=108&EntryID=60 Thanks, Brett ---------------------- Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities bbobley@neh.gov www.neh.gov/odh Return-Path: Received: from fep14.clear.net.nz (fep14 [192.168.16.115]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1Q000LE7AZ6O30@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 31 May 2008 21:21:01 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx6.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1Q00AM67AZVDDB@mx6.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 31 May 2008 21:20:59 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.8]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sat, 31 May 2008 21:20:58 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4V9HU3X013458; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:47:20 +0100 From: geoff@cs.miami.edu (Geoff Sutcliffe) Subject: LPAR submission deadline extended 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS LPAR'08 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 ---------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ---------------------------- 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 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 2008 edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Logic of distributed systems * Computional interpretations of logic * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Modal and temporal logics * Constructive logic and type theory * Model checking * Decision procedures * Non-monotonic reasoning * Description logics * Ontologies * Foundations of security * Program and system verification * Implementations of logic * Proof assistants * Interactive theorem proving * Proof-carrying code * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Proof planning * Lambda calculus * Proof theory * Logic and automata * Propositional satisfiability * Logic and computational complexity * Reasoning about actions * Logic and databases * Rewriting and unification * Logic and games * Satisfiability modulo theories * Logic for the semantic web * Static analysis of programs * Logical aspects of concurrency * Specification using logics * Logical foundations of programming * Translation validation * Logic in artificial intelligence Invited Speakers ---------------- It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for their fields. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:41:59 +0100 From: Leonard Muellner Subject: job at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC Position available immediately: System Administrator, Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC) http://chs.harvard.edu I. Basics: -- Maintains and supports the CHS LAN, including installation and set up of new servers and configuration of servers, Cisco routers, Cisco switches, and Cisco firewalls. The LAN (both wired and wireless) currently contains five Macintosh Xserves and one Dell Xeon server. (Some high-level network programming has been outsourced; that can continue.) The CHS is poised to grow in this area. -- Coordinates third-party repairs and modifications/upgrades to networking equipment of data and voice (IP phone) systems. -- Maintains system security and responds appropriately to threats to it. --Responsible for the support of 20-30 users on Mac OS X operating systems, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and MS Office Suite on both platforms with assistance as needed. -- Installs, maintains, and troubleshoots printers (HP and Ricoh) and imaging devices (photocopy machines and scanners) on the LAN except when vendor maintenance and service are required. -- Responsible for the acquisition of computing equipment and telephony Center-wide according to budget allocations. -- Contributes to the selection and ensures the implementation of technology tools for the research, publication, and administrative needs of the CHS in Washinton DC and in Nafplio, Greece -- With the Director of IT and Publications, provides training and support to interns and staff on the use of technological tools that serve the academic and non-academic activities of the CHS. -- Will participate in the recruitment and selection of a full-time assistant to assure coverage and accomplish lower-level tasks; will supervise the work of this assistant. II. Additional tasks currently associated with the position: -- Cisco IP Telephone system administration -- A/V and videoconferencing system administration (aspects of the system will be upgraded this summer) -- Verify automated on- and off-site backup system administration (digitiliti) -- Email server administration, including email account maintenance (Kerio Mail Server). -- Some web server configuration and administration III. Benefits: -- Funds and time off for professional training and certification, which is encouraged -- Health, dental, and life insurance; a choice of pension plans, etc. as a Harvard employee IV. Salary: competitive, and commensurate with skills and experience V. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:56:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: on firm and infirm ground On 2 April 1970 a rather full report on the 1970 symposium, "Uses of the computer in literary research", organized by Roy Wisbey in Cambridge, appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, p. 368, under the title "The literary computer". The aim of this conference was to report on the then current state of research, which not surprisingly had much to do with concordance generation for print -- Wisbey's own focus, as some of you will know. "In the more suspect world of stylostatistics", the reviewer comments, a number of projects were presented, but if the report is accurate, did not persuade the attendees that statistical analysis had much of a future. Such analysis, which we now know to be very valuable indeed as a set of experimental techniques, seems then to have been taken as part of an attempt to construct a mathematical model (rather than to conduct stylistic modelling with the aid of mathematics) for literary text. The reviewer argues that "the real value of such applications lies less in the tendencies they demonstrate (but can never convincingly prove) than in the fact that they cause us to think more deeply about what we mean by 'style'." It seems to me that today we'd not see the reviewer's opposition as a choice we need to make. But what I most want to put before you are the concluding two and a half paragraphs of the review -- and ask you to consider how far over the threshold sketched here we have been able to progress. The first quoted sentence below refers, by the way, almost certainly to Joe Raben, founding editor of CHum, whose literary research was as described. >However wide the vistas opened up by the computer as a means of >analysing the whole process of collocation, borrowing, adaptation >and affiliation underlying the literary tradition of a nation or >civilization, dwelt on at some length by an American scholar >comparing Shelley and Milton, the indispensable need for aesthetic >judgment to evaluate the mechanically produced evidence was fully >admitted by all exploring such possibilities. > >In some respects these tasks are self-defeating, for the sheer >wealth of the tradition which the computer can help reveal is itself >proof that the parallels detected are far from supplying such >incontrovertible evidence for precise questions of literary >dependence and authorship as may at first sight appear. It is likely >that the disappearance of the common stock of traditional formulas >characteristic of much medieval literature, where they help little >in the convincing solution of such problems, is more apparent than >real; and that with the rise of individuality since the Renaissance >and the modern critical equation of originality with creative >achievement, the real facts of the continuing dependence of each >author upon his predecessors within a particular literary tradition >have sunk beneath the threshold. > >If the computer helps to bring some of these facts to consciousness >by revealing 'parallels' everywhere, our knowledge of the processes >of literary creation will be enhanced; but the detailed and often >trivial questions of authorship and borrowing which occupy so many >scholars, both medieval and modern, will recede in significance. >This symposium clearly revealed that in the present state of >knowledge those concerned with the more modest problems of >lexicography and of information storage and retrieval stand on much >firmer ground than those who would harness the computer to explore >questions directly dependent on wider mental processes. A thoughtful conclusion surely. But it seems to me that this reviewer goes badly wrong. What would you say is his or her most fundamental error? Or do you agree? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 10:11:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist archives and TREX From: Stfan Sinclair Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:07:34 -0400 Dear colleagues, Are you staying awake at night because you have a brilliant tool idea for TREX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange), but you're looking for corpus? How about working with over 20 years of the Humanist archives? Now available near you in XML or plain text formats as a single archive, by volumes, or by individual messages. You don't trust the way that I scrape, clean, and reformat 20 years of heterogenous input files (I wouldn't)? Download and tweak the code yourself! (And please let me know how you improve it.) http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/= HumanistArchives http://tada.mcmaster.ca/trex/ Stfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1S00LV41B2ZW20@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:06:40 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx7.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1S0035C1B0CL10@mx7.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:06:38 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.112]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:06:37 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5196HV2024059; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:06:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m5142Bqv023445; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:06:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20121476 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:00:50 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m518u52f012937 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:56:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m518u5Oa008114 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:56:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m518u3lZ007953 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:56:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail80.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9B63F14E7731 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:56:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail80.messagelabs.com (mail80.messagelabs.com [195.245.230.163]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id GXLU5BpEq8OelUtr for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:56:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 27214 invoked from network); Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:56:02 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-8.tower-80.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:56:02 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1K2jLg-0000hl-Pu for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:55:32 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1K2jLV-0000XD-LB for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:55:22 +0100 Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:55:18 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.052 job at MITH X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080601085603.9B63F14E7731@emfw3.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1212310563-4feb00e70000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-8.tower-80.messagelabs.com!1212310561!21714157!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.052 job at MITH X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail80.messagelabs.com[195.245.230.163] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1212310563 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5307 signatures=397022 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0806010017 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 52. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 10:09:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at MITH From: Neil Fraistat Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:31:59 -0400 The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland in College Park is seeking a full time web programmer/designer to develop and maintain software and user interfaces for MITH's projects, work with MITH fellows to create visual themes for their work, design print publicity for MITH's work, and maintain MySQL databases for existing MITH projects. The successful candidate will at the minimum have a bachelor's degree and will be proficient in PHP, Adobe Flash/ActionScript, and JavaScript, able to use multimedia tools such as Photoshop and the GIMP as well as HTML and CSS to design and encode web pages, and be familiar with cross browser compatibility issues. The ability to work well individually and in a team environment and to produce high-quality work under tightly defined deadlines is essential. Located in McKeldin Library at the heart of the campus, MITH is the University of Maryland's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, new media, and cyberculture, as well as the home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing and reading of electronic literature. MITH's house research includes projects in text mining, tool building, visualization, digital libraries, electronic publishing, and digital preservation. We collaborate actively with allied campus units, including the University Libraries, the College of Information Science, and the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Situated just outside of Washington DC, MITH also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area. Salary range, $45,000 - $55,000. Consideration of applications to begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged. To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and the names, addresses, and current phone numbers of three professional references to: Dr. Doug Reside Chair, MITH Search, Software Programmer Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities B0131 McKeldin Library University of Maryland Web College Park, MD 20742 dreside@umd.edu -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/ Return-Path: Received: from fep14.clear.net.nz (fep14 [192.168.16.115]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1S00LYW1BMZY20@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:07:00 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx6.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1S00ANS1BKV93C@mx6.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:06:58 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.112]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:43:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the end in mind In "'Literarism' and 'Scientism': The misconception and the menace" (Times Literary Supplement, 23 April 1970), the English literary critic F. R. Leavis turned his rhetorical firepower on the lead article in TLS for 1 January of that year, "The slave of the lamp, 1970: Learning how to make the most sensible use of the computer". To this 21st-century reader, the New Year's piece (anonymous by convention of the time) seems a rather boringly familiar set of predictions for a bright future of leisure and mass education. Leavis, however, found the whole thing profoundly disturbing, as you might expect. Much of what disturbed if not frightened Leavis has to do with massive social changes that have in fact happened, some of which make his present seem a time of quaint privilege to us, some of which we recognize depressingly in our daily experience of university life -- "universities as industrial plant" as opposed to "universities as centres of civilization", to quote highlighted phrases from the article. Putting that to one side (but not all that far away), allow me to quote some of what he says about computing: >You must forgive me if I say again at this point >(I am so accustomed to misrepresentation) that I >am not proposing to ban the computer, but >emphasizing the problem of ensuring that the use >of the computer shall be really a use -- that it >shall be used as truly a means in the service of >adequately conceived human ends. More generally, >I am not suggesting that we ought to halt the >progress of science and technology, I am >insisting that the more potently they accelerate >their advance the more urgent does it become to >inaugurate another, a different sustained effort >of collaborative human creativity which is >concerned with perpetuating, strengthening and >asserting, in response to change, a full human >creativity -- the continuous collaborative >creativity that ensures significance, ends and >values, and manifests itself as consciousness >and profoundly human purpose. Part of the boring familiarity of the New Year's article Leavis is attacking is precisely what its anonymous author notably de-emphasizes, namely the ends to which computing is put. This avoidance is familiar to us from our years of experience, on one side of the fence or the other, with a situation in which the technical expert is by position no collaborator in the genuine sense but a servant de facto. The often institutionally enforced disconnect between technician and scholar is a microcosm of the much larger failure to consider the ends to which our powerful machine is put. I am not certain, but I guess that by "collaborative creativity" Leavis means the marriage of both sides. Unfortunately we are still in some instances thinking that the non-technical scholar specifies the end in mind, whereupon the technician implements it. In that circumstance both lose. As Leavis points out, the society as a whole loses. I don't wish to be accused of delusions of grandeur, but I think that when humanities computing is done right, as a meeting of minds on a level playing field, those involved have something very important to teach the rest of us. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2008)" (24) Subject: CFP: MICAI 2008: Artifiical Intelligence - Mexico - Springer LNAI, two weeks reminder [2] From: Nick Bassiliades (71) Subject: RuleML-2008: Deadline extension --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:31:17 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2008)" Subject: CFP: MICAI 2008: Artifiical Intelligence - Mexico - Springer LNAI, two weeks reminder MICAI 2008 7th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE www.MICAI.org/2008 October 27 to 31, Mexico City, Mexico Proceedings: Springer LNAI, IEEE, and special issues of journals *NEW* EXTENDED submission deadline: JUNE 9 (abstract), JUNE 16 (paper) CALL FOR PAPERS *NEW* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - George Gottlob, Oxford University, UK; - Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada; - Stephanie Forrest, U. of New Mexico, USA; - Steven M LaValle, University of Illinois, USA; - Gerardo Jim=E9nez-S=E1nchez, Johns Hopkins University, USA; - Francisco Cervantes Per=E9z, UNAM, Mexico. GENERAL INFORMATION Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster session, workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortium, and cultural events are planned. The recent MICAI events (2005, 2006, 2007) received around 450 submissions from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was around 26%. Among keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager, and Pedro Domingos, to name just a few. There were over 500 attendees. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:34:12 +0100 From: Nick Bassiliades Subject: RuleML-2008: Deadline extension ===================================================================== Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend the submission deadline by 2 weeks. NEW deadline for paper/demo submission: June 16 ===================================================================== 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights: - Keynote speakers: * Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. * David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. * Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules. * Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan Inc, USA) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/keynote.php ) - Joint Lunch Panel with the Business Rules Forum about "Rules on the Web" - RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prices (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php ) (Submissions at: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/ ) - Lightning talks / Highlight talks Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings and a journal special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) is forthcoming. PRESS RELEASES: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:32:01 +0100 From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Employment and Mentoring Activities at DH 2008 Employment and Mentoring Activities at DH 2008: Below is a list of employment and mentoring activities for the Digital Humanities Conference 2008 in Oulu, Finland. For employers: - If you wish to have your job posted at our table during the poster session, please enter it in the ACH jobs database by Wednesday, June 11th, 2008. Many of the jobs posted to the Humanist are already in the database so please check before you enter yours. Browsing and posting can be done here: http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/ - If you can't post your job by June 11th, feel free to bring a print out to the conference for the poster session. You may even be able to post it earlier if the bulletin board is set up at the registration desk. If you have any questions, Stefan Sinclair will be manning the poster session and activities in Oulu. - We encourage you also to sit at the employment table during the poster session or simply mingle with prospective candidates at our table during the poster session. - Lastly, once he gets the lay of the land, Stefan will announce a location for an informal meet up for a beer and whatnot after the sessions on Friday for all mentors, mentees, employers, and job seekers. For job seekers: - Jobs will be posted on a bulletin board at the poster session. Feel free to come by and browse and talk to potential employers. Stefan Sinclair and other ACH members will be manning the poster session to answer any general employment and mentoring questions. You can get a head start by browsing jobs here: http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/ - Stefan will announce a location for an informal meet up for a beer and whatnot after the sessions on Friday for all mentors, mentees, employers, and job seekers. For Mentors and Mentees: - Even if you aren't currently looking for work or offering employment be sure to stop by the employment and mentoring table at the poster session - Stefan will announce a location for an informal meet up for a beer and whatnot after the sessions on Friday for all mentors, mentees, employers, and job seekers. Matthew Zimmerman Manager, Faculty Technology Services New York University matt@nyu.edu office: 212-998-3038 cell: 917-7107301 Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1X00C2VCLS5PB0@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:58:42 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K1X005DGCLING40@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:58:41 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.112]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:58:40 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m545tEJC029825; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:55:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m544sGkh017870; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:55:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20146088 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:45:35 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m545f8kt024034 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m545f85h014800 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m545f7ah014798 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail78.messagelabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D1CE576917 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail78.messagelabs.com (mail78.messagelabs.com [195.245.230.131]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id h9vSF3j4qYohpgHR for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 27658 invoked from network); Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:41:05 +0000 Received: from outbound.kcl.ac.uk (HELO outbound.kcl.ac.uk) (137.73.2.214) by server-4.tower-78.messagelabs.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:41:05 +0000 Received: from relay2.kcl.ac.uk ([137.73.2.210] helo=elder) by outbound.kcl.ac.uk outbound with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1K3lju-0007Fm-1g for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:40:50 +0100 Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by elder smtp with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1K3ljs-0007Ca-88 for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:40:48 +0100 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:40:45 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.056 new on WWW: Ubiquity 9.22 X-Originating-IP: [137.73.2.214] Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080604054106.D1CE576917@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1212558066-267d01a10000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-4.tower-78.messagelabs.com!1212558065!23292511!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.056 new on WWW: Ubiquity 9.22 X-KCLSpamScore: 0 X-KCLRealSpamScore: 0.0 X-KCLZStatus: 0 X-KCLSpamReport: X-KCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk X-Barracuda-Connect: mail78.messagelabs.com[195.245.230.131] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1212558066 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5309 signatures=397410 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=1 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0806030251 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 56. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:35:04 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.22 Volume 9, Issue 22 June 3 -- 9, 2008 In this issue we have a paper by Rafael Capurro and Norm Friesen along with one by Ubiquity Associate Editor Arun Kumar Tripathi, who provides these brief introductions to the three pieces: * CAPURRO: Dr. Rafael Capurro is Founder and Director of the International Center for Information Ethics, and Editor of International Review of Information Ethics. He is a professor of information management and teaches information ethics from the hermeneutics perspective at the Stuttgart Media University. In his Ubiquity paper "Information Technology as an Ethical Challenge" he demonstrates that the impact of information technology on society can be transformed through the ethical perspective of technologies of the self. His paper tries to provide us the answer to the question of how can we ensure that the benefits of information technology are not only distributed equitably, but that they can also be used by people to shape their own lives. * FRIESEN: Dr. Norm Friesen, a Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University, argues in his paper "Critical Theory: Ideology Critique and the Myths of E-Learning" that critical theory designates a philosophy and a research methodology that focuses on the interrelated issues of technology, politics and social change. Dr Friesen shows in depth how critical theory can be used to "de-mystify" three particular truths or myths of e-learning. *TRIPATHI: Complementing the Friesen paper, Ubiquity Associate Editor Arun Tripathi contributes his piece "Dimension of the Philosophy of Technologies: Critical Theory and Democratization of Technology." 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:04:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an editorial reminder Dear colleagues, This is to remind you, or perhaps to mind you, for the first time, that because of technical difficulties anyone who sends a message for posting on Humanist should watch carefully to make sure it survives various invisible but nonetheless real perils and actually gets circulated. Humanist is as I write being rebuilt from the ground up. Later in the Summer the new Humanist, looking exactly like the old except for some lovely new interface functions on the website, will be unveiled. The main difference will be in its reliability and protection from spam. Until then all messages should be sent directly to me as well as to the normal Humanist address. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Alistair McCleery (76) Subject: Funded Fellowship, Scottish Centre for the Book [2] From: Diego Calvanese (84) Subject: PhD positions at KRDB Centre - Free Univ. of Bozen- Bolzano, Italy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:04:56 +0100 From: Alistair McCleery Subject: Funded Fellowship, Scottish Centre for the Book Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland Napier University has been awarded two Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowships to be held for 9-12 months with Fellows to arrive here no earlier than 1 October 2008 and no later than 1 February 2010. It is hoped that one of these will be held within the Scottish Centre for the Book. The Leverhulme Visiting Fellow will be a post-doctoral academic researcher (or of equivalent status) who is not a UK citizen and is permanently resident in any country other than the UK. The selection of suitable candidates by Napier is subject to approval by the Leverhulme Trust. Fellows are encouraged not only to conduct research but also to give lectures and seminars, and to participate in the intellectual life of the institution. The intention is to stimulate research activities and intellectual links between the visitor and the Scottish Centre for the Book. In book history, we have ongoing projects on: reading in Scotland in the twentieth century; the book in Scotland 1880-2000; print culture links with the Scottish diaspora; the role of literary magazines in political and cultural debate; women authors and their publishers; the manuscript tradition of the Teutonic Knights; German and Low Countries scientific publishing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; censorship and the novel; the development of the paperback; and oral history approaches to book history (see sapphire.ac.uk). Our current contemporary research clusters are: copyright and globalisation; small-nation publishing; and teenage reading. The Fellowship carries an allowance for subsistence expenses of up to GBP 1,800 per month, the actual amount to depend on the amount of income or grant, if any, available to the Fellow from other sources. NB. These funds do not constitute a salary. The awards enable work on a specific range of research activities for a period of fixed duration and therefore should not be construed as a contract of employment. An allowance is available for subsistence, at GBP 390 per month, for an accompanying spouse or partner who is not in receipt of other income and who must plan to spend at least six months in the UK. A return fare (normally the cheapest return air fare available or two one-way tickets if these are more economical) will be provided for the Fellow and accompanying spouse or partner. Up to GBP 750 for travel and subsistence within the UK, away from Edinburgh, will be available for the Fellow so that he or she can attend conferences or undertake research trips. Fellows must have secured a doctorate, or be equivalently qualified, at the time of taking up the Fellowship. There is no age limit. However, the scheme is primarily intended to support younger, less experienced researchers, who have not yet spent an extended period in the UK, to enable them to develop skills and experience. Hence, those with more than eight years of postdoctoral experience would not normally be considered suitable recipients. They must be citizens of and permanently resident in any country other than the UK, and intend to return to that country at the end of their Fellowship. The tenure of a Fellowship must be for a minimum of nine and a maximum of twelve consecutive months. No additional funds will be available from the Leverhulme Trust. No Fellow may be nominated for a subsequent Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship. The closing dates for applications by email to a.mccleery@napier.ac.uk is noon (BST) on 28 June 2008. Please attach: a) a brief curriculum vitae =AD maximum two pages on career and one listing publications; b) a one-page summary of (i) the proposed research and (ii) its compatibility with current work within the Scottish Centre for the Book ; c) an indication of the proposed duration of the Fellowship (9 to 12 months) and d) an indication if the candidate will be drawing on any other sources of income or grants during the Fellowship period. Napier University is the best modern university in Scotland and 5th in the UK. (Guardian University Guide 2009) This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Napier University does not accept liability for any lossor damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:06:08 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: PhD positions at KRDB Centre - Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy CALL FOR INTEREST PhD opportunities at the KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ====================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) offers regular openings for studentships for its PhD program. Up-to-date information about how to apply for the PhD program and the studentship - including deadlines, number of positions and necessary documents - can be found in the university PhD web page (see "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 24th cycle") and in the faculty PhD web page . The grant amounts roughly to 45,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty of Computer Science invites applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group, in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which prospective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming * Data and Information Integration * Description Logics and Ontology Languages * Efficient Reasoning Algorithms for Description Logics * Intelligent Access to Web Resources * Logic Based Approaches to Natural Language Understanding * Logic-Based Modelling of Biological Knowledge * Natural Language Processing * Ontology Development and Evaluation * P2P Database Integration * Query Answering in Distributed Environments * Semistructured Data Management * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Centre, see . The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is also preferred. THE KRDB RESEARCH CENTRE In recent years, knowledge and data base applications have progressively converged towards integrated technologies which try to overcome the limits of each single discipline. To be useful in realistic applications, a modern knowledge representation and reasoning system must be able to handle large data sets, and to provide expressive query languages. On the other hand, the information stored on the Web, in digital libraries, and in data warehouses is now very complex and with deep semantic structures, thus requiring more intelligent modelling languages and methodologies, and reasoning services on those complex representations to support design, management, flexible access, and integration. The KRDB Research Centre was founded in 2002, and it now comprises 12 research staff and 9 PhD students. The centre aims at being an international centre of excellence in basic and applied research on KRDB technologies and at proposing to selected enterprises innovative ideas and technologies based on the developed research. The KRDB centre participated in national and international projects, it is currently involved in two European projects and three European Networks of Excellence, and it is a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The international prestige of the centre is evidenced by the participation of its members as conference and PC chairs, editors of international journals, invited speakers at international events, and by their publication score in international journals and conferences. CONTACTS To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese@inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:08:01 +0100 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- May 2008 TL INFOBITS May 2008 No. 23 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmay08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Considering the Future of Learning Openness and Learning in Today's World Critiquing the Claims of E-Learning Assessing the Future of Scholarly Communication Google Book Search Bibliography Recommended Reading ...................................................................... CONSIDERING THE FUTURE OF LEARNING "In contrast to earlier e-learning approaches that simply replicated traditional models, the Web 2.0 movement with its associated array of social software tools offers opportunities to move away from the last century's highly centralized, industrial model of learning and toward individual learner empowerment through designs that focus on collaborative, networked interaction" -- McLoughlin and Lee, "Future Learning Landscapes" The future of learning is theme of the June/July 2008 issue of INNOVATE. Articles include: "Future Learning Landscapes: Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software" by Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee "McLoughlin and Lee posit that future learning environments must capitalize on the potential of Web 2.0 by combining social software tools with connectivist pedagogical models." "Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum" by Dave Cormier "In the rhizomatic model, knowledge is negotiated, and the learning experience is a social as well as a personal knowledge creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises." "A Singular Vision for a Disparate Future: Technology Adoption Patterns in Higher Learning Through 2035" by Robert G. Henshaw Henshaw "examines factors likely to influence technology adoption within U.S. higher education over the next 30 years and their impact on education providers and consumers." [Editor's note: the author of this paper is my colleague at UNC-Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division.] The issue is available at http://innovateonline.info/index.php Registration is required to access articles; registration is free. Innovate: Journal of Online Education [ISSN 1552-3233], an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal, is published bimonthly by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. For more information, contact James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief; email: innovate@nova.edu; Web: http://innovateonline.info/ ...................................................................... OPENNESS AND LEARNING IN TODAY'S WORLD How open access and interactive Web 2.0 applications are changing the learning environment is focus of the latest issue of ELEARNING PAPERS. The papers' authors consider the impact of these technologies both on individual learners and the institutions that facilitate the learning process. Papers include: "Web 2.0 and New Learning Paradigms" by Antonio Bartolome "This article is sceptic about the current changes at eLearning institutions and businesses, but points out some of the changes that will take place outside their courses and programmes." "Universities and Web 2.0: Institutional Challenges" by Juan Freire "Teachers, researchers and students started some years ago to use social software tools, but in few cases these experiences have allowed any scaling from the individual to the institutional level. The promises and potential of web 2.0 in universities need an adequate strategy for their development which has to confront the bottlenecks and fears common in these institutions, which could explain the lack of adaptation." "Is the world open?" by Richard Straub "The rise of social networking sites, virtual worlds, blogs, wikis and 3D Internet give us a first idea of the potential of the 'interactive and collaborative web' dubbed Web 2.0. Now we have the infrastructure and tools to operate in new ways in open systems. While many of the thoughts about openness and the need for more open social systems have been around for some time, this new infrastructure and new tools accelerate the movement." The issue is available at http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=home&vol=8 eLearning Papers [ISSN 1887-1542] is an open access journal created as part of the elearningeuropa.info portal. The portal is "an initiative of the European Commission to promote the use of multimedia technologies and Internet at the service of education and training." For more information, contact: eLearning Papers, P.A.U. Education, C/ Muntaner 262, 3rd, 08021 Barcelona, Spain; email: editorial@elearningeuropa.info; Web: http://www.elearningpapers.eu/ ...................................................................... CRITIQUING THE CLAIMS OF E-LEARNING "Critical theory designates a philosophy and a research methodology that focuses on the interrelated issues of technology, politics and social change. Despite its emphasis on technology, critical theory arguably remains underutilized in areas of practical research that lie at the confluence of social, political and technological concerns, such as the study of the use of the usability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) or of their use in educational institutions." In "Critical Theory: Ideology Critique and the Myths of E-Learning" (UBIQUITY, vol. 9, no. 22, June 3-9, 2008), Norm Friesen uses critical theory to de-mystify three claims of e-learning: -- "that we live in a 'knowledge economy'" -- "that users enjoy ubiquitous, 'anywhere anytime' access" -- "that social and institutional change is motivated by a number of fixed 'laws' of progress in computer technology" The paper is available at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i22_friesen.html Ubiquity [ISSN 1530-2180] is a free, Web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), "dedicated to fostering critical analysis and in-depth commentary on issues relating to the nature, constitution, structure, science, engineering, technology, practices, and paradigms of the IT profession." For more information, contact: Ubiquity, email: ubiquity@acm.org; Web: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ For more information on the ACM, contact: ACM, One Astor Plaza, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA; tel: 800-342-6626 or 212-626-0500; Web: http://www.acm.org/ ...................................................................... ASSESSING THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION The Center for Studies in Higher Education is conducting research to "understand the needs and desires of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication." With the study now into its second year, the Center has released an interim report with some of the early findings based on interviews with over 150 faculty members in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Some of the questions that the study seeks to answer include: -- "What will scholars want to do in their research and with their research results, and what new forms of communication do or do not support those desires?" -- "How will scholars want to disseminate and receive input on their work at various lifecycle stages?" -- "How do institutions and other stakeholders support these faculty needs, if at all?" The Spring 2008 "Draft Interim Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication," by Diane Harley, et al., is available at http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=300 The Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley is a "multi-disciplinary research and policy center on higher education [that is] oriented to California, the nation, and comparative international issues." For more information, contact: Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, 771 Evans Hall #4650, Berkeley, CA 94720-4650 USA; tel: 510-642-5040; fax: 510-643-6845; email: cshe@berkeley.edu; Web: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/ ...................................................................... GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY Charles W. Bailey, Jr. recently published the second version of "The Google Book Search Bibliography." The resource provides citations and links to over a hundred English-language references to scholarly papers and newspaper articles. The bibliography presents a comprehensive examination of the Google service and the "legal, library, and social issues associated with it." The bibliography is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm Bailey is a prolific compiler of scholarly communication bibliographies, notably the "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" (now in its 70th edition). You can access all his publications at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm" By Gary Wolf Wired Magazine, 16.05 http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak Piotr Wozniak's software program SuperMemo is "based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. . . . Twenty years ago, Wozniak realized that computers could easily calculate the moment of forgetting if he could discover the right algorithm. SuperMemo is the result of his research." ...................................................................... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:36:01 +0100 From: "Allison, Jonathan" Subject: Reminder notice: cfp STS@SAMLA Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Society for Textual Scholarship and SAMLA, I wish to send out a final reminder of the 15 June deadline for the following call for papers. Call for papers Society for Textual Scholarship affiliated session, SAMLA, Louisville Hyatt Regency, Kentucky; 7-9 November 2008 Interpretation and the scene of editing: This session welcomes proposals on the scholarly editing of literary texts, broadly conceived. Possible topics include (but are not limited to, naturally) editing as interpretation; textual instability and problems in textual construction; the editing of Selected Works or Collected Works; editing the modernists; material textuality; the interpretation and reproduction of bibliographic codes; electronic editing; radiant textuality; the uses of electronic archives. Please send 200-word abstract by 15 June 2008 to Jonathan Allison by email at jalliso@uky.edu or at the Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:36:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: on imagination Some here will be glad to find out that the recent volume in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 147, Imaginative Minds, ed. Ilona Roth, is online in its entirety and may be downloaded free of charge. See http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/pba.html. "This volume brings the theories and methods of a range of disciplines to bear on the imaginative workings of the human mind. The distinguished contributors demonstrate their own imaginative flair in a fascinating and varied collection of essays about this most elusive and special human capacity." The downloading is tedious -- each chapter requires a separate operation -- but then one saves the GBP 45 which the publisher charges for the physical object. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Shana M Kimball" (102) Subject: JEP 11.2 now online [2] From: ubiquity (14) Subject: UBIQUITY 9.23 [3] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 72, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:35:16 +0100 From: "Shana M Kimball" Subject: JEP 11.2 now online Dear JEP readers: We are pleased to announce the publication of the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org). Below the signature I've included our Editor's Note, which highlights some of what you'll find in our latest issue. As always, thank you for your interest and support. Please send comments and questions about this issue to jep-info@umich.edu. Best regards, Shana ++++++++++++ Shana Kimball Managing Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan kimballs@umich.edu "For more than a decade, electronic journals--periodicals that are distributed over computer networks--have operated on the periphery of academe, largely spurned by authors, publishers, and readers as no match for the traditional printed journal," the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote in 1991. Despite the Chronicle's 1991 skepticism, authors, publishers, and readers have embraced electronic publishing. The question today, almost 17 years later, is how print--both journals and books--can continue to compete with scholarly communication over computer networks. What a reversal! One harbinger of the reversal is that even the venerable MLA Style Manual now gives equal weight to electronic and paper citations. Kevin S. Hawkins, an electronic publishing librarian at the University of Michigan University Library, reviews the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd edition, and identifies many of the changes--good and bad. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.210 There is a difference between embracing an idea and making it work. Some problems have been exacerbated in the move from paper to electronic publishing. Carol Ann Meyer, who is developing a preprint production tracking system at Aries Systems, addresses the issue of citations in "Reference Accuracy: Best Practices for Making the Links." http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.206 In a world where we rely on computers to make our links (and we all know how dumb computers are), it is even more important for publishers and authors to get them right. Electronic publishing opens new ways of searching. At one time scholars had to wade through piles of pages to find a single fact. Today that is easily accomplished with general search engines, but new search engines with new strategies can help home in on a much smaller set of results from a much broader universe. Bruce McGregor, a publishing consultant specializing in indexing and editing, details the new world of search in "Facets and Hierarchies in Scientific Search." http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.205 Remmel Nunn, vice president for new product development at Readex, also is interested in searching and in the potential for searchers to help one another through a form of social networking. In "Crossroads: A New Paradigm for Electronically Researching Primary Source Documents," he explores how a new tool and a new collection might establish a new paradigm for presenting, searching, annotating, and sharing material. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.207 The amount of information available electronically grows all the time, and in academe, electronic publishing is becoming easier and cheaper. With the right tools, any publisher can turn out a free or nearly free journal, writes Julian Fisher in "Scholarly Publishing Re-invented: Real Costs and Real Freedoms." Fisher, a neurologist, has developed electronic publishing and decision-support tools, and offers some hard numbers to back his claims. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.204 Joseph J. Esposito, an independent consultant focusing on digital media, looks at how the market determines publishing strategies and business models in "Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase." The less a reader knows about a field, the more he needs the mediation of a publisher, and the less useful open access may be, Esposito writes. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.203 Seventeen years ago people said "maybe" they would use computer networks for short pieces like journal articles, but books, never! In this issue two authors write about electronically publishing books. Colin Steele, former university librarian at Australian National University, looks at open access monograph publishing arrangements between libraries and publishers in Australia, the U.S., and Europe in "Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the 21st Century: The Future More Than Ever Should Be an Open Book." http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.201 In "Scholarly Publication at the Digital Tipping Point," Phil Pochoda, director of the University of Michigan Press, focuses on an open-access monograph publishing arrangement between the press and the library at Michigan, a specific example of what Steele writes about more generally. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.202 Recent conferences have covered the same topics, and we have reports from two of them. Diane Harley reports on "The University as Publisher," a meeting held at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Higher Education in the Digital Age project at the Center for Studies in Higher Education. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.208 Steve Paxhia, a consultant at the Gilbane Group Publishing Practice, presents "O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change Conference 2008." The conference addressed collaboration and social media, publishing formats for mobile devices, and business models. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.209 Enjoy! Note --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:36:46 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.23 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 23 June 10 -- 16, 2008 UBIQUITY ALERT: SAHA, GAGLIANO, RAMESH Goutam Kumar Saha has devised an ingenious concept-learning map to guide persons interested in software fault tolerance. Associate Editor Ross Gagliano offers four Short Reviews of current Software Engineering books of interest. Ramesh Singh presents a very interesting paper on tele-emersion and some notable application. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:37:06 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 72, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 72 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,250 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. This version adds hundreds of links to freely available journal articles from publishers as well as to e-prints of published articles housed in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. All article references were checked for the availability of such free content. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html These links have also been added to a revised version of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2007 Annual Edition. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm New versions of SEPB are also announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201 -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:37:51 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: RR 2008 - Last CfP - 3 days left for abstract submission RR 2008 The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008 Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 2, 2008 Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadlines approaching: Abstract submission: June 14, 2008 Paper submission: June 21, 2008 submission url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2008 builds on the success of The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2007, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2008, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world. The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list: * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction * Combining open and closed-world reasoning * Combining rules and ontologies * Design and analysis of reasoning languages * Efficiency and benchmarking * Implemented tools and systems * Standardization * Ontology usability * Ontology languages and their relationships * Querying and optimization * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency * Reasoning with constraints * Rule languages and systems * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications * Web and Semantic Web applications [...] Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2A00GN0BGTKU70@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:39:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at MIT From: Kurt Fendt Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:20:57 -0400 The HyperStudio - Lab for Digital Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology seeks a web application developer (full-time) to work on innovative applications and online media tools. As a key member of our research team the web application developer is responsible for the technical analysis and development of software applications used in research and education in the humanities. The web application developer will provide system design, prototyping, implementation, functional verification, debugging, and deployment on Mac OS X and UNIX server platforms, and minimal software/system support. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, three to five years of development experience, expertise in developing database-driven web applications and data modeling, and a strong knowledge of UNIX and SQL. In addition, he/she is expected to be familiar with best practices in the software development process and with recent web developments (AJAX, CSS3 and web services), and has proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, Ruby, PHP or Java. A track record of delivering high quality products and solid problem solving and debugging skills are a must. Familiarity with digital library standards (e.g. Dublin core) and an interest in, and enthusiasm for the humanities and social sciences is preferred. The HyperStudio - Laboratory for Digital Humanities explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities. We conceptualize, develop, and deploy innovative media applications in close collaboration with scholars, educators, students, and developers. The HyperStudio is a cross-disciplinary initiative sponsored by Foreign Languages & Literatures in close collaboration with the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Literature Faculty within the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT. See http://web.mit.edu/hyperstudio. Salary range: $ 55,000 to $75,000 plus full benefits, depending on skills and experience. We will begin accepting applications immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Please address your application to Dr. Kurt Fendt, HyperStudio Director: hyperstudio-jobs@mit.edu with your resume and pointers to your work. Please note that MIT does not sponsor work visa for this position category; successful candidates will have to have US residency status. Dr. Kurt E. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:20:29 +0100 From: William Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 12 June 2008 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of the electronic editions of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ copies K, L, and M [go to Archive/Works/ Illuminated Books/Marriage]. The Archive is also publishing the collection list for the Victoria University Library in Toronto and Alexander Gourlay's revised Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts in Blake [go to Archive/Resources for Further Research and Archive/About Blake respectively]. Blake etched twenty-seven plates for _Marriage_ in relief in 1790. Copy K is an early printing of plates 21-24, and copies L and M are early printings of plates 25-27, "A Song of Liberty." Copy K is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, copy L is in the Essick Collection, and copy M, formerly in the Bentley Collection, is in the Victoria University Library. Only nine complete copies of the _Marriage_ are known to exist; copies K, L, and M, apparently printed as autonomous pamphlets, join six complete copies previously published in the Archive (and now republished with corrected transcriptions). The four plates of copy K were printed in black ink on both sides of a single sheet of wove paper, folded down the middle after printing to form two leaves. Plate 21 is in its first state and the vignette on plate 24 is missing, probably masked during printing but possibly not yet executed. In copies L and M, plate 25 is in its first state, and thus these copies were also printed very early in the production process; in copy M, the eight lines of the "Chorus" on plate 27 were masked during printing. The plates were printed on single sheets folded down the middle to form pamphlets of two leaves. Copy L was printed in brownish-black on laid paper and copy M was printed in grayish-black on wove paper. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _Marriage_ copies K, L, and M are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in editors' notes, have been applied to all copies of _Marriage_ in the Archive. With the publication of _Marriage_ copies K, L, and M, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of sixty- five copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, including Blake's illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and the water color illustrations to John Milton's _Paradise Regained_, _L'Allegro_, and _Il Penseroso_, as well as the Butts and Thomas sets of illustrations to Milton's _Comus_, _Nativity_ ode, and _Paradise Lost_. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (23) Subject: NSF call for ms on a History of Biology & the NSF [2] From: Andreas Aschenbrenner Subject: Call for papers: Special Session on digital repositories at 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:20:17 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: NSF call for ms on a History of Biology & the NSF Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:59:31 +0100 From: "McCarty, Willard" From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu [amsler@cs.utexas.edu] Sent: 13 June 2008 01:03 From: National Science Foundation Update nsf-update@nsf.gov Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:17:21 -0500 (CDT) New RFQ - History of Biology & the NSF ... [http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=3D111691&govDel=3DUSNSF_52 ] The National Science Foundation (NSF) requests a proposal to write a manuscript for a History of Biology and the NSF Circa 1975 to 2004 *The Response Date is Monday, July 21, 2008 at 2:00 PM DST*. See Statement of work [http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/sow_5_19_2008.doc ] and combined synopsis/solicitation [http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/combined_solicitation_synopsis_5192008.doc] for additional details. Any ... More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=3D111691&govDel=3DUSNSF_52 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:21:01 +0100 From: Andreas Aschenbrenner Subject: Call for papers: Special Session on digital repositories at 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science ***************************************************************** Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net) ***************************************************************** There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science technologies and a cluster of related systems addressing the management of digital assets in digital libraries and repositories. The digital material generated from and used by academic and other research is to an increasing extent being held in formal data management systems; these systems are variously categorized as digital repositories, libraries or archives, although the distinction between them relates more to the sort of data that they contain and the use to which the data is put, rather than to any major difference in functionality. Modern repository systems allow us to move away from the model of a stand-alone repository, library or archive, where objects are simply deposited for subsequent access and download. Instead, researchers are developing more sophisticated models in which these containers of data are integrated components of a larger e-Science research infrastructure, incorporating advanced tools and workflows, and are being used to model complex webs of information and capture scholarly or scientific processes in their entirety, from raw data through to final publications. Repositories have been successfully combined with data grid technologies, and in addition computational grids seem to offer possible applications in digital preservation and curation, such as automatic metadata extraction and index creation. These systems thus could add value to the data-driven research lifecycle in e-Science. Session chairs are: * Andreas Aschenbrenner - University of Goettingen * Tobias Blanke - Centre for e-Research (King's College London) * Mark Hedges - Centre for e-Research (King's College London) Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Digital preservation and curation in research infrastructures * Cyberinfrastructures (e.g. data grid technologies) to support digital preservation and curation * Creation and maintenance of asset management for research data * Provenance * Federated repositories: content modelling, metadata creation and in particular ontology mapping * Data grid technologies and their role in digital curation and preservation * Metadata Extraction * Creation and maintenance of digital libraries for research data * Access control and security across infrastructure and asset management systems * Persistent identification for research data and digital objects across e-Infrastructure * Provenance and authenticity of digital objects in distributed e-Infrastructure * Information and data services in e-Science applications * Architecture of Participation: Web 2.0 applications * Workflow Integration * Security Important dates: * Call for Papers: June 1, 2008 * Deadline for Submission of full papers: August 08, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2008 * Final submission of camera-ready papers: September 29, 2008 For further details on the topics of the session, the programme committee, and the submission details, please visit either http://escience2008.iu.edu/ or http://dresnet.net/ieee-escience-2008-cfp . -- Dr Tobias Blanke Research Fellow Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Centre for e-Research, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7848 1975 tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk http://www.ahessc.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (174) Subject: cfp: 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (61) Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Conference [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (28) Subject: Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group (40) Subject: Advances in Modal Logic --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:13:25 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium [ Sent on behalf of "Mark Olsen" . --WM] Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium DHCS Colloquium, November 1st - 3rd, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008 The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In 2006, the first DHCS Colloquium (http://dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/) examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the "million books" digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 (http://dhcs.northwestern.edu) focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies. The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Making Sense" =AD an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog. We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer Science. Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computational Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Website: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu Location: The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Keynote Speakers: * Oren Etzioni is Director of the Turing Center (http://turing.cs.washington.edu/) and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington where his current research interests (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/index.html) include fundamental problems in the study of artificial intelligence, web search, machine reading, and machine learning. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations, and the KnowItAll project, which is is building domain-independent systems to extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner. Etzioni has published extensively in his field and served as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, amongst others. * Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose work focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data (http://www.bewitched.com/). He is the founding manager of IBM's Visual Communication Lab (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/), which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab's latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com/), an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. * Stephen Downie is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=3Djdownie) include the design and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval, the political economy of inter-networked communication systems, database design and web-based technologies. Downie is the principal investigator of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/) (IMIRSEL), which is working on producing a large, secure corpus of audio and symbolic music data accessible to the music information retrieval (MIR) community. Program Committee: * Shlomo Argamon (http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/), Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Helma Dik=20 (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/People/Faculty/dikcv.html), Department of Classics, University of Chicago * John Goldsmith (http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Webpage/index.html), Department of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computation Institute, University of Chicago * Catherine Mardikes (http://lib.uchicago.edu/), Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Robert Morrissey (http://rll.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/morrissey.shtml), Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Martin Mueller (http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/mueller.html), Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University * Mark Olsen (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/), Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Jason Salavon (http://dova.uchicago.edu/f_jasonsalavon.html), Department of Visual Arts, Computation Institute, University of Chicago * Kotoka Suzuki (http://music.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/suzuki.shtml), Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago * Gary Tubb (http://salc.uchicago.edu/facultybios/tubb.html), Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Call for Participation: Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for: * Paper presentations (20 minute maximum) * Poster sessions * Software demonstrations * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/teach-ins * Pre-conference 'birds of a feather' meetings Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: DHCS will begin with a half-day, pre-conference on Saturday, Nov. 1st. offering introductory tutorials on topics such as text analysis/data-mining and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the Humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for informal 'birds of a feather' meetings on topics of common interest. The formal DHCS colloquium program runs from Nov. 2nd to Nov. 3rd and will consist of four, 1 1/2 hour paper panels and two, 2 hour poster sessions as well as three keynotes. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please see the preliminary colloquium schedule (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/). Suggested submission topics: * Computing Cinematic Syntax * Sound, Video & Image based Information Retrieval * Programming Algorithmic Art * Virtual Acoustic Space and Aural Architecture * Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning * Recognizing and Modeling Objects, Scenes & Events in 2D, 3D and Video * Mapping Social Relationships in the Novel * Serious Gaming / Meaningful Play * From a Maze of Twisty Passages All Alike: Future Interactive Fictions * Intelligent Documents * Cartography and the Digital Traveler / GIS Applications for the Humanities * Representing Reading Time * Computer-mediated Interaction / Hacking the Wiimote: Pwning the iPhone * Gestural & Haptic Control for Music Composition * Towards a Digital Hermeneutics: Deconstructing Machine Learning * Contemporary Art / Creative Technologies * Schemas for Scholars: Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies * Eye Tracking & Scene Perception in the Cinema * Semantic Search / Semantic Web * Virtual Models for Reconstructing Past Events, Cultures, Objects & Places * Automatic Extraction and Analysis of Natural Language Style Elements * Seeing Not Reading: Re-materializing Digital Texts * Music Perception and Cognition * Social Scholarship / Socialized Search * Web-based Software Services for Scholarly Primitives * Multi-agent Systems for Modeling Language Change * Empirical Philosophy / Affective Computing / Augmented Vision Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. No separate application form is required. Current graduate students whose proposals have been accepted for the colloquium will be contacted by the organizers with more details. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31st Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15th Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22nd Registration: Monday, September 22nd - Friday, October 24th Colloquium: Saturday, November 1st - Monday, November 3rd Contact Info: Please direct all inquiries to: dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu Organizing Committee: * Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago. * Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library. * Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:14:48 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Conference [Sent on behalf of "Rayson, Paul" . --WM] Corpus Linguistics 2009 Conference First Call for Papers Following the Corpus Linguistics Conferences at Lancaster and Birmingham, the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 will be held at the University of Liverpool. We are looking forward to an interesting programme and invite abstracts for papers, posters, work-in-progress reports, as well as workshops and colloquia covering any aspect of corpus linguistics. The conference begins with a workshop and colloquium day on Monday 20 July, the main conference runs from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 July, with the conference dinner on Wednesday 22 July. Plenary Speakers Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool) Joybrato Mukherjee (University of Giessen) Mike Scott (University of Liverpool) Call for Papers We invite submissions covering any aspect of corpus linguistics. Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Paper abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words (excluding word count for references). Work-in-progress reports will be 10 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (excluding word count for references). Poster abstracts should be no more than 200 words (excluding word count for references). Colloquia usually take the form of between 4 and 8 papers, with time for audience discussion. We will accommodate short colloquia (2 hours, about 4 speakers) and longer colloquia (4 hours, about 8 speakers). Proposals should be no more than 1000 words (for colloquia of 2 hours) or 2000 words (for colloquia of 4 hours). The proposal should include a rationale for the colloquium, an indication of how much of the time will be allocated to audience discussion, and an abstract for each of the proposed papers. Workshops usually include one or two short presentations and substantial audience participation. Workshops can take 1 or 2 hours. Proposals should be no more than 500 words (for a 1-hour workshop) or 750 words (for a 2-hour workshop) and should describe the organisation of the workshop and the nature of the audience participation. Additionally, information on technical requirements should be provided. For colloquia and workshops we would encourage you to contact us ahead of the deadline if you have any questions. The language of the conference is English. Online submission for abstracts will open in mid-June 2008 at http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009. Closing date for abstracts: 31 December 2008. For more information please contact the Organising Committee: * E-mail: CL2009@liverpool.ac.uk * Post: CL2009, School of English, Modern Languages Building, University of Liverpool, Chatham Street, Liverpool L69 7ZR * Telephone: 0151 794 3032 * Fax: 0151 794 2730 Dr. Paul Rayson Director of UCREL Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:15:56 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar [Sent on behalf of Gabriel Bodard . --WM] Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 13th June at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials ALL WELCOME Often, any attempt to read fragile texts, such as papyrus rolls, fundamentally and irreversibly alters the structure of the object in which they are contained. The EDUCE project (Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration) is developing a non-destructive volumetric scanning framework to enable access to such objects without the need to physically open them. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:17:12 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Advances in Modal Logic [Sent on behalf of Carlos Areces . --WM] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr --- REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN --- Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. REGISTRATION Registration to AiML is now open at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/registration.php INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ Using duality theory to export methods from modal logic - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ Labelled modal tableaux - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ Axiomatising many-dimensional modal logics - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ Relational syllogistic logics, and other connections between modal logic and natural logic - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ Topology, connectedness, and modal logi Further information available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/invited.php ACCEPTED PAPERS Complete list of accepted papers and abstracts is now available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/accepted.php [...] Return-Path: Received: from fep15.clear.net.nz (fep15 [192.168.16.116]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2D00EB5ZVT03K0@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Rayson, Paul" (63) Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2009 First CFP [2] From: "Mark Olsen" (173) Subject: Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium [3] From: Gabriel Bodard (27) Subject: EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials (seminar) [4] From: Carlos Areces (39) Subject: AiML 2008: Registration now open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:19:11 +0100 From: "Rayson, Paul" Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2009 First CFP Corpus Linguistics 2009 Conference First Call for Papers Following the Corpus Linguistics Conferences at Lancaster and Birmingham, the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 will be held at the University of Liverpool. We are looking forward to an interesting programme and invite abstracts for papers, posters, work-in-progress reports, as well as workshops and colloquia covering any aspect of corpus linguistics. The conference begins with a workshop and colloquium day on Monday 20 July, the main conference runs from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 July, with the conference dinner on Wednesday 22 July. Plenary Speakers Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool) Joybrato Mukherjee (University of Giessen) Mike Scott (University of Liverpool) Call for Papers We invite submissions covering any aspect of corpus linguistics. Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Paper abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words (excluding word count for references). Work-in-progress reports will be 10 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (excluding word count for references). Poster abstracts should be no more than 200 words (excluding word count for references). Colloquia usually take the form of between 4 and 8 papers, with time for audience discussion. We will accommodate short colloquia (2 hours, about 4 speakers) and longer colloquia (4 hours, about 8 speakers). Proposals should be no more than 1000 words (for colloquia of 2 hours) or 2000 words (for colloquia of 4 hours). The proposal should include a rationale for the colloquium, an indication of how much of the time will be allocated to audience discussion, and an abstract for each of the proposed papers. Workshops usually include one or two short presentations and substantial audience participation. Workshops can take 1 or 2 hours. Proposals should be no more than 500 words (for a 1-hour workshop) or 750 words (for a 2-hour workshop) and should describe the organisation of the workshop and the nature of the audience participation. Additionally, information on technical requirements should be provided. For colloquia and workshops we would encourage you to contact us ahead of the deadline if you have any questions. The language of the conference is English. Online submission for abstracts will open in mid-June 2008 at http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009. Closing date for abstracts: 31 December 2008. For more information please contact the Organising Committee: * E-mail: CL2009@liverpool.ac.uk * Post: CL2009, School of English, Modern Languages Building, University of Liverpool, Chatham Street, Liverpool L69 7ZR * Telephone: 0151 794 3032 * Fax: 0151 794 2730 Dr. Paul Rayson Director of UCREL Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492 Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:19:51 +0100 From: "Mark Olsen" Subject: Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium DHCS Colloquium, November 1st - 3rd, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008 The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In 2006, the first DHCS Colloquium (http://dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/) examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the "million books" digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 (http://dhcs.northwestern.edu) focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies. The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Making Sense" -- an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog. We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer Science. Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computational Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Website: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu Location: The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Keynote Speakers: * Oren Etzioni is Director of the Turing Center (http://turing.cs.washington.edu/) and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington where his current research interests (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/index.html) include fundamental problems in the study of artificial intelligence, web search, machine reading, and machine learning. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations, and the KnowItAll project, which is is building domain-independent systems to extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner. Etzioni has published extensively in his field and served as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, amongst others. * Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose work focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data (http://www.bewitched.com/). He is the founding manager of IBM's Visual Communication Lab (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/), which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab's latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com/), an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. * Stephen Downie is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=3Djdownie) include the design and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval, the political economy of inter-networked communication systems, database design and web-based technologies. Downie is the principal investigator of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/) (IMIRSEL), which is working on producing a large, secure corpus of audio and symbolic music data accessible to the music information retrieval (MIR) community. Program Committee: * Shlomo Argamon (http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/), Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Helma Dik=20 (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/People/Faculty/dikcv.html), Department of Classics, University of Chicago * John Goldsmith (http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Webpage/index.html), Department of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computation Institute, University of Chicago * Catherine Mardikes (http://lib.uchicago.edu/), Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Robert Morrissey (http://rll.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/morrissey.shtml), Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Martin Mueller (http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/mueller.html), Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University * Mark Olsen (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/), Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Jason Salavon (http://dova.uchicago.edu/f_jasonsalavon.html), Department of Visual Arts, Computation Institute, University of Chicago * Kotoka Suzuki (http://music.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/suzuki.shtml), Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago * Gary Tubb (http://salc.uchicago.edu/facultybios/tubb.html), Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Call for Participation: Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for: * Paper presentations (20 minute maximum) * Poster sessions * Software demonstrations * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/teach-ins * Pre-conference 'birds of a feather' meetings Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: DHCS will begin with a half-day, pre-conference on Saturday, Nov. 1st. offering introductory tutorials on topics such as text analysis/data-mining and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the Humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for informal 'birds of a feather' meetings on topics of common interest. The formal DHCS colloquium program runs from Nov. 2nd to Nov. 3rd and will consist of four, 1 1/2 hour paper panels and two, 2 hour poster sessions as well as three keynotes. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please see the preliminary colloquium schedule (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/). Suggested submission topics: * Computing Cinematic Syntax * Sound, Video & Image based Information Retrieval * Programming Algorithmic Art * Virtual Acoustic Space and Aural Architecture * Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning * Recognizing and Modeling Objects, Scenes & Events in 2D, 3D and Video * Mapping Social Relationships in the Novel * Serious Gaming / Meaningful Play * From a Maze of Twisty Passages All Alike: Future Interactive Fictions * Intelligent Documents * Cartography and the Digital Traveler / GIS Applications for the Humanities * Representing Reading Time * Computer-mediated Interaction / Hacking the Wiimote: Pwning the iPhone * Gestural & Haptic Control for Music Composition * Towards a Digital Hermeneutics: Deconstructing Machine Learning * Contemporary Art / Creative Technologies * Schemas for Scholars: Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies * Eye Tracking & Scene Perception in the Cinema * Semantic Search / Semantic Web * Virtual Models for Reconstructing Past Events, Cultures, Objects & Places * Automatic Extraction and Analysis of Natural Language Style Elements * Seeing Not Reading: Re-materializing Digital Texts * Music Perception and Cognition * Social Scholarship / Socialized Search * Web-based Software Services for Scholarly Primitives * Multi-agent Systems for Modeling Language Change * Empirical Philosophy / Affective Computing / Augmented Vision Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. No separate application form is required. Current graduate students whose proposals have been accepted for the colloquium will be contacted by the organizers with more details. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31st Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15th Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22nd Registration: Monday, September 22nd - Friday, October 24th Colloquium: Saturday, November 1st - Monday, November 3rd Contact Info: Please direct all inquiries to: dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu Organizing Committee: * Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago. * Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library. * Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:20:52 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials (seminar) Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 13th June at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials ALL WELCOME Often, any attempt to read fragile texts, such as papyrus rolls, fundamentally and irreversibly alters the structure of the object in which they are contained. The EDUCE project (Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration) is developing a non-destructive volumetric scanning framework to enable access to such objects without the need to physically open them. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:21:36 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: AiML 2008: Registration now open CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr --- REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN --- Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. REGISTRATION Registration to AiML is now open at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/registration.php INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ Using duality theory to export methods from modal logic - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ Labelled modal tableaux - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ Axiomatising many-dimensional modal logics - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ Relational syllogistic logics, and other connections between modal logic and natural logic - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ Topology, connectedness, and modal logi Further information available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/invited.php ACCEPTED PAPERS Complete list of accepted papers and abstracts is now available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/accepted.php [...] Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2G004ZNGRF7AE1@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:42:55 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2G0065DGR94X70@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:42:53 +1200 (NZST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:42:52 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5EDbfOi006892; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:37:42 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m5DHOOQN004107; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:35:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20224971 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:25:32 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5EDOX93022201 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:24:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5EDOXCh023252 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:24:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5EDOWcx023246 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:24:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id CE3C81294F18 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:24:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id SFuJDwvsUzPWyqdX for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:24:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K7VkY-00046F-D4 for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:24:58 +0100 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:24:23 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.067 update for the William Blake Archive Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080614132431.CE3C81294F18@emfw3.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1213449871-441a006a0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.067 update for the William Blake Archive X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1213449871 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5317 signatures=404437 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0806140040 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:11:20 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: update for the William Blake Archive [Sent on behalf of William Shaw / wsshaw@email.unc.edu. --WM] 12 June 2008 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of the electronic editions of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ copies K, L, and M [go to Archive/Works/ Illuminated Books/Marriage]. The Archive is also publishing the collection list for the Victoria University Library in Toronto and Alexander Gourlay's revised Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts in Blake [go to Archive/Resources for Further Research and Archive/About Blake respectively]. Blake etched twenty-seven plates for _Marriage_ in relief in 1790. Copy K is an early printing of plates 21-24, and copies L and M are early printings of plates 25-27, "A Song of Liberty." Copy K is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, copy L is in the Essick Collection, and copy M, formerly in the Bentley Collection, is in the Victoria University Library. Only nine complete copies of the _Marriage_ are known to exist; copies K, L, and M, apparently printed as autonomous pamphlets, join six complete copies previously published in the Archive (and now republished with corrected transcriptions). The four plates of copy K were printed in black ink on both sides of a single sheet of wove paper, folded down the middle after printing to form two leaves. Plate 21 is in its first state and the vignette on plate 24 is missing, probably masked during printing but possibly not yet executed. In copies L and M, plate 25 is in its first state, and thus these copies were also printed very early in the production process; in copy M, the eight lines of the "Chorus" on plate 27 were masked during printing. The plates were printed on single sheets folded down the middle to form pamphlets of two leaves. Copy L was printed in brownish-black on laid paper and copy M was printed in grayish-black on wove paper. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _Marriage_ copies K, L, and M are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in editors' notes, have been applied to all copies of _Marriage_ in the Archive. With the publication of _Marriage_ copies K, L, and M, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of sixty- five copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, including Blake's illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and the water color illustrations to John Milton's _Paradise Regained_, _L'Allegro_, and _Il Penseroso_, as well as the Butts and Thomas sets of illustrations to Milton's _Comus_, _Nativity_ ode, and _Paradise Lost_. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:26:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NEH & DFG joint grant programmes From: Rhody, Jason Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:50:56 -0400 We are happy to announce that the NEH and the DFG=20 will be offering two new joint grant programs.=20 The guidelines will be available shortly, but in=20 the meantime, for more information please see the NEH/DFG release below: DFG and NEH to Offer Two Grant Programs in the Digital Humanities The German Research Foundation (Deutsche=20 Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) in Germany and=20 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)=20 in the United States recently signed a memorandum=20 of understanding to offer support for digital=20 humanities projects. Under this agreement, the=20 NEH and DFG hope to encourage American and German=20 researchers to collaborate on innovative digital=20 humanities projects. DFG and NEH are currently=20 developing two Bilateral Digital Humanities Grant=20 Programs, which will have deadlines in early autumn 2008: DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program:=20 2008 Call for Bilateral Symposia and Workshops These grants provide funding for one bilateral=20 symposium or workshop (or a series of two=20 bilateral symposia or workshops taking place=20 within the duration of one year) in the area of=20 digital humanities. The goal of this call is to=20 promote stronger bilateral cooperation between=20 the digital humanities communities in the two=20 countries (Germany and the United States) by=20 initiating or intensifying contact between scholars in one particular field. Proposals for Bilateral Symposia or Workshops can=20 focus on any area of the digital humanities, including: * capacity building or networking workshops=20 preparing for future more intensified bilateral=20 collaboration based around a single theme,=20 technology, media form or humanities discipline; * comparing the needs of researchers in both the=20 U.S. and Germany and their uses of digitized resources; and * exploring possible and existing use of=20 information technology in the humanities in both communities. DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program:=20 2008 Call for Joint Digitization Projects These grants provide funding for up to three=20 years of development in any of the following=20 areas: new digitization projects and pilot=20 projects; the addition of important materials to=20 existing digitization projects; and the=20 development of related infrastructure to support=20 international digitization work and the use of digital resources. Proposals for digitization projects might include: * digitizing humanities collections that are=20 relevant to either or both scholarly communities=20 for use in research and higher education, * developing a detailed plan for the digitization=20 of humanities collections that could benefit=20 humanities research and performing a limited=20 pilot digitization program to test shared infrastructure and procedures, * connecting existing split digitized collections=20 and detailing suitable transatlantic standards=20 and interoperability strategies, and * creating a virtual archive or resource that=20 would join complementary materials (analog or digital) internationally. Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is=20 a key requirement for each of these grant=20 categories. Each application must have one=20 German partner, and one U.S. partner, and there=20 must be a project coordinator from each country.=20 The partners will collaborate to write a single=20 application package, which the U.S. partner will=20 submit to the NEH and the German partner will submit to the DFG. For Additional Information: Additional information on the call for proposals,=20 the formal proposal requirements, and the review=20 process will be available on the NEH and DFG=20 websites in the near future at the following web addresses: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#odh www.dfg.de/lis and http://www.dfg.de/en/international/news/index.html Contacts at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): for Call for Joint Digitization Projects Dr. Max V=F6gler Scientific Library Services and Information=20 Systems (Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs-=20 und Informationssysteme LIS) / Humanities and Social Sciences Division Tel. +49 (228) 885-2182 e-mail: Max.Voegler@dfg.de for Call for Bilateral Symposia and Workshops Dr. Aglaja Frodl International Relations: North America (USA, Canada) Tel. +49 (228) 885-2388 e-mail: Aglaja.Frodl@dfg.de Contact at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Jason Rhody Senior Program Officer Office of Digital Humanities Tel. +1 (202) 606-8364 e-mail: jrhody@neh.gov ....................................................................... Jason Rhody Senior Program Officer National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/odh 202.606.8364 Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London |=20 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Brent Nelson (145) Subject: CaSTA 2008 [2] From: Diego Calvanese (51) Subject: RR 2008 - extended deadlines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:33:59 +0100 From: Brent Nelson Subject: CaSTA 2008 This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for proposals for CaSTA 2008 is nigh (June 15). We will begin reviewing proposals next week, so there is still time to submit your abstract. For your convenience, the call for papers is attached. -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ----- CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 New Directions in Text Analysis (Revised cfp) http://ocs.usask.ca/casta08 A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008 CaSTA 2008--"New Directions in Text Analysis"-- will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon from 16-18 October 2008, featuring guest speakers: < David Hoover, Professor of English at New York University (keynote) < Hoyt Duggan, Professor Emeritus in English at University of Virginia < Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Professor in Humanities Computing and Multimedia at University of Alberta < Cara Leitch, PhD candidate in English at University of Victoria CaSTA 2008 will also feature a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture," with guest speakers: < Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University, and Executive Editor of Medieval English Theatre (new speaker, replacing Melissa Terras) < Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, University of California Los Angeles Call for submissions for "New Directions in Text Analysis" The organizing committee of CaSTA 2008 also invites proposals from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working in any area of technical or textual studies addressing the conference theme, "New Directions in Text Analysis." This will be the sixth annual CaSTA conference, held in association with TAPoR (the Text Analysis Portal). The two days of the conference (17-18 October) will feature keynote and plenary addresses, papers, panels, and posters on a wide range of topics related to the future of digital text analysis. Presentations might address such topics as -- changing notions of what constitutes a text -- the relationship of the material text (its physical manifestation) to the ideal text (the text as an abstraction of words in a particular combination) -- editing and publishing digital texts for a changing readership -- new media and digital textual scholarship -- new tools and methodologies for text analysis -- digital texts and analysis in the scholarly mainstream -- working with graduate students and research teams Abstracts of 500-700 words should propose presentations in one of three forms: -- Single papers (max of 3,000 words) -- Panels (three to five papers on a common theme) -- Posters (max of 750 words), either hard copy (approximately two square metres of board space) or digital with terminal access provided. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference and there will be a designated session time for presenters to discuss their work. Abstract proposals should include the following information: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate students, whose work is even now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will begin to explore. Cara Leitch (PhD candidate, University of Victoria) will conduct sessions of particular interest to graduate students and to projects that involve significant student training and participation. Travel grants will be available to students who travel to attend the conference. All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Abstracts will also be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Selected papers from the conference will be included in a special issue of the peer reviewed journal, Text Technology. Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson@usask.ca In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008 Call for submissions for "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity." Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century. Complete papers will be circulated in advance of the conference and participants (presenters and non-presenters) will sign up for and participate in two to three sessions on Thursday, 16 October, having read the complete papers (2-3 per session) in advance. Each session will comprise short introductory summaries by presenters (5-10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the circulated texts. Participants can expect to receive concrete and expert advice from other participants as they pool expertise (together with our invited speakers) to consider how the project, tool, or theory can be further developed toward publication or implementation. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Complete papers will be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Contributors to the seminar will also be invited to submit papers for a collection on "Digitizing Early Material Culture, from Antiquity to 1700," to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) for the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series at MRTS (series editors Ray Siemens and William Bowen). Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson@usask.ca. In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008, and complete papers will be due 15 September 2008 Please see the conference website for further developments: http://ocs.usask.ca/casta08 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:35:02 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: RR 2008 - extended deadlines RR 2008 The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008 Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 2, 2008 Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED DEADLINES: Abstract submission: June 21, 2008 Paper submission: June 28, 2008 submission url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:53:43 +0100 From: Stfan Sinclair Subject: CFP: CJILS, Text mining and information retrieval ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Forest Dominic <dominic.forest@umontreal.ca> Date: 2008/6/12 Subject: CFP: CJILS, Text mining and information retrieval (La version franaise se trouve aprs le texte anglais) *** Call for publications *** TEXT MINING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science GUEST EDITORS - Dominic Forest (Universit de Montral, Canada) - Lyne Da Sylva (Universit de Montral, Canada) THEME The guest editors of this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science invite original research from all disciplines reporting on various aspects of the integration of text mining techniques within information retrieval applications. This includes, but is not limited to: - developing text mining strategies within an information retrieval context - evaluating text mining operations for information retrieval - identifying contexts for text mining (thematic analysis, management of digital libraries, information extraction and visualization, knowledge extraction, cross-linguistic information retrieval, etc.) Text mining approaches described in the papers may be based on numerical or linguistic techniques, or both. Special attention should be given to the description and evaluation of the information retrieval system where the text mining techniques are embedded, where applicable. Applications described in the papers can be academic prototypes or commercial software. Manuscripts will undergo the normal double-blind review process for submissions to CJILS. THE JOURNAL The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science , established in 1976, is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada. LANGUAGE Submissions are accepted in either English or French. IMPORTANT DATES (TO BE CONFIRMED) - June 15, 2008 to September 15, 2008 : Letter of intention (optional). Please send an e-mail specifying the authors' names and the provisional title of the paper to dominic.forest@umontreal.ca - January 15, 2009 : Submission deadline - March 15, 2009 : First decision of the reviewers - May 15, 2009 : Final version due - June 15, 2009 : Final decision of reviewers - August 2009 : Publication SUBMISSION Please send your manuscript (Word or RTF) to: Dominic Forest cole de bibliothconomie et des sciences de l'information Universit de Montral C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montral (Qubec) H3C 3J7 E-mail : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Instructions for authors are available on-line on the journal website (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm). ************************************************** *** Appel publications *** FOUILLE DE TEXTES ET RECHERCHE D'INFORMATIONS Numro thmatique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothconomie RDACTEURS INVITS - Dominic Forest (Universit de Montral, Canada) - Lyne Da Sylva (Universit de Montral, Canada) THME Les rdacteurs invits de ce numro thmatique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothconomie invitent les chercheurs provenant de diffrentes disciplines soumettre les rsultats de travaux de recherche originaux traitant de l'intgration de techniques de fouille de textes dans un contexte de recherche d'informations. Ce thme inclut, sans pour autant s'y limiter, les aspects suivants : - l'valuation de la pertinence des diffrentes oprations de fouille de textes pour la recherche d'informations - le dveloppement de mthodologies de fouille de textes l'intrieur du processus de recherche d'informations - l'identification de contextes d'utilisation d'outils de fouille de textes (analyse thmatique, bibliothques numriques, extraction et visualisation des connaissances, recherche multilingue, etc.) Les techniques de fouille de textes qui seront dcrites dans les contributions pourront tre de nature aussi bien numrique que linguistique ou hybride. Une attention particulire devrait tre accorde la description et l'valuation du systme de recherche intgrant les techniques de fouille de textes, le cas chant. Par ailleurs, les applications de recherche d'informations, ainsi que celles de fouille de textes mises contribution, peuvent tre tant des prototypes acadmiques que des applications destines des utilisations commerciales. Les propositions reues feront l'objet d'une valuation anonyme par des pairs selon les modalits normales d'valuation de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothconomie. LA REVUE La Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothconomie, tablie en 1976, est la revue officielle de l'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information. Elle a pour objectif de contribuer l'avancement des sciences de l'information et de bibliothconomie au Canada. LANGUE Les soumissions sont acceptes en franais et en anglais. CHANCIER ( CONFIRMER) - du 15 juin 2008 au 15 septembre 2008 : Dclaration d'intention (facultative). Veuillez envoyer un courriel indiquant le nom des auteurs, ainsi que le titre de l'article, l'adresse dominic.forest@umontreal.ca - 15 janvier 2009 : Date limite de soumission - 15 mars 2009 : Premire dcision du comit de rdaction - 15 mai 2009 : Version rvise - 15 juin 2009 : Dcision finale du comit de rdaction - Aot 2009 : Parution SOUMISSION Veuillez envoyer votre manuscrit en version lectronique (Word ou RTF) : Dominic Forest cole de bibliothconomie et des sciences de l'information Universit de Montral C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montral (Qubec) H3C 3J7 Courrier lectronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Les instructions pour les auteurs sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines_fr.htm). Dominic Forest Professeur adjoint Adresse postale : cole de bibliothconomie et des sciences de l'information Universit de Montral C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montral (Qubec) H3C 3J7 Adresse civique : cole de bibliothconomie et des sciences de l'information Universit de Montral Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 3150 Jean-Brillant, bureau C-2046 Montral (Qubec) H3T 1N8 Tlphone : (514) 343-6119 Tlcopieur : (514) 343-5753 Courrier lectronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Sites Internet : www.dominicforest.name et www.ebsi.umontreal.ca -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:55:50 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool (seminar) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work-in-Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 20th June at 16:30, in B3, Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London **please note - this is a different room. Stewart House is the building on the Russell Square side of Senate House.** *Dot Porter (University of Kentucky)* 'The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool' ALL WELCOME I shall discuss the Son of Suda On Line (SoSOL), a proposed web-based, fully audited, version-controlled editing environment being built for the papyrological community but designed for applicability to other editing communities. It will enable the collaborative editing of texts in a framework of rigorous and transparent peer-review and credit mechanisms and strong editorial oversight. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk Return-Path: Received: from fep14.clear.net.nz (fep14 [192.168.16.115]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2P002EU2F03QQ4@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:16:59 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx6.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2P00AUQ2NXV7SW@mx6.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:16:46 +1200 (NZST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.8]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:16:44 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5J5GMaE024304; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:16:23 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m5IHcB95014179; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20261089 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:07:03 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5J52Ng3028642 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:02:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5J52N3e029749 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:02:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5J52MGM029747 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5F9B1324177 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id KDpAhwBHY0w0R99d for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K9CHt-0006Yz-EM for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:02:21 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:02:18 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.072 Programmer (and scholarly) insecurity Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080619050222.5F9B1324177@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1213851741-29cf029f0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.072 Programmer (and scholarly) insecurity X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7504/Thu Jun 19 03:38:18 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1213851742 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5320 signatures=409838 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0806180168 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 72. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:54:35 +0100 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Humanist: Programmer (and scholarly) insecurity Today, reading for fun, a text struck a note sounding quite familiar. It was on the iBanjo blog: http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96 Programmer Insecurity (...) My buddy Fitz and I have long preached about best practices in open source software development -- how one should be open and transparent with one's work, accept code reviews, give constructive criticism, and generally communicate as actively as possible with peers. One of the main community "anti-patterns" we've talked about is people writing "code bombs". That is, what do you do when somebody shows up to an open source project with a gigantic new feature that took months to write? Who has the time to review thousands of lines of code? What if there was a bad design decision made early in the process -- does it even make sense to point it out? Dropping code-bombs on communities is rarely good for the project: the team is either forced to reject it outright, or accept it and deal with a giant opaque blob that is hard to understand, change, or maintain. It moves the project decidedly in one direction without much discussion or consensus. (...) And somewhere near the end, the author even adds a bit on how tools shape behaviour: Moral: even though one shouldn't depend on technical solutions to social problems, default tool behaviors matter a lot. --- It seems that humanist scholars and programmers have lot in common after all... with one exception: in the humanities world, you either write your book / article / thesis (and get thrashed if you get it wrong), or you do not. --- Or do we have subversion systems for humanities scholarship, only I do not know about them (yes, there are procedures --- talks over coffee and such, but how about *tools*)? How do we "review code" (as opposed to "reviewing product")? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:56:42 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.24 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 24 June 17 -- 23, 2008 UBIQUITY ALERT: * An interesting interview with Wei Zhao, whose distinguished career in information technology led him most recently to the position of Dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. * For those interested in CMOS technology and wireless communications, a valuable paper by K. Faitah, A. El Oualkadi, and A. Ait Ouahman of the Laboratoire de Microinformatique, Systmes Embarqus et Systmes sur Puces Universit. * Sanjay Kumar Pal, who lectures on computer science and applications at the NSHM Business School in Kolkata, India, offers his reflections on the 21st Century information technology revolution. * For dessert, we'll offer a very short piece on mathematics by Jannat, who comes to us from etuition4u.com in India (or everywhere, since this is Ubiquity). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty (37) Subject: Daniel Dennett, "From Animal to Person: How Culture Makes Up our Minds" [2] From: Willard McCarty (20) Subject: eResearch Australasia: e-Research in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:13:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Daniel Dennett, "From Animal to Person: How Culture Makes Up our Minds" From: Stevan Harnad Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:43:57 +0100 (BST) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:23:59 -0400 From: Guillaume Chicoisne At the opening conference of the Summer Institute on Social Cognition (http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca), Daniel Dennett, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, will give a speech entitled "From Animal to Person: How Culture Makes Up our Minds". This will be held on Friday 27th of June at 7pm in room JM-400. The address is UQAM, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, studio th tre Alfred-Lalibert , 405 rue Sainte-Catherine Est, (Berri-UQAM metro). The poster of the event is available here: Admission is free and the event is open to the general public. We highly recommend that you book your place in advance by sending an email to dennett.summer08.isc@gmail.com. Should places still be available on the event evening, places will be given on a first come first serve basis. Daniel C. Dennett is one of today s most important and productive philosophers of the mind. He is the author of over three hundred scholarly articles and 12 books, such as Consciousness Explained, Darwin s Dangerous Idea, and Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. [If you or your students wish to attend the Summer Institute itself, please register at: Guillaume Chicoisne Institut des Sciences Cognitives (+1) 514-987-3000 #4374 Summer School on Social Cognition: http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca Cog. Sci. Institute: http://www.isc.uqam.ca Pers. Page: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/cogsci2/isc/article.php3?id_article=229 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:17:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: eResearch Australasia: e-Research in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage From: Mark Hedges Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:05:23 +0100 Workshop at eResearch Australasia: e-Research in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage Friday 3rd October, 2008 The workshop aims to stimulate discussions between the UK and Australasian arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities about the use of e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies. To this end, it is soliciting contributions (both presentations and papers) on topics relevant to e-Research in an arts, humanities and cultural heritage context. The deadline for submissions (abstracts and/or papers) to the workshop is 15th July 2008. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:25:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: case studies? I am wondering how commonly in the digital humanities practitioners respond to the demand that they justify their work by doing case studies. Is the use of this term well understood? How are case studies conducted so that they avoid being merely anecdotal? Are these studies followed up by the attempt to extract from them common principles, or is it (do we believe it to be) too early in the development of the digital humanities to be in a position to draw conclusions from these studies? Those who would argue the latter should consider, I would think, that the humanities have been digital for half a century. If this half century isn't enough time, why not? Also they should consider the fact that throughout this last half century, beginning in the 1960s, people have been saying, as Anthony Kenny did in 1992, "the testing time has now arrived" (Computers and the Humanities, British Library). There are a number of essays on case studies in Critical Inquiry 33.4 (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2007/33/4), which offers the introductory essay by Lauren Berland for free, and 34.1 (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2007/34/1), which contains marvellous essays by Ian Hacking and Carlo Ginzburg among others. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: musings on an interesting phenomenon Given the approaching Digital Humanities conference in Oulu next week, the following seems particularly relevant. I'd appreciate your thoughts on it. From time to time in discussions amongst ourselves arguments take place about what is important and what is not. (If this didn't happen we'd be in real trouble, no?) Paradigmatic is a particular incident at the ACH/ALLC in Charlottesville VA some years back, a staged but quite genuine dispute between a "text is an ordered hierarchy of content objects" contingent on one side and a "text is an n-dimensional autopoietic field" contingent on the other. Now I happen to be firmly on the latter side of the house, but abstracting myself from myself I note that the former has its origins in the thinking of an analytical philosopher and a theologically minded chap, with strong backing from a philologist and behind them all a fellow whose life-long passion was the processing of highly structured documents, indeed documents written to conform to pre-existing templates. I also note that the latter has its origins in literary studies of a particularly adventurous sort. You would expect such an opposition to lead to a fight, would you not? On other occasions I have been party to arguments between historians on the one side and, yes again, literary types on the other, the subject of the argument being the degree to which interpretation compromises the digital objects we build. Again, no great surprise, but the difference between the opposed parties is not so great as in the former example. The by now obvious observation is this: that how we see what we do in humanities computing appears very differently depending on how we've been trained -- a training that tends to be tacit and thus a hidden impediment to deeper discussion. For example, that which rigid computational structures cannot accommodate is totally unimportant if you are accommodating documents written to have none. If you're accommodating highly factual data, then the residue is not utterly insignificant, but it is not impossible to come to a good decision about how you capture what's most likely to be significant to the most number of people. If you're trying to match such structures to a literary text, considered as a work of imaginative language, then the residue is, as McGann says, "the hem of a quantum garment", and thoughts about how to use computing, it would seem to me, really do have to go in another direction. So you're likely to have a very, very different opinion on how things should go than even the historian does. Where this is leading is a destination I think quite important for us to contemplate: if humanities computing is only about method, then there is nothing to say which is not said in the words of one's discipline of origin (though perhaps with somewhat of a strange accent), and what the future holds is more of the present: disciplinary expatriots tending a common ground, not the beginnings of a new nation; or, if you will, a permanently multicultural society, never a core group of natives. And what we've got to get better at is realizing where our differences are coming from. Hence anthropology takes on a metadisciplinary role for us, I would think. "The relativist bent...anthropology so often induces in those who have much traffic with its materials, is thus in some sense implicit in the field as such.... One cannot read too long about Nayar matriliny, Aztec sacrifice, the Hopi verb, or the convolutions of the hominid transition and not begin at least to consider the possibility that, to quote Montaigne... 'each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice... for we have no other criterion of reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.'" (Clifford Geertz, "Anti Anti-Relativism", Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, Princeton, 2000, p. 45). Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:39:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Technology-Focused Collaborative Research in English Studies Technology-Focused Collaborative Research in English Studies From: Laura McGrath Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:12:01 -0400 Do you do collaborative, project-based research? Are you affiliated with a center or initiative that supports group inquiry? Are you part of an interdisciplinary research group? Please consider contributing to the following proposed collection: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Edited Collection on Technology-Focused Collaborative Research in English Studies WORKING TITLE: "Investigating Digital Tools, Texts, and Use Practices: Collaborative Approaches to Research in English Studies" Submissions are sought for an anthology of scholarly essays on the subject of technology-focused collaborative research conducted by groups of investigators working in English studies, defined broadly. Submissions from scholars trained in English studies or rhetoric and composition but working in newer areas such as software studies or new media studies are welcome. In particular, submissions from scholars affiliated with research centers and other larger-scale collaborative research initiatives are encouraged. This collection is premised on the idea that evolving technologies, texts, and use practices are impacting not only our research questions but also our approaches to conducting and disseminating research. Of particular interest are the ways in which collaborative project-based research teams or work groups are investigating technology-related questions and the lessons that can be learned from these cases. This collaborative research might bring together faculty, graduate students, and perhaps undergraduates. At times, it is interdisciplinary. In some cases, it may involve researchers from multiple campuses or even from beyond the academy. The anthology will feature two sections: Part I: Research Models for the Twenty-First Century=ADPart I will focus on the lessons that can be learned from various collaborative approaches to investigating digital technologies, texts, use practices, and culture. Special attention will be paid to technology-focused research centers, project-based research, initiatives that involve students as researchers, and multicampus and/or interdisciplinary research groups. The purpose of Part I is not only to present models but also to reflect on what these specific cases demonstrate about the challenges involved in planning, establishing, managing, and sustaining collaborative research initiatives. Part II: New Purposes, Audiences, and Contexts=ADPart II will address the goals, outcomes, audiences, and publication contexts associated with collaborative research into digital technologies, texts, use practices, and culture. The goal of Part II will be to provide a variety of perspectives on why this research is necessary, what it can and should accomplish (outcomes), who it might benefit both within and beyond the academy, and how it can and should be disseminated. Attention to topics such as ethics, the state of scholarly publication, and issues of authorship, authority, and copyright will be woven throughout the chapters. Although this list is by no means exhaustive, essays might respond to one or more of the following questions: What are the advantages and challenges of=20 collaborative inquiry for the study of digital=20 tools, texts, use practices, and culture? How does research happen within teams or work groups? Which models of collaborative work are relevant=20 for English studies (e.g., "Big Science,"=20 software development) and how have they been adapted in practice? How is collaborative research funded, managed, and sustained over time? In what physical or virtual spaces does this work take place? What resources are essential? How does this research provide opportunities for=20 student learning and professionalization? What are the outcomes or deliverables of collaborative research? Who are the audiences, clients, or beneficiaries of this research? Beyond traditional scholarly venues, how are=20 research outcomes being disseminated (e.g.,=20 blogs, Web sites, wikis, multimedia)? What issues must be considered (ethics,=20 promotion/tenure, authorship, authority, copyright)? Send original essays or 500-word proposals, with a brief CV, to Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor of English, Kennesaw State University by August 31, 2008: lmcgrat2@kennesaw.edu. Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London |=20 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:11:42 +0100 From: Nick Bassiliades Subject: RuleML-2008: Call for Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts Due to a number of requests we have decided to extend the submission deadline for challenge/demo papers by 2 weeks. NEW deadline for challenge/demo paper submission: July 2 Accepted demo papers are published in Springer LNCS Proceedings. ===================================================================== 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org =================================================== Call for Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts =================================================== Lightning Talks --------------- A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic of interest to the RuleML community; it can be a new idea, a technology, an evaluation, an observation, a complaint, an explanation, a suggestion, a report of success or failure, a call to action, a description of a technique, or a lament. In general, it is supposed to be a short visionary talk which should initiate discussion. If you are a rule developer working on an exciting project and you do not have the time to submit a full paper, Lightning talks are a great way to interact with the RuleML community and receive feedback on your ideas. Lightning talks are presented back-to-back with a strictly enforced five minute limit, so make sure that you can fit your presentation within this time span. People interested at giving a lightning talk during RuleML-2008 should show their their interest by sending an email to ruleml2008@easychair.org by August 13, 2008, including a title and a 250-word abstract of their intended talk. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Highlight Talks --------------- We invite the submission of outstanding full papers that have been published between 2007 and the submission deadline (August 13,2008). Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site are also welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work makes a good presentation, and the relevance for the topics of RuleML-2008, in general. Submissions should be sent directly to the RuleML-2008 chairs at ruleml2008@easychair.org by August 13, 2008, and must include the following: * Name/affiliation/email of submitter (assumed to be the presenter; note that the presenter cannot change because the identity and ability to present of that person will be an essential selection criterion). * Names/affiliations/email of ALL coauthors (note: any name appearing on a published paper has to be added here). Note that all co-authors have to agree to the submission and that it is the responsibility of the submitter to guarantee that all co- author email addresses are correct (email notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors). * Additional contact information (for presenter). * A 250-word abstract-like argument that explains how the submitted paper(s) suit the goal of presenting highlights that impacted the field. * Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal, Vol., pages). * PDF with paper(s) (note: in case of the submission of 2 papers, both have to be merged into one single PDF; all reviews will be based on the content of this PDF). * Optional: link to Google Video demonstrating presentation skills of presenter. * Note that we will need PDF submissions; the system will neither be able to handle ASCII, nor Word, nor LaTeX, nor anything other than standard PDF. It is the responsibility of the submitter to verify that the PDF is completely viewable/printable by all major operating systems (LINUX, MacOS, Windows). * Each presenter can submit a maximum of one application to present a highlight. The maximal number of submissions per author/co-author is 5. All submissions will be evaluated by a group of reviewers. Reviewers will consider the following criteria: * Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to RuleML-2008 attendees, * Impact of the paper(s) on rules (while the impact of papers on science is not fully reflected by ISI/Google-like impact factors or high number of downloads, high values in such factors will clearly stand as a strong argument for acceptance), * "Presentability" of the work to a large, diverse audience, * Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if none). These "soft" criteria attempt to capture the underlying concept, namely the presentation of exciting and thought-provoking seminars that will both contribute to the success and attraction-value of RuleML-2008 and to the impact the meeting has on advancing rule interchange and applications. The criterion of "presentability" accounts for the fact that some papers that will completely change the field, or will become citation records may not translate to exciting seminars. The selected Highlights will be presented in a special track during the RuleML-2008 Symposium. All presentations will have to be completed within 20 minutes and will be followed by 5-minute discussions. While presenters are expected to focus mostly on the chosen paper(s), short infusions of more recent data are welcome. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Fast Abstracts -------------- Fast Abstracts at RuleML-2008 are short presentations, either on new ideas or work in progress, or radical opinions that can address any issue relevant to RuleML-2008. Fast Abstracts provide an opportunity to receive early feedback from the community. Contributions are particularly solicited from industrial practitioners and academics that may not have been able to prepare full papers, but seek an opportunity to engage with the RuleML community. Fast Abstracts should be 4-pages long, and must be formatted in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission deadline is August 13, 2008. Submissions should be sent directly by email to ruleml2008@easychair.org, and they will be refereed on the relevance to RuleML 2008, but also on their novelty of idea and/oor on their capacity to stimulate and intrigue the reader. Accepted contributions will be published in electronic form (at the Symposium's Web site and on CD), and an author will deliver a short talk in the Fast Abstracts track at the conference. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Authors of accepted fast abstracts must provide the camera ready version by September 15. At least one author of each accepted Fast Abstract is expected to register to the conference before or on September 15. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================= The RuleML-2008 Symposium ========================= Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community ( http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights * Keynote speakers: o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on WC3's Rule Interchange Format (RIF). Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on business rules. o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. * Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business Rules Forum on "Rules on the Web". * Lightning talks/Highlight talks * A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. * Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee. * Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. A special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) will be forthcoming. * Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:14:04 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: ALA, ASIS&T, CLA, and Open Access Those of you who are concerned about the current state of open access to research journals from the American Library Association, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and the Canadian Library Association may find the below postings to be of interest. (TinyURL follows full URL.) On ALA, CLA, and Open Access (DigitalKoans) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/06/11/on-ala-cla-and-open-access/ http://tinyurl.com/5luduh More on OA to ALA Publications (Open Access News) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/06/more-on-oa-to-ala-publications.html http://tinyurl.com/6ctfth More about ALA, CLA, and Open Access (DigitalKoans) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/06/12/more-about-ala-cla-and-open-access/ http://tinyurl.com/6mvrmw Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Goes Green (DigitalKoans) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/06/20/journal-of-the-american-society-for-information-science-and-technology-goes-green/ http://tinyurl.com/5d85zr JASIST Allows Self-Archiving (Open Access News) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/06/jasist-allows-self-archiving.html http://tinyurl.com/6jc9wu -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (146) Subject: Re: 22.077 strangers in a strange land [2] From: Stephen Ramsay (32) Subject: Re: 22.077 strangers in a strange land --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:08:06 +0100 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 22.077 strangers in a strange land Dear Willard, I am stuck by your post and the things I have been thinking about as I try to figure out what the Dictionary of Words in the Wild tells us about textuality. Let me begin by commenting on Renear's position that there are real abstract objects like works (let's say "The New Science" by G. Vico) independent of any real physical object (like the copy of the English translation with a coffee stain on the 2nd page on my shelf.) This Platonic position is very useful and is, I believe, how we model the documentary universe for the purposes of organizing copies of books in libraries. I believe FRBR takes such a Platonic view, though I am not the expert Renear is. By hypothesizing that there is a "New Science" real abstract object one can then organize editions, and then copies the way we expect libraries to. Further, we often talk this way. When I ask someone if they have read "The New Science" I am not asking if they have read my copy, but if they have read the same work in the abstract, but still real sense. I can test whether they have by asking about that work and there are real consequences to their answers. That said, I am now wondering if we don't also operate with a indexical model of textuality in our everyday life. When I am in the local pub and there is a text that reads, "Today's Special, Meatloaf with Veggies", that text can only be understood at a particular time ("today", well actually yesterday) and in a particular place (the pub on campus.) This model of what a text is could be extended to argue that all that is real is the performance of reading - my reading it yesterday and choosing not to order meatloaf. I want to call this the approach to a text since in many cases it is not only the place and time, but the movement that is important. A STOP sign means something different depending on what direction you are driving. While this model has received attention, I don't think the everyday texts we interact with have been treated as interesting for this model. I want to say that the variety and quantity of indexically meaningful texts that we encounter everday is overlooked in theories of text, precisely because they are so present and passing. We would have to turn to the graphic designers who design store signs for an appreciation of their semiotics and we would have to consider that such texts are not alongside graphic elements, but one with their design. The structured and hierarchical ways of organizing texts as Platonic objects do not work for indexical texts where the approach is part of the meaning. The Dictionary, for all its problems, at least captures the approach or the perspective of the photographer approaching. Ultimately, as Wittgenstein pointed out about so many phenomena that philosophers try to nail down, we seem to be able to function just fine with multiple models and we even seem to know when to switch. Further, we enjoy the slippery areas poorly explained by either and inversions of treating books as performances and Today's Special as something to be catalogued. So I would way that in trying to apply a method rigourously, as we are forced by the computer, we run up against the limits of the model it hides thereby rethinking the theory. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell On 20-Jun-08, at 5:09 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 77. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/ > humanist.html > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:04:34 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Given the approaching Digital Humanities conference in Oulu next > week, the following seems particularly relevant. I'd appreciate your > thoughts on it. > > From time to time in discussions amongst ourselves arguments take > place about what is important and what is not. (If this didn't happen > we'd be in real trouble, no?) Paradigmatic is a particular incident > at the ACH/ALLC in Charlottesville VA some years back, a staged but > quite genuine dispute between a "text is an ordered hierarchy of > content objects" contingent on one side and a "text is an > n-dimensional autopoietic field" contingent on the other. Now I > happen to be firmly on the latter side of the house, but abstracting > myself from myself I note that the former has its origins in the > thinking of an analytical philosopher and a theologically minded > chap, with strong backing from a philologist and behind them all a > fellow whose life-long passion was the processing of highly > structured documents, indeed documents written to conform to > pre-existing templates. I also note that the latter has its origins > in literary studies of a particularly adventurous sort. You would > expect such an opposition to lead to a fight, would you not? On > other occasions I have been party to arguments between historians on > the one side and, yes again, literary types on the other, the subject > of the argument being the degree to which interpretation compromises > the digital objects we build. Again, no great surprise, but the > difference between the opposed parties is not so great as in the > former example. > > The by now obvious observation is this: that how we see what we do in > humanities computing appears very differently depending on how we've > been trained -- a training that tends to be tacit and thus a hidden > impediment to deeper discussion. For example, that which rigid > computational structures cannot accommodate is totally unimportant if > you are accommodating documents written to have none. If you're > accommodating highly factual data, then the residue is not utterly > insignificant, but it is not impossible to come to a good decision > about how you capture what's most likely to be significant to the > most number of people. If you're trying to match such structures to a > literary text, considered as a work of imaginative language, then the > residue is, as McGann says, "the hem of a quantum garment", and > thoughts about how to use computing, it would seem to me, really do > have to go in another direction. So you're likely to have a very, > very different opinion on how things should go than even the historian > does. > > Where this is leading is a destination I think quite important for us > to contemplate: if humanities computing is only about method, then > there is nothing to say which is not said in the words of one's > discipline of origin (though perhaps with somewhat of a strange > accent), and what the future holds is more of the present: > disciplinary expatriots tending a common ground, not the beginnings > of a new nation; or, if you will, a permanently multicultural > society, never a core group of natives. And what we've got to get > better at is realizing where our differences are coming from. Hence > anthropology takes on a metadisciplinary role for us, I would think. > "The relativist bent...anthropology so often induces in those who > have much traffic with its materials, is thus in some sense implicit > in the field as such.... One cannot read too long about Nayar > matriliny, Aztec sacrifice, the Hopi verb, or the convolutions of the > hominid transition and not begin at least to consider the possibility > that, to quote Montaigne... 'each man calls barbarism whatever is not > his own practice... for we have no other criterion of reason than the > example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live > in.'" (Clifford Geertz, "Anti Anti-Relativism", Available Light: > Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, Princeton, > 2000, p. 45). > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > > Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for > Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | > http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd > 1617, p. 26). ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:09:33 +0100 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 22.077 strangers in a strange land > The by now obvious observation is this: that how we see what we do in > humanities computing appears very differently depending on how we've > been trained -- a training that tends to be tacit and thus a hidden > impediment to deeper discussion. There's no doubt that one's originary discipline has a profound effect on the way one views just about everything. And I think it runs even deeper than your examples suggest. It's not just that the historian, the logician, and the literary critic view things differently. I'm always struck, when talking with historians (for example), by the fact that we differ in *what* we think is interesting (about a given text or cultural phenomenon). I don't know that it's an impediment -- except that very often we can, at our extreme peril, start talking past one another. But I would like to know where "digital humanists" fit into this? You suggest that we do digital humanities differently depending on how we were trained, but do we do our "core discipline" differently for having been "trained" in digital humanities? Do we bring a particular, identifiable intellectual framework to the table in discussion with others outside our field? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:39:31 +0100 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: request for survey responses [10 questions only!] Dear Humanists, Many of you will know of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action that will benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. The centerNet website is at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/. Below is a link to a 10-question survey, intended to establish the types of education and training carried out by centers, ultimately toward the identification of issues and areas that could see most ready and profitable address by a centerNet Education Working Group. The results will be of considerable value to the entire community, and will build on that already gathered by the centerNet taxonomy of centers. The survey is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=n86x463dy4v3r49rAKnB5w_3d_3d. I invite you to spend the few moments it will take to complete the survey, and to tell us something about your center and its education and training endeavors, as well as those activities that you feel centerNet could help facilitate. Please don't hesitate to be in touch with me if I can provide any further details. Ray ____________ R.G. Siemens English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:46:13 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9fan?= Sinclair Subject: Humanist Trends Viewer and T-REX Dear colleagues, Just a quick reminder about the T-REX (TADA=20 Research Evaluation eXchange) =96 a competition for=20 text analysis tool developers *and* tool users =96=20 the deadline for submissions is June 30th: http://tada.mcmaster.ca/trex/ Competition Categories: * Best New Tool * Best Idea for a New Tool * Best Idea for Improving a Current Tool * Best Idea for Improving the Interface of the TAPoR Portal * Best Experiment of Text Analysis Using High Performance Computing Are you wondering what a new REST tool might be=20 like? Consider "Voyeur Tools: Humanist Trends=20 Viewer". You can add a number of queries to the=20 base URL, like comparing chum and llc or "digital=20 humanities" and "humanities computing": ht= tp://tapor-dev.mcmaster.ca/~sgs/humanist/?query[]=3Dllc&query[]=3Dchum http://tapor-dev.mcmaster.ca/~sgs/humanist/?query[]=3D%22humanities+computin= g%22&query[]=3D%22digital+humanities%22 St=E9fan --=20 [Please do not reply to this message as I use=20 this address for communication that is=20 susceptible to spambots. My regular email address=20 starts with my user handle sgs and uses the=20 domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. St=E9fan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:52:38 +0100 From: "Young, John K" Subject: 2009 STS CFP CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Textual Scholarship Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 18-21, 2009, New York University Program Co-Chairs: Andrew Stauffer, Boston University [astauff@bu.edu]; John Young, Marshall University [youngj@marshall.edu] Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2008 The Program Chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library science, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, media studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. The Program Chairs are particularly interested in papers and panels, as well as workshops and roundtables, on the following topics, aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience: Textual production and the social sphere Textual cultures Digital editing and textuality The production and editing of "minority" texts Theoretical and practical intersections between textual scholarship and book history Textual scholarship and pedagogy Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Panels should consist of three papers or presentations. Individual proposals should include a brief abstract (one or two pages) of the proposed paper as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of the participant. Panel proposals, including proposals for roundtables and workshops, should include a session title, the name of a designated contact person for the session, the names, e-mail addresses, and institutional addresses and affiliations of each person involved in the session, and a one- or two-page abstract of each paper to be presented during the session. Abstracts should indicate what (if any) technological support will be requested. Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to: Professor Andrew Stauffer, email address: astauff@bu.edu Department of English Boston University 236 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215 and Professor John Young, email address: youngj@marshall.edu Department of English Marshall University One John Marshall Drive Huntington, WV 25755 (304) 696-2349 (304) 696-2448 (fax) All participants in the STS 2009 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at mroland@marylhurst.edu or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page: . For conference updates and information, see the STS website: . Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in TEXTUAL CULTURES. John Young Associate Professor of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.edu Return-Path: Received: from fep13.clear.net.nz (fep13 [192.168.16.114]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2Y002O4JHRSD52@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:45 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K2Y001U8JKQS720@mx5.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:28 +1200 (NZST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:27 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5O7v8FY025569; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:57:08 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m5O43Xrk021763; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:56:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20300938 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:47:12 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5O7jtTZ017022 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:45:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5O7js4T001308 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5O7jjK4000854 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:45:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4A3353CCE88 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:45:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id Btu1ccGVXTed0uQu for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:45:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gw1.panoulu.net ([212.50.147.101] helo=littlewolf2.kcl.ac.uk) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KB3Dh-0000rn-3x for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:45:41 +0100 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:45:35 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.085 strangers in a strange land Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080624074544.4A3353CCE88@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1214293544-1d5700af0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.085 strangers in a strange land X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7546/Tue Jun 24 00:40:35 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1214293545 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5323 signatures=414459 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0806240002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 85. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:42:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: strangers in a strange land Out of the richness of Geoffrey Rockwell's and Stephen Ramsay's responses to my note about the problematic, fluid identity of us humanities computing practitioners, allow me to extract these bits for comment. First on Geoffrey's, >--[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:08:06 +0100 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > > >.... > >Ultimately, as Wittgenstein pointed out about so many phenomena that >philosophers try to nail down, we seem to be able to function just >fine with multiple models and we even seem to know when to switch. >Further, we enjoy the slippery areas poorly explained by either and >inversions of treating books as performances and Today's Special as >something to be catalogued. So I would way that in trying to apply a >method rigourously, as we are forced by the computer, we run up >against the limits of the model it hides thereby rethinking the theory. There's a danger here that we succeed in breaking away from the sclerotic taking of philosophical positions, as if they were possessions, even egos, only to make ourselves into binary creatures, flip-flopping from one way of dealing with the world to another. Do we in fact switch? Or is this setting up of alternative states something we construct in order to simplify how we conceptualize our fluid swervings from one side of the road to the other? This is especially relevant to computing. Geoffrey says, "in trying to apply a method rigourously, as we are forced by the computer..."; I do know what he means and applaud the expression of modelling. But I wonder: how much of this sense of being forced is a function of the interface, specifically its temporal responsiveness? Being now in the midst of reading through the historical traces of literary computing, I've become acutely aware of the influence of the technology we have at any moment on how we think about computing itself. The old batch-orientated environment really did impose a binary way of thinking: you did the rigorous thing with the computer then responded to the results. (I recall waiting hours in the Really Bad Old Days.) But what happens to this way of thinking as response-time disappears beneath the threshold of perceptual reality? Second, on Steve's, >--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:09:33 +0100 > From: Stephen Ramsay > Subject: Re: 22.077 strangers in a strange land > > > > The by now obvious observation is this: that how we see what we do in > > humanities computing appears very differently depending on how we've > > been trained -- a training that tends to be tacit and thus a hidden > > impediment to deeper discussion. > >There's no doubt that one's originary discipline has a profound effect >on the way one views just about everything. And I think it runs even >deeper than your examples suggest. It's not just that the historian, >the logician, and the literary critic view things differently. I'm >always struck, when talking with historians (for example), by the fact >that we differ in *what* we think is interesting (about a given text >or cultural phenomenon). I don't know that it's an impediment -- >except that very often we can, at our extreme peril, start talking >past one another. > >But I would like to know where "digital humanists" fit into this? You >suggest that we do digital humanities differently depending on how we >were trained, but do we do our "core discipline" differently for >having been "trained" in digital humanities? Do we bring a >particular, identifiable intellectual framework to the table in >discussion with others outside our field? This is a very fine question. My answer (which I very much hope provokes others) is based on my own experience of many years talking to people across the disciplines on their own research. The metaphor I keep returning to is the anthropological explorer on board his or her ship, who sails around in what I call "the archipelago of disciplines", visiting now this epistemic island culture, now that one, participant-observing, telling stories and learning them, trading goods, then sailing off. From this person's perspective, the intellectual framework Steve asks about is, I suppose, ethnographic, polymathic -- and courageous, to venture out in such a way in a world which treats such persons mostly as outlaws (in the etymological sense). It's hard not to think of big and small intellectual spaces. But I recall what Northrop Frye said, that it doesn't much matter where you begin as long as you begin within an intellectual structure which can expand into all others. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [Apologies to all for letting slip a somewhat corrupted version of Stfan Sinclair's posting. There's a long explanation, but I'll spare you that. The good result is that a very interesting announcement thus gets a second airing. --WM] Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:07:23 +0100 From: Stfan Sinclair Subject: Humanist Trends Viewer and T-REX Dear colleagues, Just a quick reminder about the T-REX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange) a competition for text analysis tool developers *and* tool users the deadline for submissions is June 30th: http://tada.mcmaster.ca/trex/ Competition Categories: * Best New Tool * Best Idea for a New Tool * Best Idea for Improving a Current Tool * Best Idea for Improving the Interface of the TAPoR Portal * Best Experiment of Text Analysis Using High Performance Computing Are you wondering what a new REST tool might be like? Consider "Voyeur Tools: Humanist Trends Viewer". You can add a number of queries to the base URL, like comparing chum and llc or "digital humanities" and "humanities computing": http://tapor-dev.mcmaster.ca/~sgs/humanist/?query[]=llc&query[]=chum http://tapor-dev.mcmaster.ca/~sgs/humanist/?query[]=%22humanities+computing%22&query[]=%22digital+humanities%22 Stfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K30004SWGW978M6@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:58:36 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3000JRNGXBV420@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:58:23 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin2-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:58:22 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5P8soJm025328; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:54:51 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m5P44M0P019426; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:53:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20312157 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:53:50 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5P8qhmt010005 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5P8qhTV000518 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5P8qXxt000506 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6C38D3FDB21 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id VWCcY2PA3DttvF9b for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pc-a81041.wlan.inet.fi ([194.111.81.41] helo=littlewolf2.kcl.ac.uk) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KBQju-00085v-74 for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:32 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:32 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.087 Humanist's 21st birthday celebrations Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080625085233.6C38D3FDB21@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.Princeton.EDU id m5P8qhmt010006 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1214383953-17de00ad0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.087 Humanist's 21st birthday celebrations X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7554/Tue Jun 24 21:44:58 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1214383953 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5324 signatures=415185 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0806250008 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 87. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:41:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist's 21st birthday celebrations As members for whatever amount of time you will interested to know that Lisa Lena Opas-Hnninen and colleagues at the University of Oulu, Finland (Oulun Yliopisto), in an opening event for the Digital Humanities 2008 conference, honoured Humanist last night with a splendid dinner at Maikkula Manor, preceded by a traditional Finnish sauna. After the meal Lisa Lena read out an encomium from Michael Sperberg-McQueen, then in transit to the conference, and herself recollected events from the early days. A speech was demanded from the editor of Humanist, who obliged, but the fine qualities of the food and wine have obscured the memory of what exactly it was that he said. The event was, however, a potent reminder of how welcoming and appreciative the world-wide community of digital humanists is. If all that remains of this event is now a somewhat hazy memory, it is nevertheless a powerful encouragement to continue and to improve in the practice of the digital humanities. Improvement is, of course, mostly a matter for the coming generation. Twenty-one years of conversations, musings and exchanges of information on Humanist have shown what we can do when we imagine a community into being. And the very fact that the exchanges of words which are Humanist are almost as fleeting as last night's Gemtlichkeit, both real in the living moment, draws attention to what matters perhaps most of all. Thank you Lisa Lena, Michael and the most fortunate individuals able to be here last night. As for the rest of you, there's Digital Humanities 2009 at the University of Maryland -- and, we now know, Digital Humanities 2010 at King's College London! Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:43:51 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity's last, 9.25 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 25 June 24, 2008 UBIQUITY ALERT: This is the final issue of Ubiquity! Next week it will be absorbed into the main publications stream of ACM. "Ubiquity," of course, comes from the Latin word for "everywhere"- and stands in contrast to "Utopia," another word coined from the Latin (by St. Thomas More) meaning "nowhere." Unlike utopian pie-in-the-sky visions, Ubiquity has always tried to stay focused ambitiously on The-Future-As-We-Already-See-It-Happening. This "Future-Present-Tense" is happening right in front of our eyes, in an information-rich world of embedded computing, embedded information, and embedded knowledge - along with embedded tensions. When you get some time, go into the Ubiquity archives and refresh your memory of what we've done: for example, take a second look at my own interviews with leaders in information science and technology, or re-read the many provocative articles we've published on every topic under the sun. (There's that old Ubiquity theme again, rearing its ubiquitous head.) You'll be impressed. And I think you'll be just as impressed with this, our final issue. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:08:38 +0100 From: Richard Moot Subject: ESSLLI 2009 Call for Proposals 21st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2009 Monday, 20 July --- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. The ESSLLI 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. The Summer School program is organized around the components. - Language and Computation - Language and Logic - Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these there categories. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:10:00 +0100 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 22.085 strangers in a strange land On 24-Jun-08, at 3:45 AM, Humanist Discussion Group Willard wrote: > There's a danger here that we succeed in breaking away from the > sclerotic taking of philosophical positions, as if they were > possessions, even egos, only to make ourselves into binary creatures, > flip-flopping from one way of dealing with the world to another. Do > we in fact switch? Or is this setting up of alternative states > something we construct in order to simplify how we conceptualize our > fluid swervings from one side of the road to the other? I suspect there are more than two theoretical models in any situation and that, in fact, we often tolerate a continuum of theories that overlap, contradict each other, supplement each other, get vague and are often not explicitly thought out past our nose. The danger philosophers warn of is relativism or pyrrhonian skepticism. Skeptics would say something like: "No model works, not even this model of models" Late Wittgenstein would say the problem is our desire to model - that philosophizing is a disease not a cure and we should get over it. The pyrrhonian would use the paradox of two models both of which are needed to explain the world to provoke us to be skeptical of theorizing. Personally I think the setting up of models and choosing of models is, when there are no clear and immediate needs, an ethical move. It is how you choose to live your life without certainty. And living without certainty seems to be one of the few certainties, but I'm not certain about that. When you cast the issue as ethical then you can avoid the "it doesn't matter because it is all relative" recourse of the lazy because even not choosing is a choice. Of course we have to make choices with insufficient evidence, include the choice to do nothing. How else to project get done, or not. To take a different approach I offer a longish quote from Ken Morrison's "Stabilizing the Text" CJS 12:3, 1987, p 245, > Beginning with the emergence of European scholasticism in the > twelfth and thirteenth centuries, scholarly exegesis began to be > based upon specific text principle converging on page layout as a > technical means of arranging words and ideas. Many of the > principles we see in our own texts, such as the imposition of a > chapter and paragraph structure, alphabetical indexing leading to > searchable texts and the deployment of running titles as a means of > marking off stages in an argument, have their origin in medieval > devices in which fixed patterns of textual designation began to > emerge as a means of facilitating presentation. The introduction of > a scholarly apparatus in the text, which arose in the light of new > methods of study and medieval learning, facilitated changes in the > structure of knowledge as it began to be subordinated to rational > principles of layout and design. With the acceptance of rational > order as a means of arranging texts and the "recognition that > different kinds of [order] were appropriate" for each of the > branches of knowledge, "the organization of the individual work > came under closer scrutiny [and] for the first time scholars > formulated a definition [of the text] which included the > disposition of material into books and chapters" (quoting Parkes, > 1976). (Thanks to Domenico Fiormonte for pointing me to this.) Morrison, if I understand him, argues that our model of the rational text has a history and is not in the text. How we approach Aristotle's works is due to the structuring of later scholastics. They imposed the codex model on writings that had previously been laid out following aesthetic considerations (lining letters up in columns). What model of the text were the Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE working with if not the rational model imposed later? How are our technologies of electronic text approaching a new model and which technologies would we take a paradigmatic of electronic text? Geoffrey R. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:09:24 +0100 From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: FW: Digital Document Quartery 7(2) is available 17 The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 7 number 2 is available at . Its table of contents is available at . Because there has been more activity than usual in the digital preservation sector, most of this number is devoted to this topic, dropping the usual epistemology commentary. The number makes an attempt at more precise descriptions by distinguishing between archiving, near-term content management services, and long-term digital preservation. Cheerio, Henry H.M. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:21:55 +0100 From: Peter Wosh Subject: New York University Position Available -- Digital Curriculum Specialist NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES/PUBLIC HISTORY PROGRAM DIGITAL CURRICULUM SPECIALIST New York University's Archives and Public History Program (History Department) is now considering applications for a one-year grant-funded Digital Curriculum Specialist. The Program seeks a scholar experienced with the technical and intellectual issues in digital humanities to help the Program incorporate digital technologies throughout its curriculum and internship programs. The successful candidate will work with existing faculty to reconfigure existing courses, develop a digital history track within the program, provide technical services and conduct workshops for student and staff, create a platform for mounting student digital projects, and partner with archival and public history institutions in order to establish digital humanities internships for students. He or she will work closely with NYU's Information Technology Services and Digital Library staff. Qualifications: The successful candidate will have an advanced degree in either humanities or computer or information science, with a solid grounding in the issues and technologies relevant for humanities scholarship. Knowledge and experience with XML, XSLT, TEI, PHP programming, and Web 2.0 social networking technologies. Familiarity with archival metadata and digitization standards. For three decades, NYU has prepared students for successful careers as archivists, manuscript curators, documentary editors, oral historians, cultural resource managers, historical interpreters and new media specialists. The program emphasizes a solid grounding in historical scholarship, intense engagement with new media technologies, and close involvement with New York's extraordinary archival and public history institutions. For more information on the program, see http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html Salary and Benefits: Competitive depending on qualifications. Review of applications will begin on July 31, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names of three references to: Dr. Peter J. Wosh Director, Archives/Public History Program Department of History, New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-8666 (212) 995-4017 (fax) pw1@nyu.edu Peter J. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:22:55 +0100 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ: Issue 2.1 now available I'm very happy to announce that the new issue of DHQ is now available at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ New in this issue: the DHQ interface now offers TaporWare tools for text analysis, including collocation and word frequency analysis. Send us your feedback at dhqinfo@digitalhumanities.org. *************************************** Table of Contents: DHQ Summer 2008: v2 n1 ***Editorials *** Something Called Digital Humanities Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. *** Articles *** The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush's Memex Belinda Barnet, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne The Humanities HyperMedia Centre @ Acadia University: An Invitation to Think About Higher Education Richard Cunningham, Acadia University; David Duke, Acadia University; John Eustace, Acadia University; Anna Galway; Erin Patterson, Acadia University As You Can See: Applying Visual Collaborative Filtering to Works of Art Gerhard Jan Nauta, Leiden University *** Reviews *** Review: The Electronic Literature Collection Volume I: A New Media Primer Mark C. Marino, University of Southern California Conference Review: Reading Digital Literature at Brown University, October 4-7, 2007. Patricia Tomaszek, Siegen University *************************************** Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-Chief, DHQ Brown University ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Progress in technology, new concepts of knowledge networking, but also economic issues are the driving forces for upgrading the eLibrary, all of them opening up both a world of new opportunities and of new constraints for progressing enhanced scholarly information services. The International Bielefeld Conference 2009 provides insights in the future of eLibraries, based on the threefold interdependency of service, technology, and economics. The Bielefeld Conferences provide a forum for internationally renowned and trendsetting speakers to stimulate strategic discussions among scholars, information specialists, publishers, library managers and patrons from all over Europe and beyond. Among the speakers in 2009: __________ Mario Campolargo (European Commission, Information Society and Media DG) Wendy Pradt Lougee (University of Minnesota, University Librarian) Sijbolt J. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:58:21 +0100 From: Israel Cohen Subject: strangers in a strange Land => Talmudic texts Geoffrey Rockwell wrote: > To take a different approach I offer a longish quote from Ken > Morrison's "Stabilizing the Text" CJS 12:3, 1987, p 245, > > Beginning with the emergence of European scholasticism in the > > twelfth and thirteenth centuries, scholarly exegesis began to be > > based upon specific text principle converging on page layout as a > > technical means of arranging words and ideas. ... The introduction of > > a scholarly apparatus in the text, which arose in the light of new > > methods of study and medieval learning, facilitated changes in the > > structure of knowledge as it began to be subordinated to rational > > principles of layout and design. ..." (quoting Parkes, 1976). < snip > > How are our technologies of electronic text approaching a new model > and which technologies would we take a paradigmatic of electronic text? The Talmud has an interesting and very elaborate text layout. It is described at "The Talmud and its Shape" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/2/Judaism/talmud.html Comments by Rashi and the Tosafists (his sons-in-law and grandchildren) are written in so-called "Rashi script" even though Rashi never used that script. My own observation is that the cursive Rashi script existed prior to the standard Asheris meruba (Assyrian square) script in which the Mishna and Gemara are written because for those letters that have a different shape, the shape of the "Rashi" letters elicits the older sound. The aleph (ancient CHS/GHT-sound) and shin (ancient T-sound) are the most obvious examples. For a summary of materials rerquired for the study of Talmudic texts via computer, see http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/lehrstuhl/staff/klamma/download/Hollender-Klamma.pdf For a comparative critique of computerized Talmudic texts provided by several vendors, see http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/stam2eng.html Ciao, Israel "izzy" Cohen cohen.izzy@gmail.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ Return-Path: Received: from fep13.clear.net.nz (fep13 [192.168.16.114]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3D004DNBR47A59@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:35:59 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3D004RHBRLEK60@mx5.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:35:48 +1200 (NZST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.189]) by mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:35:45 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m627WIn3003452; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:32:18 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6244vwC014882; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:31:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20367176 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:30:59 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m62727fs008003 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m62727K0014430 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6271vdh014322 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:02:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A1CA313832D1 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id kskBIxuICurbzh4n for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KDwLg-0001kj-OQ for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:01:52 +0100 Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:01:46 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.097 new on WWW: Ubiquity 9.26 Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080702070157.A1CA313832D1@emfw3.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1214982117-18ec03140000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.097 new on WWW: Ubiquity 9.26 X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7613/Wed Jul 2 04:19:29 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1214982117 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807010160 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 97. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:20 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.26 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 26 July 1 -- 7, 2008 UBIQUITY ALERT: We present Yaffe's insightful "Can Learning Languages Help You Better Understand Science and Technology?" - which suggests, among other things, that "contrary to the common belief, science is not about certainty but rather uncertainty" - an insight that information technologists ignore at their, and our, peril. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:27:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: falsification of process & its publication In their wonderful, indeed astonishing book, The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton, 2004), Robert K Merton and Elinor Barber argue that academic writing tends to falsify retrospectively the actual processes by which results were obtained. Their focus is on the normal form of scientific writing, but their argument is apt for the digital humanities as well. Most of what they have to say on this topic is in a subsection of the book's Afterword entitled, "The Standard Scientific Article and Obliterated Scientific Serendipities (or SSA and OSS, as These Are Bound to Be Abbreviated in Our Age of Acronyms)", pp. 269-284. Those who know Merton's writings, e.g. from On the Shoulders of Giants, will recognize the serious playfulness and have some idea of how well the argument is conducted. A few years ago, after more years of fighting against the tendency of students to tell the story of what happened in their research rather than to construct an argument, I realised that they were partially right: the story of what happens when you work with computers *does* matter. The computer, I realised, puts the researcher in something like an experimental situation, and looking back on the history of experimental science I could see that keeping a careful record of what one thinks is happening often proves useful if not crucial. So I looked around for descriptions of how to write a scientific laboratory report, combined it with admonitions on how to write papers in the humanities and produced a little document entitled, "How to write an essay-report", which then went through revisions with the help of my colleagues here and is now distributed to our students. It has also informed our own marking criteria. (See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/ug/courses/ for the document itself.) My question here is, has anyone else thought of these matters, esp about how involvement with computing is changing how we write? In a discussion at DH2008, just concluded (you should have been there), Marilyn Deegan, editor of Literary and Linguistic Computing, noted the importance of publishing conference papers especially for those who are deeply involved in humanities computing but do not have the opportunity or inclination to turn aside from the actual building of objects to devote significant time to writing. Often all they have the opportunity to do is to put together a conference paper or two in a year. That may develop into something more substantial, but lack of time and the pace of work may prevent further development. At the same time it is all too easy in some venues to toss off a conference paper, so perhaps a barrier to journal publication is no bad thing. Are we, perhaps, looking at the need for a clearer distinction between different publication streams? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Domenico Fiormonte (51) Subject: Editing the author (in Valencia) [2] From: Wolfram Horstmann (50) Subject: 9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009 -- 1st announcement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:33:43 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Editing the author (in Valencia) Dear all, I thought this seminar in Valencia (Spain) could be of interest for members of this list. The seminar dates are July 14-16, and Ive summarized the programme below. Further information on the event can be found on the UIMP web page: http://www.uimp.es/uimp/home/homeUIMPdina.php?jcj=ACADEMICAS_VALENCIA&juj=2001&jpj=sede=70 All the best Domenico Fiormonte p.s. And BTW, number 4 of the international journal Ecdotica is out! This number is particularly rich and engaging, with articles by David Parker, Neil Harris, Alberto Sebastiani, Daniel Ferrer, Giorgio Forni, Marco Veglia, Hans Walter Gabler, Francesco Benozzo, and many others. Full table of contents available here: http://ecdotica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=120 ----------------------------------- SEMINAR EDITANDO EL AUTOR El escritor en la sociedad de la comunicacin Valencia 14-16 July 2008 Organized by Pura Fernndez and Javier Lluch Prats (CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas) Speakers & Participants Monday 14 Luis Sun, Editar hoy o sombra de lo que fuimos Rafael Chirbes, El mundo desde la mesa del escritor Rosa Mara de Couto Glvez, Cmo protege la normativa internacional, comunitaria y espaola los Derechos de Autor? Round table: El autor editado Participants: Jordi Gracia Garca, Joaqun Rodrguez, Martinus Steenmeijer. Moderator: Facundo Toms Tuesday 15 Joaqun Rodrguez, Las guerras de Harry Potter o la lucha entre el concepto clsico de autora y la generacin colectiva de nuevos contenidos Joaqun Leguina Herrn, Quin controla a los controladores? Round table: Editar en la sociedad de la comunicacin Natalia Briones Beneit, Federico Ibez, Luis Sun Moderator: Mara del Carmen Simn Palmer Pura Fernndez, Javier Lluch Prats 1. El autor "autorizado" o cmo se legitiman autoridades 2. El respeto a la voluntad "ltima" de un autor Domenico Fiormonte, Obra y autor en la era digital Martinus Steenmeijer, Periferia y "bestsellers": la literatura espaola contempornea en la repblica mundial de las letras Esther Tusquets, Grandezas y miserias de la relacin autor-editor Joan Oleza, El escritor ante, bajo, cabe, con, contra, desde la escritura: efectos de la era de la informacin --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:34:27 +0100 From: Wolfram Horstmann Subject: 9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009 -- 1st announcement First Announcement Apologies for cross-posting 9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009 http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/ 3 - 5 February 2009 in Bielefeld, Germany *** Upgrading the eLibrary Enhanced Information Services Driven by Technology and Economics *** Three decades of databases, two decades of electronic articles and one decade of open access have resulted in an avalanche of digital scholarly information services. At the moment we observe a metamorphosis from the electronic library to an enhanced library, meeting also the emerging demands of eScience and eLearning. Progress in technology, new concepts of knowledge networking, but also economic issues are the driving forces for upgrading the eLibrary, all of them opening up both a world of new opportunities and of new constraints for progressing enhanced scholarly information services. The International Bielefeld Conference 2009 provides insights in the future of eLibraries, based on the threefold interdependency of service, technology, and economics. The Bielefeld Conferences provide a forum for internationally renowned and trendsetting speakers to stimulate strategic discussions among scholars, information specialists, publishers, library managers and patrons from all over Europe and beyond. Among the speakers in 2009: __________ Mario Campolargo (European Commission, Information Society and Media DG) Wendy Pradt Lougee (University of Minnesota, University Librarian) Sijbolt J. Noorda (European University Association, Open Access Working Group) Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Programmatic Topics __________ * Information- and eScience-Infrastructure * Library Services for eLearning * Novel Publishing Paradigms * Impacts of Web 2.0 for Library Services * Search Engines and Text-Mining * Metrics in Scholarship and Libraries * Cost Models for Scholarly Information * Enhanced Publications * Personalizing Library Services Programme Committee __________ Hans Geleijnse, Director of Library and IT-Services & Chief Information Officer, University of Tilburg Michael Hppner, Director of Bielefeld University Library Wolfram Horstmann, Chief Information Officer Scholarly Information, Bielefeld University Library Norbert Lossau, Director of State and University Library, Gttingen Ronald Milne, Director of Scholarship and Collections, The British Library Return-Path: Received: from fep16.clear.net.nz (fep16 [192.168.16.117]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3F004JS6YR76I9@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:47:56 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx8.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3F00K256ZV3830@mx8.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:47:55 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.8]) by mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:47:54 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m637lX4q020457; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:47:33 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m63428tp012208; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20379211 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:41:04 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m637dXYP029686 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m637dXMm021137 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m637dPHv021129 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9441C4F64D0 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 2izyb3wYih2BENz0 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KEJPY-0007w1-MT for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:17 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.100 falsification of process & its publication Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080703073925.9441C4F64D0@emfw4.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.Princeton.EDU id m637dXYP029687 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1215070765-34cf021e0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.100 falsification of process & its publication X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1215070765 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807030001 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 100. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:32:53 +0100 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 22.098 falsification of process & its publication Dear Willard, You asked an interesting question about process and computing, >My question here is, has anyone else thought of these matters, esp >about how involvement with computing is changing how we write? Stfan Sinclair and I have been thinking about the integration of text analysis tools into the research process and trying to imagine tools that would travel with you as your research matures. This has led us down a path that John Bradley has been exploring - looking at how humanists do research from when a project is conceived to when it is written up. There seems to be little written about how we do research and what tools we use at different points, though two references are at hand: W. S. Brockman, L. Neumann, C. L. Palmer and T. J. Tidline. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. [[http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub104/contents.html]] J. Bradley. Thinking Differently About Thinking: Pliny and Scholarship in the Humanities Digital Humanities 2007. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: 2007. [[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/xhtml.xq?id=124]] The approach Stfan and I have taken is to pair up and try to do rapid research experiments. By pairing up one of us can do "the research" while one can document what we are doing. Pairing up has also forced us to talk through what we do. One conclusion we have come to is that most tools, as useful as they might be at one stage in the research cycle, don't travel well - it is hard to get results out of a text analysis tool and into an electronic paper the way you can get bibliographic references out of EndNote (or Zotero) and into your MS Word document. I wonder if we might be less inclined to tell the story of the research if we could easily exhibit right in an electronic issue of the research essay. For those interested you can see a short essay that tries to exhibit the tools used, "Now, Analyze That" at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/NowAnalyzeThat The documentation for that experiment and related reflections are at, http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/ExperimentsInTextAnalysis Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell Return-Path: Received: from fep13.clear.net.nz (fep13 [192.168.16.114]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3F004UX72K7AK9@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:50:57 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3F00I5M74E7960@mx5.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:50:38 +1200 (NZST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.133.8]) by mxin1-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:50:37 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m637nafK021939; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:49:37 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m62M8x7X003907; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:49:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20379215 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:41:05 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m637e78M029745 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m637e7fq013001 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m637e0jJ012423 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E4A7517CA2C8 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id g0YIHWa052a7YpVJ for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:39:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KEJQ6-00089S-AI for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:50 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.101 new on WWW: TL Infobits for June Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080703073959.E4A7517CA2C8@emfw2.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1215070799-4de1019b0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.101 new on WWW: TL Infobits for June X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1215070799 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=100 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807030001 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 101. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:34:01 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- June 2008 TL INFOBITS June 2008 No. 23 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjun08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Ten Higher Education IT Issues for 2008 Ten Reasons to Adopt IT Innovations Ten Web Technologies to Watch The Myth of Multitasking Papers from a Distance Learning Administration Conference Games and Learning Resources Recommended Reading ...................................................................... TEN HIGHER EDUCATION IT ISSUES FOR 2008 The EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee has released the results of its ninth annual survey of information technology (IT) issues that concern higher education. The survey looks at IT in four areas: "(1) issues that are critical for strategic success; (2) issues that are expected to increase in significance; (3) issues that demand the greatest amount of the campus IT leader's time; and (4) issues that require the largest expenditures of human and fiscal resources." As for the previous five years, administrative/ERP information systems, funding IT, and security rank at the top of the list of college and university CIOs' concerns. This year, security is the number one concern, reflecting the number of data privacy breaches and threats some institutions have experienced. The survey results and related materials, including readings related to each of the ten issues, are available at http://www.educause.edu/2008IssuesResources/15516 EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu/ ...................................................................... TEN REASONS TO ADOPT IT INNOVATIONS "College and university educators in general and . . . IT educators in particular have a unique set of personal values, motivators, organizational politics, and alliances that influence technology adoption decisions. Given the nature of their chosen field, most IT educators place value on creativity and learning. They have a wide range of external motivators but many are also self-motivators and risk-takers. But they also must function within the framework of their institution's philosophies, resources, and organizational, social, and political structure." While some of the reasons listed in "Ten Reasons for IT Educators to be Early Adopters of IT Innovations" (by Sharlett Gillard, Denice Bailey, and Ernest Nolan, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, vol. 7, 2008) sound humorous, the authors nevertheless take a serious approach to the question, "Why be an innovator or early adopter?" Some of the reasons include: The sun came up today. "There is probably nothing more predictable in the physical world in which we live than the sun rising and setting. In the professional world of information technology there is probably nothing more predictable than change itself. . . . The pace may be exhausting, and fighting a current may sometimes be necessary, but as a general, relatively predictable practice, just as the sun came up today, we should welcome change, embrace it, learn to manage it, and be among the first to integrate it into our professional world." You read the obituaries and your name was not listed. "A failure to adopt all innovations over an extended period of time . . . could be perceived as resisting rather than discerning or discriminating and lead to professional death." If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. "In this 'dog eat dog' world, it is all about being out front: leadership. If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes and that alone is a very unpleasant thought. Reflecting on professional contacts, discussions, and feedback from conference sessions, it is the consensus of the authors that regardless of where we actually fit in the product adoption curve, most IT educators seemingly like to believe that they are relatively up-to-date in the use and application of information technology." The complete paper is available at http://jite.org/documents/Vol7/JITEv7p021-033Gillard257.pdf The peer-reviewed Journal of Information Technology Education (JITE) [ISSN 1539-3585 (online) 1547-9714 (print)] is printed annually in a single volume, but articles are published online when accepted (at http://jite.org/). The journal is published by the Informing Science Institute. For more information contact: Informing Science Institute, 131 Brookhill Court, Santa Rosa, California 95409 USA; tel: 707-531-4925; fax: 480-247-5724; Web: http://informingscience.org/ ...................................................................... TEN WEB TECHNOLOGIES TO WATCH "Ten Web Startups to Watch" (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, July/August 2008) provides a quick glimpse of the future of Web applications by focusing on ten new companies and what they are marketing. Their services/tools are in the areas of voice messaging, microblogging, live broadcasting from phones, memory aids, and delivering streaming media. The article is online at http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20923/ Technology Review [ISSN 1099-274X] is published six times a year by Technology Review, Inc., a Massachusetts Institute of Technology enterprise. For more information, contact Technology Review, One Main Street, 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA; tel: 617-475-8000; fax: 617-475-8042; Web: http://www.technologyreview.com/ ...................................................................... THE MYTH OF MULTITASKING "When we talk about multitasking, we are really talking about attention: the art of paying attention, the ability to shift our attention, and, more broadly, to exercise judgment about what objects are worthy of our attention. People who have achieved great things often credit for their success a finely honed skill for paying attention." In her essay "The Myth of Multitasking" (THE NEW ATLANTIS, no. 20, Spring 2008, pp. 105-10), Christine Rosen cites studies that provide evidence that multitasking may be influencing the way our brains work and the way we learn. But it may not be a good thing, resulting in people who exhibit "very quick but very shallow thinking." Read all the viewpoints at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society [ISSN 1555-5569 (online), ISSN 1543-1215 (print)] is available online at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/ The Journal is published quarterly by The Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1015 15th St. NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 USA; tel: 202-682-1200; fax: 202-408-0632; email: ethics@eppc.org, Web: http://www.eppc.org/ ...................................................................... PAPERS FROM A DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE The current issue of ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION (vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2008) features papers from the Distance Learning Administration June 2008 conference. The issue is available at http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/ Papers include: "A Strategic Planning Process Model for Distance Education" by Kenneth P. Pisel "As more institutions seek to implement or expand distance learning programs, it becomes critical to integrate distance learning programs into broader strategic visions and plans. Using the informed opinion from a panel of peer-nominated experts via iterative Delphi questionnaires, a 10-phased strategic planning process model for distance education was developed." "It Takes a Virtual Community: Promoting Collaboration Through Student Activities" by Ludmila Battista, Carol Forrey, and Carolyn Stevenson "This paper [discusses] strategies for developing a sense of student community at a distance. Topics include: the role of professional and student organizations in building community; academic coaching and courses for at-risk students; community building through student websites; use of Second Life for promoting student leadership and collaborative activities." "Instructor's Privacy in Distance (Online) Teaching: Where Do You Draw the Line?" by Valerie Storey and Mary Tebes "As the number of online classes continues to grow, an increasing number of articles are being written about student and program integrity but there is a notable absence of articles or research focusing on the emerging issue of institutional integrity in relation to instructors. The ideology of New DEEL's (Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership) speaks to the ethical basis of online teaching and this paper delineates an authentic ethical dilemma for which a universalized and generalized ethical model is proposed to be usefully applied to all issues involving privacy of participants." The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration is a free, peer-reviewed quarterly electronic journal published by the Distance and Distributed Education Center, The State University of West Georgia, 1603 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118 USA; email: distance@westga.edu; Web: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ ...................................................................... GAMES AND LEARNING RESOURCES The UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Service's Teaching and Learning division has recently added new resources to our Games4Learning initiative website. Scholars interested in how games can be used in the curriculum can find links to websites, listservs, organizations, and readings at http://learnit.unc.edu/games4learning/resources.php ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" By Nicholas Carr ATLANTIC MONTHLY, July/August 2008 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google "For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they've been widely described and duly applauded. 'The perfect recall of silicon memory,' WIRED's Clive Thompson has written, 'can be an enormous boon to thinking.' But that boon comes at a price. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:19:55 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: ESF Launch of 2008 Call for Research Networking Programmes and 2010 Research Conferences ESF Research Conferences Networking Programme - CALL FOR PROPOSAL Please be informed that the 2008 Call for Research Networking Programme proposals - aimed at programmes to be launched in 2010 - is now available on the ESF website at http://www.esf.org/activities/research-networking-programmes.html. The deadline for submitting proposals is 23 October 2008. ESF Research Conferences - CALL FOR PROPOSALS The European Science Foundation invites scientists to submit proposals for conferences to take place in 2009 and 2010 in Europe within the framework of the ESF Research Conferences Scheme. In 2010, the ESF and its Partners will fund conferences in: Biology Energy and Environment Mathematics Physics/Biophysics and Environmental Sciences Social Sciences and Humanities Proposals must be submitted electronically via the ESF Research Conferences website www.esf.org/conferences/call2008. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:38:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: horizontal hope Quite by accident I have discovered unexpected richness in a word, specifically the word "horizontal", which, to my delight and for immediate use, is defined by the OED thus: 1. Of or belonging to the horizon; situated on or occurring at the horizon..... 2. a. Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical line; level; flat.... 3. a. Uniform; producing or based on uniformity..... [hence] c. Denoting a relationship, movement, etc., between a social group of a particular status, class, age-group, etc., and another of similar specifications, as opp. a 'vertical' relationship with a higher (or lower) authority, class, age-group, etc. And so I can say, in the subject line, much more than expected. Allow me, then, to speak of a hope for our little field that is (i) for us at least belonging to the horizon we can clearly see but not reach; that is (ii) available to all across the disciplines according to that hope, but is (iii) not one we can passively await, on our backs, as it were, horizontally, but in active charge. My text is from G.E.R. Lloyd's magnificent book, Demystifying Mentalities (Cambridge 1990), which begins with Lucien Levy-Bruhl's widely diffused notion attributing "mentalities" to humankind, specifically a prelogical mentality to so-called primitive people. The brilliance of his argument is in its minute, careful examination of this notion of a mentally, philosophically by considering chiefly the genesis of Greek science. Apart from (which I cannot part from but here give a specific example of) the mental training which reading this book amounts to, it delivers among many other things a superb example of a change brought about by those who could not possibly justify with results what they were doing. I suppose it's obvious I am thinking of what we are doing, about which we occasionally get so nervous and/or curious that we stop to worry the case for it, with "evidence of value" -- the title, in fact, of a very fine panel session at the Oulu Digital Humanities conference at the end of last month. Since I've been among the curious worriers for more than 20 years, I find Lloyd's example particularly compelling. Here is the text. (Note the *s, which denote italics in the original.) >When science is rejected nowadays in the name of something >different... that is in part a reaction to some of the continued >aggressions committed in the name of rationality. These include, for >instance, the demand for accountability, for verification (or >falsifiability), for transparency, for pragmatic results, in >contexts where they are *not* appropriate -- as if *we* can get by >*entirely* without myth, without symbolism, without metaphor, and >some of these at the heart of science itself. Certainly we have >found... that some extraordinary aggression was displayed in the >name of *logos* in the early days of Greek science and that those >who championed *logos* were often very bad at practicising what they >preached. Yet what they preached was not just more *muthos*, or >*magia* in a different guise. In the field of natural science *some* >of the confidence that was expressed -- that the problems were >soluable and on their way to being solved -- had *some* basis, in >the application of certain methods, whether of argument or of >research. Eventually much of what the Greeks just *imagined* science >could deliver, in terms of understanding and control, was indeed >delivered, though usually not in ancient science. The surprise is >that the Greeks developed much of their discourse of the methods >before these methods had *in practice demonstrated* anything like >their full potential. But if that is a surprise, one line of >argument would be that reference to the social, legal and political >background helps to explain *some* of the attractions that that >discourse had for the ancient Greeks even before that science itself >had chalked up any very considerable list of indisputable successes. (pp. 69f) I read most of this yesterday to a "master class" at the Summer School of the newly created Digital Humanities Observatory, at the Royal Academy of Ireland, Dublin (http://www.dho.ie/events.html). It was prefix to a critical look at the disappointing history of literary computing from 1949 to the present day, with the curious nervousness I just mentioned. It was to inflect the judgment handed down to us by the jury whose members include Roberto Busa ("Why a computer can do so little", ALLC Bulletin, 1976) and Anthony Kenny ("Computers and the humanities", British Library Research Lecture, 1992), that literary computing has not delivered on the promise. This is still true. It was to supply an example from which might be inferred a hopeful take on our horizon, to stir us to arise from that horizontal position of the passive end-user and continue to make efforts at becoming end-makers of what, somehow, we know to be possible. Foolish? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:54:00 +0100 From: Martin Wynne Subject: DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice (fwd)] The DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at an academic venue in the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries. The conference, hosted by Cambridge with its fantastic choice of conference venues, will take place from Sunday 14th September to Wednesday 17th September. Visit the Conference website at http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/ for information on registration. Keynote talks will be given by: * Sher Doruff, Research Fellow (Art, Research and Theory Lectoraat) and Mentor at the Amsterdam School for the Arts * Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara * Sally Jane Norman, Director of the Culture Lab, Newcastle University. Plus round table discussions, a panel relating to 'Second Life' and a special forum on 'Engaging research and performance through pervasive and locative arts projects' together with an open discussion led by Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham. There will be particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and theorising around practice. Installations and performances will focus on the same theme. Cambridge's venues range from the traditional to the contemporary all situated within walking distance of central departments, museums and galleries. The conference will be based around Cambridge University's Sidgwick Site, particularly the West Road concert hall. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:54:45 +0100 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for European students - last deadline *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINE: - 22 August 2008: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 5 September 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. This scholarship is only for the year of study at FUB and it may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and reimbursement of the local enrolment fees. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. European students will also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. NEW! Several tuition fee waivers are granted by the European Master to students with good qualifications on a first come first served basis. All applicants will be considered for tuition fee waivers. NEW! Every year 10 students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 EUR and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. The KRDB Research Centre offers the annual "IBM & KRDB" awards for the best thesis on a Computational Logic related topic, which is generously sponsored by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies; each winner will receive a laptop computer from IBM. In addition to that, the Italian site in Rome of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: Sergio Tessaris (director) or Enrico Franconi at info@fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: info@fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:01:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job as Intellectual Property Manager, Dublin City University Subject: Vacancy: Intellectual Property Manager, Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) From: Rona Finn Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:36:40 +0100 Intellectual Property Manager Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland http://www.cngl.ie/ CNGL is a DCU-led Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (Directed by Prof. Josef van Genabith). CNGL conducts research on language technologies (machine translation, speech recognition/synthesis), digital content management technologies (adaptive hypermedia, IE/IR), their application in localisation workflows, and language technology-focused software engineering. CNGL is a 30M collaborative research centre that involves collaboration between DCU, TCD, UCD, UL and industrial partners who include world leaders in their respective fields. Invent DCU is the commercialisation gateway for Dublin City University (DCU). Invent manages the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property for DCU through technology transfer, licensing and the creation of spin-out companies. We wish to recruit an Intellectual Property Manager on a fixed term contract basis with primary responsibility for managing the intellectual property generated in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL). Duties and Responsibilities: The IP Manager will report to the CEO of Invent. He/she will have primary responsibility for the identification, capture, protection and commercialisation of intellectual property arising from research activities within the CNGL and related interdisciplinary research areas involving computer science. He/she will also work with other Invent staff and CNGL partners to develop the full potential of IP through appropriate commercial and licensing mechanisms in accordance with the formal IP arrangements agreed between the partners. Requirements: The IP Manager is a key post within Invent and CNGL and the successful candidate will be expected to have the required breadth of education, relevant experience and self confidence to have an immediate impact in a leading computer science research centre by devising and implementing procedures and practices that enhance the identification, assessment and protection of intellectual property. The appointed person will have: A post-graduate qualification in computer science, computational linguistics, speech processing or a related discipline, (such as language technology, machine translation, speech, IR/IE, localisation), preferably to PhD level. An understanding and appreciation of the IP issues arising in the context of academic research and in particular computer software. Ideally, some experience of intellectual property management, including patenting, licensing and commercialisation gained in an industrial setting. Salary Scale: Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Closing Date: 25th July 2008 To apply: Please mail CV and details for three references to info@cngl.ie For informal discussions contact info@cngl.ie Invent DCU is an equal opportunities employer. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:29:00 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a frustrated becoming? In the Times Literary Supplement for 28 October 1983, in a review of a book by Geoff Simons (then Chief Editor of the National Computing Centre, Manchester), Are Computers Alive? Evolution and New Life Forms (Harvester, 1982), H. C. Longuet-Higgins gives due attention to the authors' quasi-religious evangelism, e.g. >Are computers alive? Yes! And today they truly >represent an emerging family of living species >in the world -- *that* is the startling argument >of this landmark book. . . How will we relate to >living machines? *We need to find the answer >soon*.... Machines are evolving limbs, senses, >brains, cognitive faculties, emotion, free will, >and the capacity for reproduction. A machine >capable of self-reproduction, of sensing the >changing world and of taking appropriate >adaptive action -- *must surely be regarded as alive*." [authorial italics] The studied ignorance of current fact and violent leap of faith required to believe in such a pronouncement are especially in these quieter times easier to dismiss as evidence of self-delusion if not madness, but let us not do that. Let's put these and other such ravings on hold for now. In sober moments, Longuet-Higgins notes, Simons does manifest the "enhanced appreciation of nature's own information technology [that] is one of the first signs of recovery from computer mania. Indeed", the reviewer goes on to note, "it could be argued that IT's most enduring contribution to our culture will have been the way in which it has forced the psychologist to look for computational accounts of the way our own minds and senses work." (I object to the use of "computational" here as a projection from the machine onto human cognition and perception, but never mind that for now.) Longuet-Higgins cites the example of automatic speech recognition. As a result of attempts to build systems to do this, >we find that existing knowledge is quite >inadequate for the purpose, suggesting that we >have been failing to ask the most important >questions -- those having to do with the >computations which the human auditory system >must carry out in order to unscramble an audible >signal into a sequence of English words -- much >as the code-breakers of Blechley Park during the >war used computers for decoding enemy >messages.... In fact, the more one discovers >about the acoustic intractibility of real >speech, the more respect one acquires for the >effortless ability of human beings to understand >it. It is by no means safe to assume that it is >only a matter of time before man-made systems >put our own mental and perceptual faculties to >shame.... it was such a claim, made nearly twenty >years ago, that led to the most humiliating >failure yet associated with the enterprise of artificial intelligence. The reference is, of course, to the great machine translation project on which the whistle was blown by the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee (ALPAC) report, "Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and Linguistics" (1966). As Yorick Wilkes has said, it had been obvious for some time that the model of language on which work had proceeded was simple-minded and that a much more sophisticated one was required. It's significant that ALPAC recommended further funding be put into linguistics research rather than into the building of translation= systems. Longuet-Higgins thus gives us a recognizable, quite comforting argument, and one that should be familiar to everyone by now: the main point of computing cultural artefacts, such as speech or written text, is to isolate what cannot be computed, revealing to us our own ignorance of something quite specific, and so pushing us to know more and better. Fine. But what about the evangelical rant of Manchester's National Computing Centre's Chief Editor? What do we make of that? If we look at what is being done with computing in the humanities today, 25 years later, we find, apart from construction of scholarly resources of many different kinds, (a) analytic investigation of artefacts, such as literary texts by means of computational stylistic techniques, simple concording, textual markup etc.; and (b) synthetic reconstructions blurring into VR constructive imaginings of possible worlds. The former is achieved by keeping one's distance and respecting difference between computing and whatever the reality is taken to be -- i.e. Longuet-Higgins' argument. The second, however, comes about when one forgets about the difference and, as it were, looks with or from within the computational environment to what it makes possible to render. (This, I suspect, is very well known to game-players.) Could it be that Simons' anthropomorphic projections and related visions of the time, such Arthur C. Clarke's HAL, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, had something to do with the batch-orientated form which computing then took? Could it be that a frustrated desire to identify was responsible? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:44:34 +0100 From: Judith Winters Subject: Internet Archaeology Issue 24. Dealing with Legacy Data - a themed issue + + Please feel free to forward this to other appropriate forums ++ Internet Archaeology is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 24, a themed issue dedicated to: "Dealing with Legacy Data" edited by Pim Allison http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue24/index.html In the Mediterranean region particularly, but by no means not exclusively, there exist large datasets from previous excavations, published and unpublished, whose digitisation, spatial mapping and re-analysis can greatly facilitate investigations of social behaviour and changing environmental conditions. This volume presents a number of projects that demonstrate the usefulness of digital environments for analysing such non-digital data. These projects use these 'legacy data' within true GIS, pseudo-GIS, or other digital environments to answer specific questions concerning social behaviour and particularly the social use of space. List of Contents =========== Dress and Social Identities: the role of GIS in mapping social structure in the central Italian Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa - Lisa Cougle (Re)surveying Mediterranean Rural Landscapes: GIS and Legacy Survey Data - Robert Witcher Integrating Legacy Data into a New Method for Studying Architecture: A case study from Isthmia, Greece - Steven J.R. Ellis, Timothy E. Gregory, Eric E. Poehler and Kevin R. Cole The use and misuse of 'legacy data' in identifying a typology of retail outlets at Pompeii - Steven J.R. Ellis Measuring women's influence on Roman military life: using GIS on published excavation reports from the German frontier - Penelope Allison Procedures for measuring women's influence: Data translation and manipulation and related problems - Penelope Allison, Patrick Faulkner, Andrew Fairbairn and Steven Ellis Thank you, Judith + Internet Archaeology is available by subscription to both individuals and institutions. See http://intarch.ac.uk/subscriptions.html for details. + --- Judith Winters Editor, Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:21:21 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar: A digital presentation of the text of Servius Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 11th July at 16:30, in Stewart House B3 (between Senate House & Russell Square) Frances (Foster) (King's College London) 'A digital presentation of the text of Servius' ALL WELCOME This seminar will explore the implications and significances of layout and visual presentation on the text of Servius's Commentaries. It will examine the state of the text and the variety of ways this has been presented over the centuries, and demonstrate how digital technology can be used to create a different way of reading the Commentaries, which reflects earlier reading habits as well as new ones arising from digital media. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ Return-Path: Received: from fep14.clear.net.nz (fep14 [192.168.16.115]) by local-daemon (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3W004YS61S76JC@local-daemon> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:46:41 +1200 (NZST) Received: from mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz (lb2-srcnat.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.237]) by mx6.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0K3W00AJA617V7ZO@mx6.clear.net.nz> for ccreegan@clear.net.nz; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:46:40 +1200 (NZST) Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu (HELO Princeton.EDU) ([128.112.131.174]) by mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:46:39 +1200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6CBaL5P022824; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:36:21 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6C449oX003042; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:33:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20447335 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:32:32 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6B8VuWM023875 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6B8VuNj016128 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6B8VtDX016126 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 930591937BF5 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:31:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id cc03S1g2jE1qWEH4 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:31:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=WOLF.kcl.ac.uk) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KHDxu-0006tr-PA for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:26:55 +0100 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:26:50 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Subject: 22.112 new publication: Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 1 Sender: "Humanist Discussion Group" Approved-by: willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU X-Envelope-To: ccreegan@clear.net.nz To: X-To: humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group \(by way of Willard McCarty \)" Message-ID: <20080711083155.930591937BF5@emfw2.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.Princeton.EDU id m6B8VvWM023876 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1215765115-023202430000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.112 new publication: Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 1 X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1215765115 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807110012 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam List-Owner: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Original-recipient: rfc822;ccreegan@clear.net.nz X-EsetId: E082DD219BF97E34BAC782 X-EsetScannerBuild: 11806 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:24:36 +0100 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 1 (Udo Strauss, Fengxiang Fan, Gabriel Altmann) Just published ( Mai 2008 ) Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 1 134 pages ISBN: 978-3-9802659-4-2 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de/books.htm ) Authors: Udo Strauss, Fengxiang Fan, Gabriel Altmann The book is a collection of tasks both old and new whose solution would be a valuable contribution to quantitative linguistics. There are both empirical tasks, e.g. application of a conjectured function to new data, and theoretical ones, e.g. derivation of some hypothesized regularity. The problems are taken from phonemics, grammar, semantics, textology, typology, lexicology, psycholinguistics, script, language synergetics, learning and general theory. The tasks have a standardized form: hypothesis; procedure; references. They are suitable for exams, teaching, dissertations and scientific research. The book introduces a new genre in scientific literature. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:23:00 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: understanding language (in the right way) At the end of their letter to the Editor of the Times Literary Supplement for 4 May 1962, commenting on an article by Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, "The future of machine translation", Karen Sprk Jones and T. R. McKinnon Wood of the Cambridge Language Unit, write as follows about machine translation: >Digital computers with fixed programmes cannot, >[Bar-Hillel] asserts, simulate human procedures >based on an information structure which is >continually changing. The only hope might be to >construct machines which are specifically >adapted to handling self-organizing systems of >this kind. Technological research on such >machines would, however, we maintain, have to be >prefaced by theoretical investigations of >language as a self-organizing system. In most >fields of research theoretical developments have >outstripped technological ones: in this field, >in contrast, this is not the case; technological >backwardness cannot be taken as a reason, or >excuse, for the lack of a general theory of >language. it might on the contrary be said that >the main reason for the excessive cost of the >machine translation research programmes is that >the use of machines is substituted for thought... > >The point is that it is not that machines cant >do it but that we cant understand it >sufficiently to programme machines to do it. > >Any work in this field must start from an >analysis and understanding of language use; and >anyone starting work in this field almost >immediately comes up against the fact that we >know virtually nothing helpful about it. In >particular, it becomes clear that the results of >traditional linguistic studies, which are >essentially descriptive, are unsuited to our >purpose, and, moreover, that they are often >incomplete even on their own ground. For the >primary requirement, which the analysis of >language use must fulfil, is that it must be >interpretable in terms of mechanizable >operations. This means that it must be concerned >with the way language works and not with a set >of comments on the results of the working. It is >this attempt to obtain a deeper understanding of >the way language works which makes the field >interesting for those doing research in it. >Their approaches may be completely different; >they may be concerned with translation, >abstracting, or retrieval, with the construction >of simplified model languages, or pidgin >languages, or meta-languages, with the analysis >of given texts, or the production of random >texts, with language games, or with learning >programmes; but the understanding of the way in >which we use language is their common aim. My question is this: how well does their statement stand up to what has been accomplished in the last 46 years? Are we any closer to being able to model language as a self-organizing system? It does seem to me that the undimmed lesson is the poverty of our theoretical undestanding of language -- or, to put the matter more generously and accurately, that the main benefit for us in all this is the drive to further and better questioning. But, then, I'm an old-fashioned humanist. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:24:05 +0100 From: Tim van Gelder Subject: Colloquium - Teaching Critical Thinking Online - Wed 16 July, 12.30 at Austhink Austhink is pleased to announce a colloquium with A/Prof Francesco Paoli, University of Cagliari, Italy: LEARNING CRITICAL THINKING ONLINE: SOME EXPERIENCES WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS Austhink Seminar Room, Level 9, 255 Bourke St Melbourne Ph +61 3 8317 1002 12.30-2.00pm Synopsis The methodological starting point of the experiences on which I will report can be summarised as follows: as we are taught by recent educational research, learning how to reason and how to think critically does not involve in a significant way only verbal reasoning, but also spatial/visual reasoning especially when the learners are secondary school and college students who are unconsciously trained to this kind of reasoning by their practise of the web and of other new media. I will present a course of logic, argumentation and critical thinking designed for students of an online programme in communication studies. Its main features are: - videorecorded lectures are synchronised with power point charts where concepts are illustrated by means of diagrams, drawings, cartoons; - learning units include fictions where reasoning patterns and fallacies are presented "in vivo"; - learning tools include collaborative tools such as an online tutoring system, a dedicated forum, a dedicated chat, and individual self-assessment tools. I will also illustrate a programme aimed at curbing secondary school drop-out by enhancing critical thinking abilities, carried out in some technical and art schools of Sardinia. After presenting the theoretical basics of critical thinking, we engaged students in some workshops (analysing newspaper articles, analysing contents from TV and from the web, writing screenplays for fictions which have been subsequently performed and videorecorded by the students themselves). We also used a "Second Life-like" virtual interactive environment to develop a collaborative assessment tool and to upload the materials produced by the classes. We aim at expanding such a tool into a virtual "critical thinking simulator" where students can rehearse and refine their reasoning patterns by interacting in appropriate ways with other avatars or even chatbots. Biography Francesco Paoli is an Associate Professor of Logic at the Department of Education of the University of Cagliari, Italy. He is also scientific coordinator of the project "Enhancing logical and argumentative abilities in high school students" (POR Sardegna 2000-2006, m.3.6). His research interest include mathematical and philosophical logic, universal algebra, and critical thinking. He authored the book Substructural Logics: A Primer (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002) and several papers published on international journals (including Journal of Symbolic Logic, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Synthese, Australasian Journal of Philosophy). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Ms Mary Dee Harris (22) Subject: Re: 22.114 understanding language (in the right way)? [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (44) Subject: 22.114 understanding language (in the right way)? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:21:14 +0100 From: Ms Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 22.114 understanding language (in the right way)? I initially missed the date of the quotation when I read the post, but when I saw Willard's comment asking about accomplishments "in the last 46 years", I wasn't surprised. While I believe the statement is largely still true, that we don't understand the underlying mechanisms of language, there is considerably more understanding of the usage of language, due to statistical studies in the last decade. I recently attended the ACL conference in Columbus, Ohio, and found that most papers reported on the use of statistical analysis of corpora, in one way or another. With the availability of large-scale corpora in a number of different languages, more and more work is being presented to show how language is used. While I was not able to hear all the papers given the multiple simultaneous tracks, it was apparent to me that computational linguists still have a ways to go in finding the underlying mechanisms and understanding language as a self-organizing system. So I would say that we have taken Hillel's first step: "Any work in this field must start from an analysis and understanding of language use" but we haven't moved very far past that. Mary Dee Harris Chief Language Officer Catalis, Inc. Austin, TX --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:24:33 +0100 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: 22.114 understanding language (in the right way)? Ah... Pivotal moments in the history of computational linguistics. The thing to remember is that the entire field of computational linguisics came into existence as a result of this conclusion. The field didn't exist until the efforts to use computers to do translation failed so dramatically back in the 1960s. In the USA the result was the now infamous ALPAC report, that effectively said that machine translation was an area of research--not implementation. It cut the funding by non-research government agencies for building machine translation systems and started the research field of computational linguistics. Yes, we're closer to modeling language as a self-organizing system...which is pretty much what using neural networks to model language phenomena have done, but neural networks aren't responsible for most of the advances in computational linguistics over these last 46 years. Those came from hard reasoning about language and efforts to construct and test programs using those reasoning principles--and from the collection of data about words and language use--and from exponential improvements in computer hardware. The advances have been significant. Grammar was given a formal basis by Chomsky, which broke its exclusive ownership by linguists and offered mathematicians and those new people who worked with computers the ability to experiment with it. The new fields of speech synthesis, speech recognition (now an everyday experience over telephones and through interactions with electronic gadgetry in cars and computers) came into existence and became commercial successes. Machine translation led to the creation of terminology banks that substituted data for expertise in performing translations. Parsing algorithms pushed the development of computational mechanisms for using grammar and lexicon to fuel deconstruction (parsing) and reconstruction (generation) of language. Progress was continually pushed onward by the relentless pressure from computer hardware developments that made each order of magnitude increase in computer speed seem like it ought to solve the problems with the last generation. Text corpora were created for millions, billions, and now trillions of words. So much text was captured that statistical techniques for extracting lexicon and understanding language phenomena became possible, if not essential, as hand-analysis of all the data became impractical. We still don't have the theoretical understanding of language expected to be possible back in the 1960s, but it is hard to be that critical of the accomplishments. Not knowing how hard the problem was can only make those early criticisms about the lack of progress sound like complaints born of hubris. In the end, I tend to think tinkering has been pretty successful and that theoretical developments come as much from seeing the imperfect constructs that others have cobbled together as they do from theoretical preconception. Sometimes you just have to throw a rock in the water to see what happens rather than think through what theoretically might happen. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:30:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Sydney From: Tommie Meyer Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:52:42 +0200 FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Tutorials and opening ceremony, September 15 Early registration deadline: July 31, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. KR2008 will be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Important Dates: Early registration deadline: July 31, 2008 KR 2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 Invited Speakers Ronen Brafman, Ben Gurion University (joint ICAPS-KR speaker) Adnan Darwiche, University of California Los Angeles (joint CP-KR speaker) Norman Foo, University of New South Wales (Great Moments in KR speaker) Joe Halpern, Cornell University Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:58:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: adequately conceived human ends In a public lecture he gave at the University of Bristol in 1970, "'Literarism' vs 'Scientism': The misconception and the menace", published in the Times Literary Supplement for 23 April 1970, F. R. Leavis spoke of "The professional subhumanities of computerial addiction", one of the causes he identifies for the change in education from learning to information retrieval, the mechanization of society and of scholarship as a series of structured tasks and the refiguration of universities as industrial plants. He comments, >I am not proposing to ban the computer, but >emphasizing the problem of ensuring that the use >of the computer shall be really a use -- that it >shall be used as truly a means in the service of >adequately conceived human ends. More >generally, I am not suggesting we should halt >the progress of science and technology, I am >insisting that the more potently they accelerate >their advance the more urgent does it become to >inaugurate another, a different sustained effort >of collaborative human creativity -- the >continuous collaborative creativity that ensures >significance, ends and values, and manifests >itself as consciousness and profoundly human purpose. One can detect in this long lecture, stretching over 4 pages of the TLS in very small type, the common fear of the time of what was happening and about to happen in part because of the computer, or more generally, automation (which is the word to look for in discussions among members of the working class of the time, e.g. in the British Trades Union Congress reports from the mid 1950s). The whole basis of society was shifting, and many felt it and feared its outcome. But it must be said that what Leavis feared for university life has largely come to pass, his vision of the future strongly familiar to us now, alas. It would be silly to assert that the computer was the cause -- a devastating war had just concluded, with effects in this country that many elsewhere couldn't even begin to imagine. The undoing of Oxbridge-educated privilege was proceeding apace. Calls for extending university education that people in the U.K. now attribute to New Labour were being heard in those Trade Union Congress meetings of the 1950s. But it would be just as silly to think that computing was not involved, that (not to put too fine a point on it) computing had blood on its hands, and it would be irresponsible not to see that the damage doesn't continue. In reading about what computers are good for in the scholarly life (we're still trying to figure that one out) so often I run across the purely instrumental arguments Leavis was complaining about: "the computer helps us get on with it", where "it" is simply assumed, or reflexively uppercased. One could say, I suppose, that this "it" depends on the discipline, and so offload the responsibility, but if "it" changes with the means, as seems obvious, then it's our lookout. What would we say if Leavis turned up and wanted to know what we thought? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:59:26 +0100 From: Daniel Paul O'Donnell Subject: TEI Digitization/Membership benefit survey--last call for comment Hello all, The Text Encoding Initiative (www.tei-c.org) is exploring the feasibility of a benefit of membership in the form of a negotiated vendor discount for producing machine-readable, xml-encoded text in small- to medium-scale digitization projects. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at the link below in order to provide us with information that would help us negotiate with vendors on the basis of an accurate assessment of the nature and extent of demand for such a benefit. Link to survey: https://lrcreport.lis.uiuc.edu/TEITITE2008 This is the last call for comment participation. We will be processing the forms this August and September and present the results at our members meeting, 6-8 November in King's College London: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/cocoon/tei2008/index.html. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:24:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: report on the DH2008 conference A report on the DH2008 conference, in Oulu, Finland, last month, has been published by Corinne Welger-Barboza as part of Observatoire critique: des resources numriques en histoire de l'art et archologie, number 19, http://www.observatoire-critique.org/IMG/Lettre/Lettre19eng.html (English), http://www.observatoire-critique.org/IMG/Lettre/Lettre19.html (French), along with several other features. Subscription to this online newsletter may be obtained by writing to the Observatoire critique team. ----- Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:18:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: highlights of humanities computing? From: Leticia Keogh Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:13:35 +0000 Dear all; I am student of Electronic Communication and Publishing at SLAIS [School of Library and Information Science, University College London], working on my master's dissertation, my research interest is Humanities Computing. I aim to reach an understanding of the subject; its principles and its applications by studying its history, not in a traditional chronological way but identifying the highlights that are being the foundation of the discipline. I would like to hear your opinion on "what", "which" and most importantly "why" are the top five (or more) events that are making Humanities Computing history. What do you consider to be the most significant events or highlights, and are there some that are not as well known in the field, but ought to be? Please email your opinions to leticiakeogh@hotmail.co.uk with "Humanities Computing" in the subject line. Kind regards, Leticia Keogh e. leticiakeogh@hotmail.co.uk Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:44:13 +0100 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Packed Computation of Exact Meaning Representations: Iddo Lev at the University of Haifa You are cordially invited to attend the following talk tomorrow, Wednesday, July 16th, 14:00, at the University of Haifa, Jacobs Building, entrance floor, room 303. Speaker: Iddo Lev (http://iddolev.blogspot.com/) Title: Packed Computation of Exact Meaning Representations Abstract: An important question in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is how to improve accuracy in NLU tasks. Accuracy is paramount is "exact NLU" applications, such as solving word problems (logic puzzles, math/ physics/chemistry questions), understanding regulatory texts and controlled language, as well as NL interfaces to databases. These applications require exact meaning representations that rely on knowledge of structural semantics -- the meaning of functional words (quantifiers, connectives, comparatives, etc.) and how they affect the meaning of sentences. Exact meaning representations allow the computer to accurately capture and integrate the information that appears throughout the document and to draw appropriate inferences from it. Even in other NLU applications such as question answering, using knowledge of structural semantics could improve the accuracy of understanding functional words and of information integration. Three main questions pertaining to exact meaning representations are: 1) How can the representations be calculated given one syntactic analysis of a sentence? 2) How can all possible representations be calculated efficiently given a packed syntactic analysis (parse forest)? 3) How can the coverage of semantic analysis be extended to additional linguistic constructions? In my dissertation, I address these three questions. I show how the syntax-to-semantics mapping can be specified more easily than in traditional approaches by using the framework of Glue Semantics (linear logic). I then develop a novel algorithm that efficiently computes a packed meaning representation given a packed syntactic analysis -- this combines the framework of Glue Semantics with the general framework for ambiguity management developed at the Palo Alto Research Center ("choice-space packing"). In the second half of the dissertation, I extend the coverage of semantic analysis to advanced linguistic constructions, including comparatives, reciprocals, and words such as 'same' and 'different', where the mapping from syntax to semantics is complex. In my talk, I will mainly focus on the algorithm (and necessary background). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Bonnie Wilson (55) Subject: The July/August 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available [2] From: ubiquity (10) Subject: UBIQUITY 9.28 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:42:53 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The July/August 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a project update, two conference reports from JCDL 2008, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features Audobon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh, courtesy of Edward A. Galloway. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:46:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship in digital content management at Dublin City Subject: PhD in Digital Content Management: Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), Dublin, Ireland From: Rona Finn Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:44:48 +0100 PhD Studentship in Digital Content Management The School of Computing at Dublin City University has an opening for a PhD research position. The position is available from 1 April 2008. The position is available for up to 4 years. Research in the research group (http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~cpahl) focuses on a range of techniques for software and information systems engineering. The working group comprises six researchers and offers a dynamic multi-cultural research atmosphere with high international visibility. The project is "Generation of Metadata and Subject Models: Subject Models and Lightweight Domain Models". The objective is to research and develop tools to support automatic and semi-automatic generation of lightweight subject ontologies. Information extraction techniques from semi-structured text sources e.g. document collections (corporate), website material, hypermedia encyclopaedia shall be used. The approach is to use knowledge to find knowledge (ontological and category knowledge). The project aims to develop a set of tools to provide informed generation or extension of subject models and ontologies. This project is part of the Science Foundation Ireland SFI funded CSET Next Generation Localisation, in which digital content management is a research area that is addressed in close collaboration between Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. Candidates are expected to have an interest in pursuing research in foundations and techniques for information architectures. A stipend of 16,000 per year for initially three years (tax free) plus a generous travel allowance is available for the position. PhD candidates need to possess a University degree (normally, a four-year Bachelor or a Master degree) in Computer Science or a closely related discipline. Ideally, candidates have a strong background in the foundations of domain modelling and ontologies as well as techniques and methods of information extraction and model generation. Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required. Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is a vibrant city located at Ireland's east coast. Dublin is Ireland's economic, cultural and academic centre. Dublin and Ireland are tourist hot spots that offer a wide range of recreational activities. Dublin's airport is well connected to Great Britain, mainland Europe and North America. Please send your application (electronically as PDF or as plain ASCII text), including a CV, a list of publications (if applicable), copies of certificates and transcripts, and the names of at least two academic references to Dr. Claus Pahl, email: Claus.Pahl-at-dcu.ie. For more information see http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~cpahl ---------- Dr Claus Pahl School of Computing Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Phone: ++353 +1 700 5620 Fax: ++353 +1 700 5442 eMail: Claus.Pahl-at-dcu.ie Web: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~cpahl Rona Finn, Administrator, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)1 700 6707 Fax: +353 (0)1 700 5442 Mob: +353 (0)87 623 4464 Web: http://www.cngl.ie Email: rfinn@computing.dcu.ie Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty 42) Subject: Philosophy and Engineering - Call for Papers [2] From: Willard McCarty 40) Subject: Ecdotica 4 and a Call for Articles and Reviews --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:39:01 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Philosophy and Engineering - Call for Papers [From Natasha McCarthy >] *Second call for papers: philosophy and engineering* *WPE-2008 * *WORKSHOP ON PHILOSOPHY AND ENGINEERING * * * Following the first successful Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering at the University of Delft last year, WPE-2008 will be held at The Royal Academy of Engineering, Carlton House Terrace, London from November 10-12 2008. This is a multi-disciplinary conference for philosophers, ethicists and engineers interested in the philosophical and ethical issues surrounding engineering and technology. Extended abstracts are now being invited on the following three ‘demes’: Philosophy, Ethics and Reflections from Practitioners. The deadline for abstracts is August 18 2008. The call for papers is available here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/wpe/files/2008/07/wpe-call-for-papers-july11.pdf Further information is online here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/wpe/about/ For further information, contact Natasha McCarthy on natasha.mccarthy@raeng.org.uk or David Goldberg on deg@uiuc.edu _____________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 3 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5DG Tel: 020 7766 0675 Fax: 020 7389 7520 Email: natasha.mccarthy@raeng.org.uk Web: www.raeng.org.uk ================================================================ The Royal Academy of Engineering - Registered Charity 293074 3 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5DG Tel +44 (0)20 7766 0600 Fax +44 (0)20 7930 1549 www.raeng.org.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:40:04 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ecdotica 4 and a Call for Articles and Reviews [From: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship } Ecdotica 4 and a Call for Articles and Reviews The fourth issue of Ecdotica, a journal on Textual Studies edited jointly by the Dipartimento di Italianistica of the University of Bolonia and the Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, has just been published. The table of contents of the four numbers issued so far and further details are shown on http://www.ecdotica.org (provisional web). One of Ecdotica's main goals is to find common points and contacts between the continental traditions and the Angloamerican schools of Textual Scholarship. Thus, in Ecdotica we have published essays by Paul Eggert, David C. Greetham, John Lavagnino, David Parker, Peter Robinson and Peter Shillingsburg, and others by Roger Chartier, Umberto Eco, Daniel Ferrer, Hans Walter Gabler, Roland Reuss or Cesare Segre. In order to keep moving in the same direction, we are wishing to consider submissions of articles and book reviews. The articles submitted should always have a broad scope, since they should address scholars from different fields. We particularly appreciate surveys and articles on the state of the art on specific issues or areas such as those that have been recently dealt with in this list or in lectures: Markup as theory of text What is the point of book history? Texts as cultural objects Earliest photographic facsimiles Uncovering the Scholarly Edition Copyright and Scholarship Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence We are prepared to consider the publication in Italian or Spanish of updated versions of outstanding essays originally written in English. We also appreciate books which are worth reviewing. Please send contributions and proposals to: Francisco Rico ilfhf@telefonica.net c/c to: ecdotica.dipital@unibo.it. From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 18 09:10:27 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:56:18 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.174] (helo=Princeton.EDU) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJkp5-0008Mm-FN for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:56:17 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6I7quZL008103; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:52:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6HIBpjb001303; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:52:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20498232 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:49:36 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6I7gPpS021049 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6I7gPbI029427 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6I7gH6D029147 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:24 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1216366937-376803830000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A602D13E180E for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id xIjc7Ap29I8PQAEI for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJkbW-00084G-Hk for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:42:14 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.127 seminar today: Towards the Digital Squeeze Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7743/Fri Jul 18 03:51:13 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1216366937 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5341 signatures=426450 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807180000 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48804951.4060000@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:42:09 +0100 Reply-To: Willard McCarty Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Willard McCarty Subject: 22.127 seminar today: Towards the Digital Squeeze X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 118 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:40399 X-Body-Linecount: 53 X-Message-Size: 5791 X-Body-Size: 1818 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -51 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.2 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0031] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-51 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 127. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:34:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets (seminar) Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 18th July at 16:30, in Stewart House B9 (between Senate House & Russell Square) *Note room change* Ryan Baumann (University of Kentucky) 'Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets' ALL WELCOME Creating records of inscriptions often serves multiple purposes, such as aiding interpretation, preservation, or dissemination. Traditionally, squeezes, sketches, and photographs have been the methods by which these representations have been made. This talk will explore the possibilities for epigraphic study offered by non-contact 3D digitization, which enables the ability to capture, distribute, and visualize the full geometric properties of an inscription. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From - Fri Jul 18 09:10:27 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:01:06 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.112] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJktj-0008R8-NS for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:01:06 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6I7vE2O004608; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD funding --- metadata annotation, Trinity College Dublin From: Carl Vogel [Apologies for Multiple Postings; Please pass on to colleagues and students as appropriate.] The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin is looking for applications for one PhD position in the areas of text classification and automatic labelling of text streams. The positions are part of a large research project "Next Generation Localisation" involving a consortium of leading Irish Universities (DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and Industry Partners, funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The project focuses on Language Technology and Digital Content Management in Localisation. Localisation is the industrial-scale adaptation of digital content to domain, culture and language. Successful candidates will join a team of Postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and research advisors from academia and industry. Details of the advertised posts are as follows: PhD Fellowship in "Automatic Annotation of Localisation Metadata" - Description: Candidates must have a strong interest and some experience in Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning, and good programming skills. - Preferred Starting date: October 2008 - Stipend: Approx. 16,000 Euro per annum (tax exempt) + University fees (approx. 5,000 Euro per annum) + equipment allowance and a generous conference travel allowance. For further details, please contact Martin Emms (mtemms@cs.tcd.ie), Saturnino Luz (luzs@tcd.ie) or Carl Vogel (vogel@tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references to Jean.Maypother@cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("PHDILT32") in the subject line of all email correspondence. While the preferred starting date is October 1, 2008, applications will be considered until the position is filled. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:55:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and=20 Reasoning Volume 5113: Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning by Peter Eklund, Ollivier Haemmerl=C3=A9 is now available on th= e SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Diagrammatic Reasoning Systems John Howse 1 - 20 Pursuing the Goal of Language Understanding Arun Majumdar, John Sowa, John Stewart 21 - 42 Web, Graphs and Semantics Olivier Corby 43 - 61 Transdisciplinarity and Generalistic Sciences and Humanities Rudolf Wille 62 - 73 Jacob Lorhard=C2=92s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality an= d Temporality of the World of Intelligibles Peter =C3=98hrstr=C3=B8m, Henrik Sch=C3=A4rfe, Sara L. Uckelman 74 - 87 Revelator=C2=92s Complex Adaptive Reasoning Methodology for Resource Infrastructure Evolution Mary Keeler, Arun Majumdar 88 - 103 Conceptual Spider Diagrams Frithjof Dau, Andrew Fish 104 - 118 An Algorithmic Study of Deduction in Simple Conceptual Graphs with Classical Negation Michel Lecl=C3=A8re, Marie-Laure Mugnier 119 - 132 Flexible Querying of Fuzzy RDF Annotations Using Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs Patrice Buche, Juliette Dibie-Barth=C3=A9lemy, Ga=C3=ABlle Hignette 133 - 146 Query-Answering CG Knowledge Bases Michel Lecl=C3=A8re, Nicolas Moreau 147 - 160 Attribute Exploration Using Implications with Proper Premises Heiko Reppe 161 - 174 Sorting Concepts by Priority Using the Theory of Monotone Systems Ants Torim, Karin Lindroos 175 - 188 Extending Attribute Dependencies for Lattice-Based Querying and Navigatio= n Nizar Messai, Marie-Dominique Devignes, Amedeo Napoli, Malika Sma=C3=AFl-= Tabbone 189 - 202 PACTOLE: A Methodology and a System for Semi-automatically Enriching an Ontology from a Collection of Texts Rokia Bendaoud, Yannick Toussaint, Amedeo Napoli 203 - 216 Fair(er) and (Almost) Serene Committee Meetings with Logical and Formal Concept Analysis Mireille Ducass=C3=A9, S=C3=A9bastien Ferr=C3=A9 217 - 230 Contextual Cognitive Map Lionel Chauvin, David Genest, St=C3=A9phane Loiseau 231 - 241 Employing a Domain Specific Ontology to Perform Semantic Search Maxime Morneau, Guy W. Mineau 242 - 254 Concept Similarity and Related Categories in SearchSleuth Frithjof Dau, Jon Ducrou, Peter Eklund 255 - 268 Grounded Conceptual Graph Models Harry S. Delugach, Daniel M. Rochowiak 269 - 281 Scenario Argument Structure vs Individual Claim Defeasibility: What Is More Important for Validity Assessment? Boris A. Galitsky, Sergei O. Kuznetsov 282 - 296 Griwes: Generic Model and Preliminary Specifications for a Graph-Based Knowledge Representation Toolkit Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois Baget, Olivier Corby, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Catherine Faron-Zucker, Fabien Gandon, Alain Giboin, Alain Gutierrez, Michel Lecl=C3=A8re, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Rallou Thomopoulos 297 - 310 --=20 Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College=20 London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary=20 Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty 42) Subject: Philosophy and Engineering - Call for Papers [2] From: Willard McCarty 40) Subject: Ecdotica 4 and a Call for Articles and Reviews --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:39:01 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Philosophy and Engineering - Call for Papers [From Natasha McCarthy >] *Second call for papers: philosophy and engineering* *WPE-2008 * *WORKSHOP ON PHILOSOPHY AND ENGINEERING * * * Following the first successful Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering at the University of Delft last year, WPE-2008 will be held at The Royal Academy of Engineering, Carlton House Terrace, London from November 10-12 2008. This is a multi-disciplinary conference for philosophers, ethicists and engineers interested in the philosophical and ethical issues surrounding engineering and technology. Extended abstracts are now being invited on the following three =C2=91dem= es=C2=92: Philosophy, Ethics and Reflections from Practitioners. The deadline for abstracts is August 18 2008. The call for papers is available here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/wpe/files/2008/07/wpe-call-for-papers-jul= y11.pdf Further information is online here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/wpe/about/ For further information, contact Natasha McCarthy on natasha.mccarthy@raeng.org.uk or David Goldberg on deg@uiuc.edu _____________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 3 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5DG Tel: 020 7766 0675 Fax: 020 7389 7520 Email: natasha.mccarthy@raeng.org.uk Web: www.raeng.org.uk =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Royal Academy of Engineering - Registered Charity 293074 3 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5DG Tel +44 (0)20 7766 0600 Fax +44 (0)20 7930 1549 www.raeng.org.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:40:04 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ecdotica 4 and a Call for Articles and Reviews [From: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship } Ecdotica 4 and a Call for Articles and Reviews The fourth issue of Ecdotica, a journal on Textual Studies edited jointly by the Dipartimento di Italianistica of the University of Bolonia and the Centro para la Edici=C3=B3n de los Cl=C3=A1sicos Espa=C3=B1= oles, has just been published. The table of contents of the four numbers issued so far and further details are shown on http://www.ecdotica.org (provisional web). One of Ecdotica's main goals is to find common points and contacts between the continental traditions and the Angloamerican schools of Textual Scholarship. Thus, in Ecdotica we have published essays by Paul Eggert, David C. Greetham, John Lavagnino, David Parker, Peter Robinson and Peter Shillingsburg, and others by Roger Chartier, Umberto Eco, Daniel Ferrer, Hans Walter Gabler, Roland Reuss or Cesare Segre. In order to keep moving in the same direction, we are wishing to consider submissions of articles and book reviews. The articles submitted should always have a broad scope, since they should address scholars from different fields. We particularly appreciate surveys and articles on the state of the art on specific issues or areas such as those that have been recently dealt with in this list or in lectures: Markup as theory of text What is the point of book history? Texts as cultural objects Earliest photographic facsimiles Uncovering the Scholarly Edition Copyright and Scholarship Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence We are prepared to consider the publication in Italian or Spanish of updated versions of outstanding essays originally written in English. We also appreciate books which are worth reviewing. Please send contributions and proposals to: Francisco Rico ilfhf@telefonica.net c/c to: ecdotica.dipital@unibo.it. From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.195 events: philosophy of engineering; book history Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20070805095848.020d68d8@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:59:38 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 195. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Natasha McCarthy" (22) Subject: Philosophy of engineering: engineering and metaphysics (3 Sept) [2] From: "Natasha McCarthy" (31) Subject: Call for Papers - philosophy of engineering [3] From: Wim Van Mierlo (34) Subject: CFP BHRN Study Day --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:46:00 +0100 From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Philosophy of engineering: engineering and metaphysics (3 Sept) Dear all The details of the next philosophy of engineering seminar, on engineering and metaphysics, are now available on the flyer here: http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf The seminar will explore a number of metaphysical issues concerning the nature of engineering, and the application of philosophical metaphysics to engineering practice. This should be a very interesting meeting covering highly novel topics, with plenty of time for discussion. If you would like to attend, please contact Sylvia Hearn using the details on the flyer. Kind regards, Natasha _______________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 29 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3LW Tel: 020 7227 0575 Fax: 020 7227 7620 Email: natasha.mccarthy@raeng.org.uk Web: www.raeng.org.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:50:45 +0100 From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Call for Papers - philosophy of engineering Final Call for Papers WPE-2007 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), The Netherlands October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday) http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe Workshop Theme: Engineering Meets Philosophy, and Philosophy Meets Engineering On October 19, 2006 a working group on Philosophy and Engineering was convened at MIT to discuss the need for greater interaction between philosophers and engineers. The result was an agreement to move forward with a workshop to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology by philosophers and engineers. The first Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2007) will be held in the Department of Philosophy, TUDelft, 29-31 October 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Sessions will include talks by invited and selected speakers as well as a number of panels & special events. Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are invited for submission in one of three tracks or demes: --Philosophy (Deme chair: Carl Mitcham) -- Philosophical Reflections of Practitioners (Deme chair: Billy V. Koen) -- Ethics (Deme co-chairs: Michael Davis & P. Aarne Vesilind) Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Those accepted for presentation at the workshop will be scheduled for 30-minutes talks (inclusive of Q&A) at the workshop. All accepted abstracts will published online on the workshop website (http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe), and a printed volume will be assembled following the workshop in conjunction with a major publisher. Instructions: Extended abstracts should be submitted (in doc or pdf format) by 17 August 2007 to deg@uiuc.edu. Use ACM style files (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) in preparing manuscripts, and indicate choice of track/deme (philosophy, reflections, or ethics) in e-mail title line. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 17 September 2007. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Louis L. Bucciarelli, Jun Fudano, Alastair Gunn, Natasha McCarthy --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:53:31 +0100 From: Wim Van Mierlo Subject: CFP BHRN Study Day Book History Research Network Study Day Friday, 26th October 2007 Institute of English Studies, University of London Call for papers Rethinking the Book: Between Text and Para-Text In their Introduction to A Companion to the History of the Book, Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose write that while "literary critics and theorists feel able to talk about a text as though it were some disembodied entity, for the book historian the text always takes an embodied form". The aims and objectives of criticism, exegesis and the history of ideas, on the one hand, and book history and historical bibliography on the other are not simply different. As tools for human communication, books carry meaning through their "text" as much as through their physical form, and the interaction between the two is the focus of this study. We invite scholars working on book history to look more deeply into how this interaction works. Topics that could be considered are physical form (mise-en-page, typography, format, paper type) and meaning, the relationship between history of the book and textual editing, "material" reception/reputation history, the sociology of the text and the idea of influence/intertextuality, para-text and the material book, the genetic text and the "biography" of an oeuvre, illustrations and dust jackets. Note that we welcome abstracts on any Book History related topic. Please send your proposal (200-300 words) to Christine Lees (Christine.Lees@sas.ac.uk) and Wim Van Mierlo (Wim.Van-Mierlo@sas.ac.uk) before 15 September 2007. This study day is free and open to postgraduates, academics and independent scholars with an interest in the History of the Book. (Dr) Wim Van Mierlo Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.200 new publication: EMLS 13.1 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20070805101103.01723008@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:11:32 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 200. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:41:59 +0100 From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 13.1 To whom it may concern, The latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (12.3) is now available online at http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html The table of contents follows, below. EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by email at M.Steggle@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to Dr Matthew Steggle, Early Modern Literary Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Articles: "The Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered." David McInnis, University of Melbourne. "The Rumbling Belly Politic: Metaphorical Location and Metaphorical Government in Coriolanus." Nate Eastman, Lehigh University. "Witchcraft, flight and the early modern English stage." Roy Booth, Royal Holloway University of London. "Milton's Titles." John K. Hale, University of Otago. Reviews: Sylvia Bowerbank. Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. [5] Valerija Vendramin, Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Steve Mentz. Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction. Ashgate, 2006. [6] Claire Jowitt, Nottingham Trent University. Sonia Massai, ed. World-wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance. London and New York, Routledge, 2005. [7] Daniel Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University. Jean-Christophe Mayer. Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith: History, Religion and the Stage. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. [8] Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. Andrew Murphy. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. [9] Tom Rooney, Central European University. Adam Smyth. "Profit and Delight": Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. [10] Gillian Wright, University of Birmingham. Katharine Wilson. Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. [11] Steve Mentz, St. John's University. Theatre Reviews: The Shakespeare Summer, 2007. [12] Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne. Notice: EMLS prize, 2006. From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.307 events: CICLing 2008; ISKO; AVROSS; DH2008 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20071023062928.03b485c0@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:30:19 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" (11) Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder [2] From: Marc (59) Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers [3] From: "Barjak,Franz" (28) Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 [4] From: DH2008 (158) Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:04:19 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder Dear colleague, This is a gentle reminder of the submission deadline for CICLing-2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, February 17-23, 2008, Haifa, Israel, www.CICLing.org/2008, in case you are interested. Topics: all of NLP and computational linguistics; publication: Springer LNCS; keynote speakers: Ido Dagan, Eva Hajicova, Alon Lavie, and Kemal Oflazer; tours: Jerusalem, Nazareth, and more. Thank you! Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:49 +0100 From: Marc Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers of the German chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO). While this is not an eHumanities conference in the strict sense, many of its topics are very pertinent to our field. Best regards, Marc K=FCster -------------------- English Version (abridged): February 20th through 22nd, 2008, the ISKO conference will take place at Constance (Germany). The conference is organized by the German chapter of ISKO, the Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg, and the Department of Information Science at the University of Konstanz. The general topic is: Repositories of knowledge in digital spaces Accessibility, sustainability, semantic interoperability The following sessions (and special topics) are planned: a. Ontologies, controlled vocabulary, topic maps, semantic web Ontologies, classifications, topic maps, and the semantic web seem to enhance the usefulness and the usability of online knowledge. The different communities of developers often don't know anything about each other although there might be chances of fruitful cooperation. Ontologies and classifications (UDC, DDC) are a instruments of knowlegde organization and universal views on knowledge structures. Topic maps offer new and user friendly strategies of retrieval. The semantic web seems to be split between promise and reality. Successful applications are therefore of interest. B. Social tagging Folksonomies and wikies can be perceived as a way of democratization of knowledge. Nevertheless the producers of this knowledge control the structure of knowledge which is a debatable point. Another one is, whether the sustainability of knowledge can be guaranteed under the circumstances of an anarchic process of knowledge creation. Political questions like these are of interest. C. Platforms of knowledge There are several platforms and environments, where online knowledge is used enriching and organizing it for new purposes. Therefore contributions for some of those platforms such as e-learning, e-scholarship, e-publishing are welcome. D. Applications and projects Developers of new applications and services are invited to share their knowledge with the participants of the conference. European projects like MINERVA, the European Digital Library etc. try to offer digitized knowledge and are good examples of the development into the direction of global stores of knowledge. All those interested in the above mentioned topics or those running relevant projects are invited to participate in and contribute to the conference. English contributions as well as talks or session proposals in other fields of knowledge organization and related matters are also welcome. Please send a proposal with title, author, address details and an abstract of up to one page length till November 30th, 2007 Organizer: Dr. J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt, . Members of the program committee are: Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna), Marc Wilhelm K=FCster (Polytechnic Worms), Rainer Kuhlen (University of Konstanz), H. Peter Ohly (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), Max Stempfhuber (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), and J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt (Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:14:08 +0100 From: "Barjak,Franz" Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to a workshop on policies for increasing the use of e-infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities taking place with EC representatives in Brussels on November 27th. The workshop is part of the Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS) study, conducted for the European Commission under EU Service Contract No. 30-CE-0066163/00-39. We would appreciate your presence and contributions as an expert in the fields of e-Social Science and e-Infrastructures. The workshop programme and a registration form are available on the AVROSS web site: http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross. Please confirm attendance by registering through the site (limited number of places). If you should not be available for the workshop but want to receive information on the project results, please send a brief message to franz.barjak@fhnw.ch. Yours sincerely Franz Barjak AVROSS coordinator ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak@fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:38 +0100 From: DH2008 Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2008 Hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland 25-29 June, 2008 http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2007 (Midnight Universal Time) Presentations can include: * Single papers (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Multiple paper sessions (overview, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Posters (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing and the digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and issues in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing and the digital humanities, and on recent and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * creation, delivery and management of humanities digital resources * collaboration between libraries and scholars in the creation, delivery, and management of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Proposals should report significant and substantive results and will include reference to pertinent work in the field (up to 10 items) as part of their critical assessment. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is November 18, 2007 (midnight Universal Time). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February by 13, 2008. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 15th, 2007. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site, at http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations (poster/demos), and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Proposals to the Programme Committee may be presented in English and any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Conference presentations may be in these languages as well, and the Programme Committee encourages presenters to consider multilingual presentations (for example, a presentation in one language with accompanying slides or handouts accommodating speakers of another language). 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations (Poster/Demos) Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. The term poster/demo refers to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. The poster/demo sessions build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. By definition, poster presentations and project demonstrations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster/demos will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters and demonstrations to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; Or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 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. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 18, 2007. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available from October 15th, 2007 at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Those who registered as authors, reviewers or participants at the DH2007 conference are kindly asked to log on to their existing account (the one used for the DH2007 conference) rather than making up a new account. IV. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please refer to information about the bursary schemes available from the Association for Computing in the Humanities (http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (_http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm_). Applications may be made to either the ACH or the ALLC, but not both organizations. V. International Programme Committee Jean Anderson (ALLC - University of Glasgow) John Nerbonne(ALLC - University of Groningen) Espen S. Ore (ALLC - National Library of Norway, Chair) Stephen Ramsay (ACH - University of Nebraska) Thomas Rommel (ALLC - Jacobs University Bremen) Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) Paul Spence (ALLC - Kings College London) Melissa Terras (ACH - University College London) Claire Warwick (ACH - University College London, Vice Chair) Espen S. Ore Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Programme Chair Local Organizer espen.ore_at_nb.no lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi -- Digital Humanities 2008 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.307 events: CICLing 2008; ISKO; AVROSS; DH2008 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20071023062928.03b485c0@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:30:19 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" (11) Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder [2] From: Marc (59) Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers [3] From: "Barjak,Franz" (28) Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 [4] From: DH2008 (158) Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:04:19 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder Dear colleague, This is a gentle reminder of the submission deadline for CICLing-2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, February 17-23, 2008, Haifa, Israel, www.CICLing.org/2008, in case you are interested. Topics: all of NLP and computational linguistics; publication: Springer LNCS; keynote speakers: Ido Dagan, Eva Hajicova, Alon Lavie, and Kemal Oflazer; tours: Jerusalem, Nazareth, and more. Thank you! Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:49 +0100 From: Marc Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers of the German chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO). While this is not an eHumanities conference in the strict sense, many of its topics are very pertinent to our field. Best regards, Marc K=FCster -------------------- English Version (abridged): February 20th through 22nd, 2008, the ISKO conference will take place at Constance (Germany). The conference is organized by the German chapter of ISKO, the Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg, and the Department of Information Science at the University of Konstanz. The general topic is: Repositories of knowledge in digital spaces Accessibility, sustainability, semantic interoperability The following sessions (and special topics) are planned: a. Ontologies, controlled vocabulary, topic maps, semantic web Ontologies, classifications, topic maps, and the semantic web seem to enhance the usefulness and the usability of online knowledge. The different communities of developers often don't know anything about each other although there might be chances of fruitful cooperation. Ontologies and classifications (UDC, DDC) are a instruments of knowlegde organization and universal views on knowledge structures. Topic maps offer new and user friendly strategies of retrieval. The semantic web seems to be split between promise and reality. Successful applications are therefore of interest. B. Social tagging Folksonomies and wikies can be perceived as a way of democratization of knowledge. Nevertheless the producers of this knowledge control the structure of knowledge which is a debatable point. Another one is, whether the sustainability of knowledge can be guaranteed under the circumstances of an anarchic process of knowledge creation. Political questions like these are of interest. C. Platforms of knowledge There are several platforms and environments, where online knowledge is used enriching and organizing it for new purposes. Therefore contributions for some of those platforms such as e-learning, e-scholarship, e-publishing are welcome. D. Applications and projects Developers of new applications and services are invited to share their knowledge with the participants of the conference. European projects like MINERVA, the European Digital Library etc. try to offer digitized knowledge and are good examples of the development into the direction of global stores of knowledge. All those interested in the above mentioned topics or those running relevant projects are invited to participate in and contribute to the conference. English contributions as well as talks or session proposals in other fields of knowledge organization and related matters are also welcome. Please send a proposal with title, author, address details and an abstract of up to one page length till November 30th, 2007 Organizer: Dr. J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt, . Members of the program committee are: Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna), Marc Wilhelm K=FCster (Polytechnic Worms), Rainer Kuhlen (University of Konstanz), H. Peter Ohly (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), Max Stempfhuber (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), and J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt (Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:14:08 +0100 From: "Barjak,Franz" Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to a workshop on policies for increasing the use of e-infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities taking place with EC representatives in Brussels on November 27th. The workshop is part of the Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS) study, conducted for the European Commission under EU Service Contract No. 30-CE-0066163/00-39. We would appreciate your presence and contributions as an expert in the fields of e-Social Science and e-Infrastructures. The workshop programme and a registration form are available on the AVROSS web site: http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross. Please confirm attendance by registering through the site (limited number of places). If you should not be available for the workshop but want to receive information on the project results, please send a brief message to franz.barjak@fhnw.ch. Yours sincerely Franz Barjak AVROSS coordinator ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak@fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:38 +0100 From: DH2008 Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2008 Hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland 25-29 June, 2008 http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2007 (Midnight Universal Time) Presentations can include: * Single papers (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Multiple paper sessions (overview, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Posters (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing and the digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and issues in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing and the digital humanities, and on recent and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * creation, delivery and management of humanities digital resources * collaboration between libraries and scholars in the creation, delivery, and management of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Proposals should report significant and substantive results and will include reference to pertinent work in the field (up to 10 items) as part of their critical assessment. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is November 18, 2007 (midnight Universal Time). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February by 13, 2008. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 15th, 2007. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site, at http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations (poster/demos), and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Proposals to the Programme Committee may be presented in English and any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Conference presentations may be in these languages as well, and the Programme Committee encourages presenters to consider multilingual presentations (for example, a presentation in one language with accompanying slides or handouts accommodating speakers of another language). 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations (Poster/Demos) Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. The term poster/demo refers to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. The poster/demo sessions build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. By definition, poster presentations and project demonstrations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster/demos will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters and demonstrations to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; Or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 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. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 18, 2007. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available from October 15th, 2007 at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Those who registered as authors, reviewers or participants at the DH2007 conference are kindly asked to log on to their existing account (the one used for the DH2007 conference) rather than making up a new account. IV. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please refer to information about the bursary schemes available from the Association for Computing in the Humanities (http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (_http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm_). Applications may be made to either the ACH or the ALLC, but not both organizations. V. International Programme Committee Jean Anderson (ALLC - University of Glasgow) John Nerbonne(ALLC - University of Groningen) Espen S. Ore (ALLC - National Library of Norway, Chair) Stephen Ramsay (ACH - University of Nebraska) Thomas Rommel (ALLC - Jacobs University Bremen) Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) Paul Spence (ALLC - Kings College London) Melissa Terras (ACH - University College London) Claire Warwick (ACH - University College London, Vice Chair) Espen S. Ore Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Programme Chair Local Organizer espen.ore_at_nb.no lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi -- Digital Humanities 2008 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: Humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.610 new on WWW: 3DVisA Bulletin Issue 4, March 2008 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20080330104218.04581eb0@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:42:40 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 610. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:55:26 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Classicist Podcast Dear all, This summer's Digital Classicist/Institute for Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar series is now about half-way through, and the first several audio recordings of the proceedings are now available as part of the Digital Classicist Podcast. You can find a list of all seminars in this series, along with links for those that have audio and/or presentations uploaded, at: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html Or you can subscribe to the podcast feed itself by pointing your RSS aggregator, iTunes subscription, aut sim., at: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml We should welcome ideas for further events to add to this podcast series, and/or partnerships to podcast the results of seminar series of interest to Digital Classicists in the future. regards Simon and Gabriel ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk From - Sun Jul 20 08:44:04 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:21:07 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.174] (helo=Princeton.EDU) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KKTEA-0000ps-1U for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:57:06 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: call for volunteers >Call for Volunteers: iT4Communities: www.it4communities.org.uk. >iT4Communities is the UK's leading national IT >volunteering charity. We make IT work for >charities by introducing volunteer IT >professionals to charities needing IT help and >support. Our 5,300 registered volunteers have >just reached an amazing milestone by delivering >over =A33 million worth of value to the voluntary >and community sector in just 5 years. >There are 2,300 charities, voluntary and >community organisations, and social enterprises >registered with us who need pro bono IT support >to keep them running. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:54:28 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: ESSLLI 2009 - Second Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ESSLLI 2009 Monday, 20 July --- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. The ESSLLI 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. The Summer School program is organized around the components. - Language and Computation - Language and Logic - Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these there categories. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Monday, September 1, 2008 ******* [...] From - Thu Jul 24 06:30:58 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:24:59 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.8] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLtJy-0002cg-AY for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:24:59 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6O5LHUZ029997; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:21:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6N43LJv028389; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20542860 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:15:10 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6O5E880003512 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6O5E8Et023970 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6O5E7q4023967 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:07 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1216876447-046b00cd0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 676EA198D2D0 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id UP2Dk5XKWPfIlu1u for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLt9S-0000O7-Po for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:14:06 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.134 Wordle: toy or tool? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:07:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Wordle Hello, an interesting variation on the "tag cloud" idea can be seen and used on http://wordle.net . It seems both visually appealing and typographically interesting. What do you think --- is this a toy or a visualisation tool? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty 22) Subject: Conference: Wealth of Networks [2] From: Willard McCarty 26) Subject: LPAR'08 workshops [3] From: Willard McCarty 37) Subject: Announcing FIDHL: Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities [4] From: Willard McCarty 28) Subject: Seminar: Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:05:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Conference: Wealth of Networks Forwarded for Brian Fuchs. -------- Message original -------- De: Brian Fuchs Could you help me get the news out about our big conference next week, "The Wealth of Networks: Digital Economies and the Next-generation Internet"? The event will take place at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, 9-5 Thursday 24 July. The feature event will be an open panel discussion moderated by Gareth Mitchell (BBC Digital Planet) in which the public will be able to provide feedback on the research agenda that will be set by EPSRC. There's a website with agenda etc. at: http://wealthofnetworks.wordpress.com/ and http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/event/wealth/ Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. See the website for further details. -- Brian Fuchs Coordinator Imperial College Internet Centre Room 219c, William Penney Lab Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ, UK --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:06:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: LPAR'08 workshops LPAR'08 Workshops - 22nd November 2008 -------------------------------------- preceding LPAR'08, the 15th International Conference on Logic fo= r Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008, Carnegie Mellon University, Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ 1. APS-4 - Analytic Proof Systems 4 Organizers: Matthias Baaz and Christian Fermueller Submission deadline: October 18, 2008 Submission: 1-2 pages abstract Web: http://www.logic.at/staff/chrisf/ws/LPAR-AS-4.html 2. ALICS - Applications of Logic in Computer Security Organizer: Catherine Meadows Submission deadline: October 18, 2008 Submission: 1-5 pages abstract Web: http://chacs.nrl.navy.mil/projects/ALICS08/ 3. IWIL - International Workshop on Implementations of Logic Organizers: Boris Konev, Renate Schmidt, and Stephan Schulz Submission deadline: September 21, 2008 Submission: 10 pages abstract Web: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~konev/iwil2008/ 4. KEAPPA - Knowledge Exchange: Automated Provers and Proof Assistants Organizers: Piotr Rudnickiand Geoff Sutcliffe Submission deadline: October 18, 2008 Submission: 10 pages abstract Web: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~piotr/KEAPPA08/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:09:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Announcing FIDHL: Fall Institute in Digital Libraries=20 and Humanities Announcing: FIDLH the Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities in Atlantic Canada at the University of New Brunswick Electronic Text Centre at UNB Libraries http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts September 25th, 26th, and 27th Cost: $300.00 Agenda: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Thursday September 25th - Open Journal Systems (OJS) for electronic journal management - Institutional Repositories Friday September 26th - XML for journal articles - XML for primary source texts - XML for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) Saturday September 27th -Data Conversion and Digital Imaging Also featuring talks by Atlantic Canada researchers including: Richard Cunningham, Acadia University Margaret Conrad, CRC, University of New Brunswick Tony Tremblay, CRC, Saint Thomas University Accommodations: Delta Hotel http://www.deltahotels.com/hotels/hotels.php?hotelId=3D207 Special Institute rate until by August 25th Details will follow soon. For more information email Susan Oliver suoliver@unb.ca or Lisa Charlong lcharlon@unb.ca -- Lisa Charlong Assistant Director Electronic Text Centre UNB Libraries www.lib.unb.ca/Texts Tel: 506-447-3458 Fax: 506-453-4595 "...lie gently and wide to the light-year stars, lie back, and the sea will hold you." Philip Booth --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:09:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar: Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of=20 Roman Libya Digital Classicist/Institute for Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 25th July at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, Lond= on Charlotte Tupman (KCL) 'Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya' 1,500 Greek and Latin inscriptions survive from Roman Cyrenaica (modern Libya). A project to produce a digital publication of these texts is currently in progress at King=C2=92s College London, in association with colleagues in Libya, Italy and the U.S.A. (http://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk/). This paper discusses the issues surrounding the markup of these texts in EpiDoc XML and the possibilities of associating archaeological data with the epigraphic material. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=3DWC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk From - Thu Jul 24 08:56:14 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:59 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.189] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLvg6-0000sZ-Kn for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:59 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6O7qbPC027355; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:52:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6O6YGb1028389; 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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id h0enGc5w0A4CSGT6 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLvah-0005aS-U8 for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:50:24 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.135 solipsistic Humanist Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7809/Thu Jul 24 05:09:59 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1216885829 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5345 signatures=431814 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807240005 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <4888343B.3050708@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:50:19 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.135 solipsistic Humanist X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 90 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:44593 X-Body-Linecount: 25 X-Message-Size: 5058 X-Body-Size: 1112 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -3.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -32 X-Spam-Bar: --- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "e.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-3.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] -0.7 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20% [score: 0.1116] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-32 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:46:53 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: solipsistic Humanist Dear colleagues, This is to apologise for and to explain the error that led this morning and in recent days to the misattribution of postings to me as the originating author. The demise of Eudora and subsequent bad behaviour of the software pushed me into the welcoming arms of Thunderbird, which I do like but whose ways are quite different from Eudora's. The relevant differences are in the redirection of mail and the managing of what Thunderbird calls "identities", which took me a while to figure out. My confident belief that I have done so may prove to be premature, so herewith is another apology in advance for continuing appearance of solipsistic behaviour or other varieties of turbulence. Yours, WM From - Thu Jul 24 15:36:51 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:36:37 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.112] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KM1vl-0003zt-5k for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:36:37 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6OEWQRp019146; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6O6YGoH028389; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20548430 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:41 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6OEU7nE001160 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6OEU79Y026087 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6OEU4Q1026056 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:05 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1216909795-100703300000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9605D14FB2D9 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id qFUn0fEF3A6pIJOB for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KM1pK-0003wY-Cr for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:29:54 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.137 Michael S. Mahoney Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7808/Thu Jul 24 03:32:26 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1216909795 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5345 signatures=431814 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807240094 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <488891DD.4060306@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:29:49 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.137 Michael S. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:24:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Michael S. Mahoney Dear colleagues, The great historian of science, mathematics, technology and computing, Michael S. Mahoney, Professor of History at Princeton, died last night after a severe heart-attack while swimming. Mike, as everyone knew him, was one of those very few for whom I would have relinquished many of my years and the life that has come with them in order to be his student. I first met him through his writings while I was trying to figure out what relation humanities computing might have to the experimental sciences. I could see that both kinds of practice shared the epistemic use of equipment, so I figured there must be some relation worth knowing about. Characteristically Mike put versions of most of what he wrote online, so familiarity came easily, and some understanding followed. Then I buckled down and worked my way through papers such as the wonderful "Software as Science -- Science as Software" (2002), which I must have read 5 or 6 times at the first go. Then another historian of science, Jed Buchwald, an old friend and a former student of Mike's and Thomas Kuhn's at Princeton, invited me to give a paper at the Dibner Institute (MIT), at a conference on the history of recent science. This gave me a chance to try out the ideas I had formed, based largely on Mike's work, on the subject of humanities computing and the sciences. Subsequently, as the paper was working its way into print, Mike served as a reviewer, anonymous of course but immediately recognizable. Put as simply as I can, his commentary on that paper taught me how to do it right. Or, rather, as right as I am able. When I was asked to organize a year-long lecture series at King's London, which I entitled 'Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture', Mike was one of those I invited. His lecture, "The histories of computing(s)", along with the rest were later published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 30.2 (2005). Required reading for everyone in humanities computing, I'd say, and I would extend the invitation to all historians of any stripe. Faced with a hugely intractable subject for the intellectual historian's craft, Mike had the wit and wisdom to understand and the honesty to express what we cannot say about computing. "The major problem", he wrote in 'Issues in the history of computing', "is that we have lots of answers but very few questions, lots of stories but no history, lots of things to do but no sense of how to do them or in what order. Simply put, we don't yet know what the history of computing is really about." This from someone who knew the mathematical and technological bases of computing, how to trace the many strands of computing's development and (as Siegfried Zielinski has said) to look for the new in the old rather than the old in the new. "Hype hides history", he remarked in his King's lecture. He knew that questions were the scholar's gold and that they were being obscured by the promoter's (and the promoter's academic helper's) shameless blather. He did more than anyone else I know to show us how we might find that wealth. I cannot claim a long personal relationship. I wish I had been of the right age at the right time and place for that to happen. But I can hear the voice and see the face. I know more from him of what our kind can do. Thank you, Mike. Farewell. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:14:00 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 24 July 2008 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of Blake's illustrations to John Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" and _Paradise Lost_ [go to Archive/Works/Drawings and Paintings/Water Color Drawings]. The six "Nativity Ode" water colors were acquired, and probably commissioned, by Thomas Butts in about 1815. This series is now in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The group of three _Paradise Lost_ water colors was acquired, and almost certainly commissioned, by John Linnell in 1822. The first two designs are now in the National Gallery of Victoria; the third is in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Both sets are presented in our Preview mode, one that provides all the features of the Archive except Image Search and Inote (our image annotation program). With this publication, the Archive now contains all nine of Blake's series of water colors illustrating Milton's poetry. Blake had created six "Nativity Ode" illustrations for the Rev. Joseph Thomas in 1809. Blake repeated the same basic designs, with many minor but intriguing variations, in the Butts set presented here. When sold at auction in 1852, the water colors were accompanied by the poem, or possibly only the passages illustrated, in manuscript. This text, possibly in Blake's hand, is now untraced. In comparison to the earlier series, the Butts water colors are more highly finished and show careful attention to interior modeling and detailed coloring. Blake produced twelve _Paradise Lost_ water colors for Thomas in 1807 and a similar set of twelve for Butts in 1808. It may have been Blake's intention to execute another set of twelve illustrations for Linnell, but only the three extant designs are known. They are based on the fourth, eighth, and eleventh illustrations in the Butts series. In comparison to these models, the Linnell water colors show an increased emphasis on dramatic lighting, particularly evident in the radiance surrounding Christ in the third design, "Michael Foretells the Crucifixion." The Job engravings, commissioned by Linnell in 1823, show a similarly masterful use of intense illumination. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:11:46 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: LATA 2009: call for papers ********************************************************************* Call for Papers 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009) Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:13:58 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Will better indexing make us dumber? Willard, A colleague pointed out: Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, James A. Evans, et. al., Science 321, 395 (2008), DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473 where the author concludes: > This research ironically intimates that one of > the chief values of print library research is poor > indexing. Poor indexing=C2=97indexing by titles > and authors, primarily within core journals=C2=97 > likely had unintended consequences that assisted > the integration of science and scholarship. > By drawing researchers through unrelated articles, > print browsing and perusal may have facilitated > broader comparisons and led researchers > into the past. Modern graduate education parallels > this shift in publication=C2=97shorter in years, more > specialized in scope, culminating less frequently > in a true dissertation than an album of articles > (19). Any suggestions building tools that "facilitate broader comparisons" and lead "researchers into the past?" Hope you are having a great day! 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:15:18 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: AiML08: Preliminary Program now Available CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr --- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOW ON-LINE --- http://aiml08.loria.fr/programme.php Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. REGISTRATION Registration to AiML is now open at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/registration.php INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/~mgehrke/ Using duality theory to export methods from modal logic - Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia http://www.governatori.net Labelled modal tableaux - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ Axiomatising many-dimensional modal logics - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ Relational syllogistic logics, and other connections between modal logic and natural logic - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ Topology, connectedness, and modal logi Further information available at: http://aiml08.loria.fr/invited.php [...] From - Sat Jul 26 08:30:05 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:25:31 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.174] (helo=Princeton.EDU) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KMe9h-00079U-JF for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:25:31 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6Q7Lm3q025747; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6Q43Z8E009770; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:21:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20563902 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:12:39 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6Q7BjKd013470 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6Q7BjoI009347 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6Q7BiXR009342 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:11:44 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217056303-252301a50000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 34BBF12632B for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:11:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id MotpZB3x8eHS5WAQ for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:11:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KMdwN-0000p7-AI for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:11:43 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.142 toy or tool? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (42) Subject: RE: 22.134 Wordle: toy or tool? [2] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: toys are us --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:12:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 22.134 Wordle: toy or tool? In-Reply-To: <48880F9A.3010108@mccarty.org.uk> Willard, Why can't it be both a a toy and a tool? I would argue that the essence of digital visualization is that it is a 'playful' research methodology. I've just come back from a conference on digital visualization in the arts. I'm quite taken with the idea of an artist's journals being considered a valuable part of the research process (and even part of the assessment of those in education). I'm sure the use of a 'toy' such as wordle would be considered a valid part of their research process. The use of the phrase 'both visually appealing and typographically interesting' raises the issue of aesthetics in digital tools, is there not more to the value of a tool producing an aesthetically pleasing result than simply surface gloss? Regards Martyn Martyn Jessop, Director of Teaching, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207 848 2470 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:06:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: toys are us In-Reply-To: <48880F9A.3010108@mccarty.org.uk> Neven Jovanovic's note about Wordle immediately got me thinking about the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (dictionary.mcmaster.ca), which itself offers a standard wordcloud display. Wordclouds have been made since at least 1990-1, when I was experimenting with output from the Ratcliffe/Obershelp pattern-recognition algorithm in TACT (www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/mccarty/fig20.html, for an article which begins at www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/mccarty/) -- though of course one could argue its origins as far back in time as the concordance itself. Anyhow until the software for generating them became available, constructing a cloud was so laborious that the word "toy" hardly applies. At the time I constructed the cloud represented as fig20.html, I could only see the possibility of significance. There was only a curiousity until it could be done in the manner of play, quickly, experimentally, even thoughtlessly, trials discarded until something curious emerges. What I am stumbling toward is the idea that a "toy", not being serious, allows us to play, to fool around, having dismissed the censor to allow what might happen to emerge and to show itself in a world where it is so new that no one would fund it, or publish it, or tenure it. A "tool", in contrast, is seriously useful. We know what it is for before picking it up, or discover its usefulness immediately. But what if the job to be done doesn't yet exist? Old ideas, for which I suppose the most obvious source is Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens. But not being serious, or rather seriously playful, they are easily forgotten. They are also anathema to the dogmatically practical amongst us. But here's a question. I would like to think that there's a reasonably direct relationship between between the speed of interactivity of our machines and the degree to which we play with them. Furthermore, I would very much like to think that our model of interaction has a quite profound effect on what we take computing to be, culturally and cognitively. I would like to be able to argue that much of what we hear and read people saying about computing, in the humanities and elsewhere, is rooted in the old master/slave rhetoric of commands and responses, otherwise known as "batch" computing. When -- as I think has been happening for quite some time -- command and response blur into a sort of resonance, then what happens to the Turing Test? Yours, WM From - Sun Jul 27 08:28:07 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:21:18 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.189] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KN0ZB-00048a-2M for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:21:18 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6R7Dw6h014729; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:13:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6R42PSJ006148; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:13:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20568353 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:11:25 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6R751Qx027754 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:05:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6R751v4007444 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:05:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6R74wkY007353 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:05:00 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217142297-57ce024d0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 069F313E0CD for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id b5R5HjVrfchua1sp for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KN0JM-00049p-MW for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:57 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.143 indexing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7845/Sun Jul 27 06:55:06 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217142298 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5347 signatures=432836 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807260103 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <488C1E12.7040803@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:50 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.143 indexing X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m6R7Dw6h014729 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 251 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:37381 X-Body-Linecount: 185 X-Message-Size: 13907 X-Body-Size: 9891 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.6 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-25 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 143. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:49:43 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 22.141 will better indexing make us dumber? I have come across this article and some discussions related to it. My general evaluation is that this reflects the uneven transition to digitization. Digitization, like print in its time, corresponds to a quantum leap in access with the result that everything not digitized tends to be marginalized. Right now, the amount of stuff digitized is growing fast, but in a very chaotic way. As a result, ease of access coupled with incomplete, thin corpora and human laziness can temporarily produce the kinds of consequences that Evans brings forth. However, i do not believe it will last. On the contrary, I believe that hypertextual structures inherent to the Web structure will ultimately lead in the other direction, and perhaps too much so... The fragmentation of knowledge that John Donne decried (All the world reduced to atomies..) may well recur on a higher pitch. And exactly as bibliographies responded to Donne, indexing engines will try to rein in total cognitive dislocation. But this brings up another problem: the power (including political power) of an index like Google. As Cliff Lynch rightly argues, open access is not enough; open computation is also of the essence. And then the paradox brought to light by Evans will gradually fade away. Jean-Claude Gu=C3=A9don -----Original Message----- From: Humanist Discussion Group on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Sat 7/26/2008 3:08 AM To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 141. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:13:58 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Will better indexing make us dumber? Willard, A colleague pointed out: Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, James A. Evans, et. al., Science 321, 395 (2008), DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473 where the author concludes: > This research ironically intimates that one of > the chief values of print library research is poor > indexing. Poor indexing=C3=82=C2=97indexing by titles > and authors, primarily within core journals=C3=82=C2=97 > likely had unintended consequences that assisted > the integration of science and scholarship. > By drawing researchers through unrelated articles, > print browsing and perusal may have facilitated > broader comparisons and led researchers > into the past. Modern graduate education parallels > this shift in publication=C3=82=C2=97shorter in years, more > specialized in scope, culminating less frequently > in a true dissertation than an album of articles > (19). Any suggestions building tools that "facilitate broader comparisons" and lead "researchers into the past?" Hope you are having a great day! 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:47:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Job Opportunity: Research Fellow (Vetus Latina Iohannes= ) A vacancy is now being advertised for a Research Fellow to assist in the preparation and publication of an edition of the Old Latin versions of the Gospel according to John. The Vetus Latina Iohannes project has been running at the University of Birmingham for a number of years, and has already made available an electronic edition of the surviving Old Latin manuscripts of John at http://www.iohannes.com/vetuslatina/ . The main duties of the Fellow will include assisting in the compilation of an electronic database of gospel citations in Church Fathers, the analysis of this material, and the preparation of a printed edition to be published in the 'Vetus Latina' series. Applicants must have a PhD in a relevant subject, an excellent knowledge of Latin, the ability to learn relevant IT skills quickly, and the ability to work effectively as a member of a team. A good working knowledge of Greek, experience of database design and maintenance, and experience of working on a research project are desirable. The post-holder will be a member of the University's Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (www.itsee.bham.ac.uk). Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof. D.C. Parker (D.C.Parker@bham.ac.uk) and Dr P.H. Burton (P.H.Burton@bham.ac.uk). The advertisement for the position may be found at: http://www.vacancies.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/furtherParticulars.htm? refNo=3DA31036 The starting salary is =A325,888 - =A328,290 a year. Applications close on 8th August 2008. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:58:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Poesis & Praxis 5.3-4 Volume 5 Number 3-4 of Poiesis & Praxis is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Information: a universal metaphor in natural and cultural sciences? Michael B=C3=B6lker, Mathias Gutmann, Wolfgang Hesse 155 - 158 Information, information systems, information society: interpretations and implications Wolfgang Hesse, Dirk M=C3=BCller, Aaron Ru=C3=9F 159 - 183 Communication without sender or receiver? On virtualisation in the information process Dirk M=C3=BCller, Aaron Ru=C3=9F, Wolfgang Hesse 185 - 192 Genetic =C2=93information=C2=94 or the indomitability of a persisting sci= entific metaphor Tareq Syed, Michael B=C3=B6lker, Mathias Gutmann 193 - 209 Information as metaphorical and allegorical construction: some methodological preludes Mathias Gutmann, Benjamin Rathgeber 211 - 232 What is mirrored by mirror neurons? Benjamin Rathgeber, Mathias Gutmann 233 - 247 Human beings, technology and the idea of man Thomas Engel, Ulrike Henckel 249 - 263 Ubiquitous technologies, cultural logics and paternalism in industrial workplaces Katharina E. Kinder, Linden J. Ball, Jerry S. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (147) Subject: Re: 22.142 toy or tool? [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (154) Subject: Re: 22.142 toy or tool? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:52:51 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.142 toy or tool? In-Reply-To: <488ACE29.4030305@mccarty.org.uk> Homo ludens is always a good concept and book to refer to, and the 'toy/tool' cycle is an important part of discovery. Boys and their toys. Fooling around with them. As for wordle, it is very cool, but there are limits to the cognitive pay-off. I created a representation of Othello that used a lemmatized version of the text (http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/89986/Othello). I was struck by the fact that the word 'Cassio' was much bigger than the other names. Checking the data revealed that Cassio is in fact the most often named character in the play. That's interesting. But the size of other words is misleading. The play is not about 'thou', 'will', or 'shall', and verbs like 'come' or 'make' are unremarkable in this play, while 'think' is not. The problem is that the size of the word is a function of its count in the document, without any reference to the question whether that count is relatively high or low. This works well enough with certain kinds of documents, e.g. State of the Union addresses, where readers bring a tacit framework of comparative reference to the words in front of them. If you wanted to put the quite brilliant design and visualization work of this application to serious scholarly use, playful or not, you would really need more sophisticated inputs. Some years ago Paul Rayson drew my attention to Dunning's log likelihood ratio as a very effective tool for comparing texts and identifying words that are disproportionately common or rare in text A compared with some text B. WordHoard, an application developed by Northwestern's Academic Technologies, makes effective use of this statistic, which has the great virtue of being easy to interpret. But log likelihood ratios --and other statistics --are very tedious things to read. If one could use a splendid visualization tool like wordle to foreground lexical phenomena against more robust and variable backgrounds that would be terrific. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:54:08 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.142 toy or tool? Since sending the message above, my colleague Phil Burns in Academic Technologies succeeded in feeding Wordle with a lemma count in Othello that is based on Dunning's log likelihood ratio and basically compares the frequencies in the play with the frequencies in corpus. He did two versions of this, one with names and the other without names. You can see them at http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/90759/Othello_lemmata_(names_excluded)_vs._Shakespeare http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/90536/Othello_Lemmata_vs._Shakespeare_ To my mind, these are very striking visualizations and show that Wordle is a cool toy with a lot of tool potential. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:55:46 +0100 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 22.143 indexing I am not sure more data will improve the situation. The fundamental problem is that when computers present "relevant" articles they are basing the relevance on computational heuristics which are vastly impoverished compared to human judgements. The common methodology is to look for the same words as those used in the primary article or to look for similar sets of citations to those of the original article. Word matches by computer are typically morphologically-related matches. As the age of articles grows with time, language changes its meaning. Searching for "relevant" articles to a contemporary article using terminology invented recently will not find articles using different terminology and effectively could appear to have exhaustively found all relevant articles whereas in fact the concept was discovered and explored far earlier using different terminology. Citations go back as far as citation indexes do, but that isn't back to the beginning of the literature. I do not believe citation indexes are extending their coverage backwards into earlier and earlier years of publications. They may well be satisfied that they now have sufficient depth of coverage in years that earlier citations wouldn't improve their retrievals. Once again, the related articles could simply dry up as one goes backwards and reaches the digitization horizon. A good question is whether a resource such as JSTOR, dedicated to the past, could benefit from citation indexing or minimally act as a set of milestones for conventional citation indexing to reach in extending its coverage backwards in time. What can be done. First, I believe some new studies of paper-only research should be undertaken. The computational basis for "relevant" articles should be more formally studied with reference to whether the computational processes in use are equivalent or merely doing what is easy to compute, ignoring what can't be computed. For example, when researching I often identify more than related terminology. I look for authors, institutions, journals and library call numbers with multiple relevant works and then research those authors, institutions, journals and library call numbers themselves to see what's there. One can often discover a pivotal organization or individual who mentored generations of students following a theoretical approach that transcends the terminology. Or a journal that has published the bulk of the articles about a theory (and scanning journal tables of contents can restore the missing connectivity to non-terminologially related works). Library call numbers are an excellent way of discovering related works and most electronic catalogs allow you to scan the shelves electronically if you can't do it in person. Terminology is often invented to separate one's research from others. Matching terminology isn't proof of exhaustive coverage, as others looking at the same task may have likewise invented their own terminology. Knowing that terms are essentially from different schools of thought about a common problem is hard to determine through computer indexes alone. From - Mon Jul 28 12:41:18 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:40:52 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.189] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KNR5u-0005KF-Uw for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:40:52 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6SBbJqg014212; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:37:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6S459k9016321; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20576001 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:34:54 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6SBXgbX001037 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:33:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6SBXgSn019862 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:33:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6SBXeqk019860 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:33:41 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217244820-2cd700ba0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8248816C281C for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 07iimZHKT4m8nyGs for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KNQyu-0001gu-FR for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:33:36 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.148 toy or tool Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7863/Mon Jul 28 11:48:23 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217244820 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5347 signatures=432836 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807280041 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <488DAE8D.2060803@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:33:33 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.148 toy or tool X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m6SBbJqg014212 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 99 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:36936 X-Body-Linecount: 33 X-Message-Size: 5413 X-Body-Size: 1385 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -51 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.2 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0028] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-51 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 148. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:57:12 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.146 toy or tool Using the size of the character to represent [proportionally] the relevancy score is something I used this spring at the 16th Balkan and South Slavic Conference in Banff, Canada. I used log likelyhood to identify the interesting terms, and Z-score to discriminate the term usage between two corpora. The corpora, by the way, are writings of an Albanian writer (Ismail Kadare) before and after the fall of communism in Albania. My paper demonstrated how language changed in such a short period reflecting very quicky the big social upheaval of the period. At www.lissus.com/bss2008.png is the slide showing the differences between "Koncert [n=C3=AB fund t=C3=AB dimrit]" 'The Concert at the End of Winter= '=20 (1988) and "Lulet [e ftohta t=C3=AB marsit]" 'Spring Flowers, Spring Fros= t=20 [lit. The Cold Flowers of March]' (2000) - one in red and the other in bl= ue. It is both humbling and rewarding to find that similar things have been done by others before... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:34:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: remaking universities in the image of business Those here concerned with the future of our universities might wish to read and to circulate a paper by Robert Laughlin, Professor of Physics at Stanford and Nobel Laureate (1998), "Truth, Ownership, and Scientific Tradition", Physics Today 55.12 (December 2002), available at ftp://large.stanford.edu/publications/2002/p01jul02/p01jul02.pdf. Following is a brief extract. (See http://large.stanford.edu/ for more on Laughlin; note in particular his book, A Different Universe.). > Although outright fabrication of data > by scientists is rare, scientific deception is commonplace. > The academic who refuses to exaggerate in proposals, for > example, will not get grants. The industrial worker who > explains the core of his technical niche to someone else > will jeopardize his job. Even at Bell Labs in its heyday it > was common for the scientists working in the public domain > to be ignorant of matters deeply important to the > company even while being exhorted to be "relevant" > because the knowledgeable technical people would not > reveal the problems to them. The mandate to generate > peoperty forces us to deceive. Members of Congress and > managers in the NSF and other federal agencies would > do well to reflect on this effect and understand that some > fraction of the industrial-style research portfolo of which > they are so proud is simply lies.... > In this sense ownership, > more accurately the secrecy it necessitates, is not the > engine of progress but its enemy. One cannot both expose > knowledge to scrutiny and keep it for one's self to > sell. It has to be be one or the other. > This process is why making over universities in the > image of business is such a terrible idea. The great > power of university research is its openness and the inherent > truthfulness -- stemming from this openness -- of the > knowledge it generates. One could collect many similar statements from those who in the estimation of society at large exemplify what universities are supposed to be for, who advise in the strongest possible terms against the path down which we appear to be going. I think also of John Polanyi (Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1986), "In Search of the Passionate Idea", http://www.utoronto.ca/jpolanyi/public_affairs/. Comments? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:44:01 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Directions in Early Scottish Editing, Monday 8 Septembe= r Dear all, FYI: The Centre for Textual Scholarship at DMU is organizing a one-day symposium on Directions in Early Scottish Editing. Best wishes and many thanks, Takako Directions in Early Scottish Editing: A Day Symposium Centre for Textual Scholarship, Clephan Building, De Montfort University Monday, 8 September 2008 PROGRAMME 10.00: Key note speaker Priscilla Bawcutt, University of Liverpool: '''Let us now be told no more of the dull duty of an editor!"' Chair - A. S. G. Edwards, De Montfort University 11.00-11.15: Coffee 11.20: Editing Gavin Douglas's Eneados and The Scottish Troy Book. Chair - Nicola Royan, University of Nottingham Jane Griffiths, University of Bristol, '"Quha ma thi versis follow in all degre?" Questions around the editing of Gavin Douglas' Thomas Rutledge, University of East Anglia, 'Towards a new edition of Douglas's Eneados' Sebastian Verweij, University of Cambridge, 'Scottish Troy Book MS CUL Kk. 5.30' Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow, 'Editing for Philologists: the issues, with special reference to the Scots Troy Book' 12.45-1.30: Lunch 1.30: Key note speaker Sally Mapstone, University of Oxford: 'Dating the Chepman & Myllar prints: some thoughts for editors' Chair - Joanna Martin, University of Nottingham 2.30: The Chepman & Myllar Prints. Chair - Kate McClune, Oxford Nicole Meier, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universit=E4t Bonn: 'Editing Kennedy: problems of Anglicization' Luuk Houwen, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum: 'Manuscript into Print or Print into Manuscript: Chepman and Myllar and the Asloan Manuscript?' Rhiannon Purdie, University of St Andrews: 'Manuscripts, prints and the great unknown: editing Scottish medieval romance' 3.45: Tea 4-4.45: Round table discussion: Directions in Early Scottish Editing. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:08:31 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: UBIQUITY 9.30 This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 30 July 29 --=C2=96 August 4, 2008 *UBIQUITY ALERT*: "wot do U tink?" (What Do You Think?) by M.O. Thirunarayanan Out of sheer curiosity I used a website that allowed me to translate text from English to the language used by those who send and receive text messages. The second part of this article contains a copy of the entire text that was thus translated.) From - Wed Jul 30 05:50:43 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:25:34 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.189] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KO3Fl-0000JR-PI for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:25:34 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6U4NrSm010102; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:23:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6U432TF021558; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:23:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20590635 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:19:13 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6U4HnkM009272 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6U4Hn8E027719 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6U4HmQh027717 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:48 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217391467-2ad802760000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 43B92B4C542 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 5QixHoheIZczAcwM for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:17:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KO38F-0005xC-Lk for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:17:47 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.154 new publication: Review of Symbolic Logic (RSL) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7884/Wed Jul 30 03:37:25 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217391468 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5349 signatures=434607 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807290154 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <488FEB68.4010108@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:17:44 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.154 new publication: Review of Symbolic Logic (RSL) X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 87 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:36205 X-Body-Linecount: 22 X-Message-Size: 4967 X-Body-Size: 967 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -3.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -36 X-Spam-Bar: --- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-3.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% [score: 0.0170] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-36 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 154. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:12:30 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Review of Symbolic Logic (RSL) The Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) has just launched a new journal, the Review of Symbolic Logic (RSL). It is published by Cambridge University Press. The first issue has just appeared and you can see the table of contents and download articles from the journal's CUP homepage at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RSL&volumeId=1&issueId=01# RSL is devoted to philosophical and non-classical logics and their applications, history and philosophy of logic, and philosophy and methodology of mathematics. Submissions are welcome. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:09:32 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.149 remaking universities in the image of business It's not much of a comment, but : "Amen." In a similar, if not precisely the same, vein, are, first : Bill Readings' /The University in Ruins/, in which he argues that the concept of "excellence" has been so universally applied on university campuses as to be hollowed out of any meaning and serves as a replacement for genuinely meaningful description. This accords, it seems to me, with Laughlin's warning ; and second, David Kirp's /Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line/ which is a more business-model-friendly account of where we currently find ourselves and where we are going. I can't recall the book sufficiently to say whether or not Kirp intends his work to be a business-friendly model, but as I recall, it is. But it does offer some fairly clear-eyed (again, working from a weak and worn memory) description (I shy away from the term analysis, with the caveat that it might be analytical--I simply don't recall being struck by it as such) of the dangers to humanistic study when "the bottom line" is the primary concept applied to universities. Students become customers (and so many of us think seeing students as clients is bad) and departments are evaluated quite openly on their attractiveness to market-oriented (i.e. job seeking) "customers." Shudder. Is it worth reminding ourselves of Neil Postman's assertion in /Amusing Ourselves to Death/ that Huxley's /Brave New World/ was a more accurate prognostication that Orwell's /1984/ in large part because in the former the populace's oppression is self-invited? In short, how do we revolt? Richard On 29-Jul-08, at 3:06 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 149. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > > > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:34:07 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > > Those here concerned with the future of our universities might wish to > read and to circulate a paper by Robert Laughlin, Professor of Physics > at Stanford and Nobel Laureate (1998), "Truth, Ownership, and Scientific > Tradition", Physics Today 55.12 (December 2002), available at > ftp://large.stanford.edu/publications/2002/p01jul02/p01jul02.pdf. > Following is a brief extract. (See http://large.stanford.edu/ for more > on Laughlin; note in particular his book, A Different Universe.). > >> Although outright fabrication of data >> by scientists is rare, scientific deception is commonplace. >> The academic who refuses to exaggerate in proposals, for >> example, will not get grants. The industrial worker who >> explains the core of his technical niche to someone else >> will jeopardize his job. Even at Bell Labs in its heyday it >> was common for the scientists working in the public domain >> to be ignorant of matters deeply important to the >> company even while being exhorted to be "relevant" >> because the knowledgeable technical people would not >> reveal the problems to them. The mandate to generate >> peoperty forces us to deceive. Members of Congress and >> managers in the NSF and other federal agencies would >> do well to reflect on this effect and understand that some >> fraction of the industrial-style research portfolo of which >> they are so proud is simply lies.... >> In this sense ownership, >> more accurately the secrecy it necessitates, is not the >> engine of progress but its enemy. One cannot both expose >> knowledge to scrutiny and keep it for one's self to >> sell. It has to be be one or the other. >> This process is why making over universities in the >> image of business is such a terrible idea. The great >> power of university research is its openness and the inherent >> truthfulness -- stemming from this openness -- of the >> knowledge it generates. > > One could collect many similar statements from those who in the > estimation of society at large exemplify what universities are > supposed to be for, who advise in the strongest possible terms against > the path down which we appear to be going. I think also of John > Polanyi (Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1986), "In Search of the Passionate > Idea", http://www.utoronto.ca/jpolanyi/public_affairs/. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM From - Wed Jul 30 05:50:43 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:28:41 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.8] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KO3Ij-0003Ht-6g for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:28:41 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6U4NTa1003700; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:23:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6U431Rj021556; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20590629 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:19:12 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6U4FtLR009145 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6U4FtsR026159 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6U4FslH026151 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:54 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217391353-371800b30000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 00D02B4C283 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id wBFlq12JNPZH845V for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KO36P-000559-9C for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:15:53 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.152 toy or tool Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.1/7884/Wed Jul 30 03:37:25 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217391354 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5349 signatures=434607 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0807290154 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <488FEAF5.7010209@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:15:49 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.152 toy or tool X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 118 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.8:53586 X-Body-Linecount: 53 X-Message-Size: 6469 X-Body-Size: 2541 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.5 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 4 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-24 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 152. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:11:02 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.146 toy or tool Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > As for wordle, it is very cool, but there are limits to the cognitive > pay-off. [...] > If you wanted to put the quite brilliant design and visualization work > of this application to serious scholarly use, playful or not, you > would really need more sophisticated inputs. Tag Cloud generators have, of course, been around for awhile and Wordle is just one of the latest iterations of them. While it can be fun to generate them, they only give you a very vague sense of the relative comparability of word frequency. You are certainly right that by controlling the input you can get slightly better results. However, what bothers me about most instances of tag clouds for linguistic visualisation is their lack of interactivity and flatformedness. When used in blogs, photo sites, social networking, etc. they almost always enable a form of navigation. (i.e. you click on the tag to see all photos/posts/people tagged as such) In most linguistic attempts to use them this interaction usually doesn't happen. There are exceptions to this: I remember Dave Beavan (from the SCOTS projects, http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/) demonstrating a collocates tag cloud builder where when you clicked on a word you were given a tag cloud of that word's collocates, and could continue clicking through more of them. While just as fun, perhaps, that at least strikes me as useful. It still has the same limitations, of course, as any tag cloud in being an approximated visualisation. It seems silly to argue whether something is a 'toy' or a 'tool'. In my opinion, a tool is just something which allows you to accomplish a desired task. That tool can also be a toy, and the task can indeed be an event of playful ludic expression. Toys can be even more sophisticated than tools. Some toys are more suited to some tasks, of course, just like tools. Would it be true to say that if you aren't "playing with things" then maybe the things you are doing are the wrong things? -James -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From - Thu Jul 31 06:06:28 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:06:09 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.112] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOQMY-0003Tp-Ro for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:06:09 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6V54Tgx006463; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:04:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6V43FTv027192; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:04:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20601223 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (67) Subject: IP Manager Position @ CNGL, Ireland [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (45) Subject: Post-Doctoral & PhD Resarch Positions @ Centre for Next Generation Localisation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:52:15 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: IP Manager Position @ CNGL, Ireland Intellectual Property Manager: Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland http://www.cngl.ie/ CNGL is a DCU-led Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (Directed by Prof. Josef van Genabith). CNGL conducts research on language technologies (machine translation, speech recognition/synthesis), digital content management technologies (adaptive hypermedia, IE/IR), their application in localisation workflows, and language technology-focused software engineering. CNGL is a =A430M collaborative research centre that involves collaboration between DCU, TCD, UCD, UL and industrial partners who include world leaders in their respective fields. Invent DCU is the commercialisation gateway for Dublin City University (DCU). Invent manages the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property for DCU through technology transfer, licensing and the creation of spin-out companies. We wish to recruit an Intellectual Property Manager on a fixed term contract basis with primary responsibility for managing the intellectual property generated in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL). Duties and Responsibilities: The IP Manager will report to the CEO of Invent. 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The appointed person will have: - A post-graduate qualification in computer science, computational linguistics, speech processing or a related discipline, (such as language technology, machine translation, speech, IR/IE, localisation). - An understanding and appreciation of the IP issues arising in the context of academic research and in particular computer software. - Ideally, some experience of intellectual property management, including patenting, licensing and commercialisation gained in an industrial setting. Salary Scale: Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Closing Date: 31st August 2008 To apply: Please mail a completed application form, CV and details for three references to info@cngl.ie For informal discussions contact info@cngl.ie Application forms are available from: Human Resources Department, Dublin City University, Dublin 9. 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The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a large Academia-Industry partnership, funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Industry Partners, with over 100 researchers developing novel technologies addressing the key localisation challenges of volume, access and personalisation. The major research strands within the CNGL are Integrated Language Technologies (ILT), Digital Content Management (DCM), Localisation Technologies and Processes (LOC) and Systems Framework (SF). We are currently recruiting: Post-Doctoral Research Positions: 3 Post-Doctoral Positions in ILT (MT, NLP) 1 Post-Doctoral Position in DCM (Ontology Induction) 3 Post-Doctoral Positions in LOC (Workflow, Translation, Multilingual Content) Post-Doctoral positions are for 3 years (1 year contract initially). Salary: =A438,623-45,401 per annum (depending on experience). Starting dates: now ? November 2008. PhD Studentship Research Positions: 5 PhD Studentships in ILT (MT, NLP) 5 PhD Studentships in DCM (IR/IE, QA, Ontology Induction) 8 PhD Studentships in LOC (Workflow, Translation, Multilingual Content) PhD positions are typically for 4 years. Stipend: =A416,000 (tax free) plus payment of registration fees. Starting dates: now ? November 2008. CNGL provides state-of-the-art research facilities and supports travel to present at conferences. Please visit http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html for more detailed information on each position. The successful candidates will join well established research groups at Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and University of Limerick, Ireland. Deadline for applications: 31st August 2008 To apply send CV and contact details of 2 referees to info@cngl.ie quoting the appropriate reference (see http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html). Please also use for informal inquiries. ------------------------------------------------- R=EDona Finn - Administrator Centre for Next Generation Localisation Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)1 700 6707 Fax: +353 (0)1 700 5442 Mob: +353 (0)87 623 4464 Web: http://www.cngl.ie Email: riona.finn@dcu.ie From - Thu Jul 31 06:22:12 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:12:09 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.112] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOQSN-0006Rz-9a for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:12:09 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6V58aEa010470; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:08:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6V44gVL027562; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:04:49 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Texts 2.0 Preview Release Dear colleagues, I'm very please to announce the immediate availability of a preview release of Digital Texts 2.0, a Facebook application designed to fuse some of the strengths of social networking practises with academic sensibilities in textual scholarship. If you're a researcher, student, teacher, author, librarian, or avid reader, Digital Texts 2.0 can help you to organize and enrich your texts, and share them with others. Some Key Features: * Add and browse Texts (via Amazon lookup, or manually) * Organize your texts into Collections * Join Groups of like-minded Readers * Comment on and add Tags to Authors, Collections, Texts, and Groups * Share your findings with Friends Upcoming Features * Import/Export feature set * Citation Generation tools * Hybrid Searches combining Authors and Readers of Texts * Text Recommendation system We are working hard toward a major release by the end of summer and we would be very grateful for any feedback and suggestions that you may have. We're particularly keen to receive feedback from those of you who are considering using Digital Texts 2.0 for establishing reading lists for courses (lists that might be expanded, annotated and shared by students). http://dtext2.org/ Yours on behalf of the Digital Texts 2.0 team, St=E9fan Sinclair -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:48:58 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: totosy Re: 22.151 remaking universities in the image=20 of business [From Steven Totosy de Zepetnek ] why shudder and revolt? why not, rather, connect the traditional pursuit and enjoyment of humanities knowledge with "real" life and pay attention to graduates finding employment? the two do not need to be mutually exclusive.... here is a paper i expound precisely on the said issue: Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven. "The New Humanities: The Intercultural, the Comparative, and the Interdisciplinary." Globalization and the Futures of Comparative Literature. Ed. Jan M. Ziolkowski and Alfred J. L=C3=B3pez. The Global South 1.2 (2007): 45-68. best, steven steven totosy de zepetnek ph.d. professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv * editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu * series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html From - Thu Jul 31 09:48:14 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:47:55 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.189] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOTpC-0004oa-BY for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:47:55 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6V8kPaH017117; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6V44gj7027562; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:25:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, with a call for ideas and proposals Dear Colleagues, From time to time you may have seen publication announcements on Humanist for the British journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Some time ago I was asked to take over the editorship of ISR and agreed on condition I could change its focus to the interrelations between the sciences and the humanities. As of this month I became Editor, have somewhat reformed the Editorial Board, appointed a Book Reviews Editor, devised a simple website (www.isr-journal.org) and commissioned a number of special issues. On the website is my inaugural editorial, which will give you a much better idea of what I have in mind. The first four issues under my hand are as follows: 1 (33.3) "Philosophy and engineering" (ed. Natasha McCarthy, Royal Academy of Engineering, London) 2 (33.4) "Neuroscience and aesthetics" (co-ed. Suzanne Nalbantian and Willard McCarty) 3 (34.1) "'Today and To-Morrow': Science and technology in the early 20th century" (ed. Brian Hurwitz, Max Saunders and Neil Vickers, King's College London) 4 (34.2) "Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage: Multidisciplinary collaborative research between computer science and heritage studies" (ed. Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg, Netherlands) In addition plans are afoot for a number of other issues, including "History and human nature", centred on a paper to be written by G. E. R. Lloyd, with invited responses from leading figures across the disciplines. Submissions of papers, ideas and proposals for issues of ISR are most welcome and should be directed to me. A call for papers on the theme of "poetries and sciences" (as I. A. Richards called his 1970 revision of the earlier book Science and Poetry) will be forthcoming soon. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:19:01 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: ISCOL 2008 is approaching It's time for the Israeli CL/NLP community to meet in Israel. Thus, the next Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL 2008) is underway. It will take place at Bar-Ilan University, on Thursday, September 11, 2008. We want this year's meeting to be about getting to know our growing community. We are especially interested in presentations from Masters students, and new PhDs. In addition to the typical "new results" type presentations, we plan to have an additional "introduction" session, which is intended for young and not so young researchers to introduce themselves to the community. This session will feature short (5-10 minutes) talks in which the presenter could talk about: * What he is interested in * What she is working on * His general research direction * Open Problems she might have * etc Overall, these talks should focus more on what one would like to do, rather than what one already did. We hope such format will facilitate interest, discussions, collaborations and a sense of community. We look forward to seeing you in Bar-Ilan. Please fill the pre-registration form (http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yoavg/iscol08/prereg.html) to let us know if you plan to attend (yes), if you want to give a "new result" presentation (ok), and/or an "introductory" presentation (yes), as well as any comments you may have, so we could plan accordingly. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (19) Subject: Director of HATII [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (92) Subject: Digital Humanities job at Brown University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:16:44 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Director of HATII In-Reply-To: <489146E7.8030407@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Willard, The readers of Humanist might find the following job advert of interest (Director of HATII in Glasgow): http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/1464 This is part of a job section on arts-humanities.net where members of the site can post open position of interests to digital humanists and artists: http://www.arts-humanities.net/jobs Best wishes, Torsten -- Torsten Reimer Development Manager Community Infrastructures and e-Learning Centre for e-Research, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7848 2019 Torsten.Reimer@kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:17:56 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Humanities job at Brown University In-Reply-To: <489146E7.8030407@mccarty.org.uk> The Scholarly Technology Group at Brown is looking for the right person to complete our team. We're looking for a creative, technically sophisticated individual who will use computer methods and structured data to augment the resarch process for humanities scholars. We're not an acronym-based technical services shop; we are part of the university research environment, with a license to explore content and technology, and push the boundaries of practice where possible. If you're not interested in the digital or the humanities, you're probably not a good fit. You will have the opportunity to explore and to learn, in a unique academic environment. This position is ideal for the humanist who has experience in digital humanities and who wants to develop their skills and experience. An increased, university-wide, focus on the digital humanities and digital libraries make this an especially exciting moment to join STG. The Research Programmer will be part of defining and implementing technology in humanities research agendas at Brown. While this is not an academic position, STG has close relationships with the academic part of the university, and STG staff often participate in classes and seminars. This position requires breadth of vision and experience across significant and disparate fields. No candidate can be equally deep in all areas, so we are not limited by formal credentials in any specific area; we are looking for a candidate who can excel in an interdisciplinary environment. You will thrive here if you can communicate and think across the gap. We will also consider interested applicants without a formal humanities background. Applicants with a degree in Library Science, Information Science, or Computer Science and an interest in the kinds of problems involved in digital humanities projects and data are encouraged to apply. Research Programmer - Humanities Scholarly Technology Group Brown University The Scholarly Technology Group (STG) at Brown University is seeking a staff member who will contribute technical skills and project oversight as part of STG's involvement in, and engagement with, faculty research projects in the digital humanities. STG projects range from document databases based on XML and XML tools, to experiments in collaboration, classification and online publication. STG projects are founded in high-level information design, and require current knowledge of web standards and tools. The Research Programmer is encouraged to have a relevant research agenda of their own, or to participate in the group's ongoing research into digital humanities topics. STG staff provide faculty projects with expertise in text encoding and metadata standards, accessibility, database design, web programming, digital project design, information design, documentation and grant-writing. We combine a strong background in the humanities and social sciences with a deep interest in the significance of digital technologies for scholarly communication. The Research Programmer works closely with faculty, STG staff and students to carry out digital humanities projects by performing project analysis, implementation, and management. Student workers are an integral part of of STG's team, and the Research Programmer will interact with them as manager and as collaborator. Since STG is a small group, this person can contribute at all levels: to recruit, plan, manage projects, write grant proposals, contribute to outreach activities, stay abreast of new methods and technologies and disseminate STG's work at conferences. Qualifications: * Minimum Bachelor's degree, advanced degree in the humanities desirable. Demonstrable technical skills. * Experience in digital humanities, digital libraries or comparable area. * Technical background in relevant areas, ideally: Web standards, HTML, CSS, XML, web technologies, metadata standards, text retrieval, software development * Knowledge of digital communications and collaboration, new media. * Strong analytical and problem solving skills * Ability to communicate STG work and results within the group and externally. STG is part of Computing and Information Services and provides advanced technology consulting to Brown humanities faculty primarily through large and small projects in support of scholarly work in the digital medium. We explore, extend and contribute to the critical new technologies that are transforming scholarly work and helping to maintain its longevity: data and metadata standards, XML publication tools, text encoding methods, database design, and accessibility standards. We have a strong relationship with the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Initiatives, and often work on joint projects. STG consists of three staff members: the Director, a Senior Research Programmer, and a Research Programmer. STG also employs several student programmers and designers and works with graduate students who provide content expertise. For more information: www.stg.brown.edu or elli_mylonas@brown.edu To apply, http://careers.brown.edu, look for job B01052 [Elli Mylonas Scholarly Technology Group Brown University Providence, RI, USA http://www.stg.brown.edu] From - Sun Aug 03 17:16:18 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:02:43 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.112] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPf6X-00044e-0X for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:02:43 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73Ex20h012703; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:59:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m73ECS1e006619; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:58:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20624525 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:56:04 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m73EonZK028738 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73EonwG006176 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73EoicR006156 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:50:48 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217775043-7c7300660000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id BB9A0BC3BF3 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id GMm0f5NxEWKoKyxk for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPeuu-0001HQ-Ql for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:50:40 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.165 D-Lib seeks advice Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/7921/Sun Aug 3 12:44:08 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217775043 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5352 signatures=437316 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=50 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0808030042 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <4895C5BA.5060701@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:50:34 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.165 D-Lib seeks advice X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 106 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:56484 X-Body-Linecount: 41 X-Message-Size: 5652 X-Body-Size: 1715 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.6 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-25 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 165. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:48:19 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: D-Lib Magazine Requests Your Input Greetings: Because U.S. Government funding of D-Lib Magazine ended in 2006, we at D-Lib Magazine have been looking for a new funding model to sustain the magazine over the long term, while continuing to publish it via open access -- that is, without charging readers subscription fees or authors publication fees. Late last year the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) donated the time of a publishing consultant to advise us on business models for D-Lib that, once established, could sustain the magazine over the long term. One of the consultant's suggestions was that D-Lib Magazine accept advertising as a means of raising money. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:46:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2008) Apologies for cross-posting but this opportunity to discuss Internet related spatial topics, in Vienna, may be of interest: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/onespace08/ ----------------------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: OneSpace2008 [ our apologies if you receive this message multiple times ] ----------------------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2008) http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/onespace08/ In conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium 2008 (FIS2008) http://www.fis2008.org/ September 28th, 2008, Vienna (Austria) ++ Deadline for submission: Aug 08, 2008 ++ Full papers and position papers invited ++ ============================================================ The First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2008) in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium 2008 (FIS2008) aims to present a high-quality forum of discussion about the identification and study of the complex relationship of the Internet with space, place, geography and distance, whether physical or virtual. Technologies as well as novel ideas, experiments, and insights originating from multi-disciplinary viewpoints, including humanities, social sciences and mathematics are welcome. Important dates -------------------- * Submission deadline: Aug 08, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: Aug 20, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission: Sep 05, 2008 * Workshop in Vienna: Sep 28, 2008 Description -------------------- The Internet constantly challenges our notions of place and space, and we believe that a cross-domain exploration of this process is needed to understand its evolution. Indeed one of the most important effects of the Internet has been to relax spatial and temporal constraints, contributing to the modern "space-time collapse", by allowing quasi instantaneous access to information, services, and physical resources. However, the multiplication of services and the democratisation of GPS based technologies introduce both the possibility and the need of a more location-oriented access to the virtual spaces that constitute the Internet. Moreover, the Internet familiarised us with new topologies which have become the model of many new forms of organization: the self- organizing rhizomic network of the World wide Web challenging hierarchies, P2P networks of devices that create dynamic semi-private subspaces and communities, new forms of proximity based on micro- blogging and social networks, as well sensor and controller nets establishing ubiquitous access, sensing and interaction. Furthermore, virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft or Second Life are attracting an increasing number of users, while second generation Web mapping technologies and virtual globes contribute to blur the boundaries between spatial representation and perception by providing mashup opportunities, photorealism, visual navigation, and three- dimensional representations. Topics of interest -------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Study and Representation of physical/virtual spaces and topologies * 3D and 4D Internet * Geo-located services and sensors * Internet based Sense of Place and Presence * Second generation Web mapping applications * Mobility and ubiquity * Visibility and privacy in the Internet of people and things Submissions -------------------- The following types of contributions are welcomed: * Short technical and position papers, up to 4 pages. * Full technical papers, up to 10 pages. Organizing Committee -------------------- * Vlad Tanasescu - The Open University, UK * Arno Scharl - MODUL University Vienna, Austria * Erik Wilde - UC Berkeley, California, USA Program Committee -------------------- * Andrew U. Frank - Technical University Vienna, Austria * Catherine Dolbear - Ordnance Survey Research Labs, UK * Marc Wick - GeoNames.org, Switzerland * Ren Reynolds - TerraNova.blogs.com, UK * Dumitru Roman - STI Innsbruck, Austria * Stefan Dietze - The Open University, UK * Susanne Boll - University of Oldenburg, Germany * Hans W. Guesgen - Massey University, New Zealand * Marie-Kristina Thomson - University College London, UK * Vedran Sabol - Know-Center, Austria * Pierre Grenon - The Open University, UK * Vinny Reynolds - DERI Galway, Ireland Further information -------------------- Updated information about the workshop can be found on the workshop website: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/onespace08/ For further information, please send an email to onespace2008@easychair.org ----------------------------------------------------------- Best regards. Vlad Tanasescu Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) CRC / The Open University prof: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/vlad/ linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vladtn group: http://groups.google.com/group/geospatial-semantics --------------------------------- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:47:32 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: TL Infobits -- July 2008 TL INFOBITS July 2008 No. 25 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjul08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... 15 Years of Infobits: Looking Back Stakeholders in E-Learning Success Mellon Report on the State of Scholarly Publishing Initiatives Web Science Webcasting Tips Online Learning Books Online Learning Games Reviews Recommended Reading ...................................................................... 15 YEARS OF INFOBITS: LOOKING BACK This month marks the fifteenth year of publishing Infobits. Looking back over the early issues, I found it interesting to see how information and instructional technologies in academe have changed and, I hope, progressed over the years. Some of the items in the very first issue (July 1993) included the following: A quote from a WIRED magazine article announced "an intriguing new tool for managing the cornucopia of information linked to the Internet." The tool was the World Wide Web. There was information on how to receive IBM publications -- via your fax machine. Answers to National Endowment for the Humanities grant questions could now be emailed to you. Readers were given a telephone number and postal address, but no email address, to request the service. A new publication, CD-ROM TODAY, was announced with the speculation that it "may fill the niche that the now-defunct MPC WORLD had intended to fill." CD-ROM TODAY ceased publication in 1996. The recommended reading was Michael Schrage's SHARED MINDS which introduced the concept of collaborative environments. (Haven't read it yet? You can now buy a used copy from an online bookseller for $0.47 US.) -- Carolyn Kotlas Editor of Infobits in all its incarnations: TL Infobits (2006-present) CIT Infobits (1998-2006) IAT Infobits (1993-98) ...................................................................... STAKEHOLDERS IN E-LEARNING SUCCESS In "Who Is Responsible for E-Learning Success in Higher Education? A Stakeholders' Analysis" (by Nicole Wagner, Khaled Hassanein, and Milena Head, JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY, vol. 11, no. 3 2008, pp. 26-36), the stakeholder groups that determine the success of e-learning are identified along with their needs and responsibilities. Stakeholder groups include students, instructors, educational institutions, content providers, technology providers, accreditation bodies, and employers. The authors provide a Stakeholders' Responsibility Matrix to clarify the interdependencies of these groups. The paper is available at http://www.ifets.info/journals/11_3/3.pdf The Journal of Educational Technology & Society [ISSN 1436-4522]is a peer-reviewed, quarterly publication that "seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems." Current and back issues are available at http://www.ifets.info/ The journal is published by the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. For more information, see http://ifets.ieee.org/ ...................................................................... MELLON REPORT ON THE STATE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING INITIATIVES The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has recently released its 2007 Annual Report. One of the essays in the document, "Scholarly Publishing Initiatives," by Donald J. Waters and Joseph S. Meisel, reports on two scholarly publishing initiatives that the Foundation funded: "one aimed at increasing the capacity of university presses to publish first books by junior scholars in fields where publication opportunities have become constrained, the other at strengthening the substantive relationship between university presses and their home institutions." The essay is available at http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/annual-reports-essays/presidents-essays/scholarly-publishing-initiatives/ The complete annual report is available at http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/annual-reports-essays/annual-reports See also: "Mellon Foundation Assesses the State of Scholarly Publishing" By Jennifer Howard THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, July 28, 2008 http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/07/3986n.htm The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 1255 Twenty-third Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033; Web: http://chronicle.com/ ...................................................................... WEB SCIENCE "[T]he Web influences the world, and the world influences the Web. So complex is the Web, with tens of billions of pages on the 'surface Web' and hundreds of billions of documents in the 'deep Web', and so interrelated with society (especially in the rich democracies) has it become, that its health is a matter of real importance." In "Web Science" (ALT ONLINE NEWSLETTER, Issue 12, May 2008), Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall present their case for a new area of research -- Web Science. Such a discipline would encompass not only the fields of computer science, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and engineering, but also psychology, sociology, biology, economics, and law. The authors believe that the field of learning technology would benefit from and contribute to Web Science. The article is online at http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/e_article001068553.cfm ALT Online Newsletter [ISSN 1748-3603] is published quarterly by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). The newsletter is available at no cost on the Web at http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/ ALT, with over 200 member organizations, is a "professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. For more information, contact ALT Administration, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK; tel: +44 (0)1865 484125; fax: +44 (0)1865 484165; email: admin@alt.ac.uk; Web: http://www.alt.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... WEBCASTING TIPS In "Presenting from a Distance: Webcasting Tips" (Presentations.com, July 14, 2008), Dave Paradi offers some simple, but useful, advice for anyone giving a presentation via teleconferencing technology. He offers tips to handle the following characteristics of giving such a presentation: 1. The Internet will limit what you can do. 2. Your audience is multitasking. 3. Graphics need more explanation. The article is available at http://www.presentations.com/msg/content_display/sales/e3i78e076c5490e1313478b4b3ec6950ed3 Presentations.com, published by Nielsen Business Media, Inc., is a "comprehensive presenter's resource providing instant access to up-to-date information on technology and techniques for effective communication." Current and past articles are available at http://www.presentations.com/ ...................................................................... ONLINE LEARNING BOOKS ONLINE Two texts that focus on online learning have recently been released online in PDF format and can be downloaded for free. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ONLINE LEARNING, 2nd Edition Edited by Terry Anderson Published by Athabasca University Press http://www.aupress.ca/books/Terry_Anderson.php This second edition "updates each chapter from the 2004 edition and includes new chapters on social software, online learning philosophy, business costing, and mobile learning." Anderson is professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University and the editor of the INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING (http://www.irrodl.org/). EDUCATION FOR A DIGITAL WORLD: ADVICE, GUIDELINES, AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICE FROM AROUND THE GLOBE Co-published by BC Campus and the Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/5312 The book "contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development." ...................................................................... LEARNING GAMES REVIEWS Games4Learning is an initiative to explore the use of computer games in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill curriculum. A new feature has been added to the initiative's website: reviews of eight free or low-cost games designed to be used as learning tools, and more game reviews are planned. Reviews are written by students at or near the intended age range of the games tested. To read the reviews and to learn more about the Games4Learning initiative, see http://learnit.unc.edu/games4learning/ Also of note: The theme of the latest issue of the COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM (vol. 51, no. 8, August 2008) is "Designing Games with a Purpose." http://cacm.acm.org/ (Please note: for some papers, online access is not available to non-subscribers.) ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to kotlas@email.unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "'wot do U tink?' (What Do You Think?)" by M. O. Thirunarayanan UBIQUITY, vol. 9, no. 30, July 29 - August 4, 2008 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i30_thirunarayanan.html "d Conventions of a # of d st8z, havN @ d tym of thR adoptin d Constitution, expressed a desire, n ordr 2 prevnt misconstruction o abuse of itz powRz, dat furthr declaratory & restrictive clauses shud b +D: & az extending d ground of public confidNc n d Government, wiL best ensure d beneficent ndz of itz institution." No, your computer is not malfunctioning. As an entertaining exercise, M. O. Thirunarayanan, faculty member in the Florida International University College of Education, used a text converter (transl8it!) to translate the text of the U.S. Bill of Rights into text messaging language. Transl8it! is available at http://www.transl8it.com/ ...................................................................... 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From - Sun Aug 03 17:16:18 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:06:45 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.174] (helo=Princeton.EDU) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPfAR-0005xN-FS for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:06:45 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73F30Iw005502; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:03:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m737CS6W012974; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20624531 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:56:04 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m73EraCJ028806 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:53:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73EraOO008406 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:53:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73ErZF5008401 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:53:35 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217775214-5f87018d0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 10C1C7BD380 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id c9dECVPgMACdZNV2 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPexi-0000vB-93 for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:53:34 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.162 call for nominations: Roberto Busa Award Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217775215 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5352 signatures=437316 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0808030042 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <4895C668.2020902@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:53:28 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.162 call for nominations: Roberto Busa Award X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m73F30Iw005502 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 130 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:50154 X-Body-Linecount: 66 X-Message-Size: 6883 X-Body-Size: 2921 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -51 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.2 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0002] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-51 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 162. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:45:42 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: ADHO Roberto Busa Award - Call for nominations The ADHO Roberto Busa Award Call for nominations for the 2010 award The Roberto Busa Award is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Soci=E9t=E9 pour l'=E9tude des m=E9= dias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. Subsequent recipients have been: * Emeritus Professor John Burrows (2001), who helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and bridged the gap between traditional literary criticism and omputer-aided stylistics; * Emeritus Professor Susan Hockey (2004), for her contribution to the establishment of the field of Humanities Computing, and for her work on computers and text; * Professor Dr. Wilhelm Ott (2007), creator of TUSTEP, director of the Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, and host of 90 seminars over several decades in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften . The next Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference, which will be held at King's College London, England. The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI. Nominators should give an account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee's work is required. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent no later than November 1st 2008, to the Chair of the Busa Award Committee: Jean Anderson, J.Anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH Fax: +44 141 330 4537 Email submissions are preferred. Members of the 2010 Busa Award Committee: Jean Anderson (Chair, ALLC), Chuck Bush (ACH), Ray Siemens (SDH/SEMI) Lorna Hughes, Matt Jockers, Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen, Claire Warwick. From - Sun Aug 03 17:16:18 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:07:48 +0100 Received: from [128.112.133.8] (helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPfBT-0002cF-8c for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:07:48 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73F2PR5001167; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m73ECS1w006619; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20624528 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:56:04 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m73EqlBL028792 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:52:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73Eql16007790 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:52:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m73Eqk80007788 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:52:47 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217775166-6aeb002a0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9C068271C6D for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:52:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id IeBT27rzvgyeXOLD for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:52:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPewt-0000lQ-Rd for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:52:43 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.163 A Humanist's editor's holiday Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217775166 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5352 signatures=437316 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0808030042 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <4895C635.9050504@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:52:37 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.163 A Humanist's editor's holiday X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 96 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.8:40255 X-Body-Linecount: 33 X-Message-Size: 5204 X-Body-Size: 1363 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (0.1 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=1 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 163. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:02:11 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: A Humanist's editor's holiday Dear colleagues, From Thursday 7 August until at least Wednesday 20 August I will be out of reach of e-mail and for most of that time beyond the grasp of ordinary mobile telephony. Where in the world, you might ask? I recall one time when I gave more or less the same warning and received, almost immediately, a note from an old friend and Humanist ab ovo, who wrote (I paraphrase), "What do you mean, 'out of the reach of e-mail'? This from a coffee house in Beirut!" But I mean it this time. Beirut is *very* well connected in comparison to the north-west corner of Australia. My advice is to watch carefully for the emergence of any posting you make during this time. If you don't see it by 29 August please let me know and resend. I will be potentially well connected after 20 August but not at home until 15 September so cannot predict how often circumstances will allow me to use my connectivity. In will do my best. All the best. Yours, WM From - Mon Aug 04 06:08:28 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:08:21 +0100 Received: from [128.112.131.174] (helo=Princeton.EDU) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPsIt-0007pT-2n for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:08:21 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7454hDf021039; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:04:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m742Ca48008547; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:04:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20630960 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:02:54 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m74528GH003092 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:02:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m74528P5019416 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:02:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m74526HR019413 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:02:07 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1217826126-2e7a00430000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A802E125F49C for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:02:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id YJ4omgInHefxb6Lk for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:02:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPsCo-0006Z4-HC for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:02:02 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.167 "Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future", Univ of Western Sydney, 2 September Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1217826126 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5352 signatures=437316 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0808030143 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48968D44.7080102@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:01:56 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.167 "Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future", Univ of Western Sydney, 2 September X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 119 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:56441 X-Body-Linecount: 55 X-Message-Size: 5987 X-Body-Size: 2024 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -51 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.2 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0003] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-51 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 167. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:59:09 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future -- 2 September at Parramatta -- hosted by Centre for Cultural Research, UWS [Apologies for cross-postings -- please distribute to your networks] *Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future* /A one-day symposium presented by the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney / 10am-4pm, Tuesday 2 September 2008 The Gallery, Female Orphan School (building EZ), Parramatta campus, UWS *Program:* *Professor Willard McCarty*, Kings College, London, 'Stepping off the edge of the world or into it: The Dictionary of Words in the Wild as research?' *Dr Paul Arthur*, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 'Historical GIS: Showcasing Western Australia's Past, Present and Future' *Professor Ien Ang and Dr Nayantara Pothen*, Centre for Cultural Research, 'diverCities: Challenges of doing a digital humanities project' *Associate Professor Andrew Murph*ie, School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, 'Open? Access? Publishing?: a new world for humanities publishing is a new world for the humanities' *Dr John Byron*, The Australian Academy of the Humanities, 'Roadmaps and beltways: Digital humanities policy developments' *Discussion*: The Possible Futures of Digital Humanities. Tea/coffee available from 9.30am, morning tea, lunch and refreshments provided. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (44) Subject: University of Glasgow Seeks Director for HATII [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (27) Subject: Job at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (66) Subject: Fitzwilliam Museum re-display: AHRC funded Research Associate --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:46:04 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: University of Glasgow Seeks Director for HATII University of Glasgow Seeks Director for HATII *Ref: 14448/HRP/A1* The University of Glasgow is seeking a successor to Professor Seamus Ross, Director of Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII), who will be taking up the post of Dean at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto from January 2009. HATII is one of the leading Institutes for Humanities informatics research, playing a pivotal role in European research projects and participating in worldwide research networks. It is central to the strategy of the University's Faculty of Arts, where its research informs and enriches the work of many academic Schools and Centres, and it plays a major role as influencer and collaborator across the University. It works closely with national and international bodies to develop and set standards for digital curation and humanities informatics. The new Director, an exceptional academic and leader to be appointed at Professorial level, will be expected to develop further HATII's excellence in research and teaching on the international stage and set an agenda for the growth and development of the Institute within the University. *Closing date: 29th August 2008* KEY Application Documents Job Description: http://www.gla.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/researchandteaching/14448director/ Application Information Form: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_26167_en.doc Equal Opportunities Form: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_26169_en.doc Guaranteed Interview Forms: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_26172_en.doc many academic Schools and Centres, and it plays a major role as influencer and collaborator across the University. It works closely with national and international bodies to develop and set standards for digital curation and humanities informatics. The new Director, an exceptional academic and leader to be appointed at Professorial level, will be expected to develop further HATII's excellence in research and teaching on the international stage and set an agenda for the growth and development of the Institute within the University. *Closing date: 29th August 2008* KEY Application Documents Job Description: http://www.gla.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/researchandteaching/14448director/ Application Information Form: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_26167_en.doc Equal Opportunities Form: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_26169_en.doc Guaranteed Interview Forms: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:48:08 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Job at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and=20 Humanities Dear colleagues, I would like to point you to an open position at the Telota-Initiative ("The electronic life of the Academy") of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (http://www.bbaw.de/). Though the job advertisement is in German and knowledge of German is advantageous the project language is not necessarily German. http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/Ausschreibung_Telota_2008-08-01.pdf Basic data: - position: research associate - duration: 1 October 2008 until 31 December 2009 - qualifications: - knowledge in developing digital humanities resources - knowledge of XML and related technologies - knowledge of a programming language You can find an overview of our last projects at http://www.telota.de and http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html Applications via email should be addressed to Renate Neumann (neumann@bbaw.de) referring to reference number AG/06/08. Please don't hesitate to contact me for further informations. Best Regards, Alexander Czmiel -- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "Telota-LAB - 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:49:03 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Fitzwilliam Museum re-display: AHRC funded Research=20 Associate THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM University of Cambridge AHRC Project: Ancient Greece and Rome at the Fitzwilliam Museum Research Associate Unestablished post Grade 7 Salary range =C2=A325,888 - =C2=A333,780 per annum Tenure is limited to the three years for which AHRC funds are available. The Fitzwilliam Museum, the principal museum of the University of Cambridge is engaged in a radical re-display of its main Greek and Roman gallery. Underpinning this re-display is a joint research project with the Faculty of Classics, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The principal aim is to link university based research into classical art and culture with museum centred investigation and display. A Research Associate is required to join the Project team of Museum curators, conservators and University academics. Throughout the three years he or she will engage in research focused on the Fitzwilliam collection, as well as assisting in the preparation and installation of the new display, contributing to the associated educational programme and the wider dissemination of research results. In the first year, the position will be largely based in the Museum; in years two and three, it will be divided between the Museum and the Faculty of Classics. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a leading museum collection. The successful applicant will have a Phd or be of post-doctoral standing in Classics or a relevant field of Classical studies. He or she will also have a good understanding of current research directions in Classical Art and Archaeology. Experience and interest in museum work is highly desirable, as is a high degree of IT literacy. Closing date for applications: 31 August 2008 Planned interview date: Week starting 8 September 2008 Start date: 1 October or as soon as possible thereafter Further details and application form PD18 are available from http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/contact/jobs or Tel: 01223 764840. Candidates are asked to send their CV with a completed form PD18, with a covering letter to Linda Brooklyn, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RB or lmb26@cam.ac.uk Candidates should nominate three referees and ask them to send their references directly to the same address to arrive by the closing date of 31 August 2008. Candidates should also send a sample of their written work (which may be a published article, a chapter of their thesis, or similar) in not more than 10,000 words in hard or electronic copy. Informal enquiries about the post may be made to either Lucilla Burn, lmb50@cam.ac.uk, Keeper, Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum or to one of the project members in the Faculty of Classics Mary Beard, mb127@cam.ac.uk; Robin Osborne, ro225@cam.ac.uk; Caroline Vout, cv103@cam.ac.uk. The University welcomes diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:47:12 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: DRHA08 conference P=C3=A4iv=C3=A4ys: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:37:29 +0100 L=C3=A4hett=C3=A4j=C3=A4: Tamsin Mann Vastausosoite: Tamsin Mann Otsikko: DRHA08 conference Vastaanottaja: dh2008@oulu.fi Dear colleagues, I hope that your recent DH2008 conference was successful and stimulating. I am currently orgainsing a conference examining similar themes, which is Digital Resources for Humanities & Arts. This will take place in Cambridge from 14-17th September. Since this is an annual event I expect that many of your delegates will know about it already, but I wondered if it would be possible for you to inform the delegates from your conference about this event? The website is http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/default.aspx and of course I would be happy to answer any questions you might have about this. Kind regards, Tamsin Mann Tamsin Mann DRHA08 Event Manager University of Cambridge Tel: +44 (0)1223 765447 http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08 From - Mon Aug 25 22:39:54 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:39:34 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KXjmf-0001hz-Gh for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:39:34 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7PLXj4f029057; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:33:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m7PIlFWF025594; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20772467 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:29:41 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7PLSMDX001911 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:28:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7PLSMbc009949 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:28:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7PLSGsb009941 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:28:21 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1219699696-6b4603b80000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 99FC999EB42 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id KIa4b8YMYUMf1xsC for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 180.68.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.68.180] helo=[192.168.1.5]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KXjbi-0005wl-AT for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:28:14 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.170 resumption of Humanist, with apologies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8083/Mon Aug 25 01:48:23 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1219699696 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5369 signatures=450746 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0808250175 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48B323E9.2070003@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:28:09 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.170 resumption of Humanist, with apologies X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 89 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:60304 X-Body-Linecount: 24 X-Message-Size: 4849 X-Body-Size: 858 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-26 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 170. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:26:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: resumption, with apologies Dear colleagues, As of this Downunder morning, Humanist should resume again with reasonable reliability. I apologise for the long hiatus. I won't bother to send out announcements of events now in the past unless the sender writes me to insist on publication. If any less contingent submission of yours does not appear in the small flood now about to break over you, please let me know. Enjoy your Summer while I enjoy a bit of Winter! All the best. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (32) Subject: Publication announcement of "Reassembling the Disassembled Book" in Computing in the Humanities Working Papers [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (49) Subject: ethics of digital media [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (52) Subject: Applied Ontology Special Issue --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:33:00 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Publication announcement of "Reassembling the=20 Disassembled Book" in Computing in the Humanities Working Papers Announcement: A collection of new essays on the topic of "Reassembling the Disassembled Book" has been published by /CH Working Papers/ at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/CHC2007/ "The digital technologies represented in this collection enable disassembly and reassembly [of books] in ways that mimic, reproduce= , reverse, and expose the original processes that produced the subjec= t texts, thereby extending the scholarly and critical possibilities o= f analysis and synthesis." Table of Contents: * Brent Nelson, =C2=93Introduction: Reassembling the Disassembled Book.=C2= =94 * Peter Stoicheff, =C2=93Putting Humpty Together Again: Otto Ege's Scatte= red Leaves.=C2=94 * Yin Liu and Jeff Smith. =C2=93A Relational Database Model for Text Enco= ding.=C2=94 * Paul Dyck and Stuart Williams. =C2=93Toward an Electronic Edition of an Early Modern Assembled Book.=C2=94 * Richard Cunningham, =C2=93Dis-Covering the Early Modern Book: An Experi= ment in Humanities Computing.=C2=94 * Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino and Tanya Clement, =C2=93Visualizing Repetition in Text.=C2=94 -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson@arts.usask.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:37:29 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: ethics of digital media Dear all, As some may know, I've been working on a textbook titled _Digital Media Ethics_, with Foreword by Luciano Floridi. I'm happy to say that the volume is now scheduled to be published by Polity Press in late February, 2009. Here's the blurb: =3D=3D This is the first textbook on the central ethica= l issues of digital media, ranging from computers and games to the Internet and mobile phones. It is also the first book of its kind to consider these issues from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. It further utilizes examples from around the world, such as the publication of "the Mohammed Cartoons"; diverse understandings what "privacy" means in Facebook or MySpace; why pirating CDs and DVDs may be justified in developing countries; and culturally-variable perspectives on sexuality and what counts as "pornography." Readers and students thus acquire a global perspective on the central ethical issues of digital media, including privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. The book is designed for use across disciplines =C3= =AF=C2=BD=C2=AD media and communication studies, computer science and informatics, as well as philosophy. It is up-to-date, accessible and student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions that foster careful reflection, writing, and discussion into these issues and their possible resolutions. Each chapter further includes additional resources and suggestions for further research and writing. =3D=3D There will also be a website affiliated with the text where faculty and students will be able to contribute examples, additional exercises, etc. - and I'm also looking forward to 2.0, with expanded material on mobile phones (working on that now). Two things: 1) I'm happy to share a pre-publication version of the book (with the usual caveats re. no copying, citation, or distribution without permission) with colleagues who may be interested in having a look at the text - ideally, with a view towards "road-testing" one or two of the chapters and its exercises in their own teaching. If you would like to see this version of the book, please let me know offlist and I'll happily send the PDF your way. 2) I've also been asked by the publisher to develop a list of colleagues who might be interested in adopting the book in their teaching. Again, if anyone on this list is interested in reviewing the pre-publication version with this possibility in mind, I'd be happy to send the PDF along. Of course, if you can think of anyone else who might be interested in reviewing and possibly adopting the text, please let me know. All best wishes in the meantime, - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University Springfield, MO 65802 USA --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:47:33 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Applied Ontology Special Issue Special Issue Applied Ontology out now: Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling Guest-edited by Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin The objective of this issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by formal ontology, philosophical logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics to the foundations of conceptual modeling. The issue should be of interest to several academic communities, including primarily the communities of applied ontology and conceptual modeling, but also the ones of database and information systems design, knowledge engineering, semantic interoperability and information integration, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation, software engineering (in particular domain and requirements engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven engineering. The applied ontology editorial team is very proud of this special issue and wants to share some contents with you. Click on the links below to access three articles from this latest issue of Applied Ontology without costs. Contents Special Issue Volume 3, Number 1-2 (2008) Guest Editorial: Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin (USE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/41610575w0512233/?p=3D478e4fd1a3864= 9d6a89d06ab9613731f&pi=3D0) An ontology engineering methodology for DOGMA Peter Spyns, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman AEON =C2=96 An approach to the automatic evaluation of ontologies Johanna V=C3=B6lker, Denny Vrande_i_, York Sure and Andreas Hotho (USE TH= E FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/kxw547102114g533/?p=3D478e4fd1a3864= 9d6a89d06ab9613731f&pi=3D2) Observations, measurements and semantic reference spaces Florian Probst Representing and reasoning over a taxonomy of part=C2=96whole relations C. Maria Keet and Alessandro Artale (USE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/g427p7683u12621p/?p=3D478e4fd1a3864= 9d6a89d06ab9613731f&pi=3D4) Epistemological perspectives on ontology-based theories for conceptual modeling Jan Recker and Bj=C3=B6rn Niehaves About Applied Ontology Applied Ontology (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark Musen) is a journal whose focus is on information content in its broadest sense. It focuses on two broad kinds of content-based research activities: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (193) Subject: Last Call for Papers: 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (104) Subject: Call for Papers: Marco Manuscript Workshop, U of Tennessee, February 6-7, 2009 [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (100) Subject: Free Computational Power for Digital Humanities Research [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group (79) Subject: LATA 2009: 2nd call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:31:32 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Last Call for Papers: 2008 Chicago Colloquium on=20 Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Dear colleagues, Appended below is the final Call for Papers for the 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://dhcs.uchicago.edu). This year's event is taking place at the=20 University of Chicago, November 1=C2=963. Please note the August 31 deadline for the Call for Papers. In response to feedback from the last two colloquia at Northwestern and the University of Chicago (and inspired in part by the success of THATCamp, http://thatcamp.org/) we've added time before the colloquium proper for participant organized workshops, seminars and birds-of-a- feather meetings. We also have plans in place to produce an annual online publication through the University of Chicago of the colloquium's proceedings. More details on this and other efforts to encourage DHCS participants and presenters network and exchange ideas in advance of the event may be found on the colloquium's website, http://dhcs.uchicago.edu. with best regards, Arno Bosse Senior Director for Technology Division of the Humanities University of Chicago 1115 E. 58th St., Walker Room 213F Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: 773-702-6177 Fax: 773-834-5867 http://humanities.uchicago.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science DHCS Colloquium, November 1 - 3, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31, 2008 The goal of the annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The first DHCS Colloquium in 2006 (http://dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/) examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the "million books" digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 (http://dhcs.northwestern.edu/ ) focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies. The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Making Sense" - an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition from the digital to the analog. We invite submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computation Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Website: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/ Location: The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Keynote Speakers: * Oren Etzioni is director of the Turing Center and professor of computer science at the University of Washington where his current research interests (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/index.html ) include fundamental problems in the study of artificial intelligence, web search, machine reading, and machine learning. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations, and the KnowItAll project, which is is building domain-independent systems to extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner. Etzioni has published extensively in his field and served as an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on the editorial board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, amongst others. * Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose work focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data (http://www.bewitched.com/). He is the founding manager of IBM's Visual Communication Lab, which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab's latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com/), an experiment in open public data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. * Stephen Downie is associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=3Djdownie ) include the design and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval, the political economy of inter- networked communication systems, database design and web-based technologies. Downie is the principal investigator of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) which is working on producing a large, secure corpus of audio and symbolic music data accessible to the music information retrieval (MIR) community. Program Committee: * Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * John Goldsmith, Department of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computation Institute, University of Chicago * Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Robert Morrissey, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University * Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Anne Rogers, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago * Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, Computation Institute, University of Chicago * Kotoka Suzuki, Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago * Gary Tubb, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Call for Participation: Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for: * Paper presentations (20 minute maximum) * Poster sessions * Software demonstrations * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/workshops * Pre-conference 'birds of a feather' meetings Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: DHCS will begin with a half-day, pre-conference on Saturday, November 1 offering introductory tutorials on topics such as text analysis/data- mining and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre- conference period for informal "birds of a feather" meetings on topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology"). The formal DHCS colloquium program runs from Sunday, November 2 to Monday, November 3 and will consist of four, 1-1/2 hour paper panels and two, two-hour poster sessions as well as three keynotes. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please see the preliminary colloquium schedule (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/ ). Suggested Submission Topics: * Computing Cinematic Syntax * Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning * Visualizing Humanist Data: Lessons from Industry & Big Science * Sound, Video & Image based Information Retrieval * Genetic Algorithms and Computational Intelligence * Web Services for Humanist Scholarship * Serious Gaming / Meaningful Play * Cartography and the Digital Traveler / GIS Applications for the Humanities * Representing Reading Time * Computer-mediated Interaction * Gestural & Haptic Control for Music Composition * Deconstructing Machine Learning * Recognizing and Modeling Objects, Scenes & Events in 2D, 3D and Video * Contemporary Art / Creative Technologies * Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies * Cyberinfrastructure and High-Performance Computing for the Humanities * Programming Algorithmic Art * Virtual Acoustic Space and Aural Architecture * Eye Tracking & Scene Perception in the Cinema * Future Interactive Fictions * Semantic Search / Semantic Web * Automatic Extraction and Analysis of Natural Language Style Elements * Music Perception and Cognition * Social Scholarship / Socialized Search * Multi-agent Systems for Modeling Language Change * Empirical Philosophy / Affective Computing / Augmented Vision Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. No separate application form is required. Current graduate students whose proposals have been accepted will be contacted by the organizers with more details. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15 Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22 Registration: Monday, September 22 - Friday, October 24 Colloquium: Saturday, November 1 - Monday, November 3 Contact Info: Please email dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu or tweet dhcs2008 (http://twitter.com/dhcs2008 ). Organizing Committee: * Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago. * Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library. * Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:42:28 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Call for Papers: Marco Manuscript Workshop, U of=20 Tennessee, February 6-7, 2009 Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Textual Trauma: Violence Against Texts" February 6-7, 2009 Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies The University of Tennessee, Knoxville A two-day workshop on manuscript studies will be held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Roy M. Liuzza (English) and Maura K. Lafferty (Classics). The workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants will be invited to share both their successes and frustrations, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and paleographical work in Medieval Studies. Last year's workshop focused on the problems of editing texts characterized by constant change in pre-print culture; this year's workshop will explore the theme of violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. Texts are inextricably bound to their material context, and material damage can have significant implications both for the reading of a text and for our understanding of its reception and use. Erasures and other deletions call attention to themselves, often dramatically, insisting on the presence of their absence, constantly reminding the reader to remember to forget what has been altered or removed. Damage and defacement can convey a powerful message; they may tell us just as much about reading practices, ownership (of individual books and of the meaning of the text itself), claims of authority, assertions of power, the circulation of texts, and the interactions of textual communities as more positive marks like glosses, annotations, and colophons. Apart from damage through accident or neglect, which may leave incomplete or illegible fragments whose original status must be reconstructed, many manuscripts have erasures or corrections by contemporary or later scribes; words are deleted, names erased, text excised or cancelled. Violence can be done in damnatio memoriae; equally severe damage can result from a modern curator's efforts to preserve or recover faded readings. Some books fall apart from overuse; others are dismembered as being worthless. Texts can also be violated in ways that are less damaging to their physical material, but equally shattering: rewritings can fundamentally alter the text's meaning, sections can be extracted and placed in new contexts, contradictory texts can be bound together, commentary that attacks or distorts the text can be copied alongside it, and so on. Arguably, even modern printed critical editions imposes this sort of violence on the texts they hope to preserve. How should we regard these many forms of violent engagement with texts? Is an act of textual violence always a violation, the destruction of a privileged original, a gap that must be repaired? Or can editors and readers learn to regard the violence itself as an element of the text's identity as a cultural and social construct? How can we read such violence to understand the later use, appropriation, or abuse of the text, and its new role(s) in a changing world? We invite papers from scholars in all fields concerned with textual editing, manuscript studies, and epigraphy, especially those who are working on damaged, distorted, or otherwise traumatized texts; we hope to include both scholars working on the recovery of damaged or decayed readings and those who are examining the cultural implications of these acts of textual trauma. The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank who are engaged in manuscript research. Individual 90-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with this material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. We particularly invite works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation. The deadline for applications is October 1, 2008. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, U of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email to . The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to present their work but may be interested in learning more about manuscript studies. Non-presenters will not receive a stipend, but are encouraged to participate fully in discussions and other activities. Those wishing to attend should visit or contact Roy Liuzza for more information. [The Marco Manuscript Workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and supported by the Humanities Initiative Committee and the Office of Research at the University of Tennessee] -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dot.porter@gmail.com 859-257-1257 x.82115 *************************************** --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:51:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Free Computational Power for Digital Humanities Researc= h IBM Presents: A Workshop on Humanities Applications for the World Community Grid On October 6, 2008, IBM will be sponsoring a free one-day workshop in Washington, DC on high performance computing for humanities and social science research. This workshop is aimed at digital humanities scholars, computer scientists working on humanities applications, library information professionals, and others who are involved in humanities and social science research using large digital datasets. The session will be hosted by IBM computer scientists who will conduct a hands-on session describing how high performance computing systems like IBM=C2=92s World Community Grid can be used for humanities research. The workshop is intended to be much more than just a high-level introduction. There will be numerous technical demonstrations and opportunities for participants to discuss potential HPC projects. Topics will include: how to parallelize your code; useful tools and utilities; data storage and access; and a technical overview of the World Community Grid architecture. Brett Bobley and Peter Losin from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities have been invited to discuss some of the NEH's grant opportunities for humanities projects involving high performance computing. If attendees are already involved in projects that involve heavy computation, they are encouraged to bring sample code, data, and outputs so that they can speak with IBM scientists about potential next steps for taking advantage of high performance computing. While the demonstrations will be using the World Community Grid, our hope is that attendees will learn valuable information that could also be applied to other HPC platforms. The workshop will be held from 10 AM =C2=96 3 PM on October 6, 2008 at th= e IBM Institute for Electronic Government at 1301 K Street, NW, Washington, DC. To register, please contact Sherry Swick, sherry@us.ibm.com. Available spaces will be filled on a first-come, first served basis. */More about the World Community Grid/* World Community Grid, a philanthropic initiative developed by the IBM Corporation, offers researchers a unique opportunity to accelerate the pace of their work while also mobilizing people worldwide around critical social issues. Launched by IBM in November 2004, World Community Grid uses grid technology to harness the plentiful, underutilized resource of PCs and laptops to support humanitarian research. Today, volunteers around the globe have donated the computational power of close to 1 million PCs; World Community Grid is harnessing their power when the computers are on but not in use to help advance promising research. Results on critical health issues have already been achieved, demonstrating World Community Grid=C2=92s potential to make significant inroads on a great range of fut= ure projects that can benefit the world. World Community Grid is available free-of-charge only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of IBM=C2=92s commitment to advancing human welfare, all results must be published in the public domain and made public to the global research community. Current research partners include The Scripps Research Institute, The University of Texas Medical Branch, New York University, University of Washingon, French Muscular Dystrophy Association, the University of Cape Town and The Ontario Cancer Institute. If you are interested in having your project considered for World Community Grid, please go to: http://worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/viewSubmitAProposal.do. / /// Robin Willner Vice President, Global Community Initiatives IBM Corporation, New Orchard Road, Armonk, NY 10504 914-499-5619 (t/l: 8/641) Fax: 914-499-7684 _willner@us.ibm.com_ Check out our website: _www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives_ Join _www.worldcommunitygrid.org_ today! --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:54:19 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: LATA 2009: 2nd call for papers ********************************************************************* Second Call for Papers 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009) Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - algebraic language theory - algorithms on automata and words - automata and logic - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - biomolecular nanotechnology - cellular automata - circuits and networks - combinatorics on words - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexit= y - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - digital libraries - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - extended automata - foundations of finite state technology - fuzzy and rough languages - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - graphs and graph transformation - language varieties and semigroups - language-based cryptography - language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing, artificial intelligence and artificial life - mathematical evolutionary genomics - parsing - patterns and codes - power series - quantum, chemical and optical computing - regulated rewriting - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - symbolic dynamics - symbolic neural networks - term rewriting - text algorithms - text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines STRUCTURE: LATA 2009 will consist of: - 3 invited talks - 2 invited tutorials - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields or on professional issues (if requested by the participants) Invited speakers will be: Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux): Graph Structure and Monadic Second-order Logic (tutorial) Markus Holzer (Muenchen): Nondeterministic Finite Automata: Recent Developments (tutorial) Sanjay Jain (Singapore): Role of Hypothesis Spaces in Inductive Inference Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada): State Complexity of Nested Word Automata Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo): Recent Developments in Algorithmic Teaching [...] From - Mon Aug 25 23:27:36 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:23:42 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KXkTL-0002B9-Tu for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (47) Subject: Stanford Humanities Center: 2009-10 Fellowship Opportunities [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (59) Subject: Digital Librarian position: Palo Alto, CA --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:34:03 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Stanford Humanities Center: 2009-10 Fellowship=20 Opportunities *Announcement of Faculty Fellowships* *at the* *Stanford Humanities Center* We would appreciate if you would share this information with colleagues who may be interested: The online application for 2009-2010 faculty fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center is now available. Fellows are in residence at the Center during the regular academic year (September to June) and participate in the Center's intellectual life, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse community of scholars from across the spectrum of academic fields and ranks. Applicants must have a PhD and will normally be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. Fellows are awarded stipends of up to $60,000. In addition, a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000 is offered, dependent upon need. Please visit http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/about.htm for complete information. How to Apply For the online application and more information, please see our website: http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/about.htm email: shc-fellowships@stanford.edu phone: (650) 723-3054 *External Faculty Fellowships* Open to scholars from humanities departments as traditionally defined and to other scholars seriously interested in humanistic issues. Fellowship term: September 2009 - June 2010 *Online application deadline: October 15, 2008* *Digital Humanities Fellowship* Open to scholars whose research projects are critically shaped by information technology. Projects should be oriented to producing new research outcomes rather than focusing primarily on the creation of archives or software. Appropriate projects will approach significant questions in humanistic study with the aid of new research tools or methodologies. Fellowship term: September 2009 - June 2010 *Online application deadline: October 15, 2008* *Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellowship* The Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) intend to offer one residential fellowship to an arts practitioner who is also a writer, scholar, or critic pursuing a research project in the arts. The recipient will be in residence with other fellows at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with one of three SiCa centers. Arts inquiries may be addressed sica@stanford.edu . Fellowship term: September 2008 - June 2009 *Online application deadline: December 1, 2008* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:43:30 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Librarian position: Palo Alto, CA Position Description Benetech (www.benetech.org) has a unique and exciting opportunity for a Librarian for Bookshare.org, the world's largest collection of digital electronic books for the blind and print disabled. Benetech was founded in 1989 with an explicit goal to create new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives. Led by Jim Fruchterman, a leading social entrepreneur and MacArthur Fellow, Benetech=C2=92s mission is to lead the world in creative, effective applications of technology to unmet social needs. We focus on projects that offer the greatest social return on funds invested. In 2007 Benetech was awarded $32 million by the Federal Government to expand Bookshare.org=C2=92s online collection to over 100,000 additional volumes in support of all print-disabled students nationwide. Currently, the Bookshare.org library contains over 39,000 volumes. The librarian for Bookshare.org will shepherd the collection through its growth as one of the nation's foremost educational resources for disabled students in this country. This is a technical position and ideal for someone interested in the challenge of devising and implementing a cutting edge on-line cataloging scheme that meets the needs of a specialized population while maintaining standard library interfaces. This position is full time, onsite in Palo Alto, California and reports to the Director of Operations for Bookshare.org. Resumes from candidates requesting 30/hrs week will be considered. Essential Duties and Responsibilities =C2=95 Select an appropriate classification schema for the collection bas= ed on several key criteria including compatibility with other accessible collections =C2=95 Reclassify the books in the collection according to the new schema =C2=95 Enable and coordinate cross-referencing with other collections of accessible books =C2=95 Create and implement a collection acquisition plan for growing the collection =C2=95 Liaison with professional library associations such as the ALA, IF= LA and DAISY =C2=95 Work effectively with all departments within Bookshare.org (Collec= tion Development, Publisher Liaison, Partner Programs, etc.) to maintain the quality and integrity of the collection. Qualifications =C2=95 A degree in library science is required and 5+ years in Library an= d Information Management with an emphasis on utilization of Information technologies. =C2=95 Technical expertise with metadata technology, such as Dublin Core, used to describe and classify books in an online digital collection is required =C2=95 Very strong professional interpersonal skills and the ability to represent Bookshare.org's interests to a wide variety of stakeholders =C2=95 Ability to work well independently and within a multi-disciplinary team environment with high standards, integrity and a sense of humor =C2=95 Management experience is a plus =C2=95 Experience working with school libraries at the K-12 or university level is highly desirable =C2=95 Knowledge of the assistive technology field with emphasis on tools= and technology for access to printed materials is a definite plus. If you would like to help us grow Benetech, please send your resume and a cover letter to hr@benetech.org or Human Resources at 650/475-1066 (fax). In your cover letter, please (a) explain why you would like to work for us and (b) discuss your relevant background. Salaries at Benetech are commensurate with education, experience and responsibility, and are competitive with private-sector positions. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:41:23 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CFP: Rethinking Technology Transfer projects Special Issue on the International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development. Call for papers ? Rethinking Technology Transfer projects: Culture and Communicating Knowledge in Developing Regions. Culture and knowledge communication practices underlie important challenges that face those who work in, and with, developing regions and technology. The tacit understandings inherent in these practices also deal with the problems encountered with innovation and implementation of ICT and related enabling technologies involving difficult physical environments, limited technological infrastructure and social gaps, misunderstandings and conflicts. This issue intends to ask important questions about the connection between knowledge and communication when culture operates as a medium and not just as an object. This tension between knowledge and culture manifests itself in the communication between the different stakeholders, their priorities and interpretive frames. * What is persuasive and invasive about technology and how is the local culture changed by its introduction? * How are local stakeholders considered in the conception and planning of technology transfer projects? * What cultural problems arise in communicating knowledge about technology and using technology to communicate knowledge in developing regions? * How are technological knowledge and situational knowledge communicated by the international, governmental and local stakeholders in developing world projects? * How and why do current development methods enhance or impede knowledge communication? * To what extent can/should technology transfer include diffusion of innovations versus co-construction of innovation? How do culture and knowledge communication affect it? Contributions are sought from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary frames, as well as from those with practical and/or theoretical insights. Please submit 400 - 800 words abstracts by 5th September 2008 by email to both of the editors: Lynne Dunckley, phd. Professor of Information Technology at the Institute for IT Thames Valley University, UK Constance Kampf, phd. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.htm= l www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:59:32 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: UBIQUITY 9.33 Our Ubiquity article this week has been enhanced for your reading enjoyment! Please take time to check it out. Volume 9, Issue 33 /August 19 =C2=96 August 25, 2008/ *UBIQUITY ALERT*: *Information, DNA, and Change through the Prism of a Great City * by John Stuckey After retiring from a career in academic/IT management at Carnegie-Mellon, Northeastern, and Washington and Lee Universities, John Stuckey is serving as Acting Chief Technology Officer at the American University in Cairo. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:33:37 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Location-based information retrieval with mobile device= s? Dear Humanist list members, is anyone of you aware of a project (either active or in development) that allows users to simultaneously access various types of information about a specific place (e.g., a city), such as its history, architecture, literary and artistic movements, etc., using location-aware mobile devices? This would not be a commercial tool such as Yahoo=C2=92s or Google=C2=92s mobile sites that offer restaurant guide= s and other services, but would instead function as a cultural guide that would enable users to both serendipitously and intentionally discover how various disciplines intersect at a particular location. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (90) Subject: cfp: Computer Applications in Archaeology 2009 [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (28) Subject: World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (31) Subject: Mining Classical Greek Texts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:29:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: Computer Applications in Archaeology 2009 *CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND ROUNDTABLES at the 2009 Conference of Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA)* The 37th annual conference on Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA) will take place at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia from March 22 to 26, 2009. The conference will bring together students and scholars to explore current theory and applications of quantitative methods and information technology in the field of archaeology. CAA members come from a diverse range of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, art and architectural history, computer science, geography, geomatics, historic preservation, museum studies, and urban history. For full information, please see the conference web site at www.caa2009.org . The annual meetings of CAA are normally devoted to topics such as: agent-based models, bioarchaeology, CIDOC and other digital standards, databases, 3D data capture and modeling, data management systems and other field applications, GIS, predictive modeling, open source software in archaeology, photogrammetry and imaging, prospection and remote sensing, quantitative methods, high precision surveying, virtual museums, and virtual reality. Submissions of proposals for sessions, round tables, and workshops will be due by *October 15, 2008*. The online submission system, which will be posted at http://www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm, will open September 3, 2008. Submitters will be notified of the results by mid-November, when the call for individual papers and posters will be open. Abstracts for individual papers and posters will be due by *December 15, 2008*. Sessions Session organizers should provide a session invitation of 300 to 500 words relating to a well-defined theme. You should define the topic, explain its importance, and suggest the specific themes or issues that might be appropriately addressed by your contributors. A session can consist of two or three 90-minute blocks of time punctuated by a 15-minute break. It typically consists of six, but no more than nine, presentations and should include time for debate and discussion as well as an introduction and a wrap-up. Session proposals may include one or more abstracts of papers that will be presented, but will normally leave open the possibility for members of CAA to apply to participate in the proposed session. All session proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee for their quality and relevance. This review will take into account any paper abstracts you include with your session proposal. Once a proposal has been accepted, it is placed on the conference web page, and an invitation is issued for additional paper abstracts to be submitted to your session. The session organizer will advise the Scientific Committee on which papers should be accepted or rejected for their session. The organizer will also be responsible for scheduling the order of presentations, presiding over the session, and for nominating two or three of the papers for publication in the printed acts of the conference. Round Tables and Workshops Round table and workshop organizers should provide an invitation of 300 to 500 words introducing the discussion topic. A /round table/ proposal includes a list of four to eight panel members (names and affiliations) from at least two different countries. It should address a topic of general interest to the CAA community. The round table organizer must ensure that the panel members agree to attend the conference and take part in the round table. A round table organizer is the chairperson and acts as moderator. A time slot of 90 minutes will be allocated to each round table discussion. All round table proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee for their quality and relevance. A /workshop/ typically consists of a software and/or hardware demonstration in which the audience can actively participate. The proposal must include information on the duration (not to exceed 135 minutes), experience level, and prerequisites of the targeted audience as well as the maximum number of participants. Along with the proposal, a list of the presenters and their affiliations is required. -- Bernard Frischer, Director IATH University of Virginia www.iath.virginia.edu office tel. +1-434-924-4873 (Alderman Library) office tel. +1-434-243-4080 (10th and Market) home tel. +1-434-971-1435 US cell: +1-310-266-0183 --------------------------------- Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 --------------------------------- Postal address: IATH 100 10th Street, NE, Suite 103 Charlottesville, VA 22902 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:31:28 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009) March 31 - April 2, 2009 Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS & EXPO The Los Angeles/Anaheim area is known for its many renowned attractions, such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Very few cities in the world offer as much entertainment, excitement and diversity as Los Angeles/Anaheim does. CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering. CSIE 2009 consists of the following Technical Symposiums: * Communications & Mobile Computing Symposium * Computer Applications Symposium * Computer Design & VLSI Symposium * Data Mining & Data Engineering Symposium * Intelligent Systems Symposium * Multimedia & Signal Processing Symposium * Software Engineering Symposium CSIE 2009 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers in the proceedings will be included in EI Compendex, ISTP, and IEEE Xplore. In addition to research papers, CSIE 2009 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for computer science and information engineering. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:37:31 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Mining Classical Greek Texts [At the CCH, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/, room 212 at 16:00 on Tuesday 2nd Sept: "Mining Classical Greek Texts", a talk by Professor Helma Dik (Chicago).] ==================== _Mining Classical Greek Texts_ Text mining is making its way into the Humanities. I expect that in the age of large corpora, mining tools will soon have a place on the scholar's workbench next to the established concordancing tools, but this is not the case yet. In the Classics, as far as I am aware, nothing has been published in this area so far. Yet some of the field's notorious Big Questions To Be Avoided (the relative chronology of early epic poetry; authorship in Lysias or the Hippocratic corpus; women's language; ..) would seem to lend themselves to experiments in text mining. Will such experiments offer literary scholars results they actually consider interesting or meaningful? Are we perhaps better off studying documentary corpora or scientific texts? In my paper I will apply the open-source mining software Philomine developed at the University of Chicago to the Perseus Greek texts and discuss some of these Big Questions and possible future avenues. ==================== -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From - Thu Aug 28 00:05:55 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:05:52 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KYU5F-0002F1-Uh for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:05:52 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7RN2J4E009982; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (10) Subject: - 2nd call for papers [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (47) Subject: memics2008-cfp2.txt MEMICS 2008, Call for Papers: Deadline Approaching --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:47:54 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: - 2nd call for papers Dear all, This is a second call for a session Gareth Beale and I are organising entitled ': Archaeological Theory in the Light of Contemporary Computing' at the TAG conference this year (http://www.tagconference.org/2008). Session details can be found here: http://www.tagconference.org/content/tag-20-archaeological-theory-light-contemporary-computing Please note that the deadline for this is September 1st! Hope to hear from some of you soon. Leif (apologies for cross-posting) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:50:59 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: memics2008-cfp2.txt MEMICS 2008, Call for Papers: Deadline Approaching 4th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2008 http://www.memics.cz November 14--16, 2008, Hotel Prestige, Znojmo, Czech Republic Call for Papers: Deadline Approaching The MEMICS 2008 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. The aim: To provide a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science with a special focus on the various aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following (but not exclusive) areas: parallel and distributed computing, GRID computing, computer networks and applications, computer security, theory of formal languages, formal verification, simulation, software and hardware testing and dependability, computer architectures, quantum computing. Invited talks: Several invited talks by distinguished researchers from various areas of interest of the workshop will be a part of the programme. Regular papers: Students are invited to register a paper before September 10, 2008 and submit the paper (not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style) before September 17, 2008. Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 15, 2008. A selection of the best papers will be done during the workshop, and their authors will be awarded. Detailed instructions are available at the conference web http://www.memics.cz/. Presentations: Students may also present recent outstanding work, if it has been (or will be) presented at a leading computer science conference. Presentations to be included in the programme will be selected on the basis of a one-page abstract, which interested students are invited to submit. The one-page abstracts will be published in the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Venue: The workshop will be held in Znojmo, a beautiful town on the Austrian borders famous for a number of examples of medieval architecture and nearby vineyards. Tourist attractions here include the Gothic Church of St. Nicholas, the town hall's Gothic tower, and the Romanesque rotunda. There is also an ancient castle atop a nearby hill. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (41) Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (17) Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (20) Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group (11) Subject: RE: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:45:08 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with=20 mobile devices? markus, the NEH recently announced new awards at: http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ODHUpdate/tabid/108/EntryID/81/Default.aspx and in their small award series, http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/cio/odhfiles/sug.awards.apr.2008.deadline.pdf is this: Center for Independent Documentary -- Sharon, MA Murder at Harvard Mobile Michael Epstein, Project Director Outright: $50,000 To support: Development of a multi-media, historical, mobile walking tour of Boston. On 8/26/08 3:39 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 177. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:33:37 +0100 > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > > Dear Humanist list members, > > is anyone of you aware of a project (either active or in development) > that allows users to simultaneously access various types of information > about a specific place (e.g., a city), such as its history, > architecture, literary and artistic movements, etc., using > location-aware mobile devices? This would not be a commercial tool such > as Yahoo?s or Google?s mobile sites that offer restaurant guides and > other services, but would instead function as a cultural guide that > would enable users to both serendipitously and intentionally discover > how various disciplines intersect at a particular location. > > Thank you, > Markus Wust > Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian > Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center > North Carolina State University Libraries --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:49:13 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with=20 mobile devices? Hi Markus, Gunnar Liest=F8l and his group at University of Oslo are involved in this sort of thing. see generally http://inventioproject.no/wp/ But more specifically see the work of Gunnar's Grad student Anders Sundnes L=F8vlie: http://folk.uio.no/anderssl/ Gunnar and Anders were here (Stanford) visiting last May and presented papers detailing their experiments using GPS enabled mobile devices to provide cultural "hot spots" for Oslo. IBM was interested in this sort of thing. . . several (4-5) years ago I attended a talk by some folks from IBM--I don't know of their project went anywhere. . .? Matt -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:51:37 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with=20 mobile devices? We tried to begin to build such an infrastructure locally, in cooperation with the local tourism commission, but it required more personnel and more resources than we could afford. (It also requires pushing away all the usual tourism and communications paradigms, which seek to flatten everything into something like ad copy.) We felt like south Louisiana was a good place to try it out, since so little of the landscape is actually explained / described anywhere. I look forward to trying it again at some point, when the IT infrastructures have either converged a bit more or established some cross-platform conventions. Right now, the dotted landscape is cross-cut with information silos. I have some of the docs that I wrote in developing the idea up on my website -- give me a few days for it to be back on- line -- I had to wait for my provider to backgrade to Ruby 1.8.6 so my Rails app would work. -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana - Lafayette johnlaudun@gmail.com http://johnlaudun.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:52:37 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with=20 mobile devices? Dear Markus Wust: You may want to take a look at the Hypercities project (http://www.hypercities.com/) being developed here at UCLA with funding from the MacArthur Foundation (Digital Media and Learning). Integration with location-aware mobile devices is on the "to-do" list, scheduled for next summer. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:03:51 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Institute on Innovation in Training and Teaching Drexel University, a leader in technology-infused education, is sponsoring a two-day Institute on Innovation in Training and Teaching on its University City campus in Philadelphia. http://www.drexel.edu/irt/innovation/ The Institute will be held on: September 11 and 12, 2008. Sponsored by The Office of Information Resources and Technology (IRT), the Institute will provide courses for trainers and educators interested in moving their instruction online. Classes will meet the needs of those just beginning to move to online content delivery as well as experienced teachers and trainers who seek instruction in advanced media integration. Available Sessions The Institute will offer eight three-hour courses on topics of interest to the corporate training sector and K-20 education and lifelong learning professionals. Courses will highlight a wide variety of tools available for producing creative, quality online materials. Moving Your Course or Training Program to Hybrid Format or Online=C2=97Ho= w to Get Started Presenters: Kristen Betts, Krystle Adkins, and Mike Scheuermann This course will outline a step-by-step framework for transitioning from face-to-face to hybrid or online course instruction. Topics will include: online statistics, accreditation, converting materials to electronic format, best practices in course design, effective use of Learning Management System tools and structures, student engagement, retention strategies, evaluation, and pedagogical considerations in the online environment. Converting, Distributing, and Integrating Rich Media in Course Developmen= t Presenters: John Morris and Chad Kealey What is rich media? What is encoding? How can rich media be integrated into your course to enhance instruction? This course will introduce a variety of concepts in rich media, including file formats, file sizes, quality, lossiness, platform considerations, equipment, and frame rates, and discuss how rich media can be used to create a more engaging learning environment. Pedagogical Uses of Rich Media to Effectively Enhance Learning Presenter: John Morris How can audio and video be used to enhance the online or hybrid classroom? This course will focus on using rich media more effectively to deliver lecture material, provide feedback on student work, and build online community through LMS collaboration tools. Best practices will also be considered, including file types, equipment, and playback mechanisms. A unit on learning styles and accessibility, especially as they apply to web-based instruction, will conclude the course. Assessment and Evaluation Utilizing Online Elements and Technologies Presenters: Stephen Chestnut, Rich Varenas, Julie Allmayer, and Amy Lynch How can student performance be evaluated in an online course? The LMS provides a number of tools to assess student work, and there are several stand-alone technologies to assist faculty in evaluating performance and providing feedback to students. This course will discuss the importance of assessment and evaluation in online course delivery, and identify which tools are the most effective. Building Community in Hybrid and Online Courses Presenters: Kristen Betts and Mike Scheuermann Community-building is a crucial part of any successful online course. This course will address the use of LMS collaboration tools, such as discussion, chat, and group assignments, to foster student-student and student-faculty relationships. The pros and cons of each tool will be discussed from a technical as well as a pedagogical perspective. Social Networking as a Component of the Instructional Enterprise Presenters: Abigail Maley, Scott Beadenkopf, Brett Cohen, Paul Evangelista, and Brenda Pretko Web 2.0 technologies are changing how we use the web, profoundly affecting how we interact with each other and share information. How can an enterprise adapt these technologies to complement current instructional methodologies? Examples of how universities are incorporating social networking into their curricula will be presented. A number of platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Pronto will be highlighted. Evaluating CMS/LMSs for Instructional Delivery and Community Building Presenters: Alan Hecht, Rich Varenas, Stephen Chestnut, and Jeffrey Berma= n Although Blackboard Vista (formerly WebCT) and Blackboard are the predominant learning management systems used at Drexel, Drexel IRT has investigated two open-source products, Sakai and Moodle. This course will offer a comparison of these products in a variety of areas, including content authoring, delivery interface, assessment creation, and administration tools, and discuss the process by which these products were evaluated. Ensuring Access For All -- Creating Online Content for Users with Special Needs Presenter: Dan Allen The advent of the World Wide Web brought with it the potential to revolutionize the lives of people with disabilities. Imagine the person confined to a wheel chair being able to shop for groceries without leaving the house. Imagine the blind or deaf student being able to complete a college degree online. But these possibilities can only be realized if the Web is made accessible to people with disabilities. In the first part of this course we will review the types of disabilities users might have, and the challenges they face when accessing the Web. The second part of the course will be devoted to discussing various solutions and demonstrating specific strategies and techniques for ensuring accessibility. Apologies for cross-posting. Henry C. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (25) Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (29) Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:01:28 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? There was a workshop on this topic a couple of years ago: Workshop on the Integration of Location Based Systems in Tourism and Cultural Heritage http://tijlv.studentenweb.org/archeonet/pdf/LBS_prog.pdf > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:33:37 +0100 > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > > Dear Humanist list members, > > is anyone of you aware of a project (either active or in development) > that allows users to simultaneously access various types of information > about a specific place (e.g., a city), such as its history, > architecture, literary and artistic movements, etc., using > location-aware mobile devices? This would not be a commercial tool such > as Yahoo's or Google's mobile sites that offer restaurant guides and > other services, but would instead function as a cultural guide that > would enable users to both serendipitously and intentionally discover > how various disciplines intersect at a particular location. > > Thank you, > Markus Wust > Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian > Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center > North Carolina State University Libraries > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:02:33 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.177 location-based information retrieval with mobile devices? Hi Markus, I've not been able to try this mobile cultural service myself, but I've been impressed with the web technologies that this same group have developed: http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.about&language_id=1&link_key=4 There's also an EU-funded augmented reality project called ARCHEOGUIDE--which is an authoring tool for creating the kind of project you're describing. I don't know who (if anyone) has adopted it, but heard a buzz about it at a conference. This recent paper looks like it might be relevant: A Location-Aware System Using RFID and Mobile Devices for Art Museums Tesoriero, R. Gallud, J.A. Lozano, M. Penichet, V.M.R. Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete; This paper appears in: *Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2008. ICAS 2008. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.htm= l www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:05:39 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: "Technology and Humanity" in eSharp Technology and Humanity The following is a call for articles for a forthcoming themed issue of eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students. eSharp is pleased to support new and early-career authors, and has actively encouraged emerging academic talent since 2002. The twelfth issue of eSharp will consider the cultural and personal consequences of scientific and mechanistic innovation. We welcome articles which examine and engage with the effects, influences or application of technology in any area of the arts, humanities, social sciences and education, and we encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the journal the ideas of technology, innovation and culture can be interpreted as broadly as authors wish, and may consider, but are by no means limited to, themes such as: =C2=95 cyberspace and identity =C2=95 politics, surveillance and privacy =C2=95 the history, art and literature of the industrial and digita= l revolutions =C2=95 digital media and technologies of exhibition =C2=95 new technologies and the law =C2=95 cybernetics, gender and the body =C2=95 the movable type revolution =C2=95 digital narratives and virtual worlds =C2=95 education and innovation =C2=95 dystopias, dyschronias and utopias =C2=95 forensic and corpus linguistics Submissions must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Please accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:26:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus! (posted on behalf of Greg Crane at the Perseus Project) 8/28/08: Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus! We are currently looking for advanced students of Greek and Latin to contribute syntactic analyses (via a web-based system) to our existing Latin Treebank (described below) and our emerging Greek Treebank as well (for which we have just received funding). We particularly encourage students at various levels to design research projects around this new tool. We are looking in particular for the following: * Get paid to read Greek! We can have a limited number of research assistantships for advanced students of the languages who can work for the project from their home institutions. We particularly encourage students who can use the analyses that they produce to support research projects of their own. * We also encourage classes of Greek and Latin to contribute as well. Creating the syntactic analyses provides a new way to address the traditional task of parsing Greek and Latin. Your class work can then contribute to a foundational new resource for the study of Greek and Latin - both courses as a whole and individual contributors are acknowledged in the published data. * Students and faculty interested in conducting their own original research based on treebank data will have the option to submit their work for editorial review to have it published as part of the emerging Scaife Digital Library. To contribute, please contact David Bamman (david.bamman@tufts.edu) or Gregory Crane (gregory.crane@tufts.edu). http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/ -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dot.porter@gmail.com 859-257-1257 x.82115 *************************************** From - Sun Aug 31 12:59:14 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:48:55 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KZb7d-0006X1-Mc for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:48:55 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7V0iuuB020622; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (33) Subject: ESSLLI 2009 Deadline Extension and Final Call for Course/Workshop Proposals [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (23) Subject: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION: REGISTER NOW! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:27:31 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: ESSLLI 2009 Deadline Extension and Final Call for Course/Workshop Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI Monday, 20 July -- Friday, 31 July 2009 Bordeaux, France Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. *** Call for Course and Workshop Proposals *** The ESSLLI 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the cognitive sciences. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:34:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: handheld translators? A scholarly friend is in need of a handheld, PDA-type device for translating single words to and from English and the major European languages, including, if possible, modern Greek. The vocabulary of this wished-for device has to be suitable for scholarly purposes, not simply for finding taxis and booking hotel rooms. She does not want a device that speaks or one that does phrases, though either capability would not be objectionable if it does not impede her use of it for reading scholarly articles in quiet libraries. All suggestions welcome. Many thanks. Yours, WM From - Mon Sep 01 00:18:07 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:01:09 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KZvut-0005Ay-3u for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:01:09 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7VMvRGe004798; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:57:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m7VLK1R9027445; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:57:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20817846 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:57:00 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7VMtVfq027927 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7VMtVqb001602 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7VMt1T2001347 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:29 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1220223301-39b503ab0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9BD7F1957304 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id AS2L9zxDcuNCwVAD for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 180.68.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.68.180] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KZvoy-0007lw-Ir for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:55:01 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.187 handheld translators Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1220223301 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5373 signatures=453355 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0808310121 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48BB2142.8080801@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:54:58 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.187 handheld translators X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 133 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:55087 X-Body-Linecount: 70 X-Message-Size: 6774 X-Body-Size: 2937 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -52 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-52 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 187. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:53:11 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.185 handheld translators? My husband recently purchased one of these sorts of tools for his Russian-speaking mother, and he found many available from the website www.languageteacher.com. There are several options that will translate between Greek, English and multiple other European languages. They range from $179 (from-to GREEK, ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN, ARABIC PORTUGUESE, DUTCH, RUSSIAN, FARSI (Persian), TURKISH, HINDI (Indian), URDU (Pakistani)) to $280 (from-to ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE, DUTCH, RUSSIAN, FINNISH, ESTONIAN, LITHUANIAN, LATVIAN, TURKISH, ARABIC, FARSI (Persian), URDU (Pakistani), HINDI (Indian), TIBETAN, DANISH, NORWEGIAN, SWEDISH, CROATIAN, BURMESE, THAI, LAOS, VIETNAMESE, SLOVAKIAN, MALAY, INDONESIAN, POLISH, CZECH, BULGARIAN, HUNGARIAN, ROMANIAN, SLOVENIAN, CHINESE, CAMBODIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN). His is a very basic Russian-English model but it's easy to use and has something like 400,000 words. I believe his comes with the American Heritage Dictionary, others have other dictionaries (New Oxford Dictionary, for example); I'm not certain what the overlap is between the words in the English dictionary and the words that are actually available for translation, so it isn't clear whether the dictionary included is an indication of the scholarly suitability of the translation tool itself. I can't say anything about the quality of the tools on this site generally, but it's a place to start. Dot On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 185. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:34:49 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > A scholarly friend is in need of a handheld, PDA-type device for > translating single words to and from English and the major European > languages, including, if possible, modern Greek. The vocabulary of this > wished-for device has to be suitable for scholarly purposes, not simply > for finding taxis and booking hotel rooms. She does not want a device > that speaks or one that does phrases, though either capability would not > be objectionable if it does not impede her use of it for reading > scholarly articles in quiet libraries. > > All suggestions welcome. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > From - Mon Sep 01 00:18:08 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:09:22 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KZw2r-0006as-H1 for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:09:22 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7VN3Jnn007273; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:03:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m7VLU42M009714; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:42:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches From: Richard Price Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:46 -0700 Hi all, I=C2=92m a prize fellow in philosophy at All Souls College Oxford, where = I recently finished my D.Phil on the philosophy of perception. I=C2=92ve just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two thing= s: - It displays academics around the world in a =C2=91tree=C2=92 f= ormat, according to what university/department they are affiliated with. - It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic webpage. My webpage on Academia.edu is here: http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice My hope for the site is that it will list every academic =C2=96 Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students - in the world, and display where they are working. I also hope people will use the site to keep track of what people in their field are working on. I=C2=92m trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu, so, if you hav= e a minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department. (Or add your department/university to the tree if it is not there already; it is easy to add a university or department by clicking on the arrows). And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. Many thanks, Richard Dr. Richard Price, Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice From - Wed Sep 03 22:46:33 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:40:51 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb05n-0001TR-Lz for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:40:51 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m83LalrM008779; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:36:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m83GZ67b029104; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:36:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20840270 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:32:14 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m83KwTHV008986 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m83KwTBP028411 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m83KwOrt028394 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:58:28 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1220475503-2fdf03460000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 39E0614C0858 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id yT8OYxPP3jDq7Q2F for ; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 180.68.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.68.180] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KazQk-00069N-5w for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:58:22 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.189 handheld translators Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8144/Wed Sep 3 02:57:33 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1220475504 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5376 signatures=457849 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809030154 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48BEFA69.6030504@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:58:17 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.189 handheld translators X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 129 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:54591 X-Body-Linecount: 64 X-Message-Size: 6718 X-Body-Size: 2774 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -3.4 X-Spam-Score-Int: -33 X-Spam-Bar: --- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-3.4 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] -0.7 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20% [score: 0.1368] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 4 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-33 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 189. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:54:32 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.185 handheld translators? In brief, I am confident there is no such handheld device. I have spent a lifetime teaching, learning, and using languages. Languages don't just translate one-word-for-one-word: just think of all the very different meanings any one English word or spelling can have, depending on the context. I am on a language teachers' "list", and it seems most of the younger participants don't even own a good printed dictionary, which gives you the various meanings of a word in the target language, with examples of the context of each meaning. These teachers depend on the online pseudo-dictionaries, where you enter one English word and you get back one foreign word for it, which has little chance of being the correct one for the context in question. Surely your friend is familiar with good printed dictionaries, such as Collins German-English / English-German Dictionary; something like that is what you need to read German; I have seen nothing like it on the internet, and surely no hand-held device can suffice; -- not even for one language, let alone several. Joseph Wilson (Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of German, Rice Univ.) 2236 Camelback Rd. Winchester, Texas 78945-5203 jwilson@rice.edu http://cohesion.rice.edu/humanities/germ/faculty.cfm?doc_id=10258 ============ On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 185. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:34:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty > A scholarly friend is in need of a handheld, PDA-type device for translating single words to and from English and the major European languages, including, if possible, modern Greek. The vocabulary of this wished-for device has to be suitable for scholarly purposes, not simply for finding taxis and booking hotel rooms. She does not want a device that speaks or one that does phrases, though either capability would not be objectionable if it does not impede her use of it for reading scholarly articles in quiet libraries. All suggestions welcome. Many thanks. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:25:10 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: low-hanging and beyond reach? Recently I was asked by a group of curious academics what was easy to do with computing in the humanities and what was not. It occurred to me to describe the situation with the metaphor of low-hanging fruit and that which is out of reach, requiring that the hungry person construct a ladder to reach. But I also realised that the tree is a rather strange one, i.e. that the metaphor breaks down when one considers the situation in time. Text once seemed the low-hanging fruit, conveniently already encoded to a significant degree, whereas images were too high to justify the effort. Now the situation seems almost reversed. Perhaps one needs to imagine several trees -- a text-tree, an image-tree etc. Perhaps Tantalus' situation is, in the end, our own. It seems clear to me that our hunger is boundless and that the trees are infinitely high. A shift of metaphor. In his beautiful book, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down (2005), Robert Laughlin quotes Richard Feynman (p. 127), who asks of physics, "What is the future of this adventure?" Feynman thinks that there must be an end to the search for and discovery of new laws. The situation, he points out, simply cannot continue; "it will become boring that there are so many levels one underneath the other". Thomas Kuhn's answer, which seems the right one to me, involves talking about a paradigm-shift. We've done that term to death in the popular press and, scandalously, in the academic one as well, but again it seems to me that the vision of exhaustion must be wrong. So my question: what's our paradigm- (or perhaps better, metaphor-) shift? Comments? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:57 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: theatre software From: St=C3=A9fan Sinclair Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM To: Humanist Discussion Group , Willard McCarty Dear all, I'd be grateful for any pointers (beyond what a quick Google search revealed to me) to software tools designed to assist directors with staging and blocking (I'm especially interested in tools where the script is visible and editable, rather than just stage design tools). We're planning a second phase of development on Watching the Script (http://digitalplaybook.humviz.org/) and we want to be sure to know what else is out there. Thanks in advance, St=C3=A9fan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. St=C3=A9fan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ From - Thu Sep 04 21:59:05 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:32:52 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KbLVa-0000ao-D0 for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:32:52 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m84KQlaI021976; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m84JRxk5004756; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:26:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20853154 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:23:00 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m84KK3AR021520 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:20:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m84KK3YU006512 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:20:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m84KK2lY006437 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:20:02 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1220559600-43ba02930000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id BE6A51ABCB23 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id AmDdnHJ7DlBPSNUd for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 180.68.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.68.180] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KbLJ9-00052V-S8 for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:20:00 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.194 handheld translators Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1220559601 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5377 signatures=458300 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809040128 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48C042EB.6020407@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:19:55 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.194 handheld translators X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 187 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:62149 X-Body-Linecount: 124 X-Message-Size: 8675 X-Body-Size: 4845 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "c.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-26 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 194. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (76) Subject: Re: 22.189 handheld translators [2] From: Willard McCarty 12) Subject: dictionary look-up --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:58:17 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.189 handheld translators There are ebook versions of most of the good English/non-English dictionaries that contain all the text of the dictionary and work on PDAs and computers. Lisa L. Spangenberg On Sep 3, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 189. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > > Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:54:32 +0100 > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > > > In brief, I am confident there is no such handheld device. > > I have spent a lifetime teaching, learning, and using languages. > Languages don't just translate one-word-for-one-word: just think of > all > the very different meanings any one English word or spelling can have, > depending on the context. I am on a language teachers' "list", and it > seems most of the younger participants don't even own a good printed > dictionary, which gives you the various meanings of a word in the > target > language, with examples of the context of each meaning. These > teachers > depend on the online pseudo-dictionaries, where you enter one English > word and you get back one foreign word for it, which has little chance > of being the correct one for the context in question. Surely your > friend is familiar with good printed dictionaries, such as Collins > German-English / English-German Dictionary; something like that is > what > you need to read German; I have seen nothing like it on the internet, > and surely no hand-held device can suffice; -- not even for one > language, let alone several. > > Joseph Wilson (Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of German, Rice Univ.) > 2236 Camelback Rd. > Winchester, Texas 78945-5203 > jwilson@rice.edu > http://cohesion.rice.edu/humanities/germ/faculty.cfm?doc_id=10258 > > > ============ > On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 185. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:34:49 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > A scholarly friend is in need of a handheld, PDA-type device for > translating single words to and from English and the major European > languages, including, if possible, modern Greek. The vocabulary of > this > wished-for device has to be suitable for scholarly purposes, not > simply > for finding taxis and booking hotel rooms. She does not want a device > that speaks or one that does phrases, though either capability would > not > be objectionable if it does not impede her use of it for reading > scholarly articles in quiet libraries. > > All suggestions welcome. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:06:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: dictionary look-up In my colleague's request for a handheld device, the word "translation" was intended at the word-level only, out of context. What she needs is merely a collection of highly compact dictionaries of the Collins Gem variety rather than, say, of the kind represented by the OED, OLD or LSJ. The infamous problems of machine-translation are irrelevant, since she's translating herself as she reads through various scholarly articles and needs a bit of help. One additional condition, imposed by her habits and nature, is that the device should be, if at all possible, not a generic handheld but a dedicated thing, for translation only. She'd only get confused by a general-purpose device. Any additional suggestions? Thanks. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:10:23 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.190 low-hanging and beyond reach? Hi, Willard--- no doubt you've noticed that Allen Renear likes the low-hanging-fruit metaphor. But the last time I heard him use it he had a variant: "This fruit isn't low-hanging, it's just lying around on the ground!" There's a passage I like about working intellectually with metaphors to the point of breakdown from a letter of William James to Thomas Davidson from 1898--- I think it's actually better if you don't know the passage of James's that he's defending: If you had the slightest spark of scientific imagination you would see that the mother-sea is of a glutinous consistency, and when she strains off portions of her being through the dome of many-colored glass, they stick so tenaciously that she must shake herself hard to get rid of them. Then, as there is no action without reaction, the shake is felt by both members, and remains registered in the mother-sea, like a "stub" in a check book, preserving memory of the transaction. These stubs form the basis of the immortal account, which we begin when the prismatic dome is shattered. These matters, you see, are ultra simple, and would be revealed to you if you had a more humble and teachable heart. Your whole lot of idle and captious questions proceed so obviously from intellectual pride, and are so empty of all true desire for instruction that I will not pretend to reply to them at all. I am glad that my poor little book took them out of you, though. You must feel the better for having expressed them... John John Lavagnino Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 190. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > > Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:25:10 +0100 > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > > Recently I was asked by a group of curious academics what was easy to d= o > with computing in the humanities and what was not. It occurred to me to > describe the situation with the metaphor of low-hanging fruit and that > which is out of reach, requiring that the hungry person construct a > ladder to reach. But I also realised that the tree is a rather strange > one, i.e. that the metaphor breaks down when one considers the situatio= n > in time. Text once seemed the low-hanging fruit, conveniently already > encoded to a significant degree, whereas images were too high to justif= y > the effort. Now the situation seems almost reversed. Perhaps one needs > to imagine several trees -- a text-tree, an image-tree etc. Perhaps > Tantalus' situation is, in the end, our own. It seems clear to me that > our hunger is boundless and that the trees are infinitely high. > > A shift of metaphor. In his beautiful book, A Different Universe: > Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down (2005), Robert Laughlin quotes > Richard Feynman (p. 127), who asks of physics, "What is the future of > this adventure?" Feynman thinks that there must be an end to the search > for and discovery of new laws. The situation, he points out, simply > cannot continue; "it will become boring that there are so many levels > one underneath the other". Thomas Kuhn's answer, which seems the right > one to me, involves talking about a paradigm-shift. We've done that ter= m > to death in the popular press and, scandalously, in the academic one as > well, but again it seems to me that the vision of exhaustion must be > wrong. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:14:12 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: digital dialogues at MITH MITH is pleased to announce another great semester of digital humanities talks at the University of Maryland. As always, all talks are free and open to the public. We welcome colleagues from the Washington DC area and beyond. All talks are Tuesday, 12:30-1:45, in the MITH conference room (basement level of McKeldin Library) at the University of Maryland, College Park. See www.mith.umd.edu for more details. Matt 9.9 Doug Reside (MITH and Theatre), "The MITHological AXE: Multimedia Metadata Encoding with the Ajax XML Encoder" 9.16 Stanley N. Katz (Princeton University), "Digital Humanities 3.0: Where We Have Come From and Where We Are Now?" 9.23 Joyce Ray (Institute of Museum and Library Services), "Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries" 9.30 Tom Scheinfeldt and Dave Lester (George Mason University), "Omeka: Easy Web Publishing for Scholarship and Cultural Heritage" 10.7 Brent Seales (University of Kentucky), "EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration" 10.14 Zachary Whalen (University of Mary Washington), "The Videogame Text" 10.21 Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College), "Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy" 10.28 "War (and) Games" (a discussion in conjunction with the ARHU semester on War and Representations of War, facilitated by Matthew Kirschenbaum [English and MITH]) 11.4 Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia), "New World Ordering: Shaping Geospatial Information for Scholarly Use" 11.11 Merle Collins (English), Saraka and Nation (film screening and discussion) 11.18 Ann Weeks (iSchool and HCIL), "The International Children's Digital Library: An Introduction for Scholars" 11.25 Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information), title TBA 12.2 Elizabeth Bearden (English), "Renaissance Moving Pictures: From Sidney's Funeral materials to Collaborative, Multimedia Nachleben" 12.9 Katie King (Women's Studies), "Flexible Knowledges, Reenactments, New Media" -- 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://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ From - Thu Sep 04 21:59:07 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:36:30 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KbLZ6-00037Y-Go for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:13:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Vacancies, DHO, Dublin, Ireland --Apologies for Cross Listing =C2=96 Applications are invited for two 2 =C2=BD year fixed term positions with = the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), a national digital humanities centre located in Dublin, Ireland. Digital Humanities Specialist The Digital Humanities Specialist will promote and support the use of advanced computing techniques as applied to the humanities, provide consultations to project partners, engage in a range of educational activities, and assist in the technical development of a shared e-humanities infrastructure. Web Developer The Web Developer will design, develop, and maintain highly interactive web interfaces for digital content creation, repository deposit, content discovery, computational analysis, data visualization and other tools for humanities research. Experience with web development tools such as AJAX, HTML, CSS, XSLT, PHP, and SQL required. Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie and www.dho.ie. Applicants will be shortlisted for interview on the basis of information provided in their applications. The Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) is a project of the Royal Irish Academy operating under the auspices of the Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium to build a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of e-humanities research at an all-island level. The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer Susan Schreibman From - Sat Sep 06 19:23:59 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:23:54 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc2Rt-0000CD-EP for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:23:54 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m86IHrNJ025295; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:17:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8641m9X028537; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:17:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20874448 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:14:58 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m86IA9HS013930 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:10:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m86IA8Wa005788 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:10:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m86IA7k9005784 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:10:08 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1220724607-2b4e03cf0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id AAE429B6BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:10:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id MFcUnlv5IV9B8kKB for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:10:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 146-39-237-24.gci.net ([24.237.39.146] helo=[192.168.2.5]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc2EX-000534-TN for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:10:06 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.196 handheld translators Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1220724607 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5378 signatures=458450 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809060093 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48C2C77B.8090408@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:10:03 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.196 handheld translators X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 124 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:38709 X-Body-Linecount: 61 X-Message-Size: 6502 X-Body-Size: 2681 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-26 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 196. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:26:45 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: handheld translators From: Israel Cohen Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:03:27 +0300 Joseph Wilson (Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of German, Rice Univ.) jwilson@rice.edu wrote: >> ... Languages don't just translate one-word-for-one-word: just think of all the very different meanings any one English word or spelling can have, depending on the context. I am on a language teachers' "list", and it seems most of the younger participants don't even own a good printed dictionary, which gives you the various meanings of a word in the target language, with examples of the context of each meaning. These teachers depend on the online pseudo-dictionaries, where you enter one English word and you get back one foreign word for it, which has little chance of being the correct one for the context in question. ... << I completely agree with Prof. Wilson. However, *sometimes* the user of a one-word for one-word translator will be "saved" by a phenomenon that may be of interest to this group: There is a pervasive tendency for the same semantically unrelated concepts that are homonyms in one language to be (near) homonyms in other languages. For example, Hebrew MiSHPaT means "a grammatical sentence" and "the sentence of a judge/court". The English word "sentence" has the same meanings. Hebrew tzadi-lamed-lamed = "a sound/tone that you hear" and "(to dive) deep". TZoLeLeT = a submarine. The English word "sound" also has these meanings: the whale sounded, to sound the depths of the sea, Puget Sound. Hebrew BaD = cloth, BaDaH = a myth, BaDai = one who tells a myth/false story. English "fabric" = cloth, but "to fabricate" can mean to make up a false story. This meaning of English fabricate has been borrowed into modern Israeli Hebrew as L'FaBRiK = to make up a false story. In English we say "He made it up out of whole cloth. There's not a stitch of truth in it." English swipe = "a sweeping blow, path of a wiper" but also "to steal". The Hebrew triliteral samekh-het-vet has the same meanings. Perhaps this is because Hebrew NaGaV = to wipe and its metathesis GaNaV = to steal. Hebrew Roo'aKH = spirit. Reversing the het-resh produces KHaRoN (aF) = anger. Compare Latin anima and animus; English animated and animosity. ciao, Israel "izzy" Cohen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ From - Sat Sep 06 19:26:53 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:26:36 +0100 Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.8] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc2UU-00036B-SG for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:26:36 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m86IM8N3017821; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:22:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8642b59020379; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:21:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20874451 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:14:58 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m86IDkKU014180 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m86IDkpO009412 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m86IDjFo009409 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:13:45 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1220724824-509d01f60000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 27114A1353 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:13:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id y8WUTWTNixQel8Gy for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:13:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 146-39-237-24.gci.net ([24.237.39.146] helo=[192.168.2.5]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc2I3-0005bY-QV for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:13:44 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.195 jobs at Queensland and Alberta, fellowship at UCLA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1220724825 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5378 signatures=458450 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809060093 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48C2C855.3060803@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:13:41 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.195 jobs at Queensland and Alberta, fellowship at UCLA X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m86IM8N3017821 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 291 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.8:40608 X-Body-Linecount: 227 X-Message-Size: 14564 X-Body-Size: 10590 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (0.0 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=0 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 195. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 69) Subject: Professorship in e-History [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (33) Subject: RE: UCLA Fellowship posting for Humanist [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group (62) Subject: tenure-track STS job (U of Alberta) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:03:27 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Professorship in e-History [Posted on behalf of David Pritchard, University of Queensland. Please excuse cross-posting] Professor of e-History School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics The University of Queensland Brisbane AUSTRALIA An outstanding leader in History and e-History, and an energetic, innovative leader in e-Humanities, interested in building research and teaching synergies across the University. The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics is a dynamic team with a reputation for innovative approaches to teaching and research excellence. The School is the second largest in the Faculty of Arts, with thirty-six academic staff who are widely published internationally and have extensive research backgrounds. The School, regarded as a leader in humanities teaching and research in Australia, and the largest cohort of undergraduates and postgraduates, research income and publication output in the Faculty. The role The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics is seeking an outstanding appointee to provide academic leadership in History and internationally-recognized expertise in e-History and related aspects of e-Humanities. This is a new initiative created to give the study of History at UQ across several faculties and a number of schools and centres a point of convergence and a unique difference through a major e-History and e-Humanities project. The appointee would work with researchers on new methods and ways of accessing, assembling and analyzing historical information through electronic media. The appointee will be expected to develop the national and international standing of the School, the Faculty and UQ for leadership in e-History and e-Humanities, including government and industry partnerships and other forms of external recognition, collaboration, and funding. The appointment will be 50% in teaching and research within the School and 50% in e-History and e-Humanities projects. The appointee will report jointly to the Head of the School and the Executive Dean of Arts, and be involved in an e-Humanities management committee drawn from leaders in relevant projects and programs already existing across U The successful candidate should hold a PhD in History or in digital Humanities and have an outstanding record of academic leadership, teaching at all levels, research, and research supervision. The candidate should have expertise in one of the established fields in the History Discipline, and the ability to create links to other disciplines within the School would be an advantage. Proven success in obtaining external funding is essential. Remuneration The remuneration package will be $129,654 p.a., plus employer superannuation contributions of 17% (total package will be $151,696 p.a.). This is a full-time, continuing appointment at Academic Level E. Contact Obtain the position description and selection criteria online. To discuss the role contact Head of School, Professor Clive Moore, telephone (07) 3365 2154 or email c.moore@uq.edu.au. Send applications to the Human Resources Consultant, Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, AUSTRALIA 4072, or email applications.arts@uq.edu.au. Applications close 13 October 2008. http://seek.com.au/users/apply/index.ascx?Sequence=3D67&PageNumber=3D1&Jo= bID=3D13827070 Dr David Pritchard Cultural History Project Centre for the History of European Discourses Discipline of Classics and Ancient History School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics Faculty of Arts University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia Telephone: +61 7 3365 3338 Fax: +61 7 3365 1968 Email: d.pritchard@uq.edu.au --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:05:41 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: UCLA Fellowship posting for Humanist UCLA - Postdoctoral Fellowship for the W.M. Keck Foundation Undergraduate Program in Digital Cultural Mapping The Division of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, will appoint one Postdoctoral Fellow for the W.M. Keck Foundation Undergraduate Program in Digital Cultural Mapping for a one-year term beginning in the Fall of 2008, with the intent of extending the appointment for up to two additional years. The Fellow must have earned a doctoral degree no earlier than June 2003 and no later than June 2008. The postdoctoral appointment provides $50,000 per annum as combined fellowship and instructional pay prior to tax withholding, as well as standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of up to $1,500 and a research budget of $1,000. The main task of the Postdoctoral Fellow will be to coordinate and teach in the W.M. Keck Undergraduate Program of Digital Cultural Mapping. The postdoctoral fellow will be appointed in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the home department of the principal investigator of the Keck Foundation grant. Applicants should have demonstrable excellent communication and organizational skills, an ability to work independently and prioritize assignments, have experience working in a team and developing digital educational materials. Candidates with experience in grant/report writing, proposal preparation, and the use of Geographic Information Systems are preferred. For more information, please visit: http://www.idre.ucla.edu/hasis/keck. Applicants should send an application letter and a CV, as well as three names of persons who are willing to provide recommendations, by September 30, 2008 to: Kathryn Roberts, Assistant to the Dean of the Humanities at kroberts@college.ucla.edu. UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. > /Kathryn Roberts/ > /Assistant to the Dean of Humanities/ > /UCLA// College// / > /2300 Murphy Hall/ > /(310)825-1894/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:07:06 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: tenure-track STS job (U of Alberta) Office of Interdisciplinary Studies - Science, Technology and Society Program Assistant Professor Closing date: 01 October 2008 The Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Alberta invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track position as Assistant Professor. To fill this position, we are looking for a candidate in any area of the social study of science and/or technology whose research and teaching interests will enable a joint appointment to be made in the Science, Technology and Society Program and one of the following departments: the Department of Sociology, the Department of Anthropology or the Department of Political Science. Qualified candidates should hold a doctoral degree, or be close to completion, and demonstrate outstanding potential for a research and teaching career. Preference will be given to candidates whose research and teaching interests complement those of existing faculty members. Responsibilities will include teaching in both undergraduate and graduate student programs and maintaining an active research program. The Science, Technology and Society Program is one of a group of recently established interdisciplinary programs based in the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Established in 1908 as a board-governed, public institution, the University of Alberta has earned the reputation of being one of the best universities in Canada based on our strengths in teaching, research, and services. The University of Alberta serves over 36,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate programs and 170 graduate programs (www.ualberta.ca/). The Faculty of Arts is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, and one of the largest research and teaching centres in western Canada (www.arts.ualberta.ca). The University=C2=92s main campus is located in Edmonton, the vibrant, cosmopolitan capital of the province of Alberta. The Edmonton metropolitan area is the sixth largest in the country with a population of approximately one million (www.edmonton.ca). Edmonton is located only a few hours drive from Banff and Jasper National Parks, which offer skiing in winter and excellent hiking and sightseeing in summer. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Inquiries concerning this position may be directed to the Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program, Professor Robert Smith, at rwsmith@ualberta.ca . Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a letter describing their areas of research interest, samples of publications, and, if available, a teaching dossier and evaluations of teaching performance to: Professor Robert Smith Director, STS Program Office of Interdisciplinary Studies 1-17 Humanities Building University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to Professor Smith. Closing date: October 1, 2008. The effective date of employment will be July 1, 2009. 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 are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (88) Subject: Berlin Open Access Days and Exhibition on Open Access [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 51) Subject: Museums and the Web 2009: CFP: Deadline Sept 30 [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 65) Subject: 2nd CFP - KARE2008 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group 51) Subject: CNL 2009 - Call for Submissions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:50:48 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Berlin Open Access Days and Exhibition on Open Access ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Announcement: Berlin Open Access Days and Exhibition on Open Access Venue: Freie Universitaet Berlin, 9 and 10 October 2008 Open Access (OA) is an umbrella term covering a multitude of activities which all have one main aim in common: to make cultural heritage and scientific knowledge available free-of-charge to users worldwide. This vision is based on the opportunities provided by electronic publishing and the Internet. All the major scientific organisations, most universities, research funders and some publishing houses have already taken measures in the spirit of OA. The aim of the Open Access Days in Berlin is to achieve further acceptance of OA in the German-speaking scientific sector. During the two-day event, the different ways of making knowledge openly accessible will be dealt with comprehensively in talks and workshops, at a podium discussion and at an exhibition devoted to OA. The Conference and Exhibition are aimed at two main target groups: The events on Day 1 will provide scientists, authors and science managers with an overview of the various ways of implementing OA and information on OA services offered by universities, research agencies and selected publishers. Introductory talks will be followed by presentations on such topics as the assertive negotiation of authors' copyrights and the extent to which OA and excellent science go hand in hand. During a podium discussion, representatives of the German science sector will give their perspectives on OA and discuss current challenges. Day 2 of the conference is geared especially towards the German-speaking Open-Access-Community. In workshops, experts from research agencies, OA repositories and journals and university presses will give their perspectives on and discuss different aspects of OA. The aim of these workshops is to develop joint OA implementation strategies in the various areas discussed. Topics will include Open Data (free access to research data), legal issues connected with the institutional implementation of OA, and challenges encountered when setting up and running OA journals, repositories and university publishers. In a wrap-up discussion session, the results of the workshops will be presented to all the participants. Exhibition on Open Access: A two-day Exhibition on Open Access will take place within the framework of the Berlin Open Access Days. The exhibition will give publishers, repositories, OA-journals and other OA-related projects the opportunity to present their products and services to a wide range of visitors from the German-speaking science sector. Further Information: http://open-access.net/de_en/communication/open_access_days/announcement/ The conference language is German. *Organisers*: the open-access.net information platform and the Center for Digital Systems at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, in cooperation with the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society. Contact person and coordinator: Rubina Vock (information platform open-access.net) rubina.vock(at)fu-berlin.de _______________________________ Freier Zugang zu Wissen Open-Access-Tage Berlin 2008 mit Open-Access-Messe www.open-access.net/openaccesstage/ Dipl.-Psych. Rubina Vock Freie Universit=C3=A4t Berlin Center f=C3=BCr Digitale Systeme (CeDiS) Informationsplattform open-access.net Ihnestr. 24 14195 Berlin E-Mail: rubina.vock@fu-berlin.de Tel.: +49 (0) 30 - 838 52779 Fax: +49 (0) 30 - 838 52843 Mobile: 01577 - 18 18 087 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:37:20 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Museums and the Web 2009: CFP: Deadline Sept 30 MW2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2008. Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, the MW program reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, on-line presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. The bibliography of past MW papers (all on-line since 1997) can be searched at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/ * PROPOSAL FORM * On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/mw2009.proposalForm.html Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted. Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program Committee; full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others. * DEADLINES * Proposals due September 30, 2008 - for papers, workshops, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2009) Proposals due December 31, 2008 - for demonstrations (written paper optional) * PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS * The Museums and the Web program is built from the ground up, from your proposals. Add your ideas to the on-line discussion at http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2009_ideas * NEED FURTHER DETAILS? * Review the MW2009 Call for Participation on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/call.html Contact the MW2009 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics mw2009@archimuse.com We hope to see you in Indianapolis. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives & Museum Informatic= s http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:39:58 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 2nd CFP - KARE2008 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition,=20 Reuse and Evaluation ---------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: KARE 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation (KARE2008) http://set.utbm.fr/index.php?pge=3D395&lang=3Dfr In conjunction with the fourth IEEE international conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2008) http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/08/ Nov 30 - Dec 3rd 2008, Bali, Indonesia ++ Deadline for submission: Sept 15, 2008 ++ ++ Full papers and position papers invited ++ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Description ------------ In recent years, organisations have used multiple methods and approaches to design their strategic and action plans. In this context, knowledge-based systems have received increased attention as being instrumental to strategy formulation. The synergy of these approaches with knowledge management initiatives is intuitive and their use in a common framework is discussed in this workshop to show the importance of methods and instruments to mapping and assessing the knowledge assets of an organisation. This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge of the next years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. Important dates ----------------- ++ Submission deadline : September, 20 ++ Notification : October, 20 ++ Final date for camera-ready copy : November 10 Topics of interest ------------------ =C2=95 Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update a= nd knowledge validation =C2=95 Web-based approaches for knowledge management =C2=95 CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management =C2=95 Agent-based approaches for knowledge management =C2=95 Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques =C2=95 Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery =C2=95 Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling =C2=95 Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management =C2=95 Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with decision supp= ort systems =C2=95 Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge =C2=95 Knowledge-based approaches for knowledge management =C2=95 Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management =C2=95 Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management ... [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:44:57 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CNL 2009 - Call for Submissions *************************************************************************= ************** Call for Submissions CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009/ Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy) 8-10 June 2009 *************************************************************************= ************** Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by restricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languages fall into two major types: those that improve readability for human readers, and those that enable reliable automatic semantic analysis of the language. [...] The second type of languages has a formal logical basis, i.e. they have a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully automatic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language) Various controlled natural languages of the second type have been developed by a number of organisations, and have been used in many different application domains, most recently within the semantic web. This workshop is dedicated to discussing the similarities and differences of existing controlled natural languages of the second type, possible improvements to these languages, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, existing and future applications, and further topics of interest. Topics --------- CNL 2009 will address the following aspects of controlled natural languages (CNLs): - design of CNLs - parsing of CNLs - CNLs for knowledge representation - CNLs for specifications - CNLs and the semantic web - CNLs as user interface - CNLs for interaction and communication - tool support for CNLs - reasoning in CNLs - comparisons of CNLs - applications of CNLs - business rules - user studies - theoretical results - etc. [...] From - Mon Sep 08 17:47:07 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:11:08 +0100 Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.8] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KcjKT-0002yg-Fw for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:11:08 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m88FsXMY002317; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:46:17 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Medievalist: Call for referees and reviewers With the usual apologies for cross-posting. You need not be subscribed to the Digital Medievalist listserv to act as a referee or reviewer of the Digital Medievalist Journal (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dot Porter Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:07 AM To: Digital Medievalist Dear Digital Medievalist membership, We are in the process of compiling a list of referees for our journal articles and reviewers for digital editions and digitally-related books. 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Thank You, Dot Porter and Arianna Ciula, journal editors Rebecca Welzenbach, reviews editor From - Mon Sep 08 17:47:07 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:14:40 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KcjNt-0006k7-Ov for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:14:40 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m88G229c013459; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m885Hr3L007615; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:01:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 20885332 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:52:50 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m88FpgE2023515 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m88Fpg1f029615 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m88FpfuI029612 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:41 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1220889100-611903910000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D3079FBD9B8 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id eKlmQvBY9c74XFD0 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 146-39-237-24.gci.net ([24.237.39.146] helo=[192.168.2.5]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kcj1e-0006Gx-HB for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:51:38 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.199 new publication: Special Issue Applied Ontology Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1220889100 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5378 signatures=458450 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809080105 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48C54A09.4060900@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:51:37 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.199 new publication: Special Issue Applied Ontology X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m88G229c013459 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 141 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:38604 X-Body-Linecount: 77 X-Message-Size: 7569 X-Body-Size: 3602 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -52 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 HS_INDEX_PARAM URI: Link contains a common tracker pattern. -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Mark-Threshold: 5 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-Reject-Threshold: 20 (System default as User or Domain preference has not set) X-Spam-User: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 3 X-AA-BETA: r=v_u m2=-52 m3= m4= m5= m8= m9= reqint=50 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 199. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:42:32 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Special Issue Applied Ontology out now Special Issue Applied Ontology out now: Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling Guest-edited by Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin The objective of this issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by formal ontology, philosophical logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics to the foundations of conceptual modeling. The issue should be of interest to several academic communities, including primarily the communities of applied ontology and conceptual modeling, but also the ones of database and information systems design, knowledge engineering, semantic interoperability and information integration, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation, software engineering (in particular domain and requirements engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven engineering. The applied ontology editorial team is very proud of this special issue and wants to share some contents with you. Click on the links below to access three articles from this latest issue of Applied Ontology without costs. Contents Special Issue Volume 3, Number 1-2 (2008) Guest Editorial: Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin (USE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/41610575w0512233/?p478e4fd1a38649d6= a89d06ab9613731f&pi=3D0) An ontology engineering methodology for DOGMA Peter Spyns, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman AEON =C3=A3=C2=83=C2=BBAn approach to the automatic evaluation of ontolog= ies Johanna V=C3=AE=C2=92=C2=94ker, Denny Vrande_i_, York Sure and Andreas Hotho (USE= THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/kxw547102114g533/?p=3D 478e4fd1a38649d6a89d06ab9613731f&pi=3D2) Observations, measurements and semantic reference spaces Florian Probst Representing and reasoning over a taxonomy of part=C3=A6=C2=AE=C2=86hole = relations C. Maria Keet and Alessandro Artale (USE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/g427p7683u12621p/?p=3D 478e4fd1a38649d6a89d06ab9613731f&pi=3D4) Epistemological perspectives on ontology-based theories for conceptual modeling Jan Recker and Bj=C3=AE=C2=92=C2=9An Niehaves About Applied Ontology Applied Ontology (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark Musen) is a journal whose focus is on information content in its broadest sense. It focuses on two broad kinds of content-based research activities: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models. Applied Ontology (ISSN 1570-5838) will be published in 1 volume of 4 issues in 2009 (Volume 4). Institutional subscription (print and online): =C3=82=C2=80Euro 443 / US$640 (including postage and handling). = Check www.iospress.nl for information on individual subscription prices. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:56:58 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2009-11) Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2009-11) The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL) [URL: < http://etcl.uvic.ca/ >] at the University of Victoria has an exciting two-year postdoctoral opportunity for a candidate with a background in early modern literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an interest in the digital humanities field. The postdoctoral fellow will be key in the development of a professional reading environment designed to respond to the needs of those working with early modern books and manuscripts. Source material for this work will be derived from our work on the /Devonshire Manuscript/ (BL Add MS 17,492) and our ongoing work with professional reading environments in number of related projects. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in early modern research, textual studies, and scholarly editing in a digital humanities context, including training or demonstrated experience working with TEI XML and digital editions. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related ETCL projects are as follows: TEI P5; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; Ruby on Rails; PHP; CSS; and web-based SQL database projects using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Experience in some or all of these areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computation engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. Salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices; combined with a local supplement, the annual salary for this position is expected to be $52,000, inclusive of benefits and travel allowances. Applications, comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to >. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled; the position can begin as early as January 2009. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (104) Subject: Version 73, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (16) Subject: UBIQUITY CLASSIC --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:52:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Version 73, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliograph= y Version 73 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2007 Annual Edition (PDF file) is also available. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/6xkcvs), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=3D51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm New versions of SEPB are also announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201 -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Google Book Search Bibliography, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, and Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:55:15 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: UBIQUITY CLASSIC This Week in Ubiquity: /September 9 //=C2=96 15, 2008/// * * *UBIQUITY CLASSICS*: * * *The Cucumber Season: Reflections on the Nature of Information When There Isn't Any * by Espen=20 Andersen From time to time, Ubiquity is pleased to reach in to its archives and bring you a classic. This piece by associate editor Espen Anderson fits perfectly with the end-of-summer mood being experienced by many people. What do chronic sufferers of information glut do when there is a shortage of information? 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (17) Subject: JELIA: Registration Reminder [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (69) Subject: Copyright Certificate Program --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:54:02 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: JELIA: Registration Reminder Reminder: Late registration deadline: September 15, 2008 Jelia 2008 The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journ=C3=A9es Europ=C3=A9ennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificiell= e - JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with English as official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2008 - 11th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence The conference is going to be in held from September 28 to October 1, 2008, at the Technische Universit=C3=A8=C2=88=C2=A9 Dresden in= Dresden, Germany. Co-Located Events 22nd Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming CLIMA IX - Ninth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems For further information see http://www.jelia.eu/2008/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:56:15 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Copyright Certificate Program This year's online workshop series opens with a freshly updated offering of Georgia Harper's popular workshop: Copyright Law and Integrated Access to Digital Course Materials(revisited) http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa October 27-November 7, 2008 Early Registration Deadline: October 12, 2008 Moderator: Georgia Harper This workshop will explore how an integrated approach to the various methods our campuses use to provide access to digital educational course materials can facilitate institutional compliance with copyright law. We'll start with a high-level discussion of fair use and review the role it plays in enabling access to certain types of materials. Most importantly, these explorations will underscore the fact that creating and operating access systems for digital materials, and the copyright issues involved, are institutional concerns and not just a matter of library services. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:15:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Text analysis I notice the increasing use of simple text-analytic results in journalism, probably just because it's gotten so easy to do. Today I heard about one that lets you compare McCain and Obama, though it's not so good at showing you any of the context: http://www.speechwars.com/ John -- Dr John Lavagnino Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26=C2=9629 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185703 From - Thu Sep 11 16:34:44 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:34:31 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KdoBh-0005Jf-Dq for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:34:30 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8BFMZlV004339; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:14:08 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: job announcement at Waterloo *From:* Christine McWebb [mailto:cmcwebb@uwaterloo.ca] Position: French - Assistant or Associate Professor Institution: University of Waterloo Location: Ontario Date posted: 2008-09-08 The Department of French Studies invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, commencing August 1, 2009. The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D in French Studies, with a specialization in early modern French literature (Middle Ages to 17th century inclusively), as well as a solid knowledge and practice of electronic editing, publishing, and archiving of literary texts. Candidates should have a native or near-native knowledge of French and a good command of English. Duties will include participation in the department's research initiatives, and the teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses. Canada's most innovative university, the University of Waterloo offers tremendous opportunities for professional and personal development. Within the Faculty of Arts, the Department of French Studies forms a dynamic community dedicated to excellence in research and teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applications, including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three confidential letters of recommendations, and evidence of successful teaching, should be sent directly, no later than December 15, 2008 to Dr. Fran=E7ois Par=E9, Chair, Department of French Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1; Fax: (519) 725-0554; E-mail: fpare@watarts.uwaterloo.ca . All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens 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. The appointment is subject to the availability of funds. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.207 job at Santa Barbara h_subject=22.207 job at Santa Barbara Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 207. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:11 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Assistant Professor in Literature and Media (UCSB) Assistant Professor in Literature and Media http://www.english.ucsb.edu Tenure-track Assistant Professor. We seek a candidate who specializes in literature and media technologies or cultures between 1800 and c. 1980, the epoch of modernization from the first industrial revolution to the onset of the current digital revolution. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research focuses on writing, reading, communicational, computational, visual, or sensory media in the period between early-modern technologies of writing and reading and contemporary digital technologies (two areas in which our department has strength). The ideal candidate would be able to teach a range of courses in literature and media, as well as a literary historical field; contribute to the department's digital humanities and undergraduate specialization in Literature & Culture of Information, as well as intersect with the department's collaborative research and teaching initiatives (including the Transcriptions/Literature, Culture, and Media Center and the Transliteracies Project); and contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. (Please visit the UCSB English website for information on our department's ongoing initiatives.) Position effective July 1, 2009. Ph.D. required at the time of appointment. Send letter of application, dossier, and non returnable sample of written work (20pp or less) to Literature and Media Search Committee, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 3170. To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by October 24, 2008. Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged. The University of California is an EO/AA employer. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.209 text-analysis in the news h_subject=22.209 text-analysis in the news Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 209. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:04:09 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 22.204 text-analysis in the news The New York Times has a variant that illustrates beautifully the way that visual representation of complex data is becoming more common/accepted. The web teaches us to write as well as read. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORDS_= GRAPHIC.html Steve Stephen Woodruff Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Scotland/UK G12 8QQ +44 (0) 141 339 8855 www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Humanist Discussion Group=20 > [mailto:humanist@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group > Sent: 11 September 2008 16:17 > To: humanist@Princeton.EDU > >=20 >=20 > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 204. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu >=20 >=20 >=20 > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:15:05 +0100 > From: Humanist Discussion Group=20 > > Subject: Text analysis >=20 > I notice the increasing use of simple text-analytic results=20 > in journalism, probably just because it's gotten so easy to=20 > do. Today I heard about one that lets you compare McCain and=20 > Obama, though it's not so good at showing you any of the context: >=20 > http://www.speechwars.com/ >=20 > John >=20 >=20 > -- > Dr John Lavagnino > Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > 26=C3=82=C2=9629 Drury Lane > London WC2B 5RL > +44 20 7848 2453 > www.lavagnino.org.uk >=20 > General Editor, The Oxford Middleton > http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185697 > http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185703 >=20 From - Fri Sep 12 18:59:46 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:34:57 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KeCXn-0007g0-U5 for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:34:57 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8CHWtPB029921; 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.210 job at Nebraska-Lincoln h_subject=22.210 job at Nebraska-Lincoln Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 210. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:19:49 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: job at Nebraska-Lincoln From: Kenneth M Price Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:00:55 -0500 From:* Kenneth M. Price [mailto:kprice2@unl.edu] Position: English - Assistant or Associate Professor Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Date posted: 2008-11-08 The Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks a specialist in digital humanities and nineteenth-century literature, British or American, for a tenured or tenure-track appointment in English at the assistant or associate professor level, beginning August 2009. We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in both digital humanities and literary studies. The successful candidate will have opportunities to work collaboratively with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. A strong commitment to both scholarship and teaching is needed. Candidates should be prepared to teach both undergraduate and graduate students. Qualifications: PhD by May, 2009, a record of excellent teaching, and an active research program. Applicants must complete the Faculty/Administrative Information Form at http://employment.unl.edu, requisition 080781 and should then send a letter of application and curriculum vitae to Marco Abel, Recruitment Chair, Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, PO Box 880333, 625 N 14th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0333. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.205 events in the digital humanities: DH2009; CaSTA 2008 h_subject=22.205 events in the digital humanities: DH2009; CaSTA 2008 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 205. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (152= ) Subject: Digital Humanities 2009 Call for Papers [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (28) Subject: Announcement: CaSTA 2008 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:02:15 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Humanities 2009 Call for Papers We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities Conference 2009. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2009 Call for Papers Hosted by the Maryland institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, College Park, USA 22-25 June, 2009 http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ Abstract Deadline: October 31, 2008 (Midnight GMT) Presentations can include: =C2=95 Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) =C2=95 Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) =C2=95 Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital humanities, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * libraries, archives and the creation, delivery, management and preservation of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media; software studies; Human-Computer interaction * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula * digital humanities and diversity The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is October 31, 2008. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2009. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 1st, 2008. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The poster sessions will build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in digital humanities. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 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. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. October 31st, 2008. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available at the conference web site http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ from October 1st, 2008. Anyone who has previously used the conftool system to submit proposals or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2009@digitalhumanities.org. IV. Information about the conference venue: MITH University of Maryland Celebrating its 10th anniversary as a working digital humanities center, MITH is the University of Maryland's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the headquarters of the Electronic Literature Organization. Having fostered numerous early adopter projects in the field, MITH continues to innovate with new work on tools, text analysis, electronic editing, virtual worlds, digital preservation, and cyberinfrastructure. V. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations. (AHDO) If you wish to apply for a bursary please submit a proposal and indicate your interest in the scheme by emailing dh2009@digitalhumanities.org. More information for applicants will be available from the ADHO website (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) after November 1st 2008. International Programme Committee Brett Barney (ACH) Willard McCarty (ACH) Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI) John Nerbonne (ALLC: Vice Chair) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) Paul Spence (ALLC) Allen Renear (ACH) St=C3=A9fan Sinclair (SDH-SEMI) Claire Warwick (ACH: Chair) -- Digital Humanities 2009 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org// --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:06:31 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Announcement: CaSTA 2008 CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 will be held at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008. The conference theme is =C2=93New Directions in Text Analysis.=C2=94 Ther= e will also be a pre-conference seminar on =C2=93Digitizing Early Material Cultu= re=C2=94 Invited speakers on=C2=93New Directions in Text Analysis=C2=94 are * David Hoover, Professor of English at New York University * Hoyt Duggan, Professor Emeritus in English at University of Virginia * Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Professor in Humanities Computing and Multimedia at University of Alberta * Cara Leitch, PhD candidate in English at University of Victoria And on =C2=93Digitizing Early Material Culture,=C2=94 * Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University * Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, University of California Los Angeles The conference program and registration information can be found at the CaSTA 2008 Website: https://ocs.usask.ca/casta08 -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson@arts.usask.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From - Fri Sep 12 18:59:46 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:37:26 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KeCaC-0000DM-OY for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.208 seeking Adrian Packel h_subject=22.208 seeking Adrian Packel Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 208. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:05:09 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Seeking Adrian Packel Sorry to bother the list, I'm trying to find an email for Adrian Packel, who used to work for Perseus (and maybe still does?). The Tufts email address I have for him isn't working, and I need his help with some Stoa stuff. If anyone on the list has Adrian's email address, please send it to me offline (dot.porter@gmail.com). 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.206 events h_subject=22.206 events Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 206. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 14) Subject: MEMICS 2008. DEADLINE EXTENSION [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 19) Subject: RuleML-2008 Call for Participation - One week left for Early Bird Registration --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:07:21 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: MEMICS 2008. DEADLINE EXTENSION A DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR SUBMISSIONS TO MEMICS 2008 Dear Colleague, as we have received multiple requests to extend the deadlines for MEMICS'2008 (http://www.memics.cz/2008/), we have decided to extend the deadlines by one week as follows: Registration of paper/presentation: September 17 Paper/presentation submission: September 24 We would like to thank those of you who have already submitted a paper or a presentation to this event. In case you have some PhD students in your neighbourhood who are or could be interested in submitting to MEMICS, please inform them about the extension. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.223 text-analysis in the news, and new software h_subject=22.223 text-analysis in the news, and new software Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 223. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 74) Subject: Re: 22.209 text-analysis in the news [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 22) Subject: JGAAP 3.1. now available! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:05:44 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.209 text-analysis in the news In-Reply-To: <48CAA335.3090207@mccarty.org.uk> [Apologies for the hiatus, which makes the following less easy to follow. See the quoted text for context. --WM] This is true, but some caveats are in order. Campaign rhetoric is a highly ritualized genre that lends itself to easy statistical analysis and visualization. If you want to be a little cynical, you might say it's like those tests that the Pentagon has set up to prove that anti- missile systems work-- not entirely real life experiments with the thumbs weighing in heavily on the side of success. Things are harder and a lot less obvious once you get into the messy universe of literary texts in different genres, from different places, and different times. We have been valiantly wrestling with this set of problems in the MONK project (http://monkproject.org), and with a little luck we hope to demonstrate real life success stories in the few months. I don't want to knock the Times visualizations, they are very good, and they certainly are a sign of changing times. But alas, from a standpoint of text analysis, any American political campaign is like shooting fish in a barrel. On Sep 12, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 209. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu > > > ), and > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:04:09 +0100 > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > > The New York Times has a variant that illustrates beautifully the way > that visual representation of complex data is becoming more > common/accepted. The web teaches us to write as well as read. > http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORD= S_GRAPHIC.html > > Steve > > Stephen Woodruff > Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute > 11 University Gardens > University of Glasgow > Scotland/UK G12 8QQ > +44 (0) 141 339 8855 > www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Humanist Discussion Group [mailto:humanist@Princeton.EDU] On =20 >> Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group >> Sent: 11 September 2008 16:17 >> To: humanist@Princeton.EDU >> > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 204. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.princeton.edu/humanist/ >> Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:15:05 +0100 >> From: Humanist Discussion Group > > >> Subject: Text analysis >> I notice the increasing use of simple text-analytic results in =20 >> journalism, probably just because it's gotten so easy to do. Today =20 >> I heard about one that lets you compare McCain and Obama, though =20 >> it's not so good at showing you any of the context: >> http://www.speechwars.com/ >> John >> -- >> Dr John Lavagnino >> Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> 26=C3=83=C2=82=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9329 Drury Lane >> London WC2B 5RL >> +44 20 7848 2453 >> www.lavagnino.org.uk >> General Editor, The Oxford Middleton >> http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185697 >> http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185703 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:08:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: JGAAP 3.1. now available! In-Reply-To: <48CAA335.3090207@mccarty.org.uk> We are delighted to announce the release of a new version of JGAAP, the _Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program_, by Patrick Juola and his research team at Duquesne University. For more details, please visit our wiki at www.jgaap.com, from which you can also download both the software and the source code. JGAAP, now in version 3.1, is a graphical program to perform text-based authorship attribution among other forms of text categorization using a variety of different methods. It uses the Java programming language to create an easily-extensible framework for solving text classification problems in a write-once, run-anywhere fashion. Currently available analytic methods include popular classification techniques such as nearest-neighbor algorithms using a variety of distances, support vector machines using a variety of kernels, with many others planned for addition in the near future. This program is freely available and released under Open Source guideline= s; we hope that other researchers will help us test and extend this software for widespread use. Thank you, Patrick Juola and the JGAAP development team (John Noecker, Mike Ryan, Chuck Liddell, Sandy Speer, and Ashley Bernola) www.jgaap.com (JGAAP is supported by National Science Foundation award #OCI-0721667.) 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.222 job in the ESF h_subject=22.222 job in the ESF Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 222. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:24:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Job announcement - Science Officer Humanities Unit - ES= F *Position Announcement Humanities Unit* * * Please find [below] a Job announcement for a position of Science Officer in the Humanities Unit at The European Science Foundation. Application are due by October 13, 2008 to jobs@esf.org quoting the following reference identifier: SCH-SO or to ESF, Human Resources Unit - 1 quai Lezay-Marn=C3=A9sia, BP 90015, F-67080 Strasbourg France. Interv= iews will be held in Strasbourg on 28 October 2008. Further details at www.esf.org. Please distribute as appropriate. The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research and explore new directions for research at the European level. Established in 1974 as an independent non-governmental organisation, ESF currently serves 77 Member Organisations (Research Funding Agencies, Research Performing Organisations and Academies) across 30 countries. The mission of the ESF Standing Committee for Humanities (SCH) is to contribute to the development of the ESF science policy agenda and provide expert advice on science policy actions at the European level in the field of its responsibilities. It will work proactively: to identify priority research areas for the humanities, to advance collaboration and co-ordination in basic research in the humanities, to foster excellent, transnational =C2=96 and where appropriate - transdisciplinary research, = to strengthen the voice of the European humanities, and to continue making the case for better conditions for research in the humanities in Europe. Mission of the Position The mission of the position is to promote and to assist research collaboration in an inter- and multi-disciplinary environment across Europe and to support initiatives of ESF Member Organisations on the European stage. Tasks include running ESF peer review processes, supporting the development of a pan-European science policy, representing the Foundation and improving the visibility of its initiatives in the European research area. Position Responsibilities This position will involve: Developing strategic activities within the overall ESF Strategy, in collaboration with the Head of Unit, using the appropriate ESF instruments: Research Networking Programmes, Exploratory Workshops, Forward Looks, Research Conferences, MOs Fora, EUROCORES, etc; Ensuring compliance with external contracts through full and timely reporting and liaising, in coordination with Administration and Finance and with external partners as appropriate, and drafting proposals for future support; Supporting the relevant ESF scientific committee within the overall ESF Mission and its strategic activities. This includes providing quality papers and reports; Implementing ESF scientific instruments and other approved ESF activities; Organising scientific quality control, guaranteeing high quality through a peer review process of proposals and evaluation ongoing and completed activities; Management of specific activities and their budgets in compliance with ESF Financial Rules and Delegated Financial Authority. Liaising with ESF Member Organisations, COST and external scientific bodies; Publicising and informing the research community (writing material for publications and the web) and liaising with the ESF Communications Unit; Supporting the Head of Unit in the management of his/her direct staff. Profile and Competences required The successful applicant must demonstrate the following competences: Specific competences Ph.D, or equivalent research experience (in one of the Humanities disciplines), with a further 5+ years work experience in a relevant Humanities area; Ability to work independently within the context of objectives set by the Head of Unit, and to create links and promote networking of researchers. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.224 Companion to Digital Literary Studies online h_subject=22.224 Companion to Digital Literary Studies online Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 224. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:12:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Companion to Digital Literary Studies online We are delighted to announce that the Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is now freely available online at at . The online version of the text is hosted by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and is made freely available through the generosity of our publisher, Blackwell Publishing. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Willard McCarty 51) Subject: Text comparison and digital creativity [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 47) Subject: 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 38) Subject: European Researchers' Night tonight [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group 61) Subject: HUMlab seminars in the Fall Semester of 2008 [5] From: Humanist Discussion Group 15) Subject: LATA 2009: final call for papers [6] From: Humanist Discussion Group 9) Subject: Textual Studies Conference at Loyola --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:12:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Text comparison and digital creativity Text comparison and digital creativity 30-31 October 2008 Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JC Amsterdam http://www.knaw200.nl/smartsite.dws?id=3D697 an international colloquium hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, organised by the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/) and the Peshitta Institute (Leiden). Keynote speakers: David Crystal and Bella Hass Weinberg > The spread of digital technology across philology, linguistics and=20 > literary studies suggests that text scholarship itself is taking on a > more laboratory-like image. The ability to sort, quantify, reproduce > and report text through computation would seem to facilitate the > exploration of text as another type of quantitative data (akin to > protein structures or geographic features of the seabed). However, > developing this potential also highlights text analysis and text > interpretation as two increasingly separated sub-tasks in the study > of texts. The implied dual nature of interpretation as the > traditional, valued mode of scholarly text comparison, combined with > an increasingly widespread reliance on digital text analysis as > scientific mode of inquiry raises the question as to whether the > reflexive concepts that are central to interpretation =C2=96 > individualism, subjectivity =C2=96 are affected by the anonymised,=20 > normative assumptions implied by formal categorisations of text as=20 > digital data. This calls for a reconsideration of the=20 > scholarly/scientific and intellectual/computational =C2=91co-production= =C2=92 > of presence and meaning of text in philology. In this context > =C2=91presence=C2=92 refers to the spatial relationship to the world an= d its > objects. As Hans Gumbrecht has noted in his Production of Presence: > What Meaning Cannot Convey, some of the =C2=91special effects=C2=92 of = new > technology may turn out to re-awaken a desire for material presence. >=20 > A number of additional questions arise from that assessment. What are > the effects of digital transformations in text culture on text=20 > scholarship? What rules and guidelines are appropriate for the > digital interpretation of text? What =C2=91virtual=C2=92 values do we t= urn to > as the object of digital humanities scholarship? What is the role of > viewpoint, language, tradition and creativity in quantitative text > comparison? What connections exist between text scholarship, > interpretation, and e-infrastructures for research? >=20 > The Colloquium aims to face these challenges and will be hosted by > the KNAW as part of their 200-year celebrations in the historical=20 > Trippenhuis in the old centre of Amsterdam. A select company of 15=20 > speakers will present papers on the materiality, authenticity and=20 > meaning of text in contemporary digital text scholarship. Following > each cluster of presentations there will be time for lively debate. A > limited number of 20 places are available to take part in this > colloquium. [http://www.knaw.nl/agenda/pdf/motivation_and_%20further_details.pdf] --=20 Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:14:18 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference SECOND INTERNATIONAL PKP SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second international PKP conference will be held from July 8 =C2=96 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around the world. A selected set of conference papers was subsequently published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday. The conference will appeal not just to members of the PKP community, but to anyone interested in trends and developments for scholarly publishing and communication. There will be a wide range of topical sessions on new reading and publishing technologies; open access initiatives; alternative publishing and funding models; national and international collaborative projects; new roles and partnerships for libraries, scholarly publishers and others; and sustainability for open access publishing and open source software. Prospective and first time users of OJS and other PKP software will be able to learn more about the systems and establish contacts with the PKP community. Experienced implementers, developers, and system administrators will have an opportunity to participate in technical sessions and exchange information. The conference will commence with an opening keynote session on the evening of July 8 convened by John Willinsky, the founder of the Public Knowledge Project. There will be several pre-conference workshops on July 8, and the main conference program will present a combination of concurrent and single track sessions during on July 9 and 10. The conference will conclude with three special symposia on community and network building intended for each of the core PKP constituents: journal editors and publishers; librarians; and software developers. The conference will be hosted at Simon Fraser University=C2=92s downtown campus and will be adjacent to a wide range of accommodations, restaurants, and other popular tourist destinations. Please mark the July 8 =C2=96 10 dates on your 2009 calendars. The PKP partners look for= ward to welcoming you to the second PKP conference. Session proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2009 and conference registration opens October 15, 2008. For more information, please visit the conference web site: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009 The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research initiative at Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online environments. PKP has developed free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and current conferences. The PKP software suite is comprised of three modules in production: Open Archives Harvester, Open Journal Systems, and Open Conference Systems, and two in development: Lemon8-XML and Open Monograph Press. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:16:39 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: European Researchers' Night tonight European Researchers' Night Digital Humanities University of Debrecen, Hungary September 26, 2008 from 5 to 10 pm (GMT + 2 hours) PROGRAM 17:00-17:30 Az =C3=B3kori R=C3=B3ma =C3=A9letm=C3=B3dja =C3=A9s m=C5=B1v=C3=A9szete k= =C3=A9pekben =C3=A9s sz=C3=B6vegekben [The way of life and art of ancient Rome in pictures and texts] Gesztelyi Tam=C3=A1s, Forisek P=C3=A9ter (Debreceni Egyetem, University = of Debrecen) 17:30-18:00 R=C3=A9gi magyar irodalmi =C3=A9s bibliai sz=C3=B6vegek: sz=C3=B6vegkiad=C3= =A1sok =C3=A9s ford=C3=ADt=C3=A1sok [Old Hungarian biblical and literary texts: textual editions and=20 translations] Debreczeni Attila, Matics=C3=A1k S=C3=A1ndor (Debreceni Egyetem, Univers= ity of=20 Debrecen) 18:00-18:30 Digital Humanities in Research and Education Harold Short (King's College London), Susan Schreibman (Irish Academy,=20 Dublin), Lisa-Lena Opas H=C3=A4nninen (University of Oulu), Tam=C3=A1s V=C3= =A1radi=20 (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), L=C3=A1szl=C3=B3 Hunyadi (Univ= ersity of=20 Debrecen) 18:30-19:00 Modern technologies in text-based linguistics and language instruction Lisa-Lena Opas H=C3=A4nninen (University of Oulu), Tam=C3=A1s V=C3=A1rad= i (Hungarian=20 Academy of Sciences, Budapest), L=C3=A1szl=C3=B3 Hunyadi (University of D= ebrecen) 19:00-20:00 PhD-students: presentations and discussions 20:00-20:30 Beyond traditions: new thinking and methodologies in humanities: the=20 role of natural sciences, cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence Andr=C3=A1s Ludm=C3=A1ny (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen), Istv= =C3=A1n Boda=20 (University of Debrecen) 20:30-21:00 Cultural aspects of humanities: communities, multiculturalism Istv=C3=A1n Mur=C3=A1nyi (University of Debrecen),Val=C3=A9r Veres (Univ= ersity of=20 Cluj-Napoca) Live videostreaming here: http://dvc.unideb.hu Times shown: GMT + 2 hours --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:17:33 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: HUMlab seminars in the Fall Semester of 2008 Here follows some information about upcoming seminars in HUMlab. All seminars are broadcast live (http://live.humlab.umu.se/) and our archive tool (still under development) provides easy access to previous seminars (both as films and as downloadable mp3 audio files) at http://stream.humlab.umu.se/. We currently have 38 seminars available in English (and another 28 in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish). The tool also makes it possible to select a segment of a talk (through cue points) and refer to that segment (through a link). So for instance, here is Willard McCarty on the methodological commons: http://stream.humlab.umu.se/index.php?streamName=3Dhumanitiescomputing&st= artPoint=3D0:39:33&endPoint=3D0:40:05=20 This week there will be two seminars: [September 25, 1:15 CET] Mixed Realities: Information Spaces Then and Now Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine In collaboration with the Department of Informatics Abstract: I discuss the evolution of information spaces based on my ethnographic research in North America and China on a popular video game, World of Warcraft. I describe certain aspects of a trend to go "back to the future" in the evolution of such spaces. [September 26, 1.15 CET] Desires at Play: Queering World of Warcraft Jenny Sund=C3=A9n, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm In collaboration with Ume=C3=A5 Pride 2008 Abstract (first paragraph): Part reading, part lecture, this is an exploration in the intersections of queer theory, queer lives and the study of online games. How do corporeal desires and belongings map onto games? Could certain game spaces or moments of play be termed =C2=91queer= =C2=92? The feminist critique of representations of femininity in games often engages with how female avatars tend to be designed along the lines of a hyped-up, =C2=91stereotypical=C2=92 sexuality. This argument presumes tha= t excessive female sexuality is a problem, since it turns women=C2=92s bodi= es into objects of a (straight) male gaze. It also presumes an understanding of play primarily passed on identification. How would an analysis with queer sensibilities make the picture shift? Other upcoming seminars: [October 7, 1.15 pm CET] Interactive Architecture and Interaction Landscaping Mikael Wiberg, Department of Informatics [October 21, 1.15 pm CET] The big bang: A case study of mobile media and gaming as new media in South Korea Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University The full seminar schedule can be found at http://www.humlab.umu.se/seminarier (partly in Swedish). Patrik Svensson HUMlab, Ume=C3=A5 University http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:18:41 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: LATA 2009: final call for papers Final Call for Papers 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009) Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). [...] --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:28:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Textual Studies Conference at Loyola Announcing a one-day conference =C2=93Medieval Texts and Textual Meaning=C2= =94 Loyola University Chicago Saturday, November 8, 2008 Speakers: Peter Robinson (Birmingham); oyt N. Duggan (Virginia); Martin Foys (Drew); Stephanie Lundeen (Loyola). Please contact Adrianne Hyler +1 773-508-2240 or ahyler@luc.edu. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.227 how to design an online database? h_subject=22.227 how to design an online database? Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 227. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:29:56 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: how to design an online database? [The following query from Lisa Noetzel was sent to me directly; with her permission I am posting it and hope for a good response. --WM] I am a Spanish professor at a small, liberal arts college located on the eastern shore of MD. I just joined the Humanist Listserv. At the suggesion of Professor Mark Davies, creator of the Corpus del Espanol and other online corpora, I'm writing to the Humanist Listserv to ask for expert advice / suggestions. I am trying to create an online database for an extinct language (Timucuan). It's a language that is attested in 9 bilingual texts (Spanish + Timucuan) all of which were written by various Franciscan missionaries who learned the language in order to communicate with the natives + to convert them to Christianity. I'm writing a proposal for an ACLS fellowship as well as an NEH Digital Start-Up grant to try to see this project through to its fruition. The online databse I envision is a mixture of Google Book Search and the Corpus del Espanol. That is, I'd like for the site to offer a visual, facsimile (with the option of viewing the text in an expanded, plain text version)as well as to have word search (exact word or wild card)options. IT specialists at my college have told me that we use a UNIX server - not a Microsoft one. My question to you and the Humanist Listserv community is this: what programs or interfaces compatible with UNIX would you suggest for a project like mine? Many thanks for any help you can give me + for reading such a long email. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.226 events: mss studies; lexicography; computational linguistics h_subject=22.226 events: mss studies; lexicography; computational linguistics Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 226. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 55) Subject: Schoenberg symposium [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 30) Subject: Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: One-day Conference [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 39) Subject: Call for papers: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:15:41 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Schoenberg symposium In-Reply-To: <48DCF32E.6080207@mccarty.org.uk> 1st ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE OCTOBER 24-25, 2008 On the Nature of Things: Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts In partnership with the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, to be held in Philadelphia, October 24-25, 2008, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania. This annual symposium, organized by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), brings together scholars from around the world to present research related to the study of manuscript books produced before the age of printing and to discuss the potential for digital technologies in advancing manuscript research. This year's symposium examines scientific manuscript book production in Western Europe, Asia, and the Arabic world before the year 1600, and consists of the following events: Public Lecture: Friday, October 24, 6:00 pm =C2=93Archimedes in Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off=C2=94 William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Walters Art Muse= um Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA Symposium: Saturday, October 25, 2008 The University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th floor, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA Speakers include: =C2=95 Alejandro Garc=C3=ADa Avil=C3=A9s, Universidad de Murc=C3=ADa =C2=95 Gerhard Brey, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King=C2=92s = College, London =C2=95 Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute =C2=95 Marilyn Deegan, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King=C2=92= s College, London =C2=95 Gabriele Ferrario, Independent Scholar =C2=95 Menso Folkerts, Institute for the History of Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit=C3=A4t, Munich =C2=95 Monica Green, Arizona State University =C2=95 Kim Plofker, Union College =C2=95 Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory at the Royal Irish Acad= emy, Dublin =C2=95 Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania =C2=95 James Walsh, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University =C2=95 Dominik Wujastyk, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Universit= y College, London For more information, schedule, program details, and registration, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium1.html . Registration for both events is free and open to the public, but seating is limited for Saturday, October 25. Please register by October 19. ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851 http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:26:15 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: One-day Conference In-Reply-To: <48DCF32E.6080207@mccarty.org.uk> */=C3=82=C2=91Words, Texts, and Dictionaries=C3=82=C2=92 /*For the first time ever a One-day conference will be held by /Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru/ (the University of Wales historical dictionary of the Welsh language) under the aegis of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies on Saturday, 18 October 2008 in the Centre's Seminar Room on the National Library of Wales site in Aberystwyt= h. *THE PROGRAMME Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru a=C3=82=C2=92r ffordd ymlaen* / /The University= of Wales Welsh dictionary and the way ahead /*Mr Andrew Hawke, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies *Hywel Fychan a fi: y cop=C3=83=C2=AFydd heddiw* / /Hywel Fychan and I: t= he copyist today /*Dr Diana Luft, Cardiff University *Chwilio am drywydd trwy=C3=82=C2=92r we o eiriau: ymchwilio hanes geirfa= yn yr unfed ganrif ar hugain* / /Searching for a path through the web of words: researching the history of vocabulary in the twenty-first century/= * *Semi-automated construction of semantic networks using web corpora *Professor Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University *Digitizing and revising the Academy=C3=82=C2=92s Dictionary of the Irish= Language *Professor Greg Toner, Ulster University *Simultaenous translation facilities will be available for Welsh-language lectures. The registration fee for the conference, including morning coffee, lunch and tea, is =C3=82=C2=A320 (without lunch: =C3=82=C2=A312.50). Free admis= sion for students. The closing date for registration will be 10 October 2008. For further details please contact Angharad Elias, Administrative Officer, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH. Tel: (01970) 636543 Fax: (01970) 639090 E-mail: a.elias@cymru.ac.uk Further details: http://www.wales.ac.uk/defaultpage.asp?page=3DE4066 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:31:46 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Call for papers: Computational Approaches to Semitic=20 Languages In-Reply-To: <48DCF32E.6080207@mccarty.org.uk> EACL-2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages Co-located with The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Athens, Greece, either Tuesday, March 31st, or Monday, March 30th, 2009 http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/casl09/ Topic: The Semitic family includes many languages and dialects spoken by a large number of native speakers (around 300 million). However, Semitic languages as a whole are still understudied. The most prominent members of this family are Arabic (and its dialects), Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, Maltese and Syriac. Their shared ancestry is apparent through pervasive cognate sharing, a rich and productive pattern-based morphology, and similar syntactic constructions. An increasing body of computational linguistics work is starting to appear for both Arabic and Hebrew. Arabic alone, as the largest member of the Semitic family, has been receiving much attention lately via dedicated projects such as MEDAR, as well as workshops and conferences. These include, among others, the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (ACL 2001, Toulouse, France), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands), a special session on Arabic processing in Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN 2004, Fes, Morocco), the NEMLAR Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference (2004, Cairo, Egypt), The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT (October 2006, London, U.K.), and the series of workshops on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (ACL 1998, Montreal, Canada; ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, USA; and ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic) . The increase in attention to Arabic has been coupled with a surge in computational resources for this language, made available to the community by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA/ELDA). Tools and resources for other Semitic languages are being created at a slower rate. While corpora and some tools are necessarily language-specific, ideally there should be more cross-fertilization among research and development efforts for different Semitic languages. The workshop will be an opportunity for the Special Interest Group on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (the SIG) to meet and discuss future direction in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing approaches to Semitic Languages. [...] From - Sun Sep 28 08:35:44 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:25:28 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kjqea-0007am-Rt for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:25:28 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8S7LpYL014592; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8S42YPt015108; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21150038 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:18:23 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8S7GDTL010630 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:16:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8S7GDGf002775 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:16:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8S7G8Fc002756 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:16:12 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222586167-5f8201f40000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1D6714AD67D for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id YPOR2Mi6n6TGg5o9 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KjqVi-0005J7-Uz for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:16:07 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.229 Sloterdijk's operable man Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8347/Sun Sep 28 00:35:46 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1222586168 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5393 signatures=472991 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809270205 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48DF2F33.7040504@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:16:03 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.229 Sloterdijk's operable man X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 117 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:50385 X-Body-Linecount: 52 X-Message-Size: 6352 X-Body-Size: 2398 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 12 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.229 Sloterdijk's operable man h_subject=22.229 Sloterdijk's operable man Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 229. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:11:54 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Sloterdijk's operable man Dear Humanists, I feel obliged to share with all of you a text that might contribute greatly to our discussion. This text is available online and is entitled The Operable Man: On the Ethical State of Gene Technology , a lecture Sloterdijk gave at Harvard in 2000. If you think from the title that it is a bit far from the themes addressed in this discussion group, please read the following excerpt: "In the current state of the world, the single most striking feature of intellectual and technological history that is that technological culture is producing a new state of language and writing. This new state has hardly anything in common anymore with traditional interpretations of language and writing by religion, metaphysics and humanism. The old House of Being turns out to be something wherein a residence in the sense of dwelling and of the bringing close of the distant is hardly possible any longer. Speaking and writing in the age of digital codes and genetic transcriptions no longer make any kind of familiar sense; the typefaces of technology are developing apart from transmission, and no longer evoke homeliness or the effects of befriending the external. On the contrary, they increase the scope of the external and that which can never be assimilated. The province of language is shrinking, while the sector of straight-forward text is growing. Heidegger, in his letter "On Humanism," expressed these problems in an old-fashioned, yet factually correct manner, when he called homelessness the outstanding ontological feature of man's contemporary modus essendi. "Homelessness is coming to be the destiny of the world. Hence it is necessary to think that destiny in terms of the history of Being ... Technology is in its essence a destiny within the history of Being ... As a form of truth technology is grounded in the history of metaphysics." Enjoy. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.228 online database h_subject=22.228 online database Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 228. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:10:47 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: "online database" for extinct language Hello all, this is my first post to the list. Ms Noetzel requested advice regarding an " online databse I envision is a mixture of Google Book Search and the Corpus del Espanol. That is, I'd like for the site to offer a visual, facsimile (with the option of viewing the text in an expanded, plain text version)as well as to have word search (exact word or wild card)options. ...compatible with UNIX". First, UNIX is the grandmother of all operating systems. The tech people who operate (install, configure, maintain and (possibly) support applications running on) it might want to know what you are doing and how much support you are going to demand from them. They will think the system already has a viable database (probably called mySQL or postgreSQL). To them the database is the engine that does all the work, to you it is the data and interaction you have with it. There are a lot of natural language processing tools that have been developed on the Unix platform, as well as formal concept analysis tools etc. You might want to start with the "Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology", read online or download pdf from http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/HLTsurvey.html and then peruse Language Technology World (http://www.it-world.org) "... an ontology-based virtual information center on the wide spectrum of technologies for dealing with human languages. It is a free service provided to the R&D community, potential users of language technologies, students and other interested parties by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)." It also points to the natural language software registry (http://registry.dfki.de/ ) which lists technologies in the following sections (number of packages): Annotation Tools (35) Evaluation Tools (9) Language Resources (74) Multimedia (14) Multimodality (20) NLP Development Aid (88) Spoken Language (47) Written Language (227) The tools are not necessarily specific to ethnology but many would be useful in that context. The "database" that any particular technology uses could be simply a collection of files on your storage media or a content management system (CMS) with a heavy duty server behind it that handles the data through "structured query language" (SQL) requests. You might also look at "NLTK =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=94 the Natural Language Tool= kit =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=94 is a suite of open source Python modules, data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing. NLTK contains Code supporting dozens of NLP tasks, along with 40 popular Corpora and extensive Documentation including a 375-page online Book. Distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux are available" from (http://nltk.org ). Neil Kelly Schutzenrainstrasse.12 Aesch, 4147 Switzerland home: +41 (0)61 681 17 77 mobile: +41 (0)79 227 40 78 From - Sun Sep 28 10:12:55 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:12:33 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KjsKD-0004pR-KH for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:12:33 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8S98bs3000488; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:08:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8S4Bc9C006790; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:08:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21150923 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:06:00 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8S8xbmS015524 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:59:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8S8xbJv023844 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:59:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8S8xaeW023842 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:59:36 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222592375-5afb021a0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 39C8D9623B7 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id pAmRWPAhOolZ1jYk for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kjs7q-0006Ow-AO for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:59:34 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.230 what is our role in fixing things? 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.230 what is our role in fixing things? h_subject=22.230 what is our role in fixing things? Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 230. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:49:15 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: what is our role in fixing things? Before I ask my question, let me struggle openly to break free from various provincialisms, or at least to recognize them and so qualify the question I want to ask. Forgive the highly personal tone of the following, but I do think that being a person of a particular kind at a particular time and in a particular place has enormous influence on how one thinks. The first of my provincialisms is the product of the accident of birth which allowed me to grow up in an age of more or less unrestrained libidinal and intellectual expansiveness. In other words, back then one could do pretty much what one wanted to do in mind and body and get away with it. Where I grew up is the second provincialism, on the West Coast of the U.S. -- California even! Third is the family, positively and negatively: positively, by elevating the intellectual life high above everything else; negatively, by demonstrating vividly that constant talk of money didn't have any benefits. (Contradictions, I know, but what is life if not contradictory?) Fourth is the great American inheritance of idealism, which I think of as the condition of exercising the ability to envision a life worth living and to move unremittingly if not obsessively against all obstacles toward living it. Fifth is age, which exerts pressure on me, sometimes well nigh irresistible, to see the world as going to hell in a handbasket. In other words, I suspect that visions of decline and fall often, though of course not always, reflect the physical decline and fall of the individuals having those visions. So, now to my question: what can we do, being digital humanists, to restore our institutions of higher education to a focus on education in the full sense of that term? Not training in this or that "transferrable skill" but EDUCATION. Not how to please our student-customers by fulfilling their expectations but how to rock their boats by challenging these expectations. Not how to get more of these student-customers but how to be worth the candle in an age of undoubted darkness. What can we do to counter the deadly, anti-intellectual focus of our administrative superiors on business plans and profitability? (These *are* part of the current vocabulary of university administration in the U.K.) The ones I know, mind you, do not have much of a choice. Apparently it's the ones I do not know, which a senior administrator here once called "the hard men down the hall", who are more directly part of the problem. But only part. I think we have to ask ourselves how this situation has come to pass and what role we've had in allowing it to happen. What I see (arguments welcome) is what's not in the mix, namely that very idealism which animated, empowered and formed my education -- the conviction that our whole purpose in higher education is, as I said, to envision a life worth living, make the vision strong and offer it to all who come to study with us. If now we are not being given the wherewithal to do what we would like to do, and see only prospects of getting less, I think we have to ask about what we have been giving, indeed whether we have been giving, such that we get in turn. And from that, I would think, would follow acts of generosity on our part. Which would have to be leapings of faith in the face of no evidence of return whatever. What's specific in this from the digital humanities? What do the digital humanities have to contribute -- not to a higher standard of living but to that life worth living? This is, in fact, a version of the question that F. R. Levis asked, in a public lecture he gave at Bristol, published in the Times Literary Supplement for 23 April 1970, "'Literarism' vs 'Scientism': The misconception and the menace". (I've mentioned this lecture before, I know. Please don't medicalize my repetitions!) Leavis was not, of course, speaking about the digital humanities as we know them now, rather about one of the first great waves of technologization to hit the universities, objections to which were waved away by a political leader at the time, who said in the Guardian that technology was "a means to an end". What end? was Leavis' question, and now mine. The fact that no answer is forthcoming from our supposed leaders tells us where to look for leadership. One answer, I suppose, is manifested by Humanist, and by Stan Katz's blog in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Brainstorm, http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/katz/. Others? Comments? 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.232 events: museology; librarianship h_subject=22.232 events: museology; librarianship Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 232. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (31) Subject: MW2009 CFP: Deadline Tues. Sept .30, 2008 [2] From: Willard McCarty 118) Subject: Libraries in the Digital Age /LIDA/ 2009 Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:31:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: MW2009 CFP: Deadline Tues. Sept .30, 2008 MW2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEADLINE SEPT. 30, 2008 Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Don't miss this great chance to present your best work at the only international conference devoted to culture, heritage, art, and science on-line: Museums and the Web. MW2009 will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 15-18, 2009. PROPOSALS ARE DUE SEPTEMBER 30, 2008. Submit your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/mw2009.proposalForm.html We're open to proposals on on any topic related to museums and their communities creating, facilitating, or delivering culture, science or heritage on-line. Proposals for MW are peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee. Full details about MW2009 can be found on the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ We hope to see you in Indianapolis, jennifer and David -- ------------ Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 ------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:32:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Libraries in the Digital Age /LIDA/ 2009 Call for=20 Participation ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2009 Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia, 25 =C2=96 30 May 2009 Inter-University Centre (http://www.iuc.hr/ ) and University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/) Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Email: lida@ffos.hr The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a different and =C2=91hot=C2=92 theme is addressed, divided in = two parts; the first part covering research and development and the second part addressing advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable locations. This is the tenth and last LIDA that will be held in Dubrovnik; after that LIDA moves to University of Zadar (Croatia) on a biannual basis. Themes LIDA 2009 Part I: REFLECTIONS: Changes Brought by and in Digital Libraries in the Last Decade Contributions are invited covering the following topics (types described below): =C2=95synthesis of research, practices, and values related to digital lib= raries that were prominent in the past decade; conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches that emerged =C2=95reflections and evaluations of the impact digital libraries have ha= d on various social enterprises =C2=96 particularly as related to scholarship, education, and government =C2=95reflections and evaluation of the impact digital libraries have had= on individuals in their everyday life; changes in use and users of digital libraries =C2=95assessment of changes that digital libraries brought to traditional libraries and vice versa, changes in digital libraries based on requirements of their host institutions =C2=95growth in involvement with digital libraries of a variety of instit= utions such as museums, professional and scientific societies, and other agencie= s =C2=95emergence and effects of mass book digitization efforts, such as Mi= llion Book Project, Google Books Library Project, and others; library participation in these projects =C2=95examples of good practices that emerged in a variety of efforts, su= ch as digitization, preservation, access, and others =C2=95reflections on challenges and lessons learned from national, funded digital library research and application projects such as US National Science Digital Library Program, the European Delos and Digital Library Project, and others =C2=95examination of international aspects of digital libraries with rela= ted trends in globalization and cooperative opportunities. Part II: HERITAGE & digital libraries - digitization, preservation, acces= s Contributions are invited covering the following topics (types described below): =C2=95theories and taxonomies of heritage as related to digital libraries= and heritage libraries in a digital world =C2=95dimensions of e-heritage and areas of significance (documents, monu= ments - cultural and natural, as well as ancestry records broadly conceived to encompass bio-cultural heritage) =C2=95institutional perspectives on creation, dissemination, and access t= o heritage including local, national, trans-national and global strategies for digital heritage =C2=95perspectives on heritage information: cultural, political, educatio= nal, economic, legal, socio-technological, bio-technological =C2=95surveys of preservation activities, programs, projects, best practi= ces =C2=95technologies for heritage information management: solutions and challenges =C2=95forms of heritage, their representations, and connection to artifac= ts, memories, and record-keeping practices =C2=95specific concerns for library and information science (including bu= t not limited to digital curation, web archiving, automation of cultural heritage archives, etc.) =C2=95preservation efforts related to scholarly communication and the kno= wledge continuum. Types of contributions Invited are the following types of contributions: 1.Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that wil= l be presented at the conference and included in published Proceedings 2.Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a short, one or two- page paper. 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 PhD students, particularly as related to their dissertation; help and responses by a panel of educators. Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Deadlines: For papers and workshops: 15 January 2009. Acceptance by 10 February 2009. For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2009. Acceptance by 15 Februar= y 2009. Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2009. Conference contact information Course co-directors: TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D. ;Department of Library and Information Science University of Zadar; 23 000 Zadar, Croatia; taparac@unizd.hr TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D.;School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 USA tefko@scils.rutgers.edu Program chairs: For Theme I: ELIZABETH D. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.231 how to design an online database h_subject=22.231 how to design an online database Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 231. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:33:21 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.227 how to design an online database? > The online databse I envision is a mixture of Google Book Search and > the Corpus del Espanol. That is, I'd like for the site to offer a > visual, facsimile (with the option of viewing the text in an > expanded, plain text version)as well as to have word search (exact > word or wild card)options. The best way to approach this, I would think, is first to create a transcription of the texts in TEI/XML. That transcription is independent from the operating system (unix/microsoft) and also independent from any program that you use, at a second stage, to create a web representation of your texts. One of the advantages of this approach is that you can create multiple presentations, tailored to different needs. Samples of editions of parallel texts that were created based on a TEI encoding: Shorter Chinese Samyukta Agama: http://buddhistinformatics.chibs.edu.tw/BZA/cluster.xql?base=bza001 Preface to Ancrene Wisse http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Projects/EETS/AW-tt.html Freising Manuscripts http://nl.ijs.si/e-zrc/bs/index-en.html (a number of versions in parallel: http://nl.ijs.si/e-zrc/bs/html/bsPA.html) Another sample, this one of TEI encoded texts integrating advanced search, facsimile display and a textual rendering: Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ But there are many more. The Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/), as many on this listserv will know, is a consortium of libraries, scholars, and others, that has been working for 20+ years on creating guidelines for text encoding in the humanities. If you need more information, please mail me off-list. Peter Boot pboot@xs4all.nl From - Mon Sep 29 08:55:26 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:55:01 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkDaj-0004zA-0v for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:55:01 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8T7pVes028617; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:51:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8T42vU7017750; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:51:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21157312 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:41:05 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8T7cect016108 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8T7ceiG004539 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8T7cdnX004537 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:38:40 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222673919-183802d00000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 95EE3742F1E for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:38:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id f4oywgYCO8EAYANA for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:38:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkDL4-0007bT-KW for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:38:38 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.233 our role in fixing things Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8351/Mon Sep 29 03:43:56 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1222673919 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5393 signatures=472991 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809290002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E085FA.2050009@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:38:34 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.233 our role in fixing things X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 162 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:45224 X-Body-Linecount: 97 X-Message-Size: 8511 X-Body-Size: 4559 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -52 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 12 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.233 our role in fixing things h_subject=22.233 our role in fixing things Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 233. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 21) Subject: Re: 22.230 what is our role in fixing things? [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 34) Subject: Re: 22.230 what is our role in fixing things? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.230 what is our role in fixing things? In-Reply-To: <48DF4772.5000804@mccarty.org.uk> Willard, the question is obviously in the air (is it because of the fall, or start of academic year?), because I just had the chance to talk about a book on a similar theme: Konrad Paul Liessmann, Theorie der Unbildung. Die Irrtuemer der Wissensgesellschaft. The book is newly translated in Croatian, and we found out, with some surprise, that this is a first book-long argument to appear in Croatia *against* the promised land of "knowledge society" (which seems to be land of knowledge industrialized). Anyway, one possible point of reference for digital humanists can be found in well known Choruses from "The Rock" by T S Eliot ("Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? / Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?") --- if we take into account *all three* "levels" of knowing. Computing, obviously, deals with "information"; higher education, arguably, aimed at "wisdom" (or at least von Humboldt liked to think about it that way). Digital humanities is able to show how, in this layered structure, information differs from knowledge. Could it move somehow towards the third level? Yours, Neven Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:35:27 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.230 what is our role in fixing things? In-Reply-To: <48DF4772.5000804@mccarty.org.uk> Willard, some quick reflections on your important email about education and training (as I like to put it). First, my vision. In my ideal world, student would do a first degree to get an education, a second degree to get training. Law is probably the best model, at least in the 'true north strong and free', as Canada's anthem has it. So business schools, engineering schools, journal schools, ... would over only post-graduate degrees. That said, one thing to ask is: Have things got worse? I have been at a university for almost 50 years, six universities in three countries on two continents. My answer would be, On the education side, for the most part, no. Certainly research funding has been sharply steered away from basic, curiousity-driven work in some countries (though not Canada, thank goodness). But at the undegraduate level, I would say that the mix is about the same as it always has been. Some young people arrive wanting to have their minds expanded. They do philosophy or literature or history or physics or mathmatics, depending on their predilection. Others want a ticket to an interesting, well-paid job. They do business or engineering. Still others want to change the world. They do environmental studies or, sometimes, sociology or political science (the latter esp if they are headed for law school and politics). Yet others want to understand something big and important. They do cognitive science or biology or ... . And so it goes and so it has gone for a long time. What can we do? No single small group of academics and researchers is going to make a global difference. But what we can do, each of us, is to be in the mind-expanding and human-flourishing business in everything we do with students individually and in our various groups. This might not make a global difference but it can make a huge difference to the lives with which we are actually in contact. Plus, the resulting relationships make the work more than worthwhile all by themselves. And it is nice to have former students come back years later and tell you how much they got out of your course/research group/discussion group. My two cents' worth. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:30:20 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Resources on Critical Rationalism Herewith an updated list of resources (books, websites, recent publications) in the tradition of Karl Popper's ideas on critical thinking and critical rationalism. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2008/CR-Resources.html Rafe Champion From - Tue Sep 30 06:05:24 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:37:55 +0100 Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.8] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJsn-0004O6-Ss for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:37:55 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8TEQdmX019402; 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.235 identities obscured h_subject=22.235 identities obscured Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 235. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:17:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: identities obscured Dear colleagues, Temporarily I am using e-mailing software to process Humanist that eliminates attributions of messages in the visible header. This will change soon. Meanwhile I have tried to watch out for messages that are manually unsigned or under-signed but have missed a few. The ones that I know about are: 22.233 [2], from Andrew Brook 22.223 [1], from Martin Mueller Until the new software comes along, please sign all your postings manually, giving your full name and e-mail address. I shall try to remain vigilant. But often I process messages before the first coffee of the day has had a chance to do its work and so am partially on auto-pilot, it seems. I wonder, now that I think of it, whether close association with computing induces automatic behaviour of a less than ideal sort? Yours, WM From - Tue Sep 30 06:29:28 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:25:33 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkXjn-0000IN-FE for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:25:33 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8U5JnKg011740; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:19:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8U44LPR024590; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:19:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21175616 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:18:18 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8U5GhFh017464 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8U5GhUD009399 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8U5GZKp009355 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:16:42 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222751795-062502c80000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 7C5064FD473 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:16:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id TVWJlWknwGbb6pbz for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:16:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkXb8-0005se-9q for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:16:34 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.237 update to the William Blake Archive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8356/Tue Sep 30 02:21:10 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1222751795 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5394 signatures=473044 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809290244 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E1B62D.9030703@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:16:29 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.237 update to the William Blake Archive X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 150 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:41952 X-Body-Linecount: 85 X-Message-Size: 8024 X-Body-Size: 4050 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.6 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0086] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.237 update to the William Blake Archive h_subject=22.237 update to the William Blake Archive Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 237. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:13:30 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: update to the William Blake Archive Dear all, Some recent news & publications from the William Blake Archive. Best, Will Shaw William Shaw English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- 29 September 2008 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of copies L and R of _The Book of Thel_. Copy L is in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery and copy R is in the Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art. _The Book of Thel_ is dated 1789 by Blake on the title page, but the first plate (Thel's Motto) and the last (her descent into the netherworld) appear to have been completed and first printed in 1790, while Blake was working on _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_. Copies L and R are from the first of three printings of _Thel_, during which Blake produced at least thirteen copies, printed in five different inks to diversify his stock. Copy L, for example, was printed in green ink, copy R in brown ink; both are lightly finished in water colors. Copies from this press run were certainly on hand when Blake included the book in his advertisement "To the Public" of October 1793: "The Book of Thel, a Poem in Illuminated Printing. Quarto, with 6 designs, price 3s." Copies L and R join copies in the Archive from the other two printings: copy F, printed and colored c. 1795, and copy O, printed and colored c. 1818. They also join copies H and J from the first printing; like copy L, both are printed in green ink and lightly finished in water colors. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _Thel_ copies L and R are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in editors' notes, have been applied to copies L and R and to all the _Thel_ texts previously published. With the publication of _Thel_ copies L and R, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of sixty- seven copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, including Blake's illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and all nine of Blake's water color series illustrating the poetry of John Milton. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.236 DRIVER and eIFL.net sign Memorandum of Understanding h_subject=22.236 DRIVER and eIFL.net sign Memorandum of Understanding Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 236. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:14:54 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Press Release - DRIVER and eIFL.net sign Memorandum of Understanding DRIVER and eIFL.net sign Memorandum of Understanding PRESS RELEASE September 29, 2008 DRIVER and eIFL.net - Electronic Information for Libraries - have identified demand for cooperation in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories. DRIVER is a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by the European Commission, to establish a flexible, robust, and scalable infrastructure for all European and world-wide digital repositories, managing scientific information in an Open Access model increasingly demanded by researchers, funding organisations and other stakeholders. DRIVER's mission is to expand its content base, supporting the global research community with high quality research output, including textual research papers and complex forms of scholarly electronic publication. Rima Kupryte, Director of eIFL.net, said 'eIFL.net and DRIVER share the vision that research institutions should contribute actively and cooperatively to a global, interoperable, trusted and long-term data and service infrastructure based on Open Access digital repositories. This agreement includes joint approaches to consolidation of national communities for the European repository network and active joint dissemination of best practices of Open Access scholarly communication in countries and regions without such formal policy.' Norbert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator of DRIVER and Director of the Goettingen State and University Library commented: "DRIVER can only be successful through collaborating with all relevant stakeholders and by including all countries. eIfL has an excellent track record in supporting developing countries. Cooperation with eIFL will contribute to the joint vision through an established communication network and enthusiastic pioneers in many countries." Further information: Rima Kupryte, Director Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net) c/o ADN Kronos, Piazza Mastai 9 00153 Rome, Italy Tel: +(39)(06)5807216/17 E-mail: info@eifl.net http://www.eifl.net/ Notes for Editors eIFL.net eIFL.net is an international foundation that enables access to knowledge through libraries, supports and advocates for the wide availability of electronic resources in more than fifty transition and developing countries. This global network embraces millions of users in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.238 our role in fixing things h_subject=22.238 our role in fixing things Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 238. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:25:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: our role in fixing things It's good to hear from Andrew Brook that in his experience students are more or less as always. My minimal hope is that this is indeed so. I for one agree with his local activism, "be in the mind-expanding and human-flourishing business in everything we do with students individually and in our various groups". Perhaps it is hopeful as well as a bit depressing that I find myself (to compare small with great) in the position of I. I. Rabi as told by Ithiel de Sola Pool in Humane Politics and Methods of Inquiry (p. 295): > There is an anecdote, and I believe a true one, from the time when > General Dwight D. Eisenhower became President of Columbia University. > At this first meeting with the faulty the new president told them > about various plans to do good things for the "employees" of the > university. At the end the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, I. I. Rabi, > rose and said, "Mr President there is just one point: we are not the > employees of the university, we are the university." At Queen's University Belfast, for example, the administrators are openly talking about a "customer services" office for the students. According to reliable reports I get, students there are not unlikely to complain that because they have paid for their education they should get this and that. (Most students in the U.K. have NO IDEA what it means to pay for even a significant fraction of what it actually costs to educate them.) I have had a conversation with a student in which I got back from her in righteous tone some script or other from a handbook of rights and privileges (but not duties) -- the presence of buzzwords were a dead giveaway. Not uncommon are e-mail messages from undergraduates to their lecturers (most often if the lecturer is young, but not always) that begin with use of the first-name, in the following manner: "hi, X, hope you had a nice weekend. i can't get my essay in, hope this is ok." What bothers me here is that the obvious lack of respect mirrors our own lack of self-knowledge of what we're for and self-confidence in what we are doing. My own answer to the question of what we might do, locally, within the digital humanities, is to stop thinking and talking in the common yess'um-utilitarian way (shuffling the feet, with eyes downcast and hands in pockets) and assert the dignity of what we do by challenging received knowledge rather than simply encoding it. Instead of blathering on about "transferrable skills" -- and so transferring the value of what we do from ourselves right out into the 9-to-5 workplace, and so de-valuing that value, I think we should be revealing worlds of possibility and hope beyond what the deadly dull workplace can ever provide for. In the fact that computing cannot do X, Y and Z is the revelation of what miraculously human beings can do. I think this is, in the form of a rant, what Neven suggested by his far gentler, more subtle question: > Digital humanities is able to show how, in this layered structure, > information differs from knowledge. Could it move somehow towards the > third level? But I would ask, again, how can WE move it to that third level, and perhaps on from there. Comments? Yours, WM From - Tue Sep 30 07:44:26 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:44:20 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkYy2-0007Ur-Hm for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:44:20 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8U6cZaL004651; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8U44FUl024558; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21176656 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:21 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8U6c7hw023052 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8U6c7co004585 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8U6c6TC004578 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:06 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222756685-399302bb0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 45EA91C6B4CD for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 4rbZNShMEcaKNbu5 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:38:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkYs1-00089G-Df for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:38:05 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.239 Telamon: Greek inscriptions in Bulgaria Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8356/Tue Sep 30 02:21:10 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1222756686 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5394 signatures=473044 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0809290252 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E1C948.1080405@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:38:00 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.239 Telamon: Greek inscriptions in Bulgaria X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m8U6cZaL004651 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 90 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.189:36942 X-Body-Linecount: 24 X-Message-Size: 4995 X-Body-Size: 916 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "a.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.189 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4998] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.239 Telamon: Greek inscriptions in Bulgaria h_subject=22.239 Telamon: Greek inscriptions in Bulgaria Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 239. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:35:53 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Greek inscriptions in Bulgaria Colleagues in the digital humanities generally, especially those interested in encoding and resource-construction, and those focused on epigraphy of Greek, will want to know about the Telamon Project, telamon.proclassics.org, which aims "to create a digital library of the ancient Greek inscriptions found in Bulgaria. Their total number counts more than 3500 written in a period of about 1000 years (6th century BC =C2= =97 4th century AD)." Interest in the project will, I am certain, be most welcome. Yours, WM From - Thu Oct 02 08:21:31 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:05:43 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlHJj-0007Sv-4e for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:05:43 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9261fAh022431; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:01:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9251NPb018118; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:01:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21204291 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:56:08 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m925qUak025677 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:52:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m925qTYr014773 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m925qTxg014771 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:52:29 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222926748-0a7102600000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id CD5E214CABE4 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:52:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id iT8egnWhkSS8UuBr for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:52:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlH6x-0002lL-Uo for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:52:28 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.241 new software for the iPhone Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1222926748 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5396 signatures=473199 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810010228 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E46197.1070201@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:52:23 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.241 new software for the iPhone X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 88 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:64405 X-Body-Linecount: 25 X-Message-Size: 4786 X-Body-Size: 949 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -3.8 X-Spam-Score-Int: -37 X-Spam-Bar: --- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-3.8 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% [score: 0.0163] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 4 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.241 new software for the iPhone h_subject=22.241 new software for the iPhone Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 241. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:10:40 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new software for the iPhone As part of the service offered here, the following alert to recent software for the iPhone: Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, Gastrointestinal: Lower, available in the iPhone App Store for $34.99 (http://www.modalitylearning.com/zollingers-lower.asp) and Upper (http://www.modalitylearning.com/zollingers-upper.asp). Consider, if you will, the circumstances under which the Atlas would be used. Handy, though, the ability to bring the Atlas right up to the surgical site. ("Nurse, iPhone! Scalpel! Sponge! Damn! iPhone! ....) Yours, WM From - Thu Oct 02 08:21:31 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:08:57 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlHMt-0000Yj-CW for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:08:57 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9264mtW016618; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9254X5M002705; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:03:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21204297 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:56:08 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m925tNLX025833 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:55:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m925tNiB009450 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:55:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m925tMuj009448 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:55:22 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222926921-66a801460000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 12DB55614ED for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:55:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id PNVvF1jzS42RdmWY for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:55:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlH9l-00038b-5m for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:55:21 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.242 new publication: AI & SOCIETY 23.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1222926922 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.2.00 definitions=5396 signatures=473199 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810010228 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E46244.2060308@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:55:16 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.242 new publication: AI & SOCIETY 23.3 X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m9264mtW016618 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 116 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:60937 X-Body-Linecount: 52 X-Message-Size: 5269 X-Body-Size: 1324 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -52 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "b.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0001] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.242 new publication: AI & SOCIETY 23.3 h_subject=22.242 new publication: AI & SOCIETY 23.3 Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 242. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:44:52 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: AI and Society 23.3 Volume 23 Number 3 of AI & SOCIETY is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Karamjit S. Gill 327 - 329 The misery of digital organisations and the semiotic nature of IT Peter Br=C3=B6dner 331 - 351 Deliberative discourse and reasoning from generic argument structures John L. Yearwood, Andrew Stranieri 353 - 377 Methodologies for agent systems development: underlying assumptions and implications for design Panayiotis Koutsabasis, John Darzentas 379 - 407 Creativity for problem solvers Ren=C3=A9 Victor Valqui Vidal 409 - 432 OPEN FORUM Tagging municipality FAQs: a quest for interoperability Yvonne Bjerke, Olov =C3=96stberg 433 - 440 Machine intelligence (MI), competence and creativity Rajakishore Nath 441 - 458 Book Review Ren=C3=A9 Victor Valqui Vidal: creative and participative problem solving= =C2=97the art and the science Lene S=C3=B8rensen 459 - 460 =09 From - Thu Oct 02 08:21:31 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:09:19 +0100 Received: from postoffice05.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.189] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlHNF-00012S-3O for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:09:19 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9265CGm025721; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:05:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m924wm5k001379; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21204294 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:56:08 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m925riF0025738 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:53:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m925riXq007800 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:53:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m925rbVN007785 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:53:43 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1222926816-5d5601a30000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 52433561489 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:53:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id bsivLXXwsSaWFOcQ for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:53:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlH83-00033o-On for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:53:35 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.243 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 30 Sept. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.243 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 30 Sept. h_subject=22.243 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 30 Sept. Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 243. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:37:05 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: UBIQUITY for 30 Sept. This Week in Ubiquity: /September 30 =C2=96 October 6, 2008/ *UBIQUITY CLASSICS:* *_In Defense of Cheating _* by Donald A. Norman The issue of how to teach and learn in the distributed environment of the Internet is now over a decade old no closer to resolution. Don Norman, a master of clear thought, in 2005 wrote down a set of principles for doing this well. It is surprising how little used these principles are. Enjoy the resurrection of the debate! 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 202) Subject: CHArt 2008 Conference - Deadline for early booking discount extended to 10 October 2008 [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (141) Subject: CfP: EACL workshop 'LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:39:47 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CHArt 2008 Conference - Deadline for early booking=20 discount extended to 10 October 2008 **CHArt CONFERENCE EARLY BOOKING DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 10 OCTOBER 2008** The CHArt committee has extended the early booking period by a further 10 days =C2=96 don=C2=92t miss this opportunity to register for the reduc= ed conference rate! CHArt TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Seeing=C2=85Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture Thursday 6 - Friday 7 November 2008 The Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX. THEME This year's CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility, blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital culture in which our eyes are assaulted by ever greater amounts of visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a continual basis. What does it mean to see and be seen nowadays? How have advances in neuroscience or developments in technology altered our understanding of vision and perception? What kind of visual spaces do we now inhabit? What new kinds of visual experiences are now available? And what are now lost or no longer possible? How does the increasing digitalisation of media affect the experience of seeing? What and who might be rendered invisible by the processes of digital culture? What are our current digital culture's blindspots? What are its politics of seeing? The 2008 conference investigates such questions. Places are limited so early booking is recommended. The booking form is available online on *www.chart.ac.uk*. Bookings made before 1 October 2008 will be entitled to a discount. Conference fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:40:37 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CfP: EACL workshop 'LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009' In-Reply-To: *From: *Piroska Lendvai > *Date: *30 September 2008 17:10:01 GMT+02:00 *To: *Piroska Lendvai > *Cc: *Caroline Sporleder >, Lars Borin > * [please distribute] ::: Call for Papers ::: EACL workshop 'LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009': Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech09 Co-located with The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 30 (31) March 2009 Athens, Greece Scope and Topics Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of language technology tools and resources to text-based research in Social sciences, Humanities and Education (SHE). Likewise, large scale digitisation projects are currently underway to make collections of cultural heritage (CH) stored in museums, archives, and libraries around the world more accessible, where it is desirable to develop powerful tools that enable annotating, structuring, enriching, searching, linking, and mining the digitised data. Language technology has an important role to play in these processes, even for collections which are primarily non-textual, since text is the pervasive medium used for metadata. At the same time, the CH and SHE domains pose special challenges for the NLP community, such as the use of historic or non-standard language (ellipsis, OCR or transcription errors, linguistic variation, and the mixed use of languages), the interplay between textual form and content, as well as the necessity to deal with data from various media. Textual data from CH and SHE are typically multifunctional, which allows for transdisciplinary research, promoting the development of automatic creation and extension of controlled vocabularies and information exchange standards. The CH and SHE domains therefore constitute an interesting and challenging testbed for the robustness of existing language technology. The workshop, a continuation of LaTeCH-07 (Prague, Czech Republic) and LaTeCH-08 (Marrakech, Morocco) aims to foster interaction between researchers working on all aspects of language technology applied to CH and SHE domains, and experts from institutions who are testing deployed technologies and formulating improved use cases. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Adapting existing NLP tools to the CH and SHE domains: machine learning and semantic web technologies * Automatic error detection and cleaning * Complex annotation tools and interfaces * Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or non-contemporary use of language * Knowledge discovery from CH and SHE data * Knowledge representation in CH and SHE * Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains * Ontologies, data models, taxonomies: automatic induction and standardisation * Representing CH and SHE data to different audiences: personalisation, text simplification, text summarisation, (hyper)text generation * Transdisciplinary research on CH and SHE data * User scenarios and use cases. [...] From - Fri Oct 03 08:47:41 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:47:42 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlfNz-0007PP-Mu for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:47:42 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m937faTT004108; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m934H8R9015000; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21221349 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:37:40 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m937aooR020719 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:36:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m937aoBk016789 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:36:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m937amZQ016786 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:36:49 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223019408-1727013c0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 882BDF3E4F0 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:36:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 5ck29Ta9FnMAEDD8 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:36:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlfDT-0006Ff-7y for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:36:47 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.244 events: CS and the humanities; the social semantic web Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223019408 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5397 signatures=473284 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810030003 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E5CB89.8040601@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:36:41 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.244 events: CS and the humanities; the social semantic web X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m937faTT004108 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 221 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:33502 X-Body-Linecount: 157 X-Message-Size: 10964 X-Body-Size: 6978 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -52 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0001] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 3 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.244 events: CS and the humanities; the social semantic web h_subject=22.244 events: CS and the humanities; the social semantic web Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 244. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 41) Subject: DHCS 2008 Registration Open [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 59) Subject: AAAI-SSS-09: Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:31:26 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: DHCS 2008 Registration Open Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. November 2-3, 2008. http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/ Registration deadline: OCTOBER 27, 2008 We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 3rd annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) which will take place on November 2=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=933, 2008 at th= e University of Chicago. The goal of the annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The first DHCS Colloquium in 2006 (at the University of Chicago) examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the "million books" digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 (at Northwestern University) focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies. The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Making Sense" =C3=A2=C2= =80=C2=93 an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital to the analog. The conference site has a complete program and presentation abstracts. Following tradition, DHCS 2008 is structured to allow participants to attend all paper presentations, poster sessions and keynotes (there are no parallel sessions) with generous time set aside for questions, informal meetings and networking between sessions, at the joint lunches and the colloquium banquet. DHCS continues to be a free event without registration fees. This year (inspired in part by the success of THATCamp) we've added time for participant organized workshops and informal, "birds-of-a-feather" meetings on the day before the colloquium, Saturday, November 1, 2008. We envision workshops being used for seminars and/or tutorials on topics that will feature in the colloquium's paper presentations and the BOF for informal exchanges on topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology"). I hope you will find this attractive enough to come. For the Program Committee, Mark -- Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:34:41 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: AAAI-SSS-09: Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets=20 Web 3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium: Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0 March 23-25, 2009, Stanford, California, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Web 2.0 (aka. social web) applications such as Wikipedia, LinkedIn and FaceBook, are well-known for fast-growing online data production via their network effects. Meanwhile, emerging Web 3.0 applications, driven by semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL and SPARQL, offer powerful data organization, combination, and query capabilities. The social web and the semantic web complement each other in the way they approach content generation and organization. Social web applications are fairly unsophisticated at preserving the semantics in user-submitted content, typically limiting themselves user tagging and basic metadata. Because of this, they have only limited ways for consumers to find, customize, filter and reuse data. Semantic web applications, on the other hand, feature sophisticated logic-backed data handling technologies, but lack the kind of scalable authoring and incentive systems found in successful social web applications. As a result, semantic web applications are typically of limited scope and impact. We envision a new generation of applications that combine the strengths of these two approaches: the data flexibility and portability of that is characteristic of the semantic web, and the scalability and authorship advantages of the social web. In this symposium, we are interested in bringing together the semantic web community and the social web community to promote the collaborative development and deployment of semantics in the World Wide Web context. We welcome constructive papers on, for example: (i) how semantic technologies, especially knowledge representation and collective intelligence, can benefit social web content organization and retrieval; (ii) how social web technologies can facilitate massive semantic content production; and (iii) how to address the requirements, e.g., reasoning scalability and semantic convergence issues, which emerge from the combination. We encourage submissions of full papers, extended abstracts, demonstrations and posters describing research and applications that deal with (but not limited to) the following topics on social semantic we= b: * Collaborative and collective semantic data generation and publish= ing * Semantic tagging and annotation for social web * Data integration * Data portability * Data analysis and data mining * Privacy, policy and access control * Provenance, reputation and trust * Scalable search, query and reasoning * Semantically-enabled social applications: semantic wikis, semanti= c desktops, semantic portals, semantic blogs, semantic calendars, semantic email, semantic news, etc. Submission Interested participants should submit papers in PDF format to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/conference_change_yes.cgi?iid=3D8040. Submissions should be formatted in the AAAI Format. Full papers are limited in 6 pages and position papers/demos are limited in 2 pages. Selected papers from the symposium will be published as an AAAI technical report. Important Dates * October 10, 2008 (23:59 PDT) - Submission due. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.245 events: digital curation; semantic analysis; textual computing h_subject=22.245 events: digital curation; semantic analysis; textual computing Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 245. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 126) Subject: DigCCurr2009 [2] From: Willard McCarty 42) Subject: Semantic Analysis Technology [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 166) Subject: Digital Humanities: Expanding Textualities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:42:35 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: DigCCurr2009 From: Helen Tibbo Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:35:38 +0100 In light of several requests, we are extending the deadline for long paper, poster, panels, and short paper submissions to DigCCurr2009 to OCTOBER 13, 2008. Looking forward to seeing everyone interested in digital curation in Chapel Hill the first week of April. We will be publishing an actual proceedings volume and all submissions will be peer reviewed. Come join us in *The Southern Part of Heaven* in our loveliest month, April. -Helen DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects April 1-3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ OCTOBER 13, 2008 Proposals due for contributed papers, panels and posters The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project. DigCCurr is a three-year (2006-2009), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded collaboration between SILS and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The primary goals of the DigCCurr project are to develop a graduate-level curricular framework, course modules, and experiential components to prepare students for digital curation in various environments. DigCCurr initiatives in support of this goal are informed by representatives from the project=C2=92s collaborating institutions as well as an Advisory Boar= d of experts from Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The first symposium, DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation, was held April 18- 20, 2007, attracting nearly 300 attendees from ten countries. Participants explored the definition of digital curation and what skills are necessary for digital curation professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, data centers, and other data-intensive organizations. DigCCurr2009 will continue this theme, focusing on current practice and research surrounding digital curation with a look toward the future, and trends in preparing digital curation professionals. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following: -- Digital curation synergies and collaboration: What are the challenges and opportunities for regional, national, and global cooperation and collaboration in digital curation practices and research? How do we approach these effectively? Where do practices and research converge and diverge across different organizational mandates and requirements? Strategies for building and leveraging relations and cooperation among a global audience of digital curation researchers and educators for improved delivery of digital curation research and practice opportunities for emerging professionals. -- Teaching and training at the international level: What are the barriers and advantages in providing quality and comparable education? How does the profession traverse credentials and certification? Graduate education and continuing education for practitioners; Examination of current teaching tools; Recruiting students; Perceptions on the changing professional competencies and personal attributes for employment in digital curation environments. -- Digital curation in relation to archives and museums: How is the environment shaping traditional responsibilities? How are synergies developing across libraries, archives, and museums? What are core competencies in digital curation? Can we develop common ground among participating disciplines and entities? What are implications for various professions, and what issues do the professions need to addressing separately? -- What is going on in real life with the curation of digital resources? We encourage people to undertake small-scale studies in order to share data and case studies about current practices, procedures and approaches within specific organizational contexts. What is happening in different sectors such as industry, federal government, state government, nonprofit cultural institutions? -- What do we need? Examination of scope, extent, relevance, and quality of current literature. What is useful? What is missing? -- Infrastructures in support of digital curation. How well is current technology meeting the needs of digital curation, and what should future technology research and development involve to better meet these needs? How do organizations incorporate digital curation principles and procedures into their administrative and managerial operations? How do we support sustainable infrastructure? TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS Contributed papers The submission of original, recent, research and projects (including case studies), theoretical developments, or innovative practical applications providing insight into the above topics is encouraged. Submissions may be either a *Long Paper* (8 pages maximum) or *Short Paper* (2 pages), should be in ACM format and include title, author(s) and affiliation(s), abstract, and full text. Please submit paper as pdf file. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Contributed posters Posters presenting new and promising work, preliminary results of research projects, or *best practices* are welcomed. The content should clearly point out how the application contributes to innovation of thought or design within the field, how it addresses key challenges, as well as potential impact on the participant=C2=92s organization and/or practices in the field. Especially welcome are submissions from current students. Submissions should be in the form of a two-page paper in ACM format and include title, author(s) and affiliation(s), abstract, summary of the poster=C2=92= s content (may include figures), and references to substantive supporting materials that will aid reviewers in determining suitability for the conference. Please submit paper as pdf file. The final version of these short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. During the conference, presenters are expected to display their work as a poster, incorporating text and illustrations as appropriate. Presenters can also use laptop computers as a way of supporting their posters (e.g. demonstration of related visualizations or applications). Panels Panels and technical sessions present topics for discussion such as cutting-edge research and design, analyses of trends, opinions on controversial issues, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas. Innovative formats that involve audience participation are encouraged. These may include panels, debates, or forums, or case studies. Submissions should be in the form of a two-page paper in ACM format and include title, sponsor(s), name and affiliation(s) of all participants, providing an overview of the issues, projects, or viewpoints to be discussed by the panel. Please submit paper as pdf file. The final version of the two-page panel summary document will be published in the conference proceedings. [...] Dr. Helen R. Tibbo School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-961-8071 Email: tibbo@email.unc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:44:00 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Semantic Analysis Technology We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled: "Semantic Analysis Technology: in search of categories, concepts & context" London, 3 November 2008 from 14:00 - 19:00 (registration starts at 13:15). Venue: University College London, Wilkins Building, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Cost: 20 GBP (students and ISKO members free!) Much has been written in recent years of the potential of semantic analysis technology which extracts categories, concepts and context automatically. But how well does this technology work and what are the issues involved? In this seminar, organized by ISKO UK in cooperation with the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies at University College London, we will hear from six presenters, each of whom will provide their own experiences. They include SmartLogic=C2=92s Jeremy Bentley, Bill Porter o= f Expert System, Rob Lee from Rattle Research, and Helen Lippell, Karen Loasby and Silver Oliver representing various media organizations, among them the BBC. This event is the fourth in ISKO UK's successful KOnnecting KOmmunities series, and promises some revealing insights into a technology which we may all find ourselves using in the not-too-distant future, whether we like it or not. For full details on the venue and programme, and to book your place at the event visit http://www.iskouk.org/semantic_nov2008.htm. We look forward to seeing you in November! ISKO UK http://www.iskouk.org/ ****** --=20 Tamara Lopez Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481237 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:44:00 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Humanities: Expanding Textualities Society for Digital Humanities Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 pour l'=C3=A9tude des m=C3=A9dias interactifs Call for Papers Digital Humanities: Expanding Textualities Starting with Father Roberto Busa's =E2=80=9Cindex verborum of all the wo= rds in=20 the works of St. Thomas Aquinas and related authors,=E2=80=9D humanities= =20 computing has long been concerned with text, where text is narrowly=20 construed as something like 'words on a page' (Blackwell Companion to=20 Digital Humanities, 4). Perhaps humanities computing's evolution to=20 digital humanities has coincided with the expansion of the concept of=20 =E2=80=9Ctext.=E2=80=9D As did D. F. McKenzie, we now =E2=80=9Cdefine =C2= =81etexts=C2=81 to include=20 verbal, visual, oral, and numeric data, in the form of maps, prints, and=20 music, of archives of recorded sound, of films, videos, and any=20 computer-stored information, everything in fact from epigraphy to the=20 latest forms of discography" (Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, 1= 3). For our 2009 conference, we invite submissions on any aspect of=20 textuality. We invite arguments against the expansion of the concept=20 beyond its most traditional understanding, or beyond the point at which=20 we now find ourselves, and we invite arguments in favour of expansion in=20 any direction and into any area. We invite papers that demonstrate the=20 strength and / or the necessity of digital humanities in dealing with=20 the undeniable evolution of text from print to digital culture.=20 Potential topics include but are not limited to: =E2=97=8F The meaning of =E2=80=9Ctext=E2=80=9D =E2=97=8F The relationship between image and text =E2=97=8F The image as text =E2=97=8F The textuality of the moving image =E2=97=8F The limitations of =E2=80=9Ctext=E2=80=9D as metaphor =E2=97=8F Rejecting text / rejecting textuality =E2=97=8F The evolving role of textual scholarship =E2=97=8F Text as database / database as text =E2=97=8F Teaching texts The preceding list is partial, and only intended to spur your=20 imagination. We welcome the submission of any paper you believe would=20 fit the conference theme, or any paper you think befits an audience at=20 the most important annual conference of digital humanists in Canada. SDH/SEMI regularly collaborates with other national societies, including=20 the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English=20 (ACCUTE), the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC), the Association=20 for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l=E2=80=99=C3=A9= tude de=20 l=E2=80=99histoire du livre (ASBC/ACEH), the Canadian Historical Society = (CHS),=20 the Canadian Society of Medievalists (CSM) and the Canadian Society for=20 Renaissance Studies / Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Canadienne D'=C3=89tudes de la Re= naissance=20 (CSRS / ) to present joint sessions. As of the publication of this Call=20 For Papers next year's collaborations have not been set, but we=20 anticipate continuing our cooperative tradition. Proposals for=20 inclusion in a joint session should indicate such a preference. All=20 submissions to SDH/SEMI will be considered to be eligible for inclusion=20 in a joint session or in independent SDH/SEMI sessions. Those wishing=20 to submit their proposal through one of the associations with which=20 SDH/SEMI will collaborate must follow the submission requirements of the=20 specific association. There is some funding available to support graduate student=20 participation, and in keeping with the forward-looking nature of=20 SDH/SEMI graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2008.=20 Presentation at the conference is available to all members of SDH/SEMI=20 and other groups in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations=20 (ADHO). Presentation in joint sessions is open to those who hold a=20 membership in at least one of the participating associations. Membership=20 in SDH/SEMI is available on-line at=20 http://www.oxfordjournals.org/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information: title of=20 paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail;=20 institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of=20 need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should clearly=20 indicate the paper's thesis, methodology, and conclusion. The URL for submissions to SDH/SEMI 2009 is: http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/ Please address questions to one of the addresses below: Richard Cunningham, Conference Committee Co-Chair richard.cunningham[at]acadiau.ca or Ray Siemens, Conference Committee Co-Chair siemens[at]uvic.ca --------------------------------------- Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 pour l'=C3=A9tude des m=C3=A9dias interactifs Society for Digital Humanities Appel =C3=A0 communications M=C3=A9dias interactifs: au-del=C3=A0 des fronti=C3=A8res de la textualit= =C3=A9 Depuis les travaux de Roberto Busa sur l=E2=80=99index des oeuvres de St-= Thomas=20 d=E2=80=99Acquin, le domaine des m=C3=A9dias interactifs s=E2=80=99est at= tard=C3=A9 au texte en=20 tant que liste de mots (=E2=80=9Cwords on a page=E2=80=9D, Blackwell Comp= anion to=20 Digital Humanities, 4). L=E2=80=99=C3=A9volution des sciences humaines as= sist=C3=A9es par=20 ordinateur (humanities computing) vers les humanit=C3=A9s num=C3=A9riques= (digital=20 humanities) co=C3=AFncide peut-=C3=AAtre avec la red=C3=A9finition des fr= onti=C3=A8res du=20 concept de =E2=80=9Ctexte=E2=80=9D. =C3=80 l=E2=80=99instar de D.F. McKen= zie, nous d=C3=A9finissons le=20 texte en incluant les donn=C3=A9es verbales, visuelles, orales et num=C3=A9= riques,=20 lesquelles prennent la forme de cartes, de musiques, d=E2=80=99archives d= e=20 fichiers sonores, de films, de vid=C3=A9os et de toute information conser= v=C3=A9e=20 en format num=C3=A9rique. Bref, de tout, allant de l=E2=80=99=C3=A9pigrap= he =C3=A0 la=20 discographie dans sa forme la plus moderne (Bibliography and the=20 Sociology of Texts, 13, notre traduction). Dans le cadre de notre conf=C3=A9rence 2009, nous acceptons des propositi= ons=20 portant toutes les facettes de la textualit=C3=A9. Nous vous invitons =C3= =A0=20 prendre position contre le d=C3=A9cloisonnement du concept de textualit=C3= =A9=20 au-del=C3=A0 de sa conception plus traditionnelle ou au-del=C3=A0 de sa c= onception=20 actuelle. Nous vous invitons aussi =C3=A0 vous prononcer en faveur de son= =20 d=C3=A9cloisonnement, de son =C3=A9clatement. Nous souhaitons recevoir de= s=20 propositions de communications d=C3=A9montrant la vigueur ou la n=C3=A9cessit=C3=A9 des humanit=C3=A9s num=C3=A9riques t= raitant de=20 l'=C3=A9volution incontestable du texte, de sa forme imprim=C3=A9e =C3=A0= sa conception=20 en tant qu=E2=80=99objet de culture num=C3=A9rique. Ce th=C3=A8me inclut,= sans pour autant=20 s'y limiter, les aspects suivants =E2=97=8F Le sens du =E2=80=9Ctexte=E2=80=9D =E2=97=8F Le rapport entre l'image et le texte =E2=97=8F L'image en tant que texte =E2=97=8F La textualit=C3=A9 de l=E2=80=99image en mouvement =E2=97=8F Les limites du texte en tant que m=C3=A9taphore =E2=97=8F Le rejet du texte et de la textualit=C3=A9 =E2=97=8F L=E2=80=99=C3=A9volution du r=C3=B4le de la textualit=C3=A9 = dans la tradition acad=C3=A9mique =E2=97=8F Le texte en tant que base de donn=C3=A9es/ la base de donn=C3= =A9es en tant=20 que texte =E2=97=8F L=E2=80=99enseignement des textes La liste pr=C3=A9c=C3=A9dente est partielle et a uniquement comme objecti= f de=20 stimuler votre imagination. Nous nous invitons =C3=A0 soumettre une=20 proposition de communication s=E2=80=99inscrivant dans le th=C3=A8me g=C3= =A9n=C3=A9ral de la=20 conf=C3=A9rence ou que vous jugez pertinente dans le cadre de la plus=20 importante conf=C3=A9rence annuelle canadienne sur les humanit=C3=A9s num= =C3=A9riques. SDH/SEMI collabore r=C3=A9guli=C3=A8rement avec d'autres associations nat= ionales,=20 incluant l=E2=80=99Association of Canadian College and University Teacher= s of=20 English (ACCUTE), la Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Bibliographique du Canada (SBC),=20 l=E2=80=99Association canadienne pour l=E2=80=99=C3=A9tude de l=E2=80=99h= istoire du livre (ACEH), la=20 Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 canadienne d=E2=80=99histoire (SCH), la Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9= canadienne des=20 m=C3=A9di=C3=A9vistes (SCM), la Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 canadienne d=E2=80=99=C3= =A9tudes de la renaissance=20 (SC=C3=89R) dans l=E2=80=99organisation de s=C3=A9ances conjointes. Nous = esp=C3=A9rons=20 poursuivre ces collaborations lors du congr=C3=A8s 2009. Si vous souhaite= z=20 que votre communication figure dans le cadre d=E2=80=99une s=C3=A9ance co= njointe,=20 veuillez l=E2=80=99indiquer lors de la soumission de votre proposition de= =20 communication. Toutes les propositions de communication pourront=20 =C3=A9ventuellement =C3=AAtre incluses dans une s=C3=A9ance conjointe. Si= vous=20 souhaitez soumettre votre proposition de communication directement =C3=A0= une=20 association avec laquelle la Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 pour l=E2=80=99=C3=A9tude = des m=C3=A9dias interactifs=20 collabore, vous devez vous assurer de respecter les r=C3=A8gles de soumis= sion=20 de l=E2=80=99association en question. Les =C3=A9tudiants de ma=C3=AEtrise et de doctorat sont fortement encoura= g=C3=A9s =C3=A0=20 soumettre une proposition de communication. La Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 pour l=E2= =80=99=C3=A9tude des=20 m=C3=A9dias interactifs offre des bourses pour encourager la participatio= n=20 des =C3=A9tudiants. La date limite pour soumettre une proposition de communication est le 15=20 d=C3=A9cembre 2008. Nous acceptons les propositions de tous les membres d= e la=20 Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 pour l=E2=80=99=C3=A9tude des m=C3=A9dias interactifs, = ainsi que des autres=20 associations membres de l=E2=80=99Alliance for Digital Humanities Organis= ations.=20 La pr=C3=A9sentation dans des s=C3=A9ances conjointes est r=C3=A9serv=C3=A9= e =C3=A0 ceux et=20 celles qui sont membres d=E2=80=99au moins une des associations participa= ntes.=20 On peut devenir membre de la Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 pour l=E2=80=99=C3=A9tude = des m=C3=A9dias interactifs=20 en consultant sur le site=20 http://www.oxfordjournals.org/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html. Les r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9s ou propositions de s=C3=A9ance devraient inclure su= r la page de=20 garde les renseignements suivants : - titre de la communication; - nom de l=E2=80=99auteur; - adresse postale compl=C3=A8te - courriel; - affiliation institutionnelle et fonction de l=E2=80=99auteur, le cas= =C3=A9ch=C3=A9ant; - besoins en =C3=A9quipement audiovisuel pour la pr=C3=A9sentation. Les propositions de communication devraient =C3=AAtre d=E2=80=99une longu= eur de 150 =C3=A0=20 300 mots. Elles doivent clairement sp=C3=A9cifier la th=C3=A8se, la m=C3=A9= thodologie,=20 ainsi que les conclusions du travail pr=C3=A9sent=C3=A9. L=E2=80=99adresse =C3=A0 laquelle envoyer les propositions sera indiqu=C3= =A9e au d=C3=A9but de=20 l=E2=80=99automne sur le site de la SDH/SEMI : http://www.sdh-semi.org. 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NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitsep08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Virtual Worlds in Higher Education Instruction Games and Learning Distance Learning Journal Archives Now Online Carolina Conversations Recommended Reading ...................................................................... EDITOR'S NOTE: Normally, Infobits does not focus on a single topic or theme, However, the recently-published abundance of papers, reports, and articles on using games or virtual worlds for teaching and learning has prompted me to devote most of this issue to these resources. ...................................................................... VIRTUAL WORLDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTRUCTION "Clearly there is a large and growing group of educators who believe that many good things, many very good things, are connected with virtual worlds. There are also still staunch critics yelling about what is wrong with virtual worlds. With many people engaging in this robust conversation today, it would be a great disservice to both the local and the global community not to have more institutions participating in the discussion." -- A. J. Kelton, "Virtual Worlds? 'Outlook Good'" The theme of the September/October 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE REVIEW is learning in virtual worlds. In "Higher Education as Virtual Conversation" Sarah Robbins-Bell explains how "using [virtual worlds] requires a shift in thinking and an adjustment in pedagogical methods that will embrace the community, the fluid identity, and the participation--indeed, the increased conversation--that virtual spaces can provide." Cynthia M. Calongne ("Educational Frontiers: Learning in a Virtual World") draws on the experience of teaching nine university courses using Second Life to discuss what is required for success in this teaching environment. In "Drawing a Roadmap: Barriers and Challenges to Designing the Ideal Virtual World for Higher Education," Chris Johnson provides a "roadmap for designing an 'ideal' virtual world for higher education, pointing decision-makers in a general direction for implementing virtual worlds and noting various barriers along the way." These and other papers and articles are available online at http://connect.educause.edu/apps/er/index.asp?time=1222867545 EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is published by EDUCAUSE (http://www.educause.edu/). Articles from current and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/ See also: "B-Schools in Second Life: It's More Than Just Fun and Games; It's the Confluence of Playing, Learning, and Working" By Vivek Bhatnagar THE SLOAN-C VIEW, vol. 7, no. 8, September 2008 http://www.sloanconsortium.org/viewarticle_SL "The Mean Business of Second Life: Teaching Entrepreneurship, Technology and e-Commerce in Immersive Environments" By Brian Mennecke, Lesya M. Hassall, and Janea Triplett JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING, vol. 4, no. 3, September 2008 http://jolt.merlot.org/vol4no3/hassall_0908.htm JOURNAL OF VIRTUAL WORLDS RESEARCH http://jvwresearch.org/ This new open access, peer-reviewed publication, hosted by the Texas Digital Library consortium (http://jvwresearch.org/) is a "transdisciplinary journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research." The theme for volume 2, number 1, to be published in March 2009, will be "Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in 3-D Virtual Worlds." ...................................................................... GAMES AND LEARNING The theme of both Fall 2008 issues of COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION and COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION ONLINE is "Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming" -- "a look at the computer and video gaming industry and its influence on our literacy practices. Articles include a variety of interesting topics, from encouraging reflective gaming/play, to adapting games for writing courses, to writing in World of Warcraft, to collaborative writing in Alternate Reality Games, and more." Although the theme is the same for both publications, there is no overlap in their contents. Computers and Composition: An International Journal [ISSN: 8755-46150] is a refereed online journal hosted at Ohio State University and "devoted to exploring the use of computers in composition classes, programs, and scholarly projects. It provides teachers and scholars a forum for discussing issues connected to computer use." While all papers are available online only by subscription, your institution may provide access through Elsevier's ScienceDirect eSelect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/); check with your campus library for availability. For more information and to access current and back issues, go to http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/ Computers and Composition Online is the companion journal to Computers and Composition. Current and back issues are available at no cost at http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/ See also: "Teens, Video Games, and Civics" By Amanda Lenhart, et al. September 16, 2008 http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/263/report_display.asp The Pew Research Center recently reported that "virtually all American teens [97% of teens ages 12-17] play computer, console, or cell phone games and that the gaming experience is rich and varied, with a significant amount of social interaction and potential for civic engagement." "The Civic Potential of Video Games" By Civic Engagement Research Group at Mills College September 7, 2008 http://www.civicsurvey.org/White_paper_link_text.pdf "Although it shares some text and findings with the Teens, Games, and Civics report, it provides a more detailed discussion of the relevant research on civics and gaming. In addition, this report discusses the policy and research implications of these findings for those interested in better understanding and promoting civic engagement through video games." "Literacy through Gaming: The Influence of Videogames on the Writings of High School Freshman Males" By Immaculee Harushimana JOURNAL OF LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 9, no. 2, August 2008, pp. 35-56 http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/volume10/harushimana.pdf "While videogames often evoke concerns among parents, politicians, and educators, they pervade the lives of the youth in today's world and constitute a major component of the 'new literacy studies' field. In an era when young generations are digital-friendly and video game savvy, the role of video gaming in children and adolescents' cognitive development must not be overlooked. Educating today's generation of learners requires an understanding of the new digital environment into which they were born." ...................................................................... DISTANCE LEARNING JOURNAL ARCHIVES NOW ONLINE The complete archives (1986-2008) of THE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION are now online and searchable at http://www.jofde.ca/ Papers in the current issue include: "Disciplinary Differences in E-learning Instructional Design" By Glenn Gordon Smith, Ana T. Torres-Ayala, and Allen J. Heindel "Teacher and Student Behaviors in Face-to-Face and Online Courses: Dealing With Complex Concepts" By C. E. (Betty) Cragg, Jean Dunning, and Jaqueline Ellis "The Effect of Peer Collaboration and Collaborative Learning on Self-efficacy and Persistence in a Learner-paced Continuous Intake Model" By Bruno Poellhuber, Martine Chomienne, Thierry Karsenti The Journal of Distance Education [ISSN: 1916-6818 (online), ISSN: 0830-0445 (print)] is an "international publication of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) [that] aims to promote and encourage Canadian scholarly work in distance education and provide a forum for the dissemination of international scholarship." For more information, contact: British Columbia Institute of Technology, Learning & Teaching Centre, 3700 Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, BC, Canada V5G 3H2; tel: 604-454-2280; fax: 604-431-7267; email: journalofde@gmail.com; Web: http://www.jofde.ca/ ...................................................................... CAROLINA CONVERSATIONS Carolina Conversations, launched in September 2008, is a series of live interviews with members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community conducted in the virtual world, Second Life. Guests will discuss their work and interests and will also respond to questions from the Second Life audience attending in-world. The next interview will be on October 7, 2008. For more information, to get the SLurl, or to view videos of past conversations, go to http://its.unc.edu/tl/conversations/ Carolina Conversations is sponsored by UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services' Teaching and Learning division, the group that publishes TL INFOBITS. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Is Stupid Making Us Google?" By James Bowman The New Atlantis, no. 21, Summer 2008, pp. 75-80 http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google "Generally speaking, even those who are most gung-ho about new ways of learning probably tend to cling to a belief that education has, or ought to have, at least something to do with making things lodge in the minds of students--this even though the disparagement of the role of memory in education by professional educators now goes back at least three generations, long before computers were ever thought of as educational tools. That, by the way, should lessen our astonishment, if not our dismay, at the extent to which the educational establishment, instead of viewing these developments with alarm, is adapting its understanding of what education is to the new realities of how the new generation of 'netizens' actually learn (and don't learn) rather than trying to adapt the kids to unchanging standards of scholarship and learning." Editor's note: The article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" mentioned in Bowman's article was the June 2008 Infobits "Recommended Reading" suggestion (http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjun08.php#7). ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits ...................................................................... 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From - Sun Oct 05 12:01:20 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:01:18 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KmRMR-0006eP-CA for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:01:18 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m95AuxOa004665; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:57:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9542721009122; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:56:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21243896 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:55 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m95AoSSw006842 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:50:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m95AoSxM012178 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:50:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m95AoNPX012168 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:50:28 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223203822-49ec00270000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6BB091CBF4A8 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:50:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id ik2QgbYOkl7gYaAU for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:50:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KmRBu-0006Wa-C0 for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:50:22 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.248 PhD bursaries at Bolzano Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8374/Sat Oct 4 18:41:34 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223203823 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5398 signatures=473327 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810050026 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E89BE8.5050000@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:50:16 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.248 PhD bursaries at Bolzano X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 155 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:54002 X-Body-Linecount: 90 X-Message-Size: 7460 X-Body-Size: 3515 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -5.3 X-Spam-Score-Int: -52 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-5.3 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0015] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 3 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.248 PhD bursaries at Bolzano h_subject=22.248 PhD bursaries at Bolzano Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 248. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:48:51 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 3 PhD bursaries at KRDB Research Centre, Bolzano, Italy - Final Call - Deadline Oct. 20, 2008 FINAL CALL - DEADLINE October 20, 2008 3 PhD positions with studentship at the KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ====================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) offers an opening for 14 positions for its PhD program, 7 of which with a three-year studentship. 3 of the 7 PhD positions with studentship are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data . The deadline for the formal application is Oct. 20, 2008. Information about how to apply for the PhD program and the studentship can be found in the university PhD web page and in the faculty PhD web page (follow link "Public Competition Announcement for PhD courses - 24th cycle") The studentship amounts roughly to 45,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty of Computer Science also invites applicants to the PhD program to get in touch with the research group, in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which prospective students may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Computational Logic and Deductive Databases * Computational Logic and Constraint Programming * Data and Information Integration * Description Logics and Ontology Languages * Efficient Reasoning Algorithms for Description Logics * Intelligent Access to Web Resources * Logic Based Approaches to Natural Language Understanding * Logic-Based Modelling of Biological Knowledge * Natural Language Processing * Ontology Development and Evaluation * P2P Database Integration * Query Answering in Distributed Environments * Semistructured Data Management * Temporal Logics and Temporal Databases Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Centre, see . The research activities in the KRDB research centre require good knowledge of Logic and of Foundations of Databases, and some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and of Knowledge Representation. Good knowledge of English is also preferred. CONTACTS To get in contact with the KRDB Research Centre, send an email to: Prof. Diego Calvanese Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano via della Mostra, 4 I-39100 Bolzano, Italy Email: calvanese@inf.unibz.it Phone: +39-0471-016-160 Fax: +39-0471-016-009 To get in touch with the current PhD students, see . 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.247 our role in fixing things h_subject=22.247 our role in fixing things Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 247. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:46:37 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: our role in fixing things The following was sent to me by John Burrows in a note relating to other matters. I extract the relevant paragraph. Subsequently, after telling him how accurate I thought his portrayal was, he changed his mind about speaking his mind. --WM > -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 22:54:10 +1000 > From: John Burrows > > Willard-- > > [...] > > I gave a lot of thought to your Humanist topic but decided that, almost > twenty years after retirement, my views don't cut the mustard. They > begin in the debasement of the relationship between student and tutor > but blame forces larger than either of them for what has happened to > them both. Students have been led to believe that everyone has a right > to a degree in return for limited complaince with piffling requirements > (punctuality notable among them) and that it is their right to assess > their tutors more strenuously than they themsleves are to be assessed. > The tutor meanwhile has been browbeaten into accepting his lowly place in > the meat-chain. Cure? None that I know of. Palliation? There are still > genuine students and genuine tutors here and there, praise be. For a > seminal text, see Lionel Trilling's wonderful story, "Of this time, of > that place". > > Yours, > John From - Sun Oct 05 12:07:31 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:07:10 +0100 Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.8] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KmRS9-0001yI-5Y for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:07:10 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m95B3EMS022202; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 07:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m95427gF019443; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 07:02:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21243899 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:55 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m95AsXi8006934 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m95AsXlJ025260 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m95AsQJn025246 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:32 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223204065-49dd003b0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id BB2DC1CBF5D8 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id Vv7YV9EAblHbQlJE for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KmRFo-0001Qm-Ky for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:54:24 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.249 cfp: Archiving 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223204065 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5398 signatures=473327 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810050026 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48E89CDA.2030507@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:54:18 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.249 cfp: Archiving 2009 X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Princeton.EDU id m95B3EMS022202 X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 166 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.8:37072 X-Body-Linecount: 102 X-Message-Size: 7527 X-Body-Size: 3607 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -4.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -41 X-Spam-Bar: ---- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "d.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-4.2 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.8 listed in list.dnswl.org] 1.1 URIBL_RHS_DOB Contains an URI of a new domain (Day Old Bread) [URIs: imaging.org] -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0001] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 1 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.249 cfp: Archiving 2009 h_subject=22.249 cfp: Archiving 2009 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 249. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:53:04 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: Archiving 2009 -------- Original Message -------- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:21:21 +0100 From: archiving2009@imaging.org Reply-To: archiving2009@imaging.org To: Tanner, Simon IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2009 Call for Papers. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2009, to be held May 4-7, 2009 in Arlington, VA., is *December 21, 2008*. A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2009. Paper proposals should be submitted according to the process described at http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2009/authors.cfm The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2009 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the December 21^st deadline. Proposed program topics include: =B7 *Creating and Managing Digital Collections* * Metadata and data retrieval * Large scale collection management * Business cases and business models for economic sustainability * Ingest and export of digital content packages * Strategies for selecting and archiving specific kinds of digital content * User needs and access to digital collections =B7 *Imaging and Image Workflow Processes* * Image acquisition and digitization workflows * Image capture and quality assurance * Color management * Compression: JPEG2000 and other audiovisual formats * Digital collections scanning standards * Image discovery and access =B7 *Digital Preservation Strategies* * Reliability of storage solutions * Archival formats (PDF/A, JPEG 2000, Open XML, RAW etc.) * Microfilm as storage solution for digital data * Conservation and stability of computer output media * Repository models and workflows * Compliance with copyright law and policy * Tools, services, and resources for use in a distributed environm= ent Please feel free to contact me with any questions. We hope to see you there. Best regards, Diana Gonzalez IS&T Conference Program Manager archiving2009@imaging.org 703/642-9090 x 106 -- Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 or Admin: +44 (0)20 7848 2861 Email: simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ From - Tue Oct 07 05:19:59 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:12:08 +0100 Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.8] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by h.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kn3vZ-0004d2-Hv for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:12:07 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9747kLb024888; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9743XdD011931; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:07:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21264764 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:03:55 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9741EaW011943 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9741Ejc010834 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9741Dpt010830 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:01:13 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223352072-735402d90000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D535015615F7 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:01:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id H9zFayyzuvwWUwbq for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:01:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kn3l1-0003Td-32 for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:01:11 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.250 International Conference on Digital Literacy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223352072 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5399 signatures=473365 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=16 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810060255 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48EADF00.9090402@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:01:04 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.250 International Conference on Digital Literacy X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 206 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.133.8:43035 X-Body-Linecount: 143 X-Message-Size: 9373 X-Body-Size: 5500 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -6 X-Spam-Bar: / X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "f.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-0.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.133.8 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV 0.6 J_CHICKENPOX_1 J_CHICKENPOX_1 1.4 J_CHICKENPOX_3 J_CHICKENPOX_3 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:59:24 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: FW: Call for Participation - International Conference on Digital Literacy, 17-18 November 2008 In-Reply-To: <5204E2D5-E5F1-4B3C-83C1-E07C80704179@liv.ac.uk> Begin forwarded message: *> From: "Lampros Stergioulas" > Date: 6 October 2008 23:39:56 GMT+03:00 > Literacy, 17-18 November 2008 > > (Please would you be so kind as to forward this to any interested colleagues or networks - Apologies for any cross postings). > > > International Conference on Digital Literacy > Pursuing Digital Literacy in the 21st Century > Reconstructing the School to provide Digital Literacy for All > Sponsored by the European Commission > 17 - 18 November 2008 > Brunel University, West London UB8 3PH, United Kingdom > > Registration is now open for a limited number of participants until 31st October 2008 via the conference website. You can register by clicking on the link below: > http://e-start.brunel.ac.uk/register.aspx > > Conference topics > > * Digital Literacy - Theoretical Frameworks > * Digital Literacy from Theory to Practice > * The pursuit of Digital Literacy in the practice of teaching and learning > * Digital Literacy: National Policies and National Curricula > * Teacher Training and teacher education in Digital Literacy > * Digital Literacy and e-Inclusion > * Digital Literacy Ethics > * Digital Literacy: Formal and Informal Learning > * Developing Digital Literacy: Factors and Indicators > > The conference offers an exciting programme delivering: > > * Outstanding invited speakers > * Relevant presentations and discussion sessions > * The latest in Digital Literacy theory and practice > * An extensive gathering of experts and practitioners > **> The target audience includes teachers, local education authorities, ICT coordinators and advisors, researchers, academics, practitioners, educationalists, consultants, and policy makers. The conference will provide an international forum for exchanging views and disseminating recent research and practice in the area of Digital Literacy in Compulsory Education. Networking amongst delegates is actively supported. > > Two discussion sessions will take place during the two days of the conference: > > * Perspectives of national policy making and curricula for Digital Literacy - Chair:Valentina Dagiene(Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania) > ParticipantsSpeakers:Patricia Behar, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Paulo Gama, Brazil;Vainas Brazdeikis, Information Technology Centre for Education, Finland;Pranas Gudynas, Education Development Centre, Lithuania;Barbara Kedzierska, Pedagogical University of Krakow;Jari Koivisto, Finnish National Board of Education;Lena Olsson, Stockholm University. > * Digital competence assessment: frameworks for instruments and processes to be used by students and teachers - Chairs:Katherine Maillet(Institut National des Tlcommunications, France) andAntonio Cartelli(University of Cassino, Italy) > > Conference Chair:Lampros Stergioulas, Brunel UniversityLampros.Stergioulas@brunel.ac.uk > Programme Chair:Helen Drenoyianni, Aristotle University of Thessalonikiedren@eled.auth.gr > Conference Manager:Marina Matijevic, Brunel UniversityMarina.Matijevic@brunel.ac.uk > > The conference is organised by thee-START Digital Literacy Networkand theSchool of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics of Brunel University. > > For more details and practical information, please visit the conference website:http://e-start.brunel.ac.uk.** > > All conference communication is dealt with by: > Ms Carole Bromley, > Dept. of Information Systems and Computing > Brunel University > Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK. > Tel.+44 1895 267133 > Fax:+44 1895 269757 > E-mail:Carole.Bromley@brunel.ac.uk > > Conference Speakersinclude: > BAWDEN, David > City University, UK > CERVI, Laura / TORNERO, Jos Manuel Prez > Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain > CORNU, Bernard > CNED (Centre National dEnseignement Distance), France > CULLEN, Joe > Tavistock Institute (UK) / MENON Network, Belgium) > ERSTAD, Ola > University of Oslo, Norway > FACER, Keri > FutureLab, UK > GROLIOS, Georgios > Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece > HADJIVASSILIOU, Kari > Tavistock Institute, UK > HELSPER, Ellen > Oxford University, UK > JUNGE,Kerstin > Tavistock Institute, UK > KENDALL, Michael > EMBCPL, UK > LIAMBAS, Anastassios / KASKARIS, Ioannis > Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece > KLECUN, Ela > London School of Economics, UK > MOREL, Raymond > Academy of Engineering Sciences, Switzerland > PASSEY, Don > Lancaster University, UK > SELWOOD, Ian > University of Birmingham, UK > SELWYN, Neil > Institute of Education, UK > TSITOURIDOU, Meni > Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece > VARIS, Tapio > University of Tampere, Finland > Copyright 2008 Brunel University and e-Start Network* From - Tue Oct 07 05:19:59 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:15:27 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kn3ym-0001PJ-V9 for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.251 invitation to the iPhone Project h_subject=22.251 invitation to the iPhone Project Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 251. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:56:35 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Feel free to contribute your requirements to iPhone Project! I mentioned, in passing, in a recent Humanist posting that I was currently developing an iPhone application which would allow users to locate, navigate to, and obtain information about historical sites in your current (GPS specified) area. Furthermore, I alluded that it would be possible to deliver tours, and additional (perhaps on a pay basis) information about the site once you managed to get there! I've had quiet a few emails of support and interest - each person was interested in doing something similar for their own project. I have decided to halt progress temporarily and see what kind of requirements others may have! So, in the interest of removing duplication I am inviting anyone interested in this kind of application to contact me with their usage requirements, or their ideal application. I now have the assistance of an excellent student who will work with me on a generic interface that can be used to implement specific solutions "with ease". In general, we hope to build an interface and some middleware that can be used to interoperate with existing online applications. I'm plan on distributing the application source (and middleware) using a creative commons license (if used for non commercial purposes) so interested people can take the source and use it for their own projects. Please email me your suggestions, wish lists, projects, etc. and we'll keep you informed of progress. As soon as we have a demo for you to download we'll let you know. I'm estimating a completed project in April 2009. Thank you, John. Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.252 Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships h_subject=22.252 Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 252. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:55:06 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 2009 Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships The Bibliographical Society of America 2009 Fellowship Program Announcement The BSA invites applications for its second annual Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades as well as its annual short-term fellowship program, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Enumerative listings do not fall within the scope of this program. Senior fellows are provided a stipend of $6,000; short-term fellows receive a stipend of up to $2,000 per month (for up to two months) to support travel, living, and research expenses. The program is open to applicants of any nationality or affiliation. Individuals who have not held a BSA fellowship in the last five years will be given preference. Applications, including references, are due by midnight 1 December 2008. Application forms (in static PDF and Word formats) and submission instructions are available for download at www.bibsocamer.org, or they may be requested from the BSA Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 1537, Lenox Hill Station, New York, NY 10021, e-mail bsa(at)bibsocamer.org. Applications will be accepted through the post or by e-mail attachment, with a PDF via e-mail prefered. Any questions about the submission procedure can be directed to David Gants, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, dgants(at)fsu.edu. From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.195 events: philosophy of engineering; book history Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20070805095848.020d68d8@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:59:38 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 195. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Natasha McCarthy" (22) Subject: Philosophy of engineering: engineering and metaphysics (3 Sept) [2] From: "Natasha McCarthy" (31) Subject: Call for Papers - philosophy of engineering [3] From: Wim Van Mierlo (34) Subject: CFP BHRN Study Day --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:46:00 +0100 From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Philosophy of engineering: engineering and metaphysics (3 Sept) Dear all The details of the next philosophy of engineering seminar, on engineering and metaphysics, are now available on the flyer here: http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf The seminar will explore a number of metaphysical issues concerning the nature of engineering, and the application of philosophical metaphysics to engineering practice. This should be a very interesting meeting covering highly novel topics, with plenty of time for discussion. If you would like to attend, please contact Sylvia Hearn using the details on the flyer. Kind regards, Natasha _______________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 29 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3LW Tel: 020 7227 0575 Fax: 020 7227 7620 Email: natasha.mccarthy@raeng.org.uk Web: www.raeng.org.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:50:45 +0100 From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Call for Papers - philosophy of engineering Final Call for Papers WPE-2007 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), The Netherlands October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday) http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe Workshop Theme: Engineering Meets Philosophy, and Philosophy Meets Engineering On October 19, 2006 a working group on Philosophy and Engineering was convened at MIT to discuss the need for greater interaction between philosophers and engineers. The result was an agreement to move forward with a workshop to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology by philosophers and engineers. The first Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2007) will be held in the Department of Philosophy, TUDelft, 29-31 October 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Sessions will include talks by invited and selected speakers as well as a number of panels & special events. Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are invited for submission in one of three tracks or demes: --Philosophy (Deme chair: Carl Mitcham) -- Philosophical Reflections of Practitioners (Deme chair: Billy V. Koen) -- Ethics (Deme co-chairs: Michael Davis & P. Aarne Vesilind) Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Those accepted for presentation at the workshop will be scheduled for 30-minutes talks (inclusive of Q&A) at the workshop. All accepted abstracts will published online on the workshop website (http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe), and a printed volume will be assembled following the workshop in conjunction with a major publisher. Instructions: Extended abstracts should be submitted (in doc or pdf format) by 17 August 2007 to deg@uiuc.edu. Use ACM style files (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) in preparing manuscripts, and indicate choice of track/deme (philosophy, reflections, or ethics) in e-mail title line. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 17 September 2007. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Louis L. Bucciarelli, Jun Fudano, Alastair Gunn, Natasha McCarthy --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:53:31 +0100 From: Wim Van Mierlo Subject: CFP BHRN Study Day Book History Research Network Study Day Friday, 26th October 2007 Institute of English Studies, University of London Call for papers Rethinking the Book: Between Text and Para-Text In their Introduction to A Companion to the History of the Book, Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose write that while "literary critics and theorists feel able to talk about a text as though it were some disembodied entity, for the book historian the text always takes an embodied form". The aims and objectives of criticism, exegesis and the history of ideas, on the one hand, and book history and historical bibliography on the other are not simply different. As tools for human communication, books carry meaning through their "text" as much as through their physical form, and the interaction between the two is the focus of this study. We invite scholars working on book history to look more deeply into how this interaction works. Topics that could be considered are physical form (mise-en-page, typography, format, paper type) and meaning, the relationship between history of the book and textual editing, "material" reception/reputation history, the sociology of the text and the idea of influence/intertextuality, para-text and the material book, the genetic text and the "biography" of an oeuvre, illustrations and dust jackets. Note that we welcome abstracts on any Book History related topic. Please send your proposal (200-300 words) to Christine Lees (Christine.Lees@sas.ac.uk) and Wim Van Mierlo (Wim.Van-Mierlo@sas.ac.uk) before 15 September 2007. This study day is free and open to postgraduates, academics and independent scholars with an interest in the History of the Book. (Dr) Wim Van Mierlo Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.200 new publication: EMLS 13.1 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20070805101103.01723008@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:11:32 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 200. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:41:59 +0100 From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 13.1 To whom it may concern, The latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (12.3) is now available online at http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html The table of contents follows, below. EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by email at M.Steggle@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to Dr Matthew Steggle, Early Modern Literary Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Articles: "The Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered." David McInnis, University of Melbourne. "The Rumbling Belly Politic: Metaphorical Location and Metaphorical Government in Coriolanus." Nate Eastman, Lehigh University. "Witchcraft, flight and the early modern English stage." Roy Booth, Royal Holloway University of London. "Milton's Titles." John K. Hale, University of Otago. Reviews: Sylvia Bowerbank. Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. [5] Valerija Vendramin, Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Steve Mentz. Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction. Ashgate, 2006. [6] Claire Jowitt, Nottingham Trent University. Sonia Massai, ed. World-wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance. London and New York, Routledge, 2005. [7] Daniel Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University. Jean-Christophe Mayer. Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith: History, Religion and the Stage. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. [8] Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. Andrew Murphy. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. [9] Tom Rooney, Central European University. Adam Smyth. "Profit and Delight": Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. [10] Gillian Wright, University of Birmingham. Katharine Wilson. Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. [11] Steve Mentz, St. John's University. Theatre Reviews: The Shakespeare Summer, 2007. [12] Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne. Notice: EMLS prize, 2006. From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.307 events: CICLing 2008; ISKO; AVROSS; DH2008 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20071023062928.03b485c0@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:30:19 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" (11) Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder [2] From: Marc (59) Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers [3] From: "Barjak,Franz" (28) Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 [4] From: DH2008 (158) Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:04:19 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder Dear colleague, This is a gentle reminder of the submission deadline for CICLing-2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, February 17-23, 2008, Haifa, Israel, www.CICLing.org/2008, in case you are interested. Topics: all of NLP and computational linguistics; publication: Springer LNCS; keynote speakers: Ido Dagan, Eva Hajicova, Alon Lavie, and Kemal Oflazer; tours: Jerusalem, Nazareth, and more. Thank you! Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:49 +0100 From: Marc Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers of the German chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO). While this is not an eHumanities conference in the strict sense, many of its topics are very pertinent to our field. Best regards, Marc K=FCster -------------------- English Version (abridged): February 20th through 22nd, 2008, the ISKO conference will take place at Constance (Germany). The conference is organized by the German chapter of ISKO, the Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg, and the Department of Information Science at the University of Konstanz. The general topic is: Repositories of knowledge in digital spaces Accessibility, sustainability, semantic interoperability The following sessions (and special topics) are planned: a. Ontologies, controlled vocabulary, topic maps, semantic web Ontologies, classifications, topic maps, and the semantic web seem to enhance the usefulness and the usability of online knowledge. The different communities of developers often don't know anything about each other although there might be chances of fruitful cooperation. Ontologies and classifications (UDC, DDC) are a instruments of knowlegde organization and universal views on knowledge structures. Topic maps offer new and user friendly strategies of retrieval. The semantic web seems to be split between promise and reality. Successful applications are therefore of interest. B. Social tagging Folksonomies and wikies can be perceived as a way of democratization of knowledge. Nevertheless the producers of this knowledge control the structure of knowledge which is a debatable point. Another one is, whether the sustainability of knowledge can be guaranteed under the circumstances of an anarchic process of knowledge creation. Political questions like these are of interest. C. Platforms of knowledge There are several platforms and environments, where online knowledge is used enriching and organizing it for new purposes. Therefore contributions for some of those platforms such as e-learning, e-scholarship, e-publishing are welcome. D. Applications and projects Developers of new applications and services are invited to share their knowledge with the participants of the conference. European projects like MINERVA, the European Digital Library etc. try to offer digitized knowledge and are good examples of the development into the direction of global stores of knowledge. All those interested in the above mentioned topics or those running relevant projects are invited to participate in and contribute to the conference. English contributions as well as talks or session proposals in other fields of knowledge organization and related matters are also welcome. Please send a proposal with title, author, address details and an abstract of up to one page length till November 30th, 2007 Organizer: Dr. J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt, . Members of the program committee are: Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna), Marc Wilhelm K=FCster (Polytechnic Worms), Rainer Kuhlen (University of Konstanz), H. Peter Ohly (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), Max Stempfhuber (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), and J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt (Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:14:08 +0100 From: "Barjak,Franz" Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to a workshop on policies for increasing the use of e-infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities taking place with EC representatives in Brussels on November 27th. The workshop is part of the Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS) study, conducted for the European Commission under EU Service Contract No. 30-CE-0066163/00-39. We would appreciate your presence and contributions as an expert in the fields of e-Social Science and e-Infrastructures. The workshop programme and a registration form are available on the AVROSS web site: http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross. Please confirm attendance by registering through the site (limited number of places). If you should not be available for the workshop but want to receive information on the project results, please send a brief message to franz.barjak@fhnw.ch. Yours sincerely Franz Barjak AVROSS coordinator ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak@fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:38 +0100 From: DH2008 Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2008 Hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland 25-29 June, 2008 http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2007 (Midnight Universal Time) Presentations can include: * Single papers (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Multiple paper sessions (overview, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Posters (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing and the digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and issues in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing and the digital humanities, and on recent and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * creation, delivery and management of humanities digital resources * collaboration between libraries and scholars in the creation, delivery, and management of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Proposals should report significant and substantive results and will include reference to pertinent work in the field (up to 10 items) as part of their critical assessment. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is November 18, 2007 (midnight Universal Time). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February by 13, 2008. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 15th, 2007. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site, at http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations (poster/demos), and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Proposals to the Programme Committee may be presented in English and any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Conference presentations may be in these languages as well, and the Programme Committee encourages presenters to consider multilingual presentations (for example, a presentation in one language with accompanying slides or handouts accommodating speakers of another language). 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations (Poster/Demos) Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. The term poster/demo refers to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. The poster/demo sessions build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. By definition, poster presentations and project demonstrations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster/demos will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters and demonstrations to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; Or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 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. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 18, 2007. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available from October 15th, 2007 at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Those who registered as authors, reviewers or participants at the DH2007 conference are kindly asked to log on to their existing account (the one used for the DH2007 conference) rather than making up a new account. IV. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please refer to information about the bursary schemes available from the Association for Computing in the Humanities (http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (_http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm_). Applications may be made to either the ACH or the ALLC, but not both organizations. V. International Programme Committee Jean Anderson (ALLC - University of Glasgow) John Nerbonne(ALLC - University of Groningen) Espen S. Ore (ALLC - National Library of Norway, Chair) Stephen Ramsay (ACH - University of Nebraska) Thomas Rommel (ALLC - Jacobs University Bremen) Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) Paul Spence (ALLC - Kings College London) Melissa Terras (ACH - University College London) Claire Warwick (ACH - University College London, Vice Chair) Espen S. Ore Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Programme Chair Local Organizer espen.ore_at_nb.no lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi -- Digital Humanities 2008 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.307 events: CICLing 2008; ISKO; AVROSS; DH2008 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20071023062928.03b485c0@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:30:19 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" (11) Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder [2] From: Marc (59) Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers [3] From: "Barjak,Franz" (28) Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 [4] From: DH2008 (158) Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:04:19 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS: reminder Dear colleague, This is a gentle reminder of the submission deadline for CICLing-2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, February 17-23, 2008, Haifa, Israel, www.CICLing.org/2008, in case you are interested. Topics: all of NLP and computational linguistics; publication: Springer LNCS; keynote speakers: Ido Dagan, Eva Hajicova, Alon Lavie, and Kemal Oflazer; tours: Jerusalem, Nazareth, and more. Thank you! Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:49 +0100 From: Marc Subject: German section of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers of the German chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO). While this is not an eHumanities conference in the strict sense, many of its topics are very pertinent to our field. Best regards, Marc K=FCster -------------------- English Version (abridged): February 20th through 22nd, 2008, the ISKO conference will take place at Constance (Germany). The conference is organized by the German chapter of ISKO, the Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg, and the Department of Information Science at the University of Konstanz. The general topic is: Repositories of knowledge in digital spaces Accessibility, sustainability, semantic interoperability The following sessions (and special topics) are planned: a. Ontologies, controlled vocabulary, topic maps, semantic web Ontologies, classifications, topic maps, and the semantic web seem to enhance the usefulness and the usability of online knowledge. The different communities of developers often don't know anything about each other although there might be chances of fruitful cooperation. Ontologies and classifications (UDC, DDC) are a instruments of knowlegde organization and universal views on knowledge structures. Topic maps offer new and user friendly strategies of retrieval. The semantic web seems to be split between promise and reality. Successful applications are therefore of interest. B. Social tagging Folksonomies and wikies can be perceived as a way of democratization of knowledge. Nevertheless the producers of this knowledge control the structure of knowledge which is a debatable point. Another one is, whether the sustainability of knowledge can be guaranteed under the circumstances of an anarchic process of knowledge creation. Political questions like these are of interest. C. Platforms of knowledge There are several platforms and environments, where online knowledge is used enriching and organizing it for new purposes. Therefore contributions for some of those platforms such as e-learning, e-scholarship, e-publishing are welcome. D. Applications and projects Developers of new applications and services are invited to share their knowledge with the participants of the conference. European projects like MINERVA, the European Digital Library etc. try to offer digitized knowledge and are good examples of the development into the direction of global stores of knowledge. All those interested in the above mentioned topics or those running relevant projects are invited to participate in and contribute to the conference. English contributions as well as talks or session proposals in other fields of knowledge organization and related matters are also welcome. Please send a proposal with title, author, address details and an abstract of up to one page length till November 30th, 2007 Organizer: Dr. J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt, . Members of the program committee are: Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna), Marc Wilhelm K=FCster (Polytechnic Worms), Rainer Kuhlen (University of Konstanz), H. Peter Ohly (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), Max Stempfhuber (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), and J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt (Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:14:08 +0100 From: "Barjak,Franz" Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, November 27, 2007 Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to a workshop on policies for increasing the use of e-infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities taking place with EC representatives in Brussels on November 27th. The workshop is part of the Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS) study, conducted for the European Commission under EU Service Contract No. 30-CE-0066163/00-39. We would appreciate your presence and contributions as an expert in the fields of e-Social Science and e-Infrastructures. The workshop programme and a registration form are available on the AVROSS web site: http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross. Please confirm attendance by registering through the site (limited number of places). If you should not be available for the workshop but want to receive information on the project results, please send a brief message to franz.barjak@fhnw.ch. Yours sincerely Franz Barjak AVROSS coordinator ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak@fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:38 +0100 From: DH2008 Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2008 Hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland 25-29 June, 2008 http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2007 (Midnight Universal Time) Presentations can include: * Single papers (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Multiple paper sessions (overview, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Posters (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing and the digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and issues in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing and the digital humanities, and on recent and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * creation, delivery and management of humanities digital resources * collaboration between libraries and scholars in the creation, delivery, and management of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Proposals should report significant and substantive results and will include reference to pertinent work in the field (up to 10 items) as part of their critical assessment. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is November 18, 2007 (midnight Universal Time). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February by 13, 2008. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 15th, 2007. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site, at http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations (poster/demos), and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Proposals to the Programme Committee may be presented in English and any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Conference presentations may be in these languages as well, and the Programme Committee encourages presenters to consider multilingual presentations (for example, a presentation in one language with accompanying slides or handouts accommodating speakers of another language). 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations (Poster/Demos) Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. The term poster/demo refers to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. The poster/demo sessions build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. By definition, poster presentations and project demonstrations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster/demos will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters and demonstrations to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; Or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 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. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 18, 2007. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available from October 15th, 2007 at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Those who registered as authors, reviewers or participants at the DH2007 conference are kindly asked to log on to their existing account (the one used for the DH2007 conference) rather than making up a new account. IV. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please refer to information about the bursary schemes available from the Association for Computing in the Humanities (http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (_http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm_). Applications may be made to either the ACH or the ALLC, but not both organizations. V. International Programme Committee Jean Anderson (ALLC - University of Glasgow) John Nerbonne(ALLC - University of Groningen) Espen S. Ore (ALLC - National Library of Norway, Chair) Stephen Ramsay (ACH - University of Nebraska) Thomas Rommel (ALLC - Jacobs University Bremen) Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) Paul Spence (ALLC - Kings College London) Melissa Terras (ACH - University College London) Claire Warwick (ACH - University College London, Vice Chair) Espen S. Ore Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Programme Chair Local Organizer espen.ore_at_nb.no lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi -- Digital Humanities 2008 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 To: Humanist Discussion Group From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" Subject: 21.610 new on WWW: 3DVisA Bulletin Issue 4, March 2008 Message-Id: <7.1.0.9.2.20080330104218.04581eb0@kcl.ac.uk> X-Eudora-Signature: Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:42:40 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 610. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.253 cfp: Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning for IEEE Transactions h_subject=22.253 cfp: Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning for IEEE Transactions Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 253. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:39:17 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Special Issue IEEE TKDE: Call for Contributions CALL FOR PAPERS Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineerin= g Guest Editors: N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, J. Dix =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable adoption in two areas: (1) Business Rule Processing and (2) Web-Centered Reasoning. The first trend is caused by the software development life cycle, which needs to be accelerated at reduced cost. The second trend is related to the Semantic Web and Service-oriented technologies, which aim to turn the Web into a huge repository of cross-referenced, machine-understandable data and processes. For both trends, rules can be used to extract, derive, transform, and integrate information in a platform-independent manner. While early rule engines and environments were complex, expensive to maintain, and not very user friendly, the current generation of rule technology provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance, and is less costly. A general advantage of using rules is that they are usually represented in a platform independent manner, often using XML. This fits well into today=C3=A2=C2=80= =C2=99s distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system environments. Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered, interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can be interpreted and executed on any platform. This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches, solutions and applications in the area of Rule Representation, Reasoning and Interchange in the context of distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments, such as the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing. We strongly advise that solicited contributions should clearly identify the target class of applications they enable. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Topics =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Rule Representation and Languages * Rule languages for exchanging and processing information through t= he web * Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets for publication and interchange * Event-driven/action rule languages and models * Rule-based event processing languages and rule-based complex event processing * Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support * Natural-language processing of rules * Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules * Rules in web 2.0, web 3.0, semantic web technologies and web intelligence research - Reasoning and Rule Engines * Execution models, rule engines, and environments * Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertai= n and fuzzy information * Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities,=20 deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications * Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible=20 logic, and answer set programming * Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules * Hybrid rule systems - Rule Interchange and Integration * Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous executi= on environments * Rule-based agility and its role in middleware * Communication between rule based systems using interchange=20 formats and processing / communication middleware * Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules * Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies * Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangea= ble rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources * Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange format= s * Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application architectures * Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological doma= in conceptualization * Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule=20 formats and rule models into executable technical rule specifications - Rule Engineering and Repositories * Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments * Practical solutions tackling the real-world software engineering requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environmen= ts * Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications and rule repositories * Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule repositories during their lifecycle - Web Rule Applications * Applications and integration of rules in web standards * Applications of rules in the semantic web and pragmatic web * Applications based on (semantic) web rule standardization or standards-proposing efforts * Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules, security, government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning, etc. * E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarati= ve strategies * Specification, execution and management of rule-based policies and electronic contracts * Rule-based software agents and (web) services * Theoretical and/or empirical evaluation of rule-based system performance and scalability =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Submission Guidelines =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Informati= on for Authors as published in recent issues of the journal or at http://www.computer.org/tkde/. Note that mandatory over-length page charg= es and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. Updated information of this call can be found at http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/publications/tkde-si/. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Schedule =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Deadline for paper submission: March 1, 2009 Completion of first review: June 19, 2009 Minor/Major revision due: August 21, 2009 Final decision notification: November 6, 2009 Publication materials due: December 4, 2009 Publication date (tentative): July 2010 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Guest Editors =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece nbassili AT csd.auth.gr Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia guido.governatori AT nicta.com.au Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany paschke AT inf.fu-berlin.de Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany dix AT tu-clausthal.de From - Wed Oct 08 08:49:41 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:45 +0100 Received: from postoffice06.princeton.edu ([128.112.133.8] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by f.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnS6G-0002uu-3O for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.htm= l www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 145) Subject: DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 23) Subject: Virtualit=C3=A9 et identit=C3=A9 [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 26) Subject: Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group 72) Subject: Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:07:01 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and=20 Prospects From: Helen Tibbo Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 04:50:41 -0400 DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects April 1-3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ September 30, 2008 Proposals due for contributed papers, panels and posters The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project. DigCCurr is a three-year (2006-2009), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded collaboration between SILS and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The primary goals of the DigCCurr project are to develop a graduate-level curricular framework, course modules, and experiential components to prepare students for digital curation in various environments. DigCCurr initiatives in support of this goal are informed by representatives from the project=C2=92s collaborating institutions as well as an Advisory Boar= d of experts from Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The first symposium, DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation, was held April 18- 20, 2007, attracting nearly 300 attendees from ten countries. Participants explored the definition of digital curation and what skills are necessary for digital curation professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, data centers, and other data-intensive organizations. DigCCurr2009 will continue this theme, focusing on current practice and research surrounding digital curation with a look toward the future, and trends in preparing digital curation professionals. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following: =C2=95 Digital curation synergies and collaboration: What are the challen= ges and opportunities for regional, national, and global cooperation and collaboration in digital curation practices and research? How do we approach these effectively? Where do practices and research converge and diverge across different organizational mandates and requirements? Strategies for building and leveraging relations and cooperation among a global audience of digital curation researchers and educators for improved delivery of digital curation research and practice opportunities for emerging professionals. =C2=95 Teaching and training at the international level: What are the barriers and advantages in providing quality and comparable education? How does the profession traverse credentials and certification? Graduate education and continuing education for practitioners; Examination of current teaching tools; Recruiting students; Perceptions on the changing professional competencies and personal attributes for employment in digital curation environments. =C2=95 Digital curation in relation to archives and museums: How is the environment shaping traditional responsibilities? How are synergies developing across libraries, archives, and museums? What are core competencies in digital curation? Can we develop common ground among participating disciplines and entities? What are implications for various professions, and what issues do the professions need to addressing separately? =C2=95 What is going on in real life with the curation of digital resourc= es? We encourage people to undertake small-scale studies in order to share data and case studies about current practices, procedures and approaches within specific organizational contexts. What is happening in different sectors such as industry, federal government, state government, nonprofit cultural institutions? =C2=95 What do we need? Examination of scope, extent, relevance, and qual= ity of current literature. What is useful? What is missing? =C2=95 Infrastructures in support of digital curation. How well is curren= t technology meeting the needs of digital curation, and what should future technology research and development involve to better meet these needs? How do organizations incorporate digital curation principles and procedures into their administrative and managerial operations? How do we support sustainable infrastructure? TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS Contributed papers The submission of original, recent, research and projects (including case studies), theoretical developments, or innovative practical applications providing insight into the above topics is encouraged. Submissions may be either a =C2=93Long Paper=C2=94 = (8 pages maximum) or =C2=93Short Paper=C2=94 (2 pages), should be in ACM format and include title, author(s) and affiliation(s), abstract, and full text. Please submit paper as pdf file. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Contributed posters Posters presenting new and promising work, preliminary results of research projects, or =C2=93best practices=C2=94 a= re welcomed. The content should clearly point out how the application contributes to innovation of thought or design within the field, how it addresses key challenges, as well as potential impact on the participant=C2=92s organization and/or practices in the field. Especially welcome are submissions from current students. Submissions should be in the form of a two-page paper in ACM format and include title, author(s) and affiliation(s), abstract, summary of the poster=C2=92= s content (may include figures), and references to substantive supporting materials that will aid reviewers in determining suitability for the conference. Please submit paper as pdf file. The final version of these short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. During the conference, presenters are expected to display their work as a poster, incorporating text and illustrations as appropriate. Presenters can also use laptop computers as a way of supporting their posters (e.g. demonstration of related visualizations or applications). Panels Panels and technical sessions present topics for discussion such as cutting-edge research and design, analyses of trends, opinions on controversial issues, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas. Innovative formats that involve audience participation are encouraged. These may include panels, debates, or forums, or case studies. Submissions should be in the form of a two-page paper in ACM format and include title, sponsor(s), name and affiliation(s) of all participants, providing an overview of the issues, projects, or viewpoints to be discussed by the panel. Please submit paper as pdf file. The final version of the two-page panel summary document will be published in the conference proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & DEADLINES September 30, 2008 Proposals due for contributed papers, panels and posters November 15, 2008 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance January 15, 2009 Final versions due for conference proceedings April 2, 2009 Proceedings available for distribution at conference International submissions are encouraged from any academic, nonprofit, corporate, or government area in any part of the world. All submissions are made electronically via a link from the DigCCurr 2009 Web site (http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/). Any problems with electronic submissions should be directed to: Rachael Clemens School of Information & Library Science University of North Carolina Phone: 714.926.1098 | Fax: 919.962.8071 | rclemens@unc.edu Refereeing procedures All types of submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. Notices of acceptance or rejection will contain constructive comments from referees. 2009 Symposium Planning Committee Rachael Clemens Dr. Wendy Duff Dr. Maria Guercio Carolyn Hank Dr. Cal Lee Dr. Seamus Ross Dr. Ken Thibodeau Dr. Helen Tibbo, Chair Dr. Elizabeth Yakel Dr. Helen R. Tibbo School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-961-8071 Email: tibbo@email.unc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:34:21 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Virtualit=C3=A9 et identit=C3=A9 The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual Symposium 6, April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM Site: http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=3Dcom_content&task=3Dview&i= d=3D113&Itemid=3D209 For information on the venue and related Symposiums: http://www.laval-virtual.org/ Topic: Difference, Relation and Identity are three notions that are fundamentals for the success of Virtual Reality technologies (VR and AR). The aim of this symposium is to conceptualise the Identity of an individual as a scientific concept whilst acknowledging the fact that Identity cannot be studied without considering the other two notions. The pros and cons of designing identities for or within VR become obvious upon admitting that representing any Self will be interpreted at some point by someone having his own values, opinions and experience in life. Members of our society that self-procure, attribute or redistribute Identity in the Virtual World bring about psychological enquiries in relation to user intentionality, specific uses of VR applications or general modifications to our ways of communicating. Usability issues addressing the problem of Identity have not yet been integrated into long-term visions of society and our needs. The Chair of the session is thus open to all existential, ethical and epistemological issues having to do with Identity in Virtual Communities. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:35:28 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 16=C2=9621 February 2009 The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce a new AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King's College London. The course involves six days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age 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 three days involve morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning's themes to concrete examples. The final three days focus on cataloguing and describing manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These three days will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge and open to all arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It is principally aimed at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. Priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are 'first-come-first-served' so early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact the course organisers at mmsda@sas.ac.uk. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:40:45 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds Monday, September 29th, 2008 | | Written by: Sisse Siggaard Jensen Seminar at Roskilde University Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies Monday, October 13, 2008, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Room 43-2.29 Presented by Virtual Worlds Research: Sense-making strategies and user- driven innovations in virtual worlds (http://worlds.ruc.dk) Program 9:30 Registration and coffee 9:50 Welcome Associate Professors Sisse Siggaard Jensen, head of the Virtual Worlds Research project, and Simon Heilesen. 10:00 Keynote: John Lester (Pathfinder Linden) The Oasis of the Surreal: Real Minds in Virtual Worlds Immersive 3D online virtual worlds are a new medium for education and training, giving educators and students a platform for collaborative work, simulation, and experiential learning. John will give an overview of Second Life as a platform for innovative learning environments, providing examples of current educational and academic use as well as ideas for future exploration and strategies for success. During the presentation John will also give a live demonstration of Second Life, allowing attendees to see firsthand examples of educational projects and spaces in the virtual world. Lastly, he will touch on why virtual worlds in general resonate with human beings, and how they can be used to leverage our basic biological tendencies while at the same time giving us a change to grow beyond them. 11:00 Denise Doyle Critical Works in SL: Reflections on Developing and Supporting Creative Practice in Virtual Worlds The Immersed in Learning Project began in 2007 to evaluate the use of 3-D virtual worlds as a teaching and learning tool in undergraduate programmes in Digital Media at the University of Wolverhampton. The purchase and development of Kriti Island on the Second Life grid saw the online virtual space rapidly assumed a sense of real presence, and become a focus for collaboration, nationally and internationally. The successful submission of an artist led project to ISEA2008 saw ten international artists develop work for Kriti Island under the theme of Reality Jam. This presentation will reflect upon the impact of the Kritical Works in SL exhibition on the future development and use of the island for research and creative practice. 11:45 Jeremy Hunsinger Interactivity and Information: Designing in SL for Knowledge Production This presentation considers the interplay of interactivity and information found in constructions in virtual worlds as a question of designing for knowledge production. Construing the construction of objects as locations of intersubjective experiences, I argue that there is a varying mix of information and interactivity that is necessary forthe production of knowledge in virtual spaces. 12:30 Lunch 13:15 Terry Beaubois Architecture, Community, Virtual Environments and Education Terry Beaubois will present the experiences of the CRLab in applying advancing computer technology to education, research, and professional practice - which includes engaging art, music, film, and architecture students in the process. What have we learned and where are we going from here? 14:00 Kim Holmberg Experiences of education in virtual worlds =C2=93Researchers at the Department of Information Studies at =C3=85bo Ak= ademi were the first ones in Finland to use Second Life in their education. The first experiences showed that for some students the barrier to participate in teaching in virtual worlds was lower than in face-to- face teaching. Encouraged by the first experiences the researchers have studied the possibilities of virtual worlds in education and continued developing their own teaching in the virtual world of Second Life.=C2=94 14:45 Refreshments 15:00 Panel discussion: Designing for learning in virtual worlds Terry Beaubois, Denise Doyle, Kim Holmberg, Jeremy Hunsinger, Sisse Siggaard Jensen, and John Lester From - Wed Oct 08 08:49:41 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 1001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:42:43 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnTgu-0006zC-NP for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:42:43 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m987ajtS027306; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:36:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9842uWn017066; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21278797 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:35:36 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m987YVPC004104 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m987YVUX007973 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m987YU5S007971 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:34:31 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223451270-169501920000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 7EE289C8491 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:34:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id cop9AIGK1c5TDvaD for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnTYy-0000Ng-EA for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:34:28 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... h_subject=22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 256. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:28:14 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: e-annoyances and e-suspicions What is it about the preface "e-" affixed to nouns designating objects, activities or perhaps even people that (as the British say) GETS UP MY NOSE? Why is it I suspect that the utterances in which such e-words are found are carriers more of ignorance than of knowledge or even of genuine curiosity? Yesterday I found myself remarking to a colleague that anything which bore the e-designation immediately aroused my suspicions. Then this morning I received an invitation to be an editor of e-books or e-journals boastingly endorsed by a gaggle of Nobel Prize winners. This invitation lost me the millisecond I saw the e-whatever. Language is such a subtle instrument, even when used by unsubtle people. Text-analytic techniques would, I'm sure, not tell me by themselves why it is that on reading the invitation subsequently, though lost to its charms, I could sense only confirmation that my silent NO was wise and would be even if I were not already an editor several times over. Ok, I am entitled and en-aged and dis-economized to be grumpy. But, I plead in my own defense, grumpiness can be a pre-existing condition, but it can also be brought on by manifest wrongs and evils. It can be RIGHTEOUS. I assert here that in this instance we have something on which to apply Clifford Geertz's "intellectual weed-control". For an illuminating contrast, see www.openbookpublishers.com/. If I were invited by them I'd find it hard to say no. No e-suspicions there. But, why no open-suspicions? Yours, WM From - Thu Oct 09 08:46:28 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:16:26 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Knpl2-0000vU-Ci for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:16:26 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m997B9fH021221; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:11:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9942nnv005433; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:10:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21299852 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:06:23 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9974EY1014309 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9974DmD014236 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:04:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9974Ckk014225 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:04:13 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223535851-6f91016e0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 759CE15BA00B for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id YAsV9GP10Sfvmtqr for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnpZD-000436-6t for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:04:11 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.258 e-suspicions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8396/Wed Oct 8 19:48:47 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223535852 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5401 signatures=473513 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810080290 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48EDACE3.80004@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:04:03 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.258 e-suspicions X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 171 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:57859 X-Body-Linecount: 106 X-Message-Size: 8466 X-Body-Size: 4541 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "a.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4926] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.258 e-suspicions h_subject=22.258 e-suspicions Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 258. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 59) Subject: Re: 22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 3) Subject: Re: 22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:58:23 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... Dear Willard, In the book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing , Adam Greenfield briefly describes the 'terminology wars' that happen when certain names and/or prefixes and/or suffixes emerge out of different communities to designate similar concepts. Competition among them determines the levels of confidence or suspicion that arise when reading one of these terms, because we immediately identify the kind of community location or identity, which is represented in the choice of terminology being used. Such 'tech terminology' wars are subtle but effective: your remarks come to confirm what happens when a weak, or ugly, or wrong terminology is recognized: immediate dismissal of everything that accompanies it. Survival of the strongest and fittest is therefore assured. Interesting dynamics... technological culture seems to operate a lot like biology... Regards, Renata Lemos PUC SP / Brazil 2008/10/8 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 256. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:28:14 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group What is it about the preface "e-" affixed to nouns designating objects, activities or perhaps even people that (as the British say) GETS UP MY NOSE? Why is it I suspect that the utterances in which such e-words are found are carriers more of ignorance than of knowledge or even of genuine curiosity? Yesterday I found myself remarking to a colleague that anything which bore the e-designation immediately aroused my suspicions. Then this morning I received an invitation to be an editor of e-books or e-journals boastingly endorsed by a gaggle of Nobel Prize winners. This invitation lost me the millisecond I saw the e-whatever. Language is such a subtle instrument, even when used by unsubtle people. Text-analytic techniques would, I'm sure, not tell me by themselves why it is that on reading the invitation subsequently, though lost to its charms, I could sense only confirmation that my silent NO was wise and would be even if I were not already an editor several times over. Ok, I am entitled and en-aged and dis-economized to be grumpy. But, I plead in my own defense, grumpiness can be a pre-existing condition, but it can also be brought on by manifest wrongs and evils. It can be RIGHTEOUS. I assert here that in this instance we have something on which to apply Clifford Geertz's "intellectual weed-control". For an illuminating contrast, see www.openbookpublishers.com/ . If I were invited by them I'd find it hard to say no. No e-suspicions there. But, why no open-suspicions? Yours, WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:00:18 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.256 very suspicious, writing's on the screen / very suspicious, ladders bout' to fall... In-Reply-To: <48EC627C.5050403@mccarty.org.uk> Personally, I would deprecate the use of hyphens too. Mike mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk From - Thu Oct 09 08:46:28 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:17:20 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Knplu-0001Sf-9I for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:17:20 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m997APt7019763; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:10:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9943sVn020092; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:09:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21299855 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:06:23 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9975V1I014419 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9975VZO025659 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9975U05025650 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:05:30 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223535929-7abb02de0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5756F16B8544 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:05:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id hm5wjKAStJtq0jid for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:05:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnpaT-0004C8-0n for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:05:29 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.257 events: semantic knowledge; automated deduction Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8396/Wed Oct 8 19:48:47 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223535930 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5401 signatures=473513 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810080290 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48EDAD31.4030505@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:05:21 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.257 events: semantic knowledge; automated deduction X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 169 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:58139 X-Body-Linecount: 104 X-Message-Size: 7903 X-Body-Size: 3905 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "a.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4147] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.257 events: semantic knowledge; automated deduction h_subject=22.257 events: semantic knowledge; automated deduction Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 257. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (13) Subject: Semantic knowledge symposium [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (42) Subject: CADE-22 first call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:56:41 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Semantic knowledge symposium FYI, there's going to be a very interesting symposium on semantic knowledge at NYU in mid November: _http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/sk-symposium/_ The program is now available, and registration is still open. There are 12 invited speakers who are the leading figures in the "applied semantics" area, in addition to 6 oral submitted presentations and ~40 posters and demos. The event seems to become a unique opportunity in which the current state and future directions of practical semantics research will be discussed. Shana Tova, Ido --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:01:57 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CADE-22 first call for papers FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 Submission Deadline: 23 Feb 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ GENERAL INFORMATION CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. The conference programme will include invited talks, paper presentations, system descriptions, workshops, tutorials, and system competitions. SCOPE We invite high-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experiences. Logics of interest include, but are not limited to o propositional, first-order, equational, higher-order, classical, description, modal, temporal, many-valued, intuitionistic, other non-classical, meta-logics, logical frameworks, type theory and set theory. Methods of interest include, but are not limited to o saturation, resolution, instance-based, tableaux, sequent calculi, natural deduction, term rewriting, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, constraint solving, induction, unification, proof planning, proof checking, proof presentation and explanation. Applications of interest include, but are not limited to o program analysis and verification, hardware verification, mathematics, natural language processing, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, functional and logic programming, robotics, planning, and other areas of AI. WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, SYSTEM COMPETITION: A two-day workshop and tutorial programme will be co-organized with the conference. In addition, the annual CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) will be held during the conference. Details will be published in separate calls and on the conference website. PUBLICATION DETAILS: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNAI/LNCS series. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.261 e-suspicions h_subject=22.261 e-suspicions Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 261. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 47) Subject: e-matters, hyphens and all [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 23) Subject: Re: 22.258 e-suspicions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:19:56 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: e-matters, hyphens and all Once upon a time I worked for a scholarly research project in the capacities of indexer, copy-editor and, along with several subaltern colleagues, general saver of the reputations of the title-page-named editors. Matters such as the correctness of historical facts or the cogency of arguments never much troubled us there below. What almost led to the spilling of blood were commas, hyphens and that sort of thing. Matters, in other words, of style small enough to slip past any persuasive canons of rationality. I very much hope that no virtual blood is spilled here over the hyphen in e-matters. A googling for "poem on hyphens", to put the matter in proper perspective, yields a rich catch. I offer the following from that catch, from http://www.speakwell.com/well/2006autumn/poetry.php. ----- The Hyphen (Through the eyes of Martin Collis) I read of a man who was asked to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on the tombstone, the beginning and the end. The first and the last days are markers in time. But what do those days really mean? What matters is not the birth or the death But the hyphen which lies in between. For the hyphen is time you spend on this earth. Just a hyphen to show what a life's really worth. And it isn't a house; it isn't a car, And it isn't a 53 Gibson guitar. It's not a position; it's not a possession Or membership in a prestigious profession. It's not in the labels on your clothes or your shoes Or the places you've been or seen on a cruise. We're human beings, not human doings Who pursue money and fame and keep on pursuing The words on the tombstones are kindness, and love, Family, friendship and laughter. These are the things that continue to ring When your body has reached the hereafter. Chose wisely and well when selecting the goals That you chose to base your life on. To miss the joy is to miss it all And a terrible waste of a hyphen. ----- So, I conclude, in the matter of e-matters what matters is the interval between the e(lectronic) and what it purports to be a version of, which embarrassingly is precisely what I have been arguing for all these many years. Yet again an annoyance becomes an occasion for enlightenment and apology. Yours, WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:22:53 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.258 e-suspicions In-Reply-To: <48EDACE3.80004@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Willard, Totally agree with your feelings. But in fact that really hurts. My department is called "e-Research", one of our flag ship products was baptized "e-Laborate". In both cases I think I can identify with certainty the community (in the way Renata described it) that littered the work floor with these monstrosities: it was management. I can't even begin to tell on how much levels these names are wrong. Sure, like e-Research is something else than just plain research (using different instrumentation) - duh! I still would like to have a serious talk in a small and confined place with the m*r*n who thought it would be a good idea to put the hyphen in the URL for our e-Laborate product page. Imho it's all to do with hypes reaching management level. We've had the times that anything digital should have a name with an X (preferably) as the first letter. Following Apple's iSuccess we've seen even project names following that un(?)cameled style. Lately it has been "e" or "e-". I guess it's just about a 23 year wait till we'll be rid of the problem. Must go back to my iE-worX now... Cheers, Joris PS Hyphens shouldn't be abandoned, just used in the right way. Then they are actually beautiful! 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.260 job at Stanford h_subject=22.260 job at Stanford Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 260. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:24:25 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Humanities Specialist Job at Stanford A great opportunity for a computing humanist just posted to the Stanford Job site yesterday. see http://jobs.stanford.edu Job #32686 The committee will be reviewing applications as soon as a suitable candidate pool has been identified, so don't delay! Here is the boilerplate. . . In response to the growing use of technology in humanities scholarship, Stanford University seeks an experienced Digital Humanities Specialist to join Academic Computing. The successful candidate must have a deep understanding of scholarship in the humanities. S/he will work consult with faculty on scholarly projects to identify technical approaches, processes and tools; evaluate and integrate existing software tools for use in the Humanities, as well as design and implement new applications. The candidate should have an understanding of current trends in humanities computing, including such things as data mining, data visualization, text- metadata- encoding, and digital media. The incumbent will collaborate with the Academic Technology Specialist Program team, the Academic Technology Lab Manager and with the humanities faculty in particular to provide technical solutions for select research projects. This individual will consult with faculty on scholarly projects, integrate and develop applications and tools that support project goals, and consult with other Academic Technology Specialists in their work with faculty. The position will report to the manager of the Academic Technology Lab. Specific responsibilities include: =B7 Together with the Academic Technology Lab Manager, consult with faculty to provide project definition and analysis, including defining project scope, requirements and specifications, and project design. Recommend and assist with the integration and use of technology in the projects. =B7 Provide technological support for humanities research projects. Support may include the evaluation and integration of existing tools, as well as the development of new applications to support humanities research. These applications may address needs related to for digital content creation, content storage, content discovery, text analysis, data visualization and the manipulation and/or analysis of digital media. =B7 Integrate media object types into web applications and/or collaboration systems using appropriate encoding and compression methods. =B7 Act as the liaison to faculty in resolving technical issues. Diagnose and escalate issues to system administrators and Information Technology Services when appropriate. =B7 Review professional literature; participate in newsgroups and other forums to stay abreast of new methodologies and practices relevant to Digital Humanities; and continually improve knowledge of academic technology and programming through participation in code reviews with other Academic Computing developers and attending appropriate classes and workshops. Qualifications =B7 A degree in a humanities discipline and/or a degree in computer science (or related field). A Masters degree or greater in one of these areas is preferred. =B7 A minimum of five years experience in using technology in Humanities scholarship, and a demonstrated keen understanding of current projects and trends in the digital humanities. =B7 Demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, data-mining, machine learning, spatial analysis, data modeling, or information visualization. =B7 A proven record of developing applications both independently and as part of a team, from conception through implementation, including the architectural planning, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation phases of a software development project. =B7 Experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL), object- oriented programming (C++, Java), Unix Shell Programming, and markup and scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Javascript, XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS). =B7 Experience developing and integrating tools in an open source environment. =B7 Experience with the integration of digital media into web applications and/or collaboration systems (e.g., Sakai, Drupal, etc.) Knowledge of digital media (streaming and non-streaming) workflows =B7 Experience working with faculty in an academic setting. =B7 Familiarity with human/computer interface principles, and experience applying those principles in programming. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 31) Subject: Call for Participation - International Conference on Digital Literacy, 17-18 November 2008 [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 48) Subject: Long Room Hub Methods Seminar at Trinity College Dublin [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 37) Subject: Extended Deadline for Papers/Abstracts: October 21, CSIE 2009, Los Angeles --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:21:29 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Call for Participation - International Conference on Digital Literacy, 17-18 November 2008 International Conference on Digital Literacy Pursuing Digital Literacy in the 21st Century Reconstructing the School to provide Digital Literacy for All Sponsored by the European Commission 17 - 18 November 2008 Brunel University, West London UB8 3PH, United Kingdom Registration is now open for a limited number of participants until 31st October 2008 via the conference website. You can register by clicking on the link below: http://e-start.brunel.ac.uk/register.aspx Conference topics * Digital Literacy - Theoretical Frameworks * Digital Literacy from Theory to Practice * The pursuit of Digital Literacy in the practice of teaching and learning * Digital Literacy: National Policies and National Curricula * Teacher Training and teacher education in Digital Literacy * Digital Literacy and e-Inclusion * Digital Literacy Ethics * Digital Literacy: Formal and Informal Learning * Developing Digital Literacy: Factors and Indicators The conference offers an exciting programme delivering: * Outstanding invited speakers * Relevant presentations and discussion sessions * The latest in Digital Literacy theory and practice * An extensive gathering of experts and practitioners The target audience includes teachers, local education authorities, ICT coordinators and advisors, researchers, academics, practitioners, educationalists, consultants, and policy makers. The conference will provide an international forum for exchanging views and disseminating recent research and practice in the area of Digital Literacy in Compulsory Education. Networking amongst delegates is actively supported. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:23:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Long Room Hub Methods Seminar at Trinity College Dublin Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminar On 28 October, Shawn Day of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) will present a talk entitled: Visualisation and what you can do with historical data Digitisation and data encoding are all the rage in the humanities. Yet, once you have digitised your source what exactly can you do with it that was not possible in the original format? How can you use digitised sources in analytical research, and how can it be presented visually in lectures and presentations? In this talk, Shawn Day from the Digital Humanities Observatory will explore the means by which researchers can 'mine' complex datasets using readily available tools such as Google Earth, GIS, SketchUp!, and Graphviz. Shawn will use data from the 1901 census and Trinity College's '1641 Depositions Project' to give practical examples of how visualisation techniques can assist researchers in a range of disciplines across the humanities. Where: Seminar Room, Trinity Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC), Trinity College Dublin. When: 4.00-6.00pm, Tuesday 28 October 2008. A searchable map of college, showing the location of the TRIARC building is available here. Sincerely, Jason McElligott ____________________ Dr Jason McElligott Research Projects Officer Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: + 353 1 896 3890 Email: jmcellig@tcd.ie http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:25:13 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Extended Deadline for Papers/Abstracts: October 21, CSIE 2009, Los Angeles (We are pleased to announce Keynote Speakers: Bir Bhanu, IEEE Fellow; Lixia Zhang, IEEE & ACM Fellow) (Due to many requests, the submission deadline is now extended to October 21, 2008) 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009) March 31 - April 2, 2009 Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS, INVITED SESSIONS & EXPO The Los Angeles/Anaheim area is known for its many renowned attractions, such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Very few cities in the world offer as much entertainment, excitement and diversity as Los Angeles/Anaheim does. CSIE 2009 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers in the proceedings will be included in EI Compendex, ISTP, and IEEE Xplore. CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering. CSIE 2009 consists of the following Technical Symposiums: * Computer Applications Symposium * Communications & Mobile Computing Symposium * Computer Design & VLSI Symposium * Data Mining & Data Engineering Symposium * Intelligent Systems Symposium * Multimedia & Signal Processing Symposium * Software Engineering Symposium Invited sessions offer focused discussions on specialized topics. A prospective invited session organizer should send a proposal, including a session title, a short synopsis, bio-sketch of the organizer with a publication list, to the appropriate Symposium Chair (visit the conference website for more details). In addition to research papers, CSIE 2009 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for computer science and information engineering. [...] From - Sat Oct 11 10:13:10 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:10:28 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KoaUU-0001g8-Cw for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:10:28 +0100 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9B91Qsm001914; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:01:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9B452hT025210; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21327633 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:59:19 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9B8wRdY024382 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9B8wRI1002131 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9B8wQbs002129 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:58:26 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223715505-171e02d90000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 2B3A61D17969 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id d2Fs2S87XGh6TVgu for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KoaIr-0000aj-Bc for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:58:25 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.265 e-suspicions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8411/Sat Oct 11 03:40:28 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223715506 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5403 signatures=473631 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810110020 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F06AA8.6020107@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:58:16 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.265 e-suspicions X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 151 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.112:52908 X-Body-Linecount: 86 X-Message-Size: 7134 X-Body-Size: 3206 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "c.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.112 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4995] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 2 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.265 e-suspicions h_subject=22.265 e-suspicions Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 265. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 106) Subject: Re: 22.261 e-suspicions [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 20) Subject: e-suspicions [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 7) Subject: Hyphens --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:48:10 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.261 e-suspicions In-Reply-To: <48EF136D.80404@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Joris and Willard, Willard, this is the most beautiful, elegant and kind reply I have ever seen. And Joris, I have a confession to make. I once had a blog named "e-topia"... remember that content is always more important than the name printed on its package... E-peace and E-respect! Cheers, Renata [see Humanist 22.261] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:49:08 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: e-suspicions In-Reply-To: <48EF136D.80404@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Willard, I share your disdain for "e" as a prefix, with or without the hyphen. In my mind it sits right nest to "hyper-" and "cyber-". "E" might be worse because 1) it often requires an annoying internal eCapitalization and 2) it conjures up commerce (specifically ecommerce). I think that once we associate a term with business speak ("paradigm shift" and "synergy" come to mind) it becomes verboten in tasteful academic circles. Out of curiosity I searched for "ebooks" on LexisNexis and found the first instance in Business Week in 1992 (June 15). The article announced new lines of books from Random House and SoftBooks that are a "take-off on email" and "have fancy features." eThanks, Amanda Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor of English University of Georgia 254 Park Hall Athens, GA 30602-6205 706-542-2242 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:49:51 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Hyphens In-Reply-To: <48EF136D.80404@mccarty.org.uk> A confession. I go to the University gym five times a week, passing a notice which reads "Padlocks which are not removed at the end of the semester will be cut-off." That hyphen had been annoying me, because it is OK in "cut-off jeans" but wrong when "cut" is part of a compound verb. The tension became too much, and I stuck a little piece of sticky paper over the offending hyphen, and now all is well. I hope Wisconsin does not have a law against treating public notices in this way. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.263 event: automated deduction h_subject=22.263 event: automated deduction Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 263. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:50:52 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CADE-22 call for workshop and tutorial proposals CADE 2009 The 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction Montreal, Canada, August 2 - 7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ---------------------------------------------------- CADE 2009 is the 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction, the premier conference on all aspects of automated deduction. Topics covered range from theoretical foundations to high-performance implementations in a wide variety of logics and logical theories, with applications in areas like verification and artificial intelligence. Workshop and tutorial proposals for CADE 2009 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus, are very welcome. 1. Workshop Proposals Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (from half a day to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. The CADE organizers plan to make available a small amount towards partial reimbursement for travel expenses of invited speakers. Also, CADE will take care of printing and distributing informal proceedings for workshops that would like this service. 2. Tutorial Proposals Tutorials are expected to be half-day events. Tutorial proposals should provide the following information: + Tutorial title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered. + Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously. CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that would like this service. All proposals should be sent via email in plain text to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair (astump@cs.uiowa.edu), for consideration by the CADE 2009 organizers: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University), General Chair Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester), Program Chair Carsten Schuermann (IT University of Copenhagen), Publicity Chair Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa), Workshop and Tutorial Chair Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: December 7, 2008 Acceptance/rejection notification: January 7, 2009 Workshop dates: August 2-3, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From - Sat Oct 11 10:13:10 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:11:55 +0100 Received: from postoffice04.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.112] helo=Princeton.EDU ident=root) by e.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KoaVp-0003DY-8m for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:11:55 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9B98W8b006928; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:08:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9B43gS3014025; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:08:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21327627 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:59:18 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9B8qwh4024059 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:52:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9B8qwMA004010 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:52:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9B8qv8T004008 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:52:58 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223715177-0f7e03960000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 821CE1D178B0 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:52:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id mD4V6m8MKBnqKV8l for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:52:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KoaDY-0007ff-Fd for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:52:56 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.264 NB: London Seminar for 15 October cancelled! 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.264 NB: London Seminar for 15 October cancelled! h_subject=22.264 NB: London Seminar for 15 October cancelled! Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 264. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:22:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar cancellation The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship previously announced for Wednesday, 15 October, will not take place as scheduled. Apologies to all for any inconvenience. Yours, WM From - Mon Oct 13 09:29:44 2008 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: Envelope-to: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Delivery-date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:23:44 +0100 Received: from postoffice03.princeton.edu ([128.112.131.174] helo=Princeton.EDU) by g.hopeless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KpIiJ-0003kx-S1 for willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:23:43 +0100 Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9D8HUCQ000969; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9D42fQx015950; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21342965 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:13:42 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9D8CZER017611 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:12:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9D8CZqg029131 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:12:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9D8CY3U029129 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:12:34 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1223885554-168803930000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 64DAFA124E5 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:12:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id epPKGNWcz1wT3GbI for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:12:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KpIXZ-0008PC-KK for humanist@princeton.edu; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:12:33 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.268 the prefix disease Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1223885554 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5403 signatures=473631 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810130011 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F302E8.9060702@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:12:24 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.268 the prefix disease X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-Country: US X-Message-Linecount: 79 X-Connected-IP: 128.112.131.174:51274 X-Body-Linecount: 16 X-Message-Size: 4353 X-Body-Size: 528 X-Received-Count: 10 X-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 1 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -26 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "e.spamless.aaisp.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (-2.7 points). pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [128.112.131.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 WHOIS_NETSOLPR URL registered as a NetSol Private Registration [URIs: youtube.com] 0.0 NO_VIRUS_FOUND There were no viruses found in this message by ClamAV X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Delivered-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk (willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk) X-Message-Age: 4 X-AA-BETA: r=wl-a_d m3= m4= m8= m9= X-AA-Whitelist: Message matches whitelist setting, and will be not be marked as spam. X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.268 the prefix disease h_subject=22.268 the prefix disease Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 268. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:53:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the prefix disease Watchers of the prefix-disease will enjoy the YouTube video, Apple's IRack and Iran, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCvqCbY3fyI. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.267 ancient Indian literary/philological studies? h_subject=22.267 ancient Indian literary/philological studies? Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 267. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:07:44 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: ancient Indian literary/philological studies? Dear Colleagues, I would be very grateful if members of this list would point me to digital projects in the area of ancient Indian literary/philological studies. Does any of you know if an "Indian hub" for humanities computing exists? I couldn't find anything related on the web. As some of you already know my current research focuses on visualization of complex textual traditions, and the genetic study of literary texts. In the last four years we have been working on creating an online tool for handling multiple simultaneous versions of documents. Our research group have just received a small grant from the Italian government, which is part of a larger national research program on digital repositories. To get an idea of the general framework you can have a look at the previous programme: http://www.ricercaitaliana.it/prin/dettaglio_completo_prin_en-2005140112. htm, and for more specific research aims check out Desmond Schmidt's blog: http://multiversiondocs.blogspot.com/ Recently, I became particularly interested in ancient Indian texts. I was thinking for example about the both linguistically and structurally multi-layered tradition of historical and religious texts (starting from the Rigveda on), which will be an ideal testbed for Schmidt's MVDs software. We made a number of experiments with European literary texts, including ancient Greek and Latin, but I am convinced that in order to illustrate the full potential of this system we would need a multi- cultural and multi-linguistic approach. Why not challenge us with a possible collaboration East-West? Of course I realise how difficult would be to work with ancient Indian texts, and this why I am looking forward to an Indian partnership. Basically I am looking for variant texts - i.e. multi-version documents - in digital form for publishing them in a wiki, which will be open for text manipulation and editing to our partners. We have presented the first wiki prototype at Digital Humanities 2008, and you can find our paper in the conference book of abstracts: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ I will be visiting South of India for one month starting on October 21st, and I am looking forward to establish contacts with Indian research institutions. I will be in the area of Chennai for a week or so from the 21st of October, than I will move on to Kerala, etc. I expect to be in Mumbai around November 13th. I would be very grateful if you could help me in contacting Indian researchers who could be potential partners for this project. Thanks in advance for your help. Domenico Fiormonte p.s. Please reply off-list to fiormont@uniroma3.it if for any kind of suggestion. 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X-AA-BETA: rh_subject:= 22.266 cfp: AI in games h_subject=22.266 cfp: AI in games Status: O Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 266. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:09:01 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games Since the dawn of computing, games have posed fascinating challenges for AI and machine learning research. In recent years there has been increasing interest in this field, both in traditional games such as Go, and also in video games, where more convincing AI is a priority for next generation games. As the physics models in games become ever more realistic, they also offer a convenient testing ground for many types of robotics research. This increased interest is reflected by the new conferences in the area (e.g. IEEE CIG, and AIIDE), together with workshops, special sessions and tutorials at major neural network and machine learning conferences (e.g. NIPS, ICML, WCCI, PPSN). There is now an important new journal to provide a focus for archival quality research in the area: IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tciaig/ The journal is now open for submissions, with the first issue due to be published in March 2009. Scope The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI in GAMES (T-CIAIG), published four times a year, publishes archival journal quality original papers in computational intelligence and related areas in artificial intelligence applied to games, including but not limited to video games, mathematical games, human-computer interactions in games, and games involving physical objects. Emphasis will also be placed on the use of these methods to improve performance in and understanding of the dynamics of games, as well as gaining insight into the properties of the methods as applied to games. It will also include using games as a platform for building intelligent embedded agents for the real world. Papers connecting games to all areas of computational intelligence and traditional AI will be considered. Given the importance and vibrancy of the field, the support of eight IEEE societies, and a strong research base, IEEE T-CIAIG is expected to rapidly become the leading journal in the field, with a correspondingly high impact factor. Simon M. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 17) Subject: CFP: CICLing 2009 with Lexicom 2009: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS, Mexico City [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 56) Subject: public talk by Thorny Staples, 3 November, Academy House, Dublin [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 109) Subject: Final Call for Proposals for CAA 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:45:23 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CFP: CICLing 2009 with Lexicom 2009: NLP &=20 Computational Linguistics, Springer LNCS, Mexico City CICLing 2009 + Lexicom 2009 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics; pre-conf event: Lexicom-Americas 2009 workshop Mexico City, Mexico CICLing: March 1-7, 2009 Lexicom: February 24-28 www.CICLing.org/2009 PUBLICATION: LNCS: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, separate processings of poster session KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jill Burstain, ITS, Ken Church, Microsoft, Dekang Lin, Google [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:46:27 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: public talk by Thorny Staples, 3 November, Academy=20 House, Dublin The next event in the Digital Humanities Observatory's Fall series is a public talk by Thorny Staples entitled 'Fedora Commons: All ways always' The talk is scheduled for Monday 3 November, 2008, 2pm - 3pm at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. All are welcome. For more information see the announcement pasted below and at http://www.dho.ie/autumn_2008.html#staples Best regards, Don -- Don Gourley, IT Manager Digital Humanities Observatory ~a project of the Royal Irish Academy~ +353 1 234 2446 -- d.gourley@ria.ie Abstract The Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) is set of very general architectural abstractions about digital information. Fedora can be used to express a variety of management schemes that support flexible use of digital content that is well positioned to be durable over a very long time. Fedora Commons is a private non-profit corporation that has set up to sustain the open-source Fedora software, under development since 2001. Fedora is in use by a variety of academic, business and government institutions around the world upon as a foundation for such things as institutional repositories, data curation schemes, digital libraries and open access publishing. This talk will introduce Fedora concepts, provide a high level overview of the software and talk about ways it is being used for different information management solutions. It will also discuss Fedora Commons and its community-building activities. About Thorny Thornton Staples is currently the Director of Community Strategy at Fedora Commons, Inc. He was the Co-Director for the Fedora Project from its inception in 2001. He has done information architecture consulting for variety of academic and cultural history projects in Europe, Australia and the United States. Previous positions include: Director of Digital Library Research and Development at the University of Virginia Library; Chief, Office of Information Technology at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Project Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia; and Special Projects Coordinator, Academic Computing at the University of Virginia. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:47:45 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Final Call for Proposals for CAA 2009 *FINAL CALL **FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, **AND ROUNDTABLES at the 2009 Conference of Computer Applications **to Archaeology (CAA)* *Deadline: October 15, 2008* The 37th annual conference on Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA) will take place at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia from *March 22 to 26, 2009*. The conference will bring together students and scholars to explore current theory and applications of quantitative methods and information technology in the field of archaeology. CAA members come from a diverse range of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, art and architectural history, computer science, geography, geomatics, historic preservation, museum studies, and urban history. For full information, please see the conference web site at www.caa2009.org . The annual meetings of CAA, typically attended by 350-500 students and scholars from around the world, are normally devoted to topics such as: agent-based models, bioarchaeology, CIDOC and other digital standards, databases, 3D data capture and modeling, data management systems and other field applications, GIS, predictive modeling, open source software in archaeology, photogrammetry and imaging, prospection and remote sensing, quantitative methods, high precision surveying, virtual museums, and virtual reality. Submissions of proposals for sessions, round tables, and workshops will be due by* October 15, 2008*. The online submission system can be found at http://www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm. Submitters will be notified of the results by mid-November, when the call for individual papers and posters will be open. Abstracts for individual papers and posters will be due by *December 15, 2008*. *Sessions* Session organizers should provide a session invitation of 300 to 500 words relating to a well-defined theme. You should define the topic, explain its importance, and suggest the specific themes or issues that might be appropriately addressed by your contributors. A session can consist of two or three 90-minute blocks of time punctuated by a 15-minute break. It typically consists of six, but no more than nine, presentations and should include time for debate and discussion as well as an introduction and a wrap-up. Session proposals may include one or more abstracts of papers that will be presented, but will normally leave open the possibility for members of CAA to apply to participate in the proposed session. All session proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee for their quality and relevance. This review will take into account any paper abstracts you include with your session proposal. Once a proposal has been accepted, it is placed on the conference web page, and an invitation is issued for additional paper abstracts to be submitted to your session. The session organizer will advise the Scientific Committee on which papers should be accepted or rejected for their session. The organizer will also be responsible for scheduling the order of presentations, presiding over the session, and for nominating two or three of the papers for publication in the printed acts of the conference. * Round Tables and Workshops* Round table and workshop organizers should provide an invitation of 300 to 500 words introducing the discussion topic. A* round table* proposal includes a list of four to eight panel members (names and affiliations) from at least two different countries. It should address a topic of general interest to the CAA community. The round table organizer must ensure that the panel members agree to attend the conference and take part in the round table. A round table organizer is the chairperson and acts as moderator. A time slot of 90 minutes will be allocated to each round table discussion. All round table proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee for their quality and relevance. A *workshop *typically consists of a software and/or hardware demonstration in which the audience can actively participate. The proposal must include information on the duration (not to exceed 135 minutes), experience level, and prerequisites of the targeted audience as well as the maximum number of participants. Along with the proposal, a list of the presenters and their affiliations is required. *CAA 2009 Scientific Committee* * Prof. Bernard Frischer, The University of Virginia (*chair)* [bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com ] * Prof. Peter Bol, Harvard University * Dr. Wolfgang B=F6rner, City of Vienna * Prof. John Dobbins, The University of Virginia * Lisa Fischer, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation * Prof. Arne Flaten, Coastal Carolina University * Prof. Maurizio Forte, University of California, Merced * Prof. Alyson Gill, Arkansas State University * Prof. Luc van Gool, Federal Technical Institute, Zurich * Prof. Gabriele Guidi, Politecnico di Milano * Prof. Elisabeth Jerem, Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest * Prof. Ian Johnson, University of Sydney * Han Kamermans, University of Leiden * Prof. Kevin Kee, Brock University * Prof. Guus Lange, National Service for Archaeology, Cultural Landscape, and Built Heritage, Netherlands * Gary Lock, Oxford University * Prof. Scott Madry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Mark Mudge, Cultural Heritage Imaging * Prof. Fraser D. Neiman, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello * Dr. Dani=EBl Pletinckx, Visual Dimension * Dr. Axel Posluschny, German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt * Julian Richards, University of York * Prof. Nicholas Ryan, University of Kent, Canterbury * Stephen Stead, Paveprime LTD * John Tolva, IBM Corporation From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 15 05:44:27 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx218.postini.com [64.18.2.145]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 5955F2426F for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:44:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx218.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:44:27 EDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5dvvA027974; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9F459S3000712; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:39:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21374243 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:36:47 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9F5Qg2X004487 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:26:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5Qg3a016816 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:26:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5Qf4A016810 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:26:42 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224048400-4ea601f20000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5EBBC1BB93E3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:26:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id kdT43Z22L156utOh for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:26:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpyu8-0000Ab-8N for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:26:40 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.272 DH researchers assistance requested Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224048401 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5405 signatures=473806 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810140257 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F57F06.3050407@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:26:30 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.272 DH researchers assistance requested X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 272. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:19:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: DH researchers assistance requested Dear Digital Humanities Researcher, Collaboration and research teams are increasingly becoming the norm within the academic research environment, especially within the Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities (HC) environment. The research projects in this area need a variety of skills and expertise to accomplish their goals. At present, there are several national and international projects as well as numerous ones at the local level with many others in development. Despite this extensive use of research terms, there are few protocols in place to prepare individuals to work as part of a team. To address this gap, a team of researchers is undertaking work to identify effective work patterns and intra-team relationships and recommend supports for existing and future teams. The first step towards this goal is to learn more about how research teams function within this environment. To do this we need your help. We are distributing a questionnaire to the HC community to hear the community’s experience and knowledge related to research teams. The survey is posted until Nov. 7, and can be accessed via http://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/rcunningham/surveys/ImpliedConsent.html Your input will help us understand the nature of team research within the HC environment and develop supports and research preparation tools to maximize the likelihood of success by minimizing the associated challenges of team research. Thank you in advance for your assistance. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact: Richard Cunningham Lynne Siemens Director, Acadia Media Centre Assistant Professor Acadia University University of Victoria Richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca siemensl@uvic.ca Cheers, Richard Cunningham From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 15 05:46:39 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx264.postini.com [64.18.2.118]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A135242D5 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:46:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.189]) by exprod7mx264.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:46:38 EDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5gj9x027732; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:42:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9F45ASL000726; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:42:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21374246 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:36:47 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9F5Vkhx004716 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:31:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5VknE017820 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:31:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5VjZw017817 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:31:45 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224048704-526a02230000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 17DC178EB4D for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:31:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 1G1BBrehwCKyBuHk for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:31:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpyz1-0001Os-1Y for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:31:43 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.271 a plea for brevity in signatures Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8426/Wed Oct 15 01:11:44 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224048705 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5405 signatures=473806 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810140257 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F58035.3000709@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:31:33 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.271 a plea for brevity in signatures X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 271. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:27:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a plea for brevity in signatures Dear colleagues, Among the features of messages that are impossible to fix via software and impolite to fix manually are verbose signatures. Allow me, if you will, to recommend that they be as short as possible while still saying what needs to be said. Take, for example, my own: > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College > London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary > Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. Arguably, if I were inclined to be laconic, I'd abbreviate this to > Willard McCarty, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. which in one link gets everything, actually. But because clicks require time and effort, which not everyone with whom I wish to communicate has to spend or is willing to do so, I add the rest, which seems to me at the moment to be important for a good First Impression. The result is, > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College > London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary > Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. What I am writing now to suggest tends to make less than a good First Impression, because it takes up so much space, might be, in my case, something like this: > Willard McCarty, MA (Portland), PhD (Toronto) > Professor of Humanities Computing > http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ > landline: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 > mobile: +44 (0)7703 568798 > > > Centre for Computing in the Humanities > King's College London > 26-29 Drury Lane > London WC2B 5RL > U.K. > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/ > > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > http://www.isr-journal.org/ > > Editor, Humanist > http://www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Let's say that I write to Humanist with a short message about something or other. (Ok, I seldom if ever write SHORT messages to Humanist :-) My signature then tends to suggest that I think that my contact details (and so by implication, I MYSELF) are far more important than whatever it is I have to say. Is it *ever* the case for one of us that this is true or we want it to be true? I suppose, however, that the Devil is trickier than to be outwitted by laconicity. After all, Milton had him saying to an angel on sentry duty who challenged him, "Not to know me argues yourself unknown." But, then, perhaps all we can do anything about is style. Yours, WM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 15 05:49:48 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx186.postini.com [64.18.2.199]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CC8024343 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:49:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx186.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:49:47 EDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5hcqx001178; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:43:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9ELYCnX021159; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:43:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21374249 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:36:47 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9F5Z3kZ004868 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5Z39X028150 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F5Z1Gt028033 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:35:02 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224048900-3dfc01ae0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1CFCE1167B47 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:35:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id pDtI23KXXcRqhACu for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:35:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpz2A-0002Qi-Ul for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:34:59 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.270 job at UCC, Cork, Ireland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8426/Wed Oct 15 01:11:44 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224048901 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5405 signatures=473806 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810140260 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F580F9.4010406@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:34:49 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.270 job at UCC, Cork, Ireland X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 270. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:18:13 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: job opening, Library Project Officer, UCC Library Digital Project Officer Dept. of Special Collection, Archives & Repository Services UCC Library (2-year wholetime contract post) Applications are invited for the contract post of Digital Project Officer in the Boole Library. Reporting to the Head of Special Collections, Archives and Repository Services, the purpose of the post is to undertake project related duties for a two year period. Specific projects will include The George Boole Digitisation Project, the Villiers Stuart Listing and Digitisation Project, and the maintenance and development of the authorised Frank O’Connor Website. The Project Officer will aid these and future projects through a variety of core digital humanities tasks, including designing and implementing text encoding workflows, maintaining relational databases, and web publishing and/or other appropriate encoding methodologies. It will be the role of a Digital Project Officer to undertake the task of digitising material from source collections. The material exists in a wide variety of formats and types, all of which require specialised care and handling during the process. The agreed deliverables of the project shall include a body of digitised content incorporating all relevant media types; a prototype, web enabled database with additional functionality and a comprehensive report noting regulatory, costing and other issues. Applicants must have excellent IT skills in the context of digitization, appropriate skills and experience in digitisation, and a third level qualification. The successful candidate will have the ability to work with library and academic staff, and students to develop and apply technological tools for research needs. The successful candidate will also be self-motivated, resourceful and enthusiastic with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and will be expected to operate in a goal orientated environment. Salary: within the ranges Euro 41,243 - Euro 51,254 (new entrants) depending on qualifications and experience. Please see www.ucc.ie/hr for more details Completed application forms should be returned to: Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, College Road, Cork Tel: 021 4903073/Fax 021 4276995 / Email: recruitment@per.ucc.ie Closing Date: Friday 24th October 2008 UCC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER Crónán Ó Doibhlin, Head of Special Collections, Archives and Repository Services, Boole Library, University College Cork, Cork. Tel: (021) 4903185 Email: c.odoibhlin@ucc.ie From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 15 08:46:56 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx163.postini.com [64.18.2.68]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id BF53E2438D for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:46:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx163.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:46:50 EDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F8igCi004404; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:44:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9F45AWx000726; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21375375 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:43:32 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9F8h0og015131 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:43:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F8h0Vo003314 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:43:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9F8gxJU003312 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:42:59 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224060179-1c5200eb0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 628311D397D8 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id JLFIzngsMjNRo9nJ for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kq1y6-0005Me-Eo for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:42:58 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.273 PhD in Digital Humanities at King's College London Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224060179 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5405 signatures=473806 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810150015 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F5AD08.5090202@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:42:48 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.273 PhD in Digital Humanities at King's College London X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/94 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:96.8796 C:99.7951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 273. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:34:40 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD in Digital Humanities at King's College London Enquiries about the PhD in Digital Humanities, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, are welcome. Now is a good time to begin thinking seriously about an application for anyone who requires funding, since most sources are now known and open to applications. Anyone interested should write directly to me. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/pg/phd/ for a brief note about the programme. Note that the PhD is a research-only degree. Admission is primarily decided on the basis of a research proposal of ca. 5 to 10 pages. Normal procedure is for potential candidates to develop a draft in consultation with the department over several iterations. All manner of subjects within the digital humanities are welcome at least for initial discussion. Most degrees are supervised collaboratively between the Centre and one or more other departments in the School of Humanities, School of Social Science and Public Policy or potentially one of the other Schools at King's. Enquiries concerning full- and part-time PhDs are welcome, as are enquiries about what we are now calling a "semi-distance PhD", pursued by someone who lives abroad but visits according to an agreed schedule. Yours, WM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 16 06:51:15 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx191.postini.com [64.18.2.83]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 0507A24CB3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx191.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:51:14 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6lGrm000343; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:47:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9FJxs1D013214; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:46:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21389951 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:43:43 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9G6ek7E016139 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6ek7Q022973 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6ejLb022966 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:40:46 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224139245-668202420000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9B756FCDBA for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id TGPCJNALXRg7M3rJ for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqMXM-0000q2-Gf for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:40:44 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.274 why brevity? 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X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.9308 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 274. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:31:54 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.271 a plea for brevity in signatures Why? Why have short signatures? Certainly our computing power is adequate to the task of sending a few extra lines of text without overloading the Internet. If that were a problem, then worse would be the failure to trim the attached message thread being replied to. Actually, I get annoyed when I want to contact someone by regular mail or telephone and none of their archived messages provide the necessary information, the signature block being omitted or unnecessarily brief. Since it's being added automatically, I don't view it as some labor of self-love, but rather an introduction, or a courtesy to those who might wish to contact me. Far worse are messages signed simply "John," with an email address reading something like john1234@yahoo.com, leaving me wondering who they are. I guess we each have our pet peeves. How about a little flash music video "signature" that starts playing when the message is opened? Cheers, Bill Barrow Visit our Cleveland Memory Project (www.ClevelandMemory.org) WILLIAM C. BARROW Special Collections Librarian Cleveland State University Library 2121 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 (216) 687-6998 (office) (216) 687-2449 (Special Collections) (216) 687-2383 (fax) w.barrow@csuohio.edu From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 16 06:52:21 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx164.postini.com [64.18.2.69]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id A36A524CB7 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.189]) by exprod7mx164.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:52:20 EDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6oVo9002698; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:50:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9FJxsSH018415; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:49:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21389957 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:43:43 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9G6gkVW016264 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:42:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6gkOu025321 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:42:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6gjBe025319 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:42:45 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224139364-05e500900000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 786A9FD644 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:42:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id yBRBFdbLWv32SZEK for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:42:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqMZH-00012W-F2 for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:42:43 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.275 TextGrid Summit & E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8432/Thu Oct 16 04:10:03 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224139365 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5406 signatures=473901 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810150240 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F6E258.7020605@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:42:32 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.275 TextGrid Summit & E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 275. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:35:38 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: TextGrid Summit & E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop 21./22.01.2009 [Erst auf Deutsch, then the English text below.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Liebe Kollegen und Kolleginnen, wir laden Sie herzlich zu zwei Veranstaltungen ein, die am 21. und 22. Januar 2009 in der Niederschsischen Staats- und Universittsbibliothek Gttingen stattfinden: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * TextGrid Summit (BMBF; Konferenzsprache: Englisch) ** 21.01.09, 10.00-16.00 Uhr - Symposium mit internationalen Keynotespeakern, TextGrid Demo/Anwendungen ** 22.01.09, 11.00-18.00 Uhr - Entwickler-Workshop Weitere Informationen, Programm und Anmeldung (bis zum 15.01.09) unter: http://www.textgrid.de/konferenzen/summit.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop (DFG; Konferenzsprache: Deutsch) ** 22.01.09, 10.00-16.00 Uhr Weitere Informationen, Programm und Anmeldung (bis zum 15.01.09) unter: http://www.textgrid.de/konferenzen/e-humanities-abschluss-workshop-dfg.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Auf dem TextGrid Summit erwarten Sie eine Demonstration der in drei Jahren entwickelten Arbeitsumgebung fr die Textwissenschaften und mgliche wissenschaftliche Anwendungen in weiteren Wissenschaftsdiziplinen. Mit Bezug auf internationale Aktivitten und die in Entwicklung befindliche e-Humanities-Infrastruktur werden die Perspektiven fr TextGrid diskutiert. Sie erfahren mehr ber die technischen Hintergrnde und knnen im Entwickler-Workshop selbst Hand anlegen. Bitte nehmen Sie bei Interesse Kontakt zu Andreas Aschenbrenner auf: aschenbrenner@sub.uni-goettingen.de Auf dem E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop wird ein Konzept fr den Aufbau einer Forschungsinfrastruktur fr die e-Humanities vorgestellt und diskutiert. Vertreter von Frderorganisationen werden in einer Panel-Diskussion ber die zuknftigen Anforderungen computeruntersttzter Geisteswissenschaften und die Sicherstellung einer nachhaltigen Infrastruktur beraten. Sollten Sie Fragen haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an die Organisatoren der Veranstaltung: konferenz@sub.uni-goettingen.de Wir freuen uns auf eine interessante Veranstaltungszeit mit Ihnen! Heike Neuroth fr das TextGrid-Konsortium und das E-Humanities-Projektkonsortium ******************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Please forward this information ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear colleagues, We invite you to take part in two events on 21 and 22 January 2009 held at Goettingen State and University Library: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * TextGrid Summit (BMBF; conference language: English) ** 21.01.09, 10.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. - a symposium with international keynotes, TextGrid demo / scientific applications ** 22.01.09, 11.00 a.m. -6.00 p.m. - Developers' Workshop For more information, program and registration (until 15.01.09) please visit: http://www.textgrid.de/konferenzen/summit.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * E-humanities completing Workshop (DFG; conference language: German) ** 22.01.09, 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. For more information, program and registration (until 15.01.09) please visit: http://www.textgrid.de/konferenzen/e-humanities-abschluss-workshop-dfg.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the TextGrid Summit will be demonstrated the developed working environment for the text sciences and applications in other scientific areas. The prospects for TextGrid will be discussed with regard to international activities and the emerging e-Humanities infrastructure. You will learn more about the technical background and if you are interested to take part in the developers' workshop please contact Andreas Aschenbrenner: aschenbrenner@sub.uni-goettingen.de On the final e-humanities-workshop will be presented and discussed a concept for building a research infrastructure for the e-Humanities in Germany. There will be a a panel discussion with representatives of funding organizations about the future requirements of computer sciences and about sustainable infrastructure. We would be glad to answer any questions! Please contact: konferenz@sub.uni-goettingen.de We look forward to seeing you! Heike Neuroth for the TextGrid Consortium and the e-humanities project consortium Dr. Heike Neuroth Head Research & Development Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) Papendiek 14 37073 Gttingen neuroth@sub.uni-goettingen.de +49 (0)551 393866 From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 16 06:56:27 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx187.postini.com [64.18.2.227]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id E798F24CE9 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:56:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.174]) by exprod7mx187.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:56:26 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6qNq1000715; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:52:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9FJxs4P013214; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21389954 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:43:43 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9G6fgOF016200 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6ffPi024690 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9G6feZ5024648 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:40 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224139299-25d300100000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A05DA1998AB7 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id EM45nN5A2R2gBmL6 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqMYE-0001Je-Hy for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:41:38 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.276 new on WWW: Journal of Electronic Publishing 11.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8431/Wed Oct 15 17:25:08 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224139299 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5406 signatures=473901 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0805090000 definitions=main-0810150240 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F6E217.1030001@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:41:27 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.276 new on WWW: Journal of Electronic Publishing 11.3 X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/94 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.5022 C:99.5902 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 276. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:38:24 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) Volume 11.3 now online Dear JEP readers: We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing . Below the signature is our Editor's Note, which includes an announcement of JEP’s newest feature, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for each article. As always, thank you for reading JEP, and please spread the word. Best regards, Shana Kimball Managing Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing Help us make JEP better! Send your comments and questions to jep-info@umich.edu. Editor’s Note --Judith Axler Turner "One of the most exciting events of 1997 was the introduction at the Frankfurt Book Fair of the Digital Object Identifier, a system that will allow all of us to manage our intellectual-property rights in ways we probably can’t imagine today." Those prescient words are (ahem!) mine, introducing a 1997 article in JEP on the DOI System by Bill Rosenblatt. In 1997 we imagined that the DOI system would protect owners of copyrighted works by providing a standard way to get to (and, eventually, pay for) information in an electronic format—an electronic marketplace. What we did not imagine at the time was that the DOI would become an electronic tracking service, helping to guarantee that any electronic material with such an identifier could be found, no matter how many URL changes there had been, or how many times the home Web site had been updated, rearranged, and archived. For scholars, this tracking across sources facilitates access to the literature behind the citations in research publications. That means whenever you come across a reference in JEP to an article that has a DOI, or when you come across a reference in another scholarly article to something in JEP, you can be sure that the link will work. Forever. This guarantee of immutability in linking is the strength of the DOI System today. JEP has been redesigned, rearranged, re-URLed, and seen changes in ownership. We were concerned that links to JEP articles would no longer work. In the original JEP, we checked URLs by hand, and changed those that no longer worked (sometimes having to do some detective work to find where cited articles had moved). JEP’s current publisher, the Scholarly Publishing Office, has its own permanent URLs through the CNRI Handle System, but SPO’s implementation is not part of a larger network of publishers as the DOI System is. Now we have registered with the DOI System so that you will always be able to find every JEP article, and know that it is the correct version. We registered our articles through CrossRef, which calls itself "the official DOI® link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications." It was a smooth process, and one that we recommend for everyone in scholarly publishing. The DOIs now appear in the headers of articles for this issue and all back issues. For more information on how it works, see CrossRef’s explanation of the DOI service . The difference between expectations and reality is the stuff of theory: why did we expect one thing, and why did it turn out differently? What ideas can explain this, and how can we use those ideas to understand the world? The authors we feature in this issue are also exploring how reality and theory interrelate. Frederick Wright, Ursuline College, muses on theories of collecting: why do people collect, and what does the corporality of the collection mean to a collector? "How Can 575 Comic Books Weigh Under An Ounce?: Comic Book Collecting in the Digital Age" shows us a side of electronic publishing that we have not before explored in JEP. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.304 Gary Hanson and Paul Haridakis, both from Kent State University, were intrigued by their students’ use of YouTube, and decided to test that usage against some communications theories. They found that YouTube users treated recreational videos and news videos differently. Their findings are elaborated in "YouTube Users Watching and Sharing the News: A Uses and Gratifications Approach." http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.305 Oya Rieger from Cornell’s University Library writes about how current communication theory explains the acceptance of institutional repositories in "Opening Up Institutional Repositories: Social Construction of Innovation in Scholarly Communication." http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.301 Gretchen Wagner, general counsel at ARTstor, compares theory to practice in "Finding a New Angle of Repose." The theory in this case is copyright; the practice is the classroom. ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences; those images are made available for research and educational purposes by ARTstor. This article first appeared in the EDUCAUSE Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.302 Real scholars are not afraid to turn theory on themselves. William Grose and Shayla Thiel-Stern tried live blogging—writing about an event as it unfolds, and publishing it on the Internet—in their communications class at the University of Minnesota. Their analysis of what happened and why, "Live Blogging in the College Classroom: A Professor and Student Perspective," can perhaps help other theorists come up with new and better theories. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.303 Enjoy! --- From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Fri Oct 17 05:58:07 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx261.postini.com [64.18.2.115]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 85150231F7 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:58:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.189]) by exprod7mx261.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:58:07 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5uF8I012140; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:56:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9H5DaOB021618; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21404169 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:54:09 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9H5r7sk017090 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:53:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5r7d3012415 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:53:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5r6qI012411 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:53:06 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224222785-054b035d0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 20C0F108633D for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 6tr97T6QYsAgmrlr for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqiGn-0006Su-E5 for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:53:05 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.278 event: AI and games Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8437/Fri Oct 17 03:24:05 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224222786 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5407 signatures=473961 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810160233 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F82836.7080209@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:52:54 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.278 event: AI and games X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 278. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:35:52 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CIG 2008 - Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'08) Perth, Australia, 15-18 December 2008 http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/cig08/ NEW: Registration is now open! Register early (before 7 November) to enjoy the early registration fees. Featuring: - three world-class plenary speakers: Jonathan Schaeffer from the University of Alberta, Penny Sweetser from 2K Games, and Jason Hutchens from Interzone Entertainment; - special sessions in four emerging areas: Computational Intelligence in Real Time Strategy Games, Player Satisfaction, Coevolution in Games, and Player/Opponent Modeling; - presentations of over 50 quality papers; - free introductory tutorials by Simon Lucas, Bobby Bryant, Georgios Yannakakis and Julian Togelius; and - a number of exciting competitions that showcase the application of computational intelligence techniques in games, including the 2008 2K Bot Prize with a prize valued at $10,000! Games have proven to be an ideal domain for the study of computational intelligence as not only are they fun to play and interesting to observe, but they provide competitive and dynamic environments that model many real-world problems. This symposium, sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society with technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions in this field. Registration details are available at: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/cig08/registration.html Register before 7 November with the following registration fees! Full registration - IEEE member - AUD$525 Full registration - Non-IEEE member - AUD$650 *Student registration - IEEE member - AUD$325 *Student registration - Non-IEEE member - AUD$400 From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Fri Oct 17 06:01:53 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx254.postini.com [64.18.2.108]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id B0E38232CB for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:01:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx254.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:01:52 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5vWIJ015879; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:57:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9H5DZO7021617; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:57:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21404163 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:54:09 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9H5pGlw016966 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:51:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5pGkV011036 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:51:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5pEtk011021 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:51:15 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224222673-1c7002c80000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 82358140027 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:51:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id jQRX0Tn4MVOC9gi5 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:51:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqiEz-0005bF-5W for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:51:13 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.279 journals under threat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8437/Fri Oct 17 03:24:05 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224222674 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5407 signatures=473961 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810160233 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F827C6.7090105@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:51:02 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.279 journals under threat X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 279. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:39:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: [Fwd: journals under threat] Sorry for x-posting, but I think people need to know this is likely going on in their field too. Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of science and technology must regard this as a fascinating and crucial practical, cultural and intellectual phenomenon. Analysis of the roots and meaning of metrics and metrology has been a preoccupation of much of the best work in our field for the past quarter century at least. As practitioners of the interconnected disciplines that make up the field of science studies we understand how significant, contingent and uncertain can be the process of rendering nature and society in grades, classes and numbers. We now confront a situation in which our own research work is being subjected to putatively precise accountancy by arbitrary and unaccountable agencies. Some may already be aware of the proposed European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), an initiative originating with the European Science Foundation. The ERIH is an attempt to grade journals in the humanities - including "history and philosophy of science". The initiative proposes a league table of academic journals, with premier, second and third divisions. According to the European Science Foundation, ERIH "aims initially to identify, and gain more visibility for, top-quality European Humanities research published in academic journals in, potentially, all European languages". It is hoped "that ERIH will form the backbone of a fully-fledged research information system for the Humanities". What is meant, however, is that ERIH will provide funding bodies and other agencies in Europe and elsewhere with an allegedly exact measure of research quality. In short, if research is published in a premier league journal it will be recognized as first rate; if it appears somewhere in the lower divisions, it will be rated (and not funded) accordingly. This initiative is entirely defective in conception and execution. Consider the major issues of accountability and transparency. The process of producing the graded list of journals in science studies was overseen by a committee of four (the membership is currently listed at http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/research- infrastructures-including-erih/erih-governance-and-panels/erih-expert- panel s .html). This committee cannot be considered representative. It was not selected in consultation with any of the various disciplinary organizations that currently represent our field such as the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, the Society for the Social History of Medicine, the British Society for the History of Science, the History of Science Society, the Philosophy of Science Association, the Society for the History of Technology or the Society for Social Studies of Science. Journal editors were only belatedly informed of the process and its relevant criteria or asked to provide any information regarding their publications. No indication hgiven of the means through which the list was compiled; nor how it might be maintained in the future. The ERIH depends on a fundamental misunderstanding of conduct and publication of research in our field, and in the humanities in general. Journals' quality cannot be separated from their contents and their review processes. Great research may be published anywhere and in any language. Truly ground-breaking work may be more likely to appear from marginal, dissident or unexpected sources, rather than from a well-established and entrenched mainstream. Our journals are various, heterogeneous and distinct. Some are aimed at a broad, general and international readership, others are more specialized in their content and implied audience. Their scope and readership say nothing about the quality of their intellectual content. The ERIH, on the other hand, confuses internationality with quality in a way that is particularly prejudicial to specialist and non-English language journals. In a recent report, the British Academy, with judicious understatement, concludes that "the European Reference Index for the Humanities as presently conceived does not represent a reliable way in which metrics of peer-reviewed publications can be constructed" (Peer Review: the Challenges for the Humanities and Social Sciences, September 2007: http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/peer-review). Such exercises as ERIH can become self- fulfilling prophecies. If such measures as ERIH are adopted as metrics by funding and other agencies, then many in our field will conclude that they have little choice other than to limit their publications to journals in the premier division. We will sustain fewer journals, much less diversity and impoverish our discipline. Along with many others in our field, this Journal has concluded that we want no part of this dangerous and misguided exercise. This joint Editorial is being published in journals across the fields of history of science and science studies as an expression of our collective dissent and our refusal to allow our field to be managed and appraised in this fashion. We have asked the compilers of the ERIH to remove our journals' titles from their lists. Hanne Andersen (Centaurus) Roger Ariew & Moti Feingold (Perspectives on Science) A. K. Bag (Indian Journal of History of Science) June Barrow-Green & Benno van Dalen (Historia mathematica) Keith Benson (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences) Marco Beretta (Nuncius) Michel Blay (Revue d'Histoire des Sciences) Cornelius Borck (Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte) Geof Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (Science, Technology and Human Values) Massimo Bucciantini & Michele Camerota (Galilaeana: Journal of Galilean Studies) Jed Buchwald and Jeremy Gray (Archive for History of Exacft Sciences) Vincenzo Cappelletti & Guido Cimino (Physis) Roger Cline (International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology) Stephen Clucas & Stephen Gaukroger (Intellectual History Review) Hal Cook & Anne Hardy (Medical History) Leo Corry, Alexandre Mtraux & Jrgen Renn (Science in Context) D.Diecks & J.Uffink (Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics) Brian Dolan & Bill Luckin (Social History of Medicine) Hilmar Duerbeck & Wayne Orchiston (Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage) Moritz Epple, Mikael Hrd, Hans-Jrg Rheinberger & Volker Roelcke (NTM: Zeitschrift fr Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin) Steven French (Metascience) Willem Hackmann (Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society) Bosse Holmqvist (Lychnos) Paul Farber (Journal of the History of Biology) Mary Fissell & Randall Packard (Bulletin of the History of Medicine) Robert Fox (Notes & Records of the Royal Society) Jim Good (History of the Human Sciences) Michael Hoskin (Journal for the History of Astronomy) Ian Inkster (History of Technology) Marina Frasca Spada (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science) Nick Jardine (Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences) Trevor Levere (Annals of Science) Bernard Lightman (Isis) Christoph Lthy (Early Science and Medicine) Michael Lynch (Social Studies of Science) Stephen McCluskey & Clive Ruggles (Archaeostronomy: the Journal of Astronomy in Culture) Peter Morris (Ambix) E. Charles Nelson (Archives of Natural History) Ian Nicholson (Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences) Iwan Rhys Morus (History of Science) John Rigden & Roger H Stuewer (Physics in Perspective) Simon Schaffer (British Journal for the History of Science) Paul Unschuld (Sudhoffs Archiv) Peter Weingart (Minerva) Stefan Zamecki (Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki) Viviane Quirke RCUK Academic Fellow in twentieth-century Biomedicine Secretary of the BSHS Centre for Health, Medicine and Society Oxford Brookes University From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Fri Oct 17 06:02:08 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx160.postini.com [64.18.2.65]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 019F7232F8 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:02:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx160.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:02:07 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H616VO019377; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9H5DZOj021617; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21404166 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:54:09 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9H5q7NQ017033 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:52:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5q7LX012397 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:52:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9H5q6Tj012394 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:52:06 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224222725-17bb02790000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B8AC410862FC for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:52:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id TTXTOsD65NPlAxj5 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:52:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqiFo-00066I-OP for humanist@princeton.edu; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:52:04 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.277 why brevity Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8437/Fri Oct 17 03:24:05 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224222725 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5407 signatures=473961 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810160233 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F827F9.9090403@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:51:53 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.277 why brevity X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:90.4903 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 277. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:36:27 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.274 why brevity? In reply to several comments, including Bill Barrow's: Not everyone has the kind of bandwidth you so obviously enjoy. I suppose an entire series of articles could/should be written to explain the differences between those who still use dialup, who are charged by the byte, etc., and those living so high on the hog, or so high on the upper crust, that they should never think of those who live on the other side of the tracks, world or whatever Digitial Divider. I used to have a friend who included a short little video as an kind of introduction, but even the hardcore Geeks asked him not to include that in emails to them, or even on his web pages, at least not without clicking on it to turn it on. For those of us who live without broadband connections, this is a plain enough concern. For those who cannot conceive of world populations without broadband, this is possibly inconceivable-- even with such feedback from the other side of the tracks. After all, unless your child falls for a person from "the other side of the tracks," most people around here are not concerned. As for your desire to call people on the phone, I must admit it that I prefer email to phone calls simply because it is so much more efficient. I can do other things while I am emailing, but not so much while I am on the phone, and email leaves me a nice record of the conversation in case we want to bring someone new into the conversation, we can instantly bring them up to date-- completely, accurately, and without straining our memories. My proposed solution: Have several signature blocks. Use the longest one sparingly. Perhaps in your first message a person receives directly from you, even perhaps with a line for asking them to save your contact information. For listservers, when hundreds of people receive every character you send, it is so much more wasteful, and so much more guaranteed that you are sending to someone with limited bandwidth, such as myself. I don't like applying any pressure on this sort of thing, quite the opposite, I don't approve of peer group pressure at all. However, you may not consider those people without bandwidth as peers, or even worthy of consideration. However, I, myself, who am in constant email communication with people living in portions of the world with limited bandwidths, and by the byte charges, have heard from them just how much the whole thing can be a load on their capabilities, a load that we may hardly notice at all, even myself. After all, even though I am on a dialup, I still send & receive entire books via email all the time, and some still remind me a few times how much that takes out of their systems. Some of them even prefer to send CDs and DVDs via snailmail for getting their eBook contributions online, as with 307 eBooks we just received from half way around the world. Just for the record, and since I haven't sent it here for ages, here is my longest signature block, and even it does not have a phone number, simply because I am not encouraging phone calls-- but I am in the phone books, and it's easy to Google me to find out where I live and work. Thank you for your time and consideration!!! Give the world eBooks for 2008!!! Michael S. 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Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Sat Oct 18 07:50:29 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx266.postini.com [64.18.2.120]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F8E024D1C for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:50:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx266.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:50:28 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9I7kMg5018316; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:46:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9I43HQp013729; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:45:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21420136 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:43:09 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9I7eIBI002951 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:40:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9I7eIHa001490 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:40:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9I7eHKp001488 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:40:17 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224315616-602700820000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 2B39815F3705 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id eQGCtmu80OV5N11t for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kr6Q3-0003Ox-WF for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:40:16 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.280 Call for nominations: Roberto Busa Award Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8443/Sat Oct 18 07:08:31 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224315617 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5408 signatures=474042 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810180002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F992D4.70207@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:40:04 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.280 Call for nominations: Roberto Busa Award X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 280. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:31:54 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Call for nominations: Roberto Busa Award The Busa award is given to recognise outstanding lifetime achievements in the application of information and communications technologies to humanistic research. The deadline for nominations for the Roberto Busa Award is November 1st 2008. Email the Chair of the Busa Award Committee, Jean Anderson, J.Anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk See http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/TheBusaPrize for details. I would be grateful if everyone would circulate this message widely. Thanks, Jean _______________________________________ Jean Anderson Resource Development Officer, SESLL http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sesll/ Room 309a, 6 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH J.Anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk +44 (0)141 330 4980 _______________________________________ From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Sat Oct 18 07:57:57 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx260.postini.com [64.18.2.114]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 2233E24D95 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:57:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.189]) by exprod7mx260.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:57:56 CDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9I7rJWN020486; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9I42US3013431; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:53:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21420139 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:43:10 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9I7g9CD003032 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:42:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9I7g9WP014676 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:42:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9I7g65s014673 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:42:09 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224315725-7db2008c0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E943C174547 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:42:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id XJNjQyejMunjRWE9 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:42:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kr6Ro-0003s1-OQ for humanist@princeton.edu; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:42:05 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8443/Sat Oct 18 07:08:31 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224315725 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5408 signatures=474042 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810180002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:41:53 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:87.7281 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 281. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 97) Subject: Re: 22.277 why signatures? [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 101) Subject: Re: 22.277 why brevity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:32:49 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.277 why signatures? Ian Hacking, on a brilliant article entitled Genetics, Biosocial Groups and the Future of Identity , addresses the genetic signatures and challenges of biosociality, and how much his own assessment of others depended on somehow knowing their identities: "I realized how much I depend on knowing to whom I am speaking. I had no reason to think that the respondent was female, thirty, or Chinese. Yet, I wanted to know 'who' she was–and the same for a number of others. But they were rejecting that question. Refusing to choose a society or a biology, they were denying in every gesture the very concept of a biosocial identity." (op.cit., 95) I must say I would belong to the group that would choose either a brief signature or no signature at all, not because of any digital inclusion concerns, but simply because it seems appropriate to the spirit of this age to "deny in every gesture the very concept of a (cyber)social identity". So signatures are also a matter of style... Renata Lemos /teacher, student, mother./// --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:33:37 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.277 why brevity In-Reply-To: <4895C668.2020902@mccarty.org.uk> Not to prolong a minor issue, I take some exception to the tone of Michael Hart's message about signature blocks. First of all, I trust that my closing comments about video signatures was recognized as a joke (if someone objected to extra text then a video would clearly be an anathema). But I object to being characterized as someone uncaring about the plight of the dis-enfranchised on the other side of the digital divide, just because I made a case for including a few dozen extra characters of text in a message. I am not that long from using a dial-up connection at home not to realize that bandwidth is a resource. But on the other hand, in a world increasingly dominated by the likes of YouTube, to suggest that the Net is being brought down by my telephone number is not a helpful tack to take. Since I don't have a telephone book for every part of the country and since many people don't have Mr. Hart's on-line presence (good job with Project Gutenberg, by the way!), the ability to quickly call up a previous email and find a colleague's direct number within their institutional bureaucracy is very beneficial, I think, and worth the risk of destroying the Internet as we'd like it to be. Cheers, Bill Barrow Visit our Cleveland Memory Project (www.ClevelandMemory.org) WILLIAM C. BARROW Special Collections Librarian Cleveland State University Library 2121 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 (216) 687-6998 (office) (216) 687-2449 (Special Collections) (216) 687-2383 (fax) w.barrow@csuohio.edu Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 277. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:36:27 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group In reply to several comments, including Bill Barrow's: Not everyone has the kind of bandwidth you so obviously enjoy. I suppose an entire series of articles could/should be written to explain the differences between those who still use dialup, who are charged by the byte, etc., and those living so high on the hog, or so high on the upper crust, that they should never think of those who live on the other side of the tracks, world or whatever Digitial Divider. I used to have a friend who included a short little video as an kind of introduction, but even the hardcore Geeks asked him not to include that in emails to them, or even on his web pages, at least not without clicking on it to turn it on. For those of us who live without broadband connections, this is a plain enough concern. For those who cannot conceive of world populations without broadband, this is possibly inconceivable-- even with such feedback from the other side of the tracks. After all, unless your child falls for a person from "the other side of the tracks," most people around here are not concerned. As for your desire to call people on the phone, I must admit it that I prefer email to phone calls simply because it is so much more efficient. I can do other things while I am emailing, but not so much while I am on the phone, and email leaves me a nice record of the conversation in case we want to bring someone new into the conversation, we can instantly bring them up to date-- completely, accurately, and without straining our memories. My proposed solution: Have several signature blocks. Use the longest one sparingly. Perhaps in your first message a person receives directly from you, even perhaps with a line for asking them to save your contact information. For listservers, when hundreds of people receive every character you send, it is so much more wasteful, and so much more guaranteed that you are sending to someone with limited bandwidth, such as myself. I don't like applying any pressure on this sort of thing, quite the opposite, I don't approve of peer group pressure at all. However, you may not consider those people without bandwidth as peers, or even worthy of consideration. However, I, myself, who am in constant email communication with people living in portions of the world with limited bandwidths, and by the byte charges, have heard from them just how much the whole thing can be a load on their capabilities, a load that we may hardly notice at all, even myself. After all, even though I am on a dialup, I still send & receive entire books via email all the time, and some still remind me a few times how much that takes out of their systems. Some of them even prefer to send CDs and DVDs via snailmail for getting their eBook contributions online, as with 307 eBooks we just received from half way around the world. Just for the record, and since I haven't sent it here for ages, here is my longest signature block, and even it does not have a phone number, simply because I am not encouraging phone calls-- but I am in the phone books, and it's easy to Google me to find out where I live and work. Thank you for your time and consideration!!! Give the world eBooks for 2008!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Oct 21 05:57:15 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx239.postini.com [64.18.2.93]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EC1E23DC2 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.174]) by exprod7mx239.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:57:15 PDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5rEDS025302; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:53:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9L47ChB025309; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:52:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21450074 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:48:48 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9L5iBBh007790 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5iBMF018308 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5iAx5018305 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:10 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224567850-39fb03a70000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 924B91AEBD9C for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id WE3JxzL1cwNf0kqw for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsA2L-0000yX-TL for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:44:10 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.284 Stan Katz on Mike Mahoney Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224567850 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5409 signatures=474159 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810200257 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FD6C1E.7080401@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:43:58 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.284 Stan Katz on Mike Mahoney X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 2/1/0.50/48 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 284. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:38:18 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Brainstorm: Michael S. Mahoney, R.I.P. - Chronicle.com Those who knew Mike Mahoney, formerly historian of science at Princeton, will appreciate Stan Katz's piece on him in Stan's blog, Brainstorm, at . Yours, WM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Oct 21 05:57:39 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx196.postini.com [64.18.2.88]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id CC0B523DCF for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.174]) by exprod7mx196.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:57:38 PDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5sn0o026058; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:54:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9L45bir024747; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:54:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21450071 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:48:48 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9L5gTq1007733 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:42:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5gTC3016610 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:42:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5gShI016608 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:42:28 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224567747-5e1002ab0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D8AE411A72EB for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:42:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id J9nUlys7UvTjr3TT for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:42:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsA0f-0000jE-PN for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:42:25 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.282 cfp: controlled natural languages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224567747 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5409 signatures=474159 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810200257 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FD6BB5.1030908@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:42:13 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.282 cfp: controlled natural languages X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/94 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 282. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:40:40 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages Second Call for Submissions CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009/ Location: Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy) Workshop date: 8-10 June 2009 Submission deadline: 14 November 2008 ********************************************************************* Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by restricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languages fall into two major types: those that improve readability for human readers, and those that enable reliable automatic semantic analysis of the language. [...] The second type of languages has a formal logical basis, i.e. they have a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully automatic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language) Various controlled natural languages of the second type have been developed by a number of organisations, and have been used in many different application domains, most recently within the semantic web. This workshop is dedicated to discussing the similarities and differences of existing controlled natural languages of the second type, possible improvements to these languages, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, existing and future applications, and further topics of interest. [...] From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Oct 21 05:59:01 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx262.postini.com [64.18.2.116]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EA1823E0C for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:59:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx262.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:59:01 CDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5sPbV026696; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:54:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9L3kuil019688; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21450083 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:48:48 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9L5liqO008225 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:47:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5lip7017878 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:47:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5liKN017876 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:47:44 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224568063-5e2d02d70000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id C1FDC11A9EA9 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:47:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id WVoA5nFRL1lu2qcG for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:47:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsA5m-0002SD-Nl for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:47:42 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.286 why signatures, why brevity in them Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8456/Tue Oct 21 02:27:24 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224568063 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5409 signatures=474159 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810200257 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FD6CF2.1000100@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:47:30 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.286 why signatures, why brevity in them X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.9308 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 286. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 17) Subject: RE: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 270) Subject: Re: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 14) Subject: present Humanist & most desirable practice --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:25:16 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them In-Reply-To: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk> I too rather dislike the sort of columnar signatures that function as potted biographies, but I also regret that under the present Humanist system it is often very difficult to identify or locate the authors of successive posts, since they all come as if from Willard himself. This sometimes requires recourse to Google (all the more difficult if the author is John Smith or Mary McCarthy or ....) when one wishes to respond off list to some query or suggestion. It's good to know who is talking, and good to know where they are talking from. Stephen Clark Professor of Philosophy University of Liverpool http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:25:57 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them In-Reply-To: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk> Sometimes I hate it when I have to argue both sides of a point. My own personal preferences would be that I should NOT address, as below, anyone differently if HE were a SHE, or if Chinese or Aleut, etc., etc., etc. However, in my recent personal experience, I may have cost some person his or her job simply by offering to proofread web pages written by that person's now apparent superior, but of whom I'd not heard previously. This possibily could have been avoided-- if I had previously know enough about the nationalities, in the detail required, to have foreseen such events and thus NOT have tried to do someone a favor who would like resent it. Oh well. . .love and learn, Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Toobooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:35:14 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: present Humanist & most desirable practice In-Reply-To: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk> Those here will be relieved when finally the new Humanist is up and running, which should be within days now. Then the current truncation of identities, which I only sometimes catch, will cease. Sorry it has taken so long, but the crafting of good software takes time. I would think that the ideal practice in signatures would come from a balance of considerations -- of the reader who is not at all interested in your message or you and so wants to scroll past as quickly as possible, and of the reader who is. But that latter reader, unless in pursuit of you for reasons other than those consistent with the purposes of Humanist, would, I'd think, be best served by a minimal amount of information sufficient to find out who you are and how to get in touch. I'd ask, what does a potted biography say about the person? Yours, WM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Oct 21 06:00:12 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx239.postini.com [64.18.2.93]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 525EB23E31 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx239.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:00:12 EDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5thal025105; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:55:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9L45bjP024747; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21450077 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:48:48 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9L5ix19007817 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5iwBc017706 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9L5iwFV017704 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:58 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224567897-5e1302cf0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E82FC11A9DFA for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id dUvbQWHhz7Z3DdtG for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:44:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsA36-0002Mu-QN for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:44:56 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.283 pre-doc, 19C lit., at UVa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8457/Tue Oct 21 04:05:55 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224567897 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5409 signatures=474159 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810200257 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FD6C4D.2070000@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:44:45 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.283 pre-doc, 19C lit., at UVa X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 283. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:39:47 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: pre-doctoral fellowship in 19th c. lit at U.Va. The Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture at the University of Virginia Library is pleased to announce a competition for one pre-doctoral visiting fellowship in nineteenth-century American Literature for Spring 2009. The Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship provides a $5,000 stipend, a private study in the Harrison Institute, and access to the Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, as well as the larger U.Va. Library. Fellows may choose to conduct research at the Institute from a period of one to three months, between February and May 2009. In order to be considered for the fellowship, applicants must live outside the state of Virginia. To apply, please submit a cover letter describing the research to be conducted at the Institute, including specific reference to rare and unique materials housed in the Special Collections Library; a c.v.; a transcript; one letter of recommendation; and one writing sample. Special consideration will be given to projects that focus on Edgar A. Poe, whose life and work will be the subject of a major exhibit to open at the Harrison Institute in March 2009. Please make three copies of the application and submit them by postal mail to: Kelly Miller, Ph.D. Head of Programs and Public Outreach Harrison Institute / Rm. 304 P. O. Box 400874 Charlottesville, VA 22904-400874 Applications must be postmarked by Friday, December 5, 2008. For more information, see: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/harrison/residents.html Questions may be sent to Kelly Miller (kellymiller@virginia.edu ). ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:09:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI & Society 23.4 Volume 23 Number 4 of AI & SOCIETY is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Networks with attitudes Paul Skokowski 461 - 470 Software agents and robots in mental therapy: psychological and sociological perspectives Tatsuya Nomura 471 - 484 Does Japan really have robot mania? Comparing attitudes by implicit and explicit measures Karl F. MacDorman, Sandosh K. Vasudevan, Chin-Chang Ho 485 - 510 Empowering the users? A critical textual analysis of the role of users in open source software development Netta Iivari 511 - 528 Would you mind being watched by machines? Privacy concerns in data mining Vincent C. Mller 529 - 544 Reflection on reflection in action: a case study of growers conception of irrigation strategies in pot plant production Beatrix W. Alsanius, Klara Lfkvist, Gran Kritz, Adrian Ratkic 545 - 558 Software quality and group performance Yuk Kuen Wong 559 - 573 Rural development within the EU LEADER+ programme: new tools and technologies Ren Victor Valqui Vidal 575 - 602 Effect of retroflex sounds on the recognition of Hindi voiced and unvoiced stops Amita Dev 603 - 612 On mentoring, social mentoring and befriending Bill McGowan, Patrick Saintas, Karamjit S. Gill 613 - 630 From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 22 06:35:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx238.postini.com [64.18.2.239]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C79B23873 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:35:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx238.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:35:21 EDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6VBae023714; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:31:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9M43Aid006116; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:28:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21465530 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:22:23 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9M6JPoU006588 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6JP0X014650 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6JOCs014648 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:19:24 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224656363-6f0402b70000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4826A183F62D for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id JBk2JmBdHXKyxzQS for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsX3y-00053U-KV for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:19:22 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.288 Coh-Metrix? LIWC? or, text-analysis in the news! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8467/Wed Oct 22 03:32:13 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224656364 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5411 signatures=474220 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810210230 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FEC5DE.3070202@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:19:10 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.288 Coh-Metrix? LIWC? or, text-analysis in the news! X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 288. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:14:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Coh-Metrix? LIWC? or, text-analysis in the news Two text-analysis tools from other parts of the academy that were just this morning brought to my attention by a student. 1. Coh-Metrix Has anyone here experimented with this tool (http://cohmetrix.memphis.edu/cohmetrixpr/)? It is described as follows: > Coh-Metrix is a computational tool that produces indices of the > linguistic and discourse representations of a text. These values can > be used in many different ways to investigate the cohesion of the > explicit text and the coherence of the mental representation of the > text. Our definition of cohesion consists of characteristics of the > explicit text that play some role in helping the reader mentally > connect ideas in the text (Graesser, McNamara, & Louwerse, 2003). The > definition of coherence is the subject of much debate. Theoretically, > the coherence of a text is defined by the interaction between > linguistic representations and knowledge representations. When we put > the spotlight on the text, however, coherence can be defined as > characteristics of the text (i.e., aspects of cohesion) that are > likely to contribute to the coherence of the mental representation. > Coh-Metrix provides indices of such cohesion characteristics. http://141.225.213.52/CohMetrixWeb2/HelpFile2.htm The tool has recently been used to analyse (surprise, surprise) the language of the candidates in the US Presidential election (http://wordwatchers.wordpress.com/). It would be particularly interesting if this had been tried on more demanding text or with more demanding questions. 2. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) LIWC (http://liwc.net/liwcdescription.php) seems at first glance to be methodologically much simpler. As far as I can tell from a quick reading, it computes scores based on occurrences of target words pre-defined to belong to different affective categories, plus scores based on counts of sentence length and the like. It depends centrally on a dictionary of 4500 words: > The LIWC2007 Dictionary is the heart of the text analysis strategy. > The default LIWC2007 Dictionary is composed of almost 4,500 words and > word stems. Each word or word stem defines one or more word > categories or subdictionaries. For example, the word cried is part of > five word categories: sadness, negative emotion, overall affect, > verb, and past tense verb. Hence, if it is found in the target text, > each of these five subdictionary scale scores will be incremented. As > in this example, many of the LIWC2007 categories are arranged > hierarchically. All anger words, by definition, will be categorized > as negative emotion and overall emotion words. Note too that word > stems can be captured by the LIWC2007 system. For example, the > LIWC2007 Dictionary includes the stem hungr* which allows for any > target word that matches the first five letters to be counted as an > ingestion word (including hungry, hungrier, hungriest). The asterisk, > then, denotes the acceptance of all letters, hyphens, or numbers > following its appearance. Not being up-to-date with research in this area (psycholinguistics?) I don't know how this tool compares with affective research via text-analysis that has been going on for decades. Perhaps someone here can say. How reliable is such research? Yours, WM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 22 06:44:44 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx228.postini.com [64.18.2.181]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id A1FAA238E5 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:44:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx228.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:44:41 GMT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6e0hx001607; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:40:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9M433C4004901; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:38:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21465536 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:22:23 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9M6LqMC006703 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:21:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6Lq3q007354 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:21:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6LmEZ007350 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:21:51 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224656507-321500090000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5EE8B1AFF5AD for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:21:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id MVNkn7fntcx6DyXO for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:21:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsX6I-0002Nu-9U for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:21:46 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.289 why no signature Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224656508 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5411 signatures=474220 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810210230 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FEC66E.7020708@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:21:34 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.289 why no signature X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.9308 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 289. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:15:35 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 22.286 why no signature? multiple languages Dear Stephen, Michael and Willard, The main reason why I choose not to use one formal signature attached to my emails is simple: I do emails in so many different languages, to so many different people, that it would be sort of a hassle to do multiple translations of it. It would look very weird to write an email in French to a friend in Paris, and have a signature in English attached at the bottom, being a Brazilian, you see? Also, having such a signature in multiple languages would look awkward. That is why I do not have a standard signature attached to the bottom of every email I send. It does not work for me. I speak and interact in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian. So Im sorry if I never provided information on my background. There is a short video available on you tube in which you can see an overview of the digital inclusion NGO I helped create here in Brazil and of which Im the current Knowledge Coordinator; Eletrocooperativa. An English translation of the institutional website of the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC SP), where I am currently a first year PhD student, is not available, unfortunately. Its only available in Portuguese. Regards, Renata Lemos Knowledge Coordinator, Eletrocooperativa Institute, Brazil. http://www.eletrocooperativa.art.br Researcher, Post-Graduate Program in Communications and Semiotics, PUC SP, Brazil. http://www.pucsp.br/pos/cos/ 2008/10/21 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 286. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [ --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:25:16 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group > In-Reply-To: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk > I too rather dislike the sort of columnar signatures that function as potted biographies, but I also regret that under the present Humanist system it is often very difficult to identify or locate the authors of successive posts, since they all come as if from Willard himself. This sometimes requires recourse to Google (all the more difficult if the author is John Smith or Mary McCarthy or ....) when one wishes to respond off list to some query or suggestion. It's good to know who is talking, and good to know where they are talking from. Stephen Clark Professor of Philosophy University of Liverpool http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:25:57 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: Re: 22.281 why signatures, why brevity in them In-Reply-To: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk > Sometimes I hate it when I have to argue both sides of a point. My own personal preferences would be that I should NOT address, as below, anyone differently if HE were a SHE, or if Chinese or Aleut, etc., etc., etc. However, in my recent personal experience, I may have cost some person his or her job simply by offering to proofread web pages written by that person's now apparent superior, but of whom I'd not heard previously. This possibily could have been avoided-- if I had previously know enough about the nationalities, in the detail required, to have foreseen such events and thus NOT have tried to do someone a favor who would like resent it. Oh well. . .love and learn, Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Toobooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:35:14 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: present Humanist & most desirable practice In-Reply-To: <48F99341.6090000@mccarty.org.uk > Those here will be relieved when finally the new Humanist is up and running, which should be within days now. Then the current truncation of identities, which I only sometimes catch, will cease. Sorry it has taken so long, but the crafting of good software takes time. I would think that the ideal practice in signatures would come from a balance of considerations -- of the reader who is not at all interested in your message or you and so wants to scroll past as quickly as possible, and of the reader who is. But that latter reader, unless in pursuit of you for reasons other than those consistent with the purposes of Humanist, would, I'd think, be best served by a minimal amount of information sufficient to find out who you are and how to get in touch. I'd ask, what does a potted biography say about the person? Yours, WM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 22 06:44:58 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx239.postini.com [64.18.2.93]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 758B8238F0 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:44:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.189]) by exprod7mx239.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:44:58 CDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6g7T6000345; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:42:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9M43Ajn006116; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:42:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21465533 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:22:23 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9M6KqQV006674 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6KqJ5015889 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9M6KpmI015887 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:20:52 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224656451-06a8022e0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A7EB71AFF598 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:20:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 75ye5Xo4DMBkHZAs for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:20:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsX5L-0005EF-Tb for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:20:48 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.287 events: human futures; libraries Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8467/Wed Oct 22 03:32:13 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224656451 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5411 signatures=474220 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=1 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810210230 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <48FEC633.2090405@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:20:35 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.287 events: human futures; libraries X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 287. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 27) Subject: Human Futures conference [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 3) Subject: Library Related Conferences --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:16:53 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Human Futures conference Dear All, HUMAN FUTURES: ART IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY Conference + Book Launch (30 October, 2008, FACT Liverpool) Tickets: 25 / 20 concessions Group bookings & further information: contact gabrielle.jenks@fact.co.uk Date: 30 October, 2008, 10am-6pm Location, FACT, Liverpool Finalized Speakers include: Russell Blackford, Paul Brown, Michael Burton, Nigel Cameron, Revital Cohen, etoy.CORPORATION, Ernest Edmonds, Steve Fuller, Norman M. Klein, Andy Miah, Fiona Raby, Mike Stubbs, Nicola Triscott. The event will appeal to philosophers, sociologists, science fiction enthusiasts, artists & designers. Full details about the event and book, including reservation details, are available at: http://humanfutures.wordpress.com/ Regards, Andy Dr Andy Miah | email@andymiah.net | http://www.andymiah.net | http://andymiah.wordpress.com Fellow, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT, Liverpool) http://www.fact.co.uk Reader in New Media & Bioethics School of Media, Language and Music University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, KA8 0SR, UK Fellow in Visions of Utopia and Dystopia Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) | http://ieet.org [t] +44 7962 716 616 [f] +44 1292 886371 [e] email@andymiah.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:17:26 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Library Related Conferences *Library Related Conferences* *-* new edition: http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 23 06:01:33 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx174.postini.com [64.18.2.132]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C69F2579E for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:01:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx174.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:01:32 EDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5xdT0021469; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:59:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9N42k8e016791; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:59:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21481100 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:56:05 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9N5qLc8000163 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5qLpK011221 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5qERi011173 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:20 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224741133-3413037d0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 18E051891F90 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 1qKDfjF0r0VIPa8n for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kst7E-00068P-Ot for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:52:12 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.290 events: language and automata theory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8471/Wed Oct 22 23:07:26 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224741134 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5412 signatures=474295 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=1 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810220280 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <490010FF.8000105@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:51:59 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.290 events: language and automata theory X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 290. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:41:28 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: LATA 2009: submission deadline extended to October 29! Submission deadline extended: October 29, 2008 !!! ********************************************************************* Final Call for Papers 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009) Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - algebraic language theory - algorithms on automata and words - automata and logic - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - biomolecular nanotechnology - cellular automata - circuits and networks - combinatorics on words - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - digital libraries - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - extended automata - foundations of finite-state technology - fuzzy and rough languages - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - graphs and graph transformation - language varieties and semigroups - language-based cryptography - language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing, artificial intelligence and artificial life - mathematical evolutionary genomics - parsing - patterns and codes - power series - quantum, chemical and optical computing - regulated rewriting - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - symbolic dynamics - symbolic neural networks - term rewriting - text algorithms - text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines S[...] From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 23 06:02:46 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx234.postini.com [64.18.2.187]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id E3BA2257B8 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:02:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx234.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:02:45 EDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N60PnD020397; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9N4Mn09023850; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:59:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21481106 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:56:06 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9N5sAmb000281 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:54:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5sAD2015250 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:54:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5s9xM015247 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:54:09 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224741248-70f500760000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1D0BB140215A for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id aNrHUYhCT3bmCkMR for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kst96-0007Dr-4S for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:54:08 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.292 using date arithmetic with proleptic Gregorian calendar? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8471/Wed Oct 22 23:07:26 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224741249 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5412 signatures=474295 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810220280 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <4900116F.808@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:53:51 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.292 using date arithmetic with proleptic Gregorian calendar? X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/93 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 292. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:42:12 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: People using date arithmetic with proleptic Gregorian calendar? I'm posting a query in order to pass along some information to Michael Kay, the developer of the Saxon XSLT/XQuery processors. I've just been corresponding with him about a minor bug in Saxon's date handling of negative year values, and he notes, "At some stage I'm going to have to bite the bullet and work out how to implement the change introduced in Schema 1.1 that changes the meaning of negative years. The question is whether anyone is using them seriously enough (i.e. with date arithmetic) to need transition support." The issue is that in the current XML Schema Spec for datatypes (used for example in the TEI Guidelines for things like ), '0001' is the lexical representation of year 1 CE, while '-0001' is the lexical representation of year 1 BCE. There is no year '000' allowed. But the XML Schema working group intends to revise this for spec version 1.1, so that '0000' will represent 1 BCE, '-0001' 2 BCE, etc. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime Michael wants to know how many people out there have live code that does arithmetic on dates/times that would be affected by this change, i.e. if you do any numeric computation on dates/times that might span the CE/BCE boundary. Please reply to me off-list and I'll summarize any feedback for Michael. (Not to discourage anyone from a followup to HUMANIST on the general issue of date arithmetic, etc. Something I'm not personally an expert on, I should add.) David -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 801079, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 23 06:05:12 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx213.postini.com [64.18.2.63]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id DF5F0257C6 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:05:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx213.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:05:11 CDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N64KZM023709; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:04:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9N4Mn9Y022493; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21481109 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:56:06 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9N5t5jZ000383 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5t51j000413 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5t4fb000320 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:55:04 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224741303-5e1402680000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5C67B27C407 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:55:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id Sr2Z2ppmpucuQLQ3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:55:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kst9z-0007I0-Fs for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:55:03 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.293 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 21-27 October Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.94/8471/Wed Oct 22 23:07:26 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224741304 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5412 signatures=474295 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810220280 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <490011AA.8070206@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:54:50 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.293 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 21-27 October X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/94 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 293. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:43:07 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: UBIQUITY for 21-27 October This Week in Ubiquity: /October 21 – 27, 2008/ * * *UBIQUITY CLASSICS:* * * *_Presidential Politics and Internet Issues in the 2000 Election _* by Doug Isenberg As with the US election of 2000, the US election of 2008 features two slates and four new faces running for the top offices. While many of the issues concerning the electorate are different in 2008 than in 2000, remarkably some issues are the same. We thought you might be amused at Doug Isenberg's resurrected reflections on the 2000 election. You can see what has changed and what has not. /The US election of 2000 featured two new slates for President and Vice President. The 2008 election also features two new candidates. We thought you would be amused./ Peter Denning Editor From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 23 06:05:16 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx217.postini.com [64.18.2.144]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D62E257C8 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:05:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx217.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:05:15 CDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N64T5F023749; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:04:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9N4Mn1J023850; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:04:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21481328 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:27 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9N60FRu001145 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N60DJw005068 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N60CJK005062 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:12 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224741611-7c01007d0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 38C241D86ED8 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id VR6R8bSd3Rxx1128 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KstEx-0007c4-FZ for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:11 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.294 Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum (Flemish Theatre Reviews 1919-1939) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8471/Wed Oct 22 23:07:26 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224741612 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5412 signatures=474295 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810220280 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <490012DE.4030403@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:59:58 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.294 Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum (Flemish Theatre Reviews 1919-1939) X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 294. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:58:00 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum (Flemish Theatre Reviews 1919-1939) Reviews 1919-1939) From: Thomas Crombez Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:32:26 +0200 Announcement Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum (Flemish Theatre Reviews 1919-1939) is now online. It is a TEI encoded corpus of ca. 350 short reviews and essays on theatre from the interbellum period, featuring a number of built-in textual analysis tools. http://www.corpustoneelkritiek.org The documents are all in Dutch, but the interface — from which the main principles of the corpus may be glanced — is in English: *** all elements tagged in a document are shown in a sidebar next to the document, in order to provide quick information *** using these metadata, a list of corpus documents that are possibly related is automatically generated This project would have been impossible without the generous help of various digital humanists. Thank you! http://www.corpustoneelkritiek.org/credits.html Thomas Crombez Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Thu Oct 23 06:07:47 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx194.postini.com [64.18.2.86]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 3683F257DD for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:07:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.174]) by exprod7mx194.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:07:44 CDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N642kd007984; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:04:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9N42kBG016791; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:04:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21481103 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:56:05 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9N5r1bA000206 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:53:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5r1f4014030 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:53:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9N5qtRd013956 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:53:00 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1224741175-766a01440000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B0AF227C2ED for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 4oAoJBIo2FfhqAJg for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:52:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kst7u-0007A3-1M for humanist@princeton.edu; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:52:54 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.291 job at Stanford Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (Version: ClamAV 0.93.3/8471/Wed Oct 22 23:07:26 2008, by smtp.aaisp.net.uk) X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1224741175 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5412 signatures=474295 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810220280 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49001129.4070606@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:52:41 +0100 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.291 job at Stanford X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.8290 C:97.9508 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 291. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:40:38 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Another Job at Stanford Another Humanities Computing job has just posted to the Stanford Jobs site--this one is in Art/Art History (see description below). The other recently advertised position of "Digital Humanities Specialist" (that I posted to Humanist last week) remains open and I encourage list members to apply or contact me for more details. Matt -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers Academic Technology Specialist Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University Libraries Job ID 32321 The Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) collaborates with faculty and graduate students in Studio Art, Art History and Film, developing and deploying innovative technological solutions in support of research, teaching, and art practice. The ATS must demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the ideas that form the foundation of instruction, practice, and research in the arts, holding an MFA in Studio Art or Design, an MS in Computer Science, or a PhD in Art History. The position requires a deep understanding of both the analog and digital realms; appreciating the value of traditional slides, for example, as well as the opportunities afforded by digital media. The ATS will be physically housed within the Art and Art History department in order to assure proximity and availability to faculty, but will report to a manager in the Academic Technology Specialist Program (ATSP). The ATSP is part of Academic Computing, a unit of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. Stanford's Academic Technology Specialists work in alignment with the University's commitment to excellence in education and its general vision to improve teaching, learning, and research by implementing and developing new technologies. Responsibilities: The ATS will be required to bring the leadership and technical expertise necessary to envision and execute exceptional, innovative projects. Though the nature of the collaborations will vary, the ATS is expected to research, analyze and evaluate potential projects; provide advice and consultation on technical matters relating to teaching, research and studio practice; and design, develop and execute project plans in coordination with faculty and graduate students. Achieving these goals will often require the ATS to partner with other campus entities. In addition to project-based work, the ATS will evaluate the technology needs of the department overall. This evaluation will serve as a guide both in making personalized recommendations to faculty and in planning for the new Art & Art History building. The ATS will consult with faculty on discipline-specific technology needs to help them acquire and use technology and digital resources, liaising as needed with campus resource providers and campus-wide applications. In addition to working with faculty and staff in Art and Art History, the ATS will spend one day per week participating in activities sponsored by the Academic Technology Specialist program. Integral to the work of the ATS is engaging professionally in related scholarship through publication and/or presentation of research. Qualifications:  A Master’s degree in Studio Art, Design or CS, or a PhD in Art History, plus 3 years experience in academic computing or related industry  Experience teaching color theory or the principles and implementation of digital color management  Expert knowledge of digital media standards and metadata  Expert digital imaging skills  Expertise with non-linear digital video editing tools  Expert knowledge of video codecs, video transfer, video formats and encoding compatibility issues  Demonstrated applications of relevant programming/scripting languages (such as Python, Ruby, Perl, ActionScript, Processing or MEL) and functional expertise with UNIX  Demonstrated experience addressing issues related to intellectual property rights (copyright) as they pertain to image-based curricular and research operations  Excellent time and project management skills demonstrated by specific experience managing projects and a complex workload  Demonstrated success participating in collaborative academic projects  Excellent verbal and written communication skills From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Sun Oct 26 10:09:21 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx214.postini.com [64.18.2.141]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E3EC25AD4 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:09:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx214.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:09:19 CDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9QA4wKf000478; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:05:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9Q41v6W007003; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:03:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21511068 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:02:17 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9Q9xnUB018653 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9Q9xnvc026694 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9Q9xfTw026680 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:59:48 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225015180-1e7a02ac0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 51FB830BD1A for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:59:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 4Bs8KJVr2Jv5T4yi for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:59:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 88-111-161-109.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([88.111.161.109] helo=[192.168.0.156]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ku2PL-0001iQ-Ii for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:59:40 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.295 events: music; digital media; interaction & children; Semitic languages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225015181 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5415 signatures=474484 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=21 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810260032 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49043F8A.8030302@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:59:38 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.295 events: music; digital media; interaction & children; Semitic languages X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 3/2/0.67/41 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 295. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 72) Subject: Computer Music Masterclass [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 65) Subject: Call for paper of DMAMH'2009 [3] From: Humanist Discussion Group 62) Subject: cfp: ACM-SIGCHI IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children [4] From: Humanist Discussion Group 68) Subject: cfp: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:46:33 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Computer Music Masterclass On *5th November 2008 *a Computer Music Masterclass organised by Dr Victor Lazzarini (in conjunction with An Foras Feasa) will take place in NUI Maynooth. A particular highlight of the event will be the participation of Professor Leigh Landy of De Montfort University, Leicester. Professor Landy is a leading authority in the area, with important contributions in the form of publications and compositions. A concert featuring the premier of a new work by Professor Landy will mark the end of the day's proceedings at 8.00pm. If you are interested in attending please register by sending your details to: foras.feasa@nuim.ie Please see further details below: /_Programme of events_/ *_New Music Room, Logic House, South Campus, NUI Maynooth_* 1. Morning: Synthesis, Processing and computer languages 10:00 Invited talk: Dr Stefan Bilbao, Univ of Edinburgh / Physical Models / 11:00 Rory Walsh (DkIT) / Interfacing Digital Instruments with the Arduino IO board/ 11:30 Victor Lazzarini (NUIM) /New Perspectives in Distortion Synthesis/ 12:00 Break 2. Afternoon: Music and Technology, connections, touching points, prospects. 14:00 Keynote speech: Prof. Leigh Landy, DeMontfort Univ., Leicester. /On a Future for Sound Organisation: the sound-based music paradigm/ 15:00 Gordon Delap (NUIM) TBA 15:30 Paul McGettrick (DkIT) /Rhythmic Possibilities in Cross-Cultural Music Modelling/ 16:00 Break 16:30 /Round table discussion: Music Technology in Ireland/ 3. Evening *_Riverstown Hall, South Campus NUI Maynooth_* * 8:00 Concert featuring works by students and staff of NUIM and DkIT, plusa première of a new work by Leigh Landy.* Further information keynote address: /On a Future for Sound Organisation: the sound-based music paradigm/ Leigh Landy Abstract FollowingFrançois Delalande's description of 'an electroacoustic music paradigm'(2001), an alternative based on sound-based music (music based onsounds as opposed to notes) will be presented. Using a play-on-words,it will be shown that sound-based music offers a sense of'co-hear-ence' that collections of music utilising terms such aselectroacoustic music or sonic art have yet to achieve. Brief auralexamples will be presented to support the proposed sound-basedparadigm. It will be proposed that the acknowledgement of sound-basedmusic as a 'supergenre' would be beneficial to this broad musicalcorpus. Recognition would influence both questions of access related tothis body of work as well as its field of studies. One of the mostinteresting results of the recognition of paradigmatic behaviour is thefact that certain established means of classification of music will befound to be largely irrelevant, in particular the traditionalpopular/art music divide. The talk summarises many of the key proposalsfound in the speaker's two books published last year, Understanding theArt of Sound Organization (MIT) and La musique des sons/The Music ofSounds (MINT/Sorbonne) and uses the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS–www.ears.dmu.ac.uk ) as a key reference. **** Dr Thomas Byrne,Project Officer (Education and Development),An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions,Junior Infirmary,South Campus,NUI Maynooth.Email: thomas.l.byrne@nuim.ie Web : www.forasfeasa.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:52:16 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Call for paper of DMAMH'2009 Call for paper of DMAMH'2009 4th Workshop on Digital Media and its Application in Museum & Heritage July 25-27, 2009, Qingdao, China (http://cise.sdkd.net.cn/dmamh) Organized by: VR Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics Hosted by: Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China Co-Sponsored by: National Natural Science Foundation of China IS&T Society (pending) General Information: The 4th Workshop on Digital Media and its Application in Museum & Heritage (DMAMH'2009) will be organized by the VR Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers in digital media, museum, multimedia community to describe recent advances, to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experiences, and to debate their views on future research and developments. Keynote speeches will be delivered by world-renowned experts in the field. Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE publisher (EI indexed). Selected best papers will be recommended to be published in Springer LNCS Transactions on Edutainment (EI indexed) and International Journal of Virtual Reality (published in USA). Topics include but are not limited to: Digital Museum Image/model/video Watermarking Virtual Museum Navigation Image Segmentation Modeling and Rendering for Heritage Multimedia Database Virtual Heritage Multimedia Technology Cultural Relics Protection Information Technology Image/model Retrieval Cultural Relic Aided Appraisal Geometry Modeling Ancient Literature Digitization 3D Reconstruction Cultural Relic Restoration Image Based Rendering RS Based Archaeology Real Time Graphic Rendering Geographic Information System (GIS) Animation Technology Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality Technology Interactive Technology and Equipment Web-based Demonstration Media Art Papers Submission Authors are requested to submit full papers (in English) of no more than eight (8) pages (including text, figures and references) describing the original results of their research work. Submissions should be in IEEE format on A4 or 8 1/2" x 11" paper using a single column and 10 to 12 point Times font. Each copy of the paper should have a cover page containing the title of the paper, the names and addresses (including fax and E-mail) of the authors, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. All papers will be reviewed by at least two referees. The selection criteria will include the accuracy and originality of ideas, the clarity and significance of results, and the quality of the presentation. Note: Please send your paper to dmamh2009@sdust.edu.cn, or dmamh2009@yahoo.com.cn Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April. 10, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2009 Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 10, 2009 Early registration: before July 15, 2009 Onsite registration: July 25~27, 2009 Conference date: July 25~27, 2009 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:54:05 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: ACM-SIGCHI IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus, Como, Italy June 3-5, 2009 www.idc09.polimi.it CONFERENCE OVERVIEW For young people today, technology is pervasive in many aspects of life. From childhood onwards, they learn and play using computers and other technological devices; as they grow, they build and maintain friendships using computers and mobile phones; they interact with one another virtually; and even find critical interpersonal support and therapy using computers, the web, and other technology-enhanced artifacts. The IDC 2009 conference will continue IDC’s tradition of better understanding children’s and youngsters’ needs in relationship to technology, exploring how to create interactive products for and with them, and investigating how technology-mediated experiences affect their life. ICD 2009 will present and discuss the most innovative contributions to research, development, and practice in these areas, gathering the leading minds in the field. As in previous years, IDC 2009 would like to invite researchers to address the wide diversification of technology for young people, from computers to mobile phones to any form of “smart” interactive device, and to consider the requirements of different profiles, in terms of age (from very young children to adolescents) and of psychological, social, or physical needs. In addition, IDC 2009 would like to foster an investigation of technological and methodological issues related not only to learning and play, but also to social awareness of young people in relationship to environment, cultural heritage, cultural roots of minorities, local identity vs. wider community identity. Finally, IDC 2009 would like to explore interaction design for young people in the family context and from an adult’s perspective, e.g., how to help parents understand and master the complexity of a scenario in which technology is more and more part of their children’s life. The program will include full-day and half day workshops, invited talks by prestigious speakers, panels, papers sessions, posters and demos sessions. Social events will complement the scientific program and will be a chance for participants to meet and discuss in the context of a gorgeous informal setting, and to build future collaborations. This conference builds on the successes and high standards of the previous IDC conferences (IDC 2008 in Chicago, US, IDC 2007 in Aalborg, Denmark, IDC 2006 in Tampere, Finland, IDC 2005 in Boulder, USA, IDC 2004 in Maryland, USA, IDC 2003 in Preston, UK and IDC 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands). For detailed and up-to-date information about IDC 2009, please visit www.idc09.polimi.it or contact idc09.info@polimi.it [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:55:33 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages ***** On-line submission now open! **** EACL-2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages Co-located with The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Athens, Greece, Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/casl09/ Topic: The Semitic family includes many languages and dialects spoken by a large number of native speakers (around 300 million). However, Semitic languages as a whole are still understudied. The most prominent members of this family are Arabic (and its dialects), Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, Maltese and Syriac. Their shared ancestry is apparent through pervasive cognate sharing, a rich and productive pattern-based morphology, and similar syntactic constructions. An increasing body of computational linguistics work is starting to appear for both Arabic and Hebrew. Arabic alone, as the largest member of the Semitic family, has been receiving much attention lately via dedicated projects such as MEDAR, as well as workshops and conferences. These include, among others, the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (ACL 2001, Toulouse, France), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands), a special session on Arabic processing in Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN 2004, Fes, Morocco), the NEMLAR Arabic Language Resources and Tools Conference (2004, Cairo, Egypt), The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT (October 2006, London, U.K.), and the series of workshops on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (ACL 1998, Montreal, Canada; ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, USA; and ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic) . The increase in attention to Arabic has been coupled with a surge in computational resources for this language, made available to the community by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA/ELDA). Tools and resources for other Semitic languages are being created at a slower rate. While corpora and some tools are necessarily language-specific, ideally there should be more cross-fertilization among research and development efforts for different Semitic languages. The workshop will be an opportunity for the Special Interest Group on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (the SIG) to meet and discuss future direction in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing approaches to Semitic Languages. Submission: We invite submissions on all Semitic languages, including work describing recent state-of-the-art NLP systems and work leveraging resource and tool creation for the Semitic language family. We especially welcome submissions on work that crosses individual language boundaries, heightens awareness amongst Semitic-language researchers of shared challenges and breakthroughs, and highlights issues and solutions common to all Semitic languages. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the submission page. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, and all submissions will receive three independent reviews. Final decisions on the program will be made by the Program Committee. Submissions will be assessed with respect to appropriateness, clarity, soundness/correctness, meaningful comparison, originality/innovativeness, and impact of ideas or results. All papers that are accepted will be published in the proceedings of the Workshop, and will be presented as a poster or an oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the Workshop and present the paper. The language of the Workshop is English. Submission is electronic, via a dedicated web-service. Please consult the Workshop web page for more details: http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/casl09/ [...] From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Sun Oct 26 10:09:28 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx239.postini.com [64.18.2.93]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id B5BF225AD7 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:09:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx239.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:09:27 EDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9QA8ceS003850; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:08:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9Q41k6o006952; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:08:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21511071 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:02:17 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9QA16XY018749 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9QA16HD018469 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9QA15IY018447 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:01:05 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225015264-1e1602990000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 14502A7899F for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:01:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id IlOJ9cuD6FxGG6dF for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:01:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 88-111-161-109.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([88.111.161.109] helo=[192.168.0.156]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ku2Qi-0001nw-8u for humanist@princeton.edu; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:01:04 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.296 text-analysis in the news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225015265 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5415 signatures=474484 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810260032 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49043FD4.1080708@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:00:52 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.296 text-analysis in the news X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 296. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:40:49 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Cohmetrix/LIWC Dear Willard, I saw both demonstrated at the July IGEL2008 Conference and had a hands on workshop in Coh-Metrix. I haven't tested both on substantials corpora though. I was somewhat impressed by the sheer functional possibilities of Coh-Metrix. Given the right preparation, Coh-Metrix seems to be able to put your texts through about any corpus linguistic algorithm out there. And it seems preparation wasn't very cumbersum. But I wasn't particularly impressed by scalability and robustness. At least I was able to crash the system by a few mean but simple hacker tricks. These border to simple vandalism, but if a system isn't resistant to such simple 'fool-proof' testing, what does this say for the internal stability of the algorithms? But I'd give it the benefit of the doubt. LIWC I only saw demonstrated. It seemed to be able to sort of reliable model the word usage behavior indicative of affective speech (assuming I understood correctly). Cindy Chung sure made for a splendid presentation, with lots of interesting and hilarious conclusions - like: you're bound to be neurotic if you're an over user of the ellipsis (three dots)... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 43) Subject: jobs at The Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Sun Yat-sen [2] From: Willard McCarty 68) Subject: 2009 Ph.D. Fellows in Digital Curation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:04:40 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: jobs at The Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Sun Yat-sen *Sciences, Sun Yat-sen *From:* Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK *Date:* Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:08:01 +0800 Advertisement of faculty position: The Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences http://humanitiescenter.nsysu.edu.tw of National Sun Yat-sen University invites applications for a non-tenure-track faculty position starting 1 January 2008. The position is a cross appointment between the Center and the University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and is in the duration of one calendar year renewable for a second year following evaluation. The preferred area of expertise is early modern English literature and/or drama (new media knowledge is advantagous for the position). In addition, the position includes research and publications in the Center's research program on "ethnicity and nationhood," funded by the Taiwan Ministry of Education. The appointment is in the rank of assistant or associate professor with a teaching load of three courses per semester. Please email your letter of application, curriculum vitae, the text of one recent publication, and the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of three scholars whom the Center may contact for letters of recommendation to Steven Totosy de Zepetnek at steven.totosy@nsysu.edu.tw by 15 December 2008. Selected candidates may be interviewed at the San Francisco MLA: Modern Language Association of America convention 27-28 December. Advertisement of faculty position: The Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences http://humanitiescenter.nsysu.edu.tw of National Sun Yat-sen University invites applications for a postdoctoral position starting 1 January 2008. The position is a cross appointment between the Center and the University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and is in the duration of one calendar year renewable for a second year following evaluation. The field of specialization is early modern English literature and/or drama (new media knowledge is advantagous for the position).. The tasks of the appointee include the teaching of three courses per semester and research and publications in the Center's research program on "ethnicity and nationhood," funded by the Taiwan Ministry of Education. Please email your letter of application, curriculum vitae, the text of one recent publication, and the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of three scholars whom the Center may contact for letters of recommendation to Steven Totosy de Zepetnek at steven.totosy@nsysu.edu.tw by 15 December 2008. Selected candidates may be interviewed at the San Francisco MLA: Modern Language Association of America convention 27-28 December. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:08:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 2009 Ph.D. Fellows in Digital Curation *Digital Curation *From:* Helen Tibbo *Date:* Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:13:10 -0400 *DigCCurr II is now recruiting for 2009 Ph.D. Fellows in Digital Curation* The School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), is seeking applicants interested in Digital Archiving and Curation and in earning a Doctoral Degree. These Fellowships are funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. *What the 3-Year Fellowships Offer:* * A 20 hr/wk position as a Research Fellow in Digital Curation * An annual stipend of $19,000 * In-state tuition and health coverage *Annual enrichment funds of $800 *Extensive opportunities to meet key leaders in the Digital Curation research and practice arenas through workshops and symposia to be held at UNC. *About DigCCurr II:* The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project, “DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral Students and Practitioners” seeks to develop an international, doctoral-level curriculum and educational network in the management and preservation of digital materials across their life cycle. This project will prepare future faculty to perform research and teach in this area, as well as provide summer institutes for cultural heritage information professionals already working in this arena. *Applying for the Fellowship:* To apply for the fellowship, please follow the regular application procedures found on the SILS Ph.D. Admissions page (http://sils.unc.edu/programs/phd/admissions.html). The deadline for these materials is January 1, 2009. In addition to the required written statement of your intended research focus, we ask that you write a separate essay elaborating on these goals and how they are related to the goals of DigCCurr II. Please see the DigCCurr II web page for more details (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/aboutII.html). Please send this essay in an email to Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo@email.unc.edu ), Dr. Cal Lee (callee@ils.unc.edu ), or Heather Bowden (hbowden@email.unc.edu ), DigCCurrII Project Manager and Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellow, no later than February 15, 2009. Earlier applications are encouraged. Please note that we are only able to accept applications from United States Citizens at this time. For more information on Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellowship opportunities, send e-mail to Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo@email.unc.edu ), Dr. Cal Lee (callee@ils.unc.edu ), or Heather Bowden (hbowden@email.unc.edu ), DigCCurrII Project Manager and Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellow. Interested applicants may also direct correspondence to: DigCCurr II Fellowships School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Box 3360 Manning Hall Chapel Hill NC 27566-3360 Dr. Helen R. Tibbo School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 Email: tibbo@email.unc.edu From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Oct 28 21:56:39 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx228.postini.com [64.18.2.181]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 677D6229AF for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:56:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.174]) by exprod7mx228.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:56:38 EDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9SLpvX5011262; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:51:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9SI0Hvh007659; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21532500 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:50:20 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9SLn3O4022244 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:49:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9SLn3PF011574 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:49:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9SLn263011421 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:49:02 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225230542-16c101380000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 71D1119F11FF for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:49:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id wHXSWUAy07dOqMoI for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:49:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KuwQq-0000V0-OV for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:48:56 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.298 Martin Mueller at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225230542 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5417 signatures=474623 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810280151 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <490788B4.4080004@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:48:36 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.298 Martin Mueller at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 298. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:38:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Martin Mueller at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship You are cordially invited to the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 6 November 2008, 17.30-19.30, for a seminar by Professor Martin Mueller (English and Classics, Northwestern) entitled "The Importance of Not-Reading". Professor Mueller is the author of Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy 1550-1800 (1980), a monograph on the Iliad (1984), and a variety of essays on the Nachleben of ancient literature, Shakespeare's use of his sources, and the place of literary studies in a professional and technological environment. He is editor of the Chicago Homer, general editor of WordHoard and, with John Unsworth, co-principal investigator of the MONK Project. An abstract and further information about the venue (Room 274/275 Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN) may be found at the Institute of English Studies website, www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/index.htm, under Seminars, London Seminar. Refreshments will be provided. Yours, WM Convenor -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 29 07:40:32 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx163.postini.com [64.18.2.68]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 55A3D24A61 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:40:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.189]) by exprod7mx163.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:40:32 CDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7aTZi013572; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:36:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9SI0HEV007659; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21535203 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:59 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9T7VVS4026582 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:31:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7VVsc009576 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:31:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7VQGF009572 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:31:31 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225265485-75fa00b40000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 467C51DB6E75 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id uvyqBmnstvD2kRDR for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kv5WV-0006YP-Tj for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:31:24 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.300 warning of the great (I hope almost invisible) metamorphosis of Humanist Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225265486 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5417 signatures=474623 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810290001 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49081149.7070409@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:31:21 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.300 warning of the great (I hope almost invisible) metamorphosis of Humanist X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 300. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:25:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the great (I hope invisible) metamorphosis Dear colleagues, Within the next couple of days you should receive an automatically generated message from the new and much improved Humanist software giving you notice that you have been subscribed to the new Humanist list and added to the new Humanist database. You'll be given the posting address, new interface address, login ID and password. Sometime after that I'll send a notification via the new software to everyone. We (Malgosia Askanas and I) been alpha- and then beta-testing the new software for the last 2-3 weeks. Still I wouldn't be surprised if a few problems turn up along the way. So please be vigilant. At last, almost. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 29 07:45:11 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx240.postini.com [64.18.2.94]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 77D8624A83 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:45:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx240.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:45:11 PDT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7et0m012393; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:40:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9SI0HEv007659; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:40:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21535209 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:59 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9T7X43M026655 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7X3pL006052 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:33:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7WwjI005706 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:33:03 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225265578-0afd02e00000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A29181245FE3 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id ns9RYD7GuBLDsJl5 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kv5Y1-0007Di-Fg for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:32:57 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.301 events: ESSLLI 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225265578 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5417 signatures=474623 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=99 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810290001 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <490811A6.9060601@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:32:54 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.301 events: ESSLLI 2010 X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 301. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:29:16 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Final Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 * Final Call for Bids to Host the 22-th ESSLLI, 2010 * ****************************************************** The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 22-nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August 2010. *** The ESSLLI Summer School *** ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the summer, every year since 1989. The school hosts approximately 50 courses at both introductory and advanced level, and convokes around 400 participants each year from all over the world. The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures. Detailed information about the ESSLLI organization can be found in the ESSLLI general guide, and the organizing and program committee guides. The guides can be obtained via the Standing Committee secretary. *** Submission Procedure *** At this time we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders. Based on an evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection procedure. The ESSLLI Standing Committee (SC), in consultation with the management board of FoLLI, will finally select the site, the organizing committee, and the program committee, and supervise the subsequent organization. *** Draft Proposals *** Draft proposals should identify a target site, date and organizing team with a chair who will be responsible for the overal organization. The organization committee is responsible for all matters having to do with the practical organization. Draft proposals should at least include information on: -> Location (accessibility; school venue; accommodation and facilities) -> Proposed dates and organizing team -> Endorsement by hosting organization -> Local Language, Logic, and Computation community -> Meeting and accommodation venues; audiovisual equipment -> Catering and reception facilities; social program opportunities -> Budget estimates *** Proposal Assessment *** Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered): -> Experience of organizing team, involvement in previous ESSLLIs -> Local endorsement -> Appropriateness of proposed dates -> Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site -> Adequacy of campus facilities for the anticipated number of registrants -> Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in an appropriate range of price categories and close to the conference facilities -> Adequacy of budget projections -> Geographical and national balance with regard to meetings in the decade prior to 2010: Birmingham (2000), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Wien (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009) *** Important Dates *** -> September 15, 2008, call for bids posted -> November 15, 2008, draft proposals due -> November/December, 2008, SC provides feedback -> January 31, 2009, final proposals due -> February 28, 2009, bid selected at ESSLLI SC meeting -> July 25, 2009, OC and PC progress report -> August, 2010, 22-nd ESSLLI Information about FoLLI and ESSLLI can be found at: http:// www.folli.org/. If you want to consult the ESSLLI guidelines, or have any other queries about drafting your bid, please contact Sophia Katrenko or Paul Dekker. Draft proposals should be sent to: Sophia Katrenko Paul Dekker Informatics Institute ILLC/Department of Philosophy Faculty of Science Faculty of Humanities Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 419 Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 NL-1098 VA Amsterdam NL-1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 (0)20 525 6786 +31 (0)20 5254541 +31 (0)20 525 6896 (fax) +31 (0)20 5254503 (fax) katrenko@science.uva.nl p.j.e.dekker@uva.nl -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 29 07:47:59 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx211.postini.com [64.18.2.61]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 5429324AAD for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx211.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:47:59 EDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7iRf7003959; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:44:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9T4524W022290; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:43:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21535206 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:59 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9T7WDE0026616 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7WDBo028702 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7WCU4028700 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:12 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225265531-7fa500050000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id DAAC11DB6EA5 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id pGGBUKjhRxlIjUw4 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:32:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kv5XH-00072M-DU for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:32:11 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.299 DH2009 deadline extended Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225265531 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5417 signatures=474623 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810290001 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49081178.1030208@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:32:08 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.299 DH2009 deadline extended X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 299. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:26:03 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: DH2009 deadline extended until Midnight GMT November 14th, 2008 The deadline for proposals for Digital Humanities 2009 has been extended until 12 Midnight GMT on Friday 14 November. We do not expect that there will be any further deadline extensions beyond this date. Please note that if you have not used the online submission system, conftool, before it may be useful to familiarise yourself with it in good time. It is possible to input your details before uploading a paper, and you can also withdraw a contribution if you are unhappy with it, so you do not have to wait until everything is ready to begin the process. This should help to avoid last minute submission problems, since we can provide only limited support for users of the system. If you have any queries about submissions, please contact Claire Warwick, the PC Chair, as soon as possible. -- Digital Humanities 2009 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Wed Oct 29 07:48:46 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx197.postini.com [64.18.2.89]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 82E2E24AB4 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx197.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:48:46 PDT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7jA5a004743; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9T4525A022290; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:45:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21535212 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:59 -0400 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9T7YMfM026671 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7YLnu011565 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9T7YLKR011558 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:21 -0400 (EDT) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225265660-6f0401360000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 912C11DB6F09 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id nwTnCWwf3nHHaht6 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:34:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kv5ZL-0007bw-Uh for humanist@princeton.edu; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:34:20 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.302 new on WWW: Author's Rights; Ubiquity Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225265660 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5417 signatures=474623 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=2 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0810290001 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <490811F9.3000907@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:34:17 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.302 new on WWW: Author's Rights; Ubiquity X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 302. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (30) Subject: Author's Rights, Tout de Suite [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group (29) Subject: UBIQUITY for 28/10 - 3/11 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:26:54 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Author's Rights, Tout de Suite Author's Rights, Tout de Suite, the latest Digital Scholarship publication, is designed to give journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author's rights and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, and it can be freely used for any noncommercial purpose, including derivative works, in accordance with the license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ The prior publication in the Tout de Suite series, Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite, is also available. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Google Book Search Bibliography, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, and Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:28:05 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: UBIQUITY for 28/10 - 3/11 This Week in Ubiquity: /October 28 – November 3, 2008/ *_Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? _* by Philip Yaffe Persons in every age group wonder why time seems to move so much faster than it did in their pasts. It seems as if there is never enough time to get everything done and that the situation only gets worse. Many explanations have been offered for this, but few seem to hit the target as well as Phil Yaffe's explanation. We hope you enjoy and find it provocative. Phil has been a writer and journalist for over four decades and is able to write eloquently about his personal experience with accelerating time. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org . Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 08:35:26 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx241.postini.com [64.18.2.95]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 98BD624F33 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:35:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx241.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:35:25 GMT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48UdBd011155; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:30:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA45vCi3013864; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:29:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21595083 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:28:54 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA48S6N4029849 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:28:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48S65v016349 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:28:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48S1oN015841 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:28:05 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225787280-585b017b0000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E873D12ADF45 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:28:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 9fNJoqCgeUcq4I9S for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:28:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxHGZ-0002X6-RL for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:27:59 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.303 fasten your seatbelts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225787280 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5423 signatures=475171 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0811040000 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <4910078B.3080100@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:27:55 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.303 fasten your seatbelts X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 303. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:26:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: penultimate stages Dear colleagues, The new Humanist website, at www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/, is online and a re-direct installed at the old address, www.princeton.edu/humanist/. Sometime within the next day or so everyone now on Humanist will be subscribed to the new list and so will be able to log on to the Member Area, change options, password and so forth. Instructions will be forthcoming for all that. Once everyone is subscribed, then the new mechanism will become active. I will send a first message from it as a test. Although we have tested everything we could think of, actual operation may reveal some bugs. Your patience during the beta-testing time will be appreciated if indeed it is called for. And once the bugs, if any, have been plucked from the relays, Humanist should become a much more regular service -- and my job considerably easier. Fewer excuses to complain, alas. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 08:51:31 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx230.postini.com [64.18.2.183]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AD5126049 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx230.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:51:31 EST Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48oVVu028880; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:50:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA459o6E004903; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:50:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21595341 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:34 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA48hij2001023 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:43:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48hipF022791 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:43:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48hhvs022789 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:43:43 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225788222-21e201450000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E209046FA93 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:43:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id fGdSMu4a9kZMjaoR for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:43:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxHVm-0002Yh-1u for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:43:42 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.308 fonts with full Unicode? digital epigraphic projects? 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X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 1/1/1.00/96 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 308. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 12) Subject: publication-quality fonts with full Unicode? [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 48) Subject: digital epigraphic projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:30:07 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: publication-quality fonts with full Unicode? In-Reply-To: <490811F9.3000907@mccarty.org.uk> Dear Humanist, I am interested in publication quality fonts that have a full unicode set and wondering if anyone can help me. I am about to send in a manuscript to the University of Chicago Press that uses Greek (polysytonic), Hebrew, and standard Hebrew diacriticals for transliteration, i.e., hamza, ayin, underdots etc. Can anyone recommend really attractive fonts that I might be able to suggest to the Press. thanks Daniel Boyarin --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:31:25 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: digital epigraphic projects? In-Reply-To: <490811F9.3000907@mccarty.org.uk> Dear colleagues and friends: (Apologies for cross-postings. Please feel free to forward to colleagues, students and other discussion fora.) Please send me (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) information about digital projects, publications and computer-aided research in epigraphy. This information will be used to update or inform multiple resources including: * The "ASGLE links" resource (currently out of date): http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/links.html * A section on "digital epigraphy" in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Latin Epigraphy I am interested in any undertaking that involves computational approaches or digital data, whether it has resulted in publication or not. Any subdiscipline of epigraphy (Latin, Greek, other) is of interest. The ASGLE links update will include a software upgrade, and will be carried out in collaboration with the editorial board of Current Epigraphy (http://www.currentepigraphy.org) and the leadership and appropriate committees of the Association Internationale d' Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. All information presented in the resulting "new" links collection will be released to the public under terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license so that it can be re-used freely by others. All information sent to me will be assumed to be the intellectual property of the person submitting it, and will be treated under terms of the CC license. Ideally, I would like to have as much of the following information as possible (please feel free to use your native language): Title of project, resource or publication Principal investigator(s), author(s) or editor(s) Intitutional affiliation(s) URLs for websites Publication citation(s) A short description Status (e.g., experimental, complete, published, in progress, continuing, private) Technologies, methodologies used Sources of funding (past and present) Contact email address Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor. Best, Tom From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 08:51:47 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx175.postini.com [64.18.2.133]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id BB83F2604C for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx175.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:51:47 CST Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48li6p024462; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:47:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA459o5M004903; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:47:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21595332 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:33 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA48enXX000875 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:40:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48enD0018042 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:40:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48emvR018040 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:40:48 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225788047-5de600540000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6093C1DE0951 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:40:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk (c.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.53]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id AaqQjBHQXywWPVfQ for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:40:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxHSw-0005Ko-AY for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:40:46 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.305 events: logic, language, information, automata theory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: c.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.53] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225788048 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5423 signatures=475171 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=99 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0811040002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49100A89.40608@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:40:41 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.305 events: logic, language, information, automata theory X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 305. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group 14) Subject: cfp: 2009 ESSLLI Student Session [2] From: Humanist Discussion Group 19) Subject: LATA 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:33:55 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: cfp: 2009 ESSLLI Student Session The 2009 ESSLLI Student Session will take place from July 20 to July 31 in Bordeaux, France, as part of the annual European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. We hereby invite paper submissions from students in the areas of logic and computation, logic and language, and language and computation for presentation in the oral session or in the poster session. All submissions will be reviewed by three experts in the field, and those selected for presentation will be published in the proceedings. The Student Session is an excellent venue to present work in progress, and also to gain experience presenting one’s research to a wide audience. As in previous years, Springer is offering 500 Euro in textbooks for the best paper award, and 250 Euro in textbooks to each of two runners-up. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2009. For more details, please see the full call for papers: http://www.stanford.edu/~icard/esslli/call --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:35:29 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: LATA 2009 Because of a number of requests, last submission deadline extension: October 31 !!! ********************************************************************* Final Call for Papers 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009) Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). [...] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 08:51:48 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx193.postini.com [64.18.2.85]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F7982604E for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:51:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx193.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:51:48 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48ouHT029471; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:50:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA459p7a004904; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:50:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21595344 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:34 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA48ivvH001054 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:44:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48iu3c021403 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:44:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48iuuA021395 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:44:56 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225788295-21e101470000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 00ACB46FD03 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:44:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id uo0kiWUTyc95dhNr for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:44:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxHWx-0002vj-9L for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:44:55 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.307 new publication: Glottometrics 17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225788296 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5423 signatures=475171 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0811040002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49100B82.7080704@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:44:50 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.307 new publication: Glottometrics 17 X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:33:06 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Glottometrics 17, 2008 If you are interested in Glottometrics 17, 2008, please go to www.ram-verlag.de. Glottometrics 17, 2008 is available as: Printed edition: EUR 30.00 plus PP CD edition:EUR 15.00 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 Stttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Ldenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 2351 973070 Fax: +49 2351 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 08:52:09 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx181.postini.com [64.18.2.139]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id C704626051 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:52:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.133.8]) by exprod7mx181.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:52:09 PST Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48pCl9000155; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:51:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA459p84004904; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:51:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21595338 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:34 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA48gXiq000995 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:42:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48gXam028501 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:42:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw4.Princeton.EDU (emfw4.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.23]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48gWua028499 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:42:32 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225788151-21e201270000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.131.23:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5465146FA34 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:42:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw4.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id 4Hj23V8n5VXsiFSK for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:42:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxHUd-0002Mi-Gx for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:42:31 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.306 jobs at the ESF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225788152 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5423 signatures=475171 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0811040002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49100AF2.5000308@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:42:26 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.306 jobs at the ESF X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 306. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:34:41 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: job announcements for ESF Dear colleagues, Please be informed of the following *three job announcements* at the European Science Foundation: *Science Officer to the Chief Executive* Please send your application by *1 December 2008 *to *jobs@esf.org *quoting the following reference *SO-CE; *or to ESF, Human Resources Unit – Nathalie Biessy - 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015, F-67080 Strasbourg France. *Science Officer Peer Review **In the Chief Executive’s unit * Please send your application by *24 November 2008 *to *jobs@esf.org *quoting the following reference identifier *CEPR-SO *or to ESF, Human Resources Unit - 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015, F-67080 Strasbourg France. Interviews will be held in Strasbourg beginning of December 2008. *Science Officer Forward Looks **Chief Executive’s (CE) unit* * *Please send your application by *24 November 2008 *to *jobs@esf.org *quoting the following reference identifier *CE-FLSO *or to ESF, Human Resources Unit - 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015, F-67080 Strasbourg France. Interviews will be held in Strasbourg early December 2008. *Further details and job descriptions can be found under:* http://www.esf.org/jobs/current-vacancies.html With best regards Humanities Unit - ESF From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 08:53:35 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx265.postini.com [64.18.2.119]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id EDC892605E for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:53:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx265.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:53:35 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48ohIY027167; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:50:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA459p7E004904; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:50:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21595347 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:34 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA48k8FJ001165 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48k8mv025497 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw3.Princeton.EDU (emfw3.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.100]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA48k7x8025494 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:08 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225788367-5d9702630000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.129.100:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A93126B10CD for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:46:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk (a.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.51]) by emfw3.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id TR8bPc59imF627nm for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:46:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxHY6-000304-O4 for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:46:06 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.309 new on WWW: Digital Archimedes Project Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: a.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.51] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225788367 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5423 signatures=475171 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0811040002 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <49100BC9.5090205@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:46:01 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.309 new on WWW: Digital Archimedes Project X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 309. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:38:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Archimedes Palimpsest From: Lynn Ransom Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:37:13 -0400 Dear colleagues, I post this on behalf of a friend. Sincerely, Lynn Ransom ------------------- Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people working around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its data. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the ancient world. It is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many wavebands of light with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts that are spatially mapped to those images. It has pushed boundaries for the imaging of documents, and relied almost exclusively on current international standards. We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital resource for the decades to come. We also hope it will be helpful as an example for others who are conducting similar work. It published under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the potential for widespread use. A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts is available on Googlebooks as The Archimedes Palimpsest. It is hoped that this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put. For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit: www.archimedespalimpsest.org For the dataset, please visit: www.archimedespalimpsest.net We have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Any member can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a member, please email: wnoel@thewalters.org I would be grateful if you would circulate this to your friends and colleagues. Thank you very much Will Noel The Walters Art Museum October 29th, 2008. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:31:55 +0000 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: extension for submission of papers to Digital Humanities The deadline for proposals for Digital Humanities 2009 has been extended until 12 Midnight GMT on Friday 14 November. We do not expect that there will be any further deadline extensions beyond this date. Please note that if you have not used the online submission system, conftool, before it may be useful to familiarise yourself with it in good time. It is possible to input your details before uploading a paper, and you can also withdraw a contribution if you are unhappy with it, so you do not have to wait until everything is ready to begin the process. This should help to avoid last minute submission problems, since we can provide only limited support for users of the system. If you have any queries about submissions, please contact Claire Warwick, the PC Chair, as soon as possible. -- Digital Humanities 2009 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org From owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU Tue Nov 4 11:31:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@DIGITALHUMANITIES.ORG Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx247.postini.com [64.18.2.101]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id D5C9926F81 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:31:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([128.112.131.112]) by exprod7mx247.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:31:22 EST Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA4BU9gl013489; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:30:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (listsv440.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.10]) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA45vCpt013864; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:29:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id 21597179 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:29:34 -0500 Approved-By: willard.mccarty@MCCARTY.ORG.UK Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA4BT12m010323 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:29:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA4BT1b6022679 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:29:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from emfw2.Princeton.EDU (emfw2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.96]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA4BT0kD022614 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:29:00 -0500 (EST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1225798139-2efd01420000-M4gYpI X-Barracuda-URL: http://128.112.128.96:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 34A931DE2ADD for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:28:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk (b.painless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.30.52]) by emfw2.Princeton.EDU with ESMTP id udchDtOEJc0Qw9KO for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:28:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KxK5i-0006nk-Ui for humanist@princeton.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:28:59 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 22.310 postdoctoral fellowships in the U.K. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: b.painless.aaisp.net.uk[81.187.30.52] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1225798140 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at Princeton.EDU X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5.3.00 definitions=5423 signatures=475171 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=quarantine_notspam policy=quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0810130000 definitions=main-0811040031 X-Spam-KB: http://www.Princeton.EDU/spam Message-ID: <491031F6.9000202@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:28:54 +0000 Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group Sender: Humanist Discussion Group From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 22.310 postdoctoral fellowships in the U.K. X-To: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:99.90000/99.90000 CV:99.9999 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 310. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:27:00 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: postdoctoral fellowships Dear colleagues, A new postdoctoral scheme, the Newton International Fellowship, has been set up to fund researchers to work in the UK. Fifty fellowships per year are granted. It is certainly possible that a suitable candidate in the digital humanities might be successful and so be able to pursue his or her research project at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, for the two years of the fellowship. Please see the following description. Note the deadline for application, 12 January 2009. The first step is to read the online Scheme Notes and other information there carefully. The second step is to develop a research proposal, which ultimately will have to fit within a strict limit of 8,000 characters. Since applicants need to have a sponsor (who is co-applicant and in this case would be my department), this proposal should be developed in consultation with us. The third step, once the proposal has been developed to the satisfaction of both parties, is to make formal application via the Royal Society's e-GAP2 system, https://e-gap.royalsociety.org/Home.aspx. Note that there are a few minor steps, 2a, 2b etc, such as securing referees for your application. If you are interested and have read all the material below and at www.newtonfellowships.org, send me an initial note of intent, with a very brief summary of the research that you would be interested in doing. I will then let you know if I think the application would be worth pursuing. Yours, WM -------------------------- The Newton International Fellowship scheme enables the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world to work at UK research institutions for a period of two years. The Fellowships are supported by the three leading academies, including the British Academy. Fellowships must start before 1 September 2009. Financial basis: The Fellowships support subsistence, relocation costs, and research expenses for two years (66K). In addition, every Newton Fellow is eligible for funds in subsequent years to support networking activities with UK-based researchers (60K). An additional 50% of the total value of the award is payable to the host institution. Next steps: Further details are available at http://www.newtonfellowships.org/index.html The closing date for this round is 12th January 2009 so please don't delay in encouraging good candidates to apply, or in inviting colleagues overseas to recommend promising postdoctoral researchers who would be interested in a period of research at King's. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 6 06:57:06 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564D223A19; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:57:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 58907239D4; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:57:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081106065703.58907239D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:57:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.236 welcome X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 236. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:46:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: welcome to the new Humanist Dear colleagues, This is to welcome you to the new Humanist and is the first message I am sending through the new mechanism. If you have sent me notice of problems, please be patient while we figure out how to deal with them. The changeover is happening during the busiest week of this term and just prior to a flight to the U.S. to attend a conference. When it rains it pours etc. But from where I sit, the new software looks very good indeed. My thanks to Malgosia Askanas for all the hard work (past and a bit to come) and to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations for funding this renovation! Keep those seatbelts fastened for a bit, but do let me know of problems as they arise. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 7 14:45:34 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA35250CB; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60B7D250BE; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:45:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081107144531.60B7D250BE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:45:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.237 teething problems X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 237. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:43:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: problems Dear colleagues, The new Humanist has a few teething problems. Please be patient, resend anything that doesn't appear after the flow begins again and alert me to any infelicities. Thanks. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:03:06 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: November 4 -- 10, 2008 UBIQUITY CLASSICS An Interview with Frans Johansson on the Medici Effect In this time of recession, innovation has jumped to the fore in many people's minds. How can we create new value through innovations and pull our individual compani es out of the doldrums? In 2004, Frans Johansson publish ed his book, "The Medici Effect," where he discussed how crossing community boundaries leads to innovations, and h e said that the most effective way to create the cross ing is to mix people from the communities in a common setting. Ubiquity editor John Gehl spoke with Johansso n shortly after the book was published. Johansson's wor ds are worth thinking about now as we reflect on what we all must do next. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm. org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 7 22:30:25 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B808248AD; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EF1324878; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:30:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081107223022.9EF1324878@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:30:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.306 events Gutenberg digitization computational linguistics the ebook X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 306. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: Theories and Pragmatic Foundations of the Electronic Book [2] From: Willard McCarty (15) Subject: Final Call for Submissions: CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural [3] From: Willard McCarty (37) Subject: CFP reminder: CICLing 2009 + Lexicom 2009: NLP & Computational [4] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: Seminar for teachers [5] From: Willard McCarty (47) Subject: Symposium: Digitization of the Gutenberg Bible, London, Saturday 22 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:01:27 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Theories and Pragmatic Foundations of the Electronic Book The DHO is pleased to invite you to join us for an exciting workshop by Dr Ray Siemens on research issues in the digital hu manities. Dr Siemens will be speaking at 2pm on the 10th of Novembe r at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin. His workshop is entitled: 'Theories and Pragmatic Foundations of the Electronic Book: A digital humanities perspective.' You can find more information about this talk at: http:/ /dho.ie/autumn_2008.html#ray . No advance registration is necessary and you are warmly invited to attend. In advance of this workshop, Dr Siemens has posted a short article to encourage discussion. You will find the article at: http://dho.ie/images/siemenstalk.pdf . DHO Master Classes combine a short lecture with a partic ipatory discussion and offer the oppotunity to interact with international subject matter experts on current issues of import to th ose in the digital arts and humanities communities. We look forward to greeting you there, --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- Tel: 00 353 1 2342440 --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:02:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Final Call for Submissions: CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Final Call for Submissions CNL 2009 Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2009/ Location: Marettimo Island, Sicily (Italy) Workshop date: 8-10 June 2009 Extended submission deadline: 23 November 2008 Change: Extended abstracts will be published before the workshop as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org) for improved visibility and publication status. (As before, full papers will be published after the workshop by Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series.) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:02:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CFP reminder: CICLing 2009 + Lexicom 2009: NLP & Computational Dear colleague, This is just a gentle reminder of the deadline for the CICLing-2009 conference with Lexicom 2009, in case if you are interested. Below I repeat the CFP. Please contact us for late submissions if needed (while the system is open, please just go ahead and upload your abstract). Thank you! Alexander - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CICLing 2009 + Lexicom 2009 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics; pre-conf event: Lexicom-Americas 2009 workshop Mexico City, Mexico CICLing: March 1-7, 2009 Lexicom: February 24-28 www.CICLing.org/2009 PUBLICATION: LNCS: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, separate processings of poster session KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jill Burstein, ETS, Ken Church, Microsoft, Dekang Lin, Google. [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:03:26 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar for teachers 2009 NEH SEMINAR FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS THE DUTCH REPUBLIC AND BRITAIN: THE MAKING OF MODERN SOCIETY AND A EUROPEAN WORLD ECONOMY London and The Netherlands, July 2009 This five-week National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for school teachers, directed by Dr. Gerard M. Koot, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, will investigate how a region of northwest Europe, centered on the North Sea, acquired the characteristics that historians have labeled modern. We will study how the economy of the Dutch Republic rose to preeminence in the new European world economy of the seventeenth century, how Britain acquired this supremacy in the eighteenth century, and how it transformed itself to become an industrial nation. The seminar will meet at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar (near The Hague) from June 28 to July 31, 2009. NEH will provide a stipend of $3800 for expenses. For an application and a full explanation of the seminar, go to: http://www.umassd.edu/euro/neh_prosp_app.cfm For a mailed copy, contact Sue Foley, sfoley@umassd.edu or call 508-999-8301. For further information, call Gerard Koot at 508 999 8305 or write at gkoot@umassd.edu. Thank you, Dr. Gerard M. Koot Chair, History Department University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Tel: 508 999 8305/8301 FAX: 508 999 8809 Email: gkoot@umassd.edu --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:04:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Symposium: Digitization of the Gutenberg Bible, London, Saturday 22 Dear colleagues, This email is an invitation for a half-day symposium on digitization of the Gutenberg. The event is free. If you are interested in attending it, please register by accessing the address below. With many thanks and best wishes, Takako DARC/CCH Symposium: Digitization of the Gutenberg Bible - Retrospect & Prospect Saturday 22 November 2008 Venue: Room 2B08, Strand Campus, King's College London Note: attendance by pre-registration (http://armour.cc/tinc?key 3DVRk38phB&formname3DDARC_Symposium_2008) 9:15 Introduction and welcome Chair: Toshiyuki Takamiya (Director of DARC) 9:30-10:15 Facsimiles of the Gutenberg Bible as Research Tools (Paul Needham, Princeton) 10:25-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:00 Coffee/tea 11:05-11:30 The Digital Gutenberg Bible and the Incunable Collection at the British Library (John Goldfinch,BL); respondent: William Hale (Cambridge University Library) 11:45-12:10 Incunable Digitization at Munich: From the Guten berg Bible to Mass Digitization (Bettina Wagner, BSB); respondent: William Hale (Cambridge University Library) 12:25-12:45 Discussion 12:45-13:00 Closing address (Harold Short, CCH) -------------------------- Takako Kato TakakoKato123@gmail.com School of English University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH, UK +44-(0)116-252-2628 http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 8 16:43:09 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCCB2654D; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B629226518; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:43:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081108164306.B629226518@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.307 events: digital archaeology; DHO launch X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (19) Subject: Digital Humanities Observatory Launched [2] From: Willard McCarty (39) Subject: Second_VERA_Winter_Workshop_–_Wednesday_3rd_December_2 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:53:39 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital Humanities Observatory Launched On 22 October the Digital Humanities Observatory was launched by Minister for State Dr Jimmy Devins at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Ireland. An account of the launch, a transcript of the Minister's speech, and a photo gallery are available at http://dho.ie. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:30:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Second_VERA_Winter_Workshop_–_Wednesday_3rd_December_2 *apologies for cross-posting* Second VERA Winter Workshop 96 Wednesday 3rd December 2008 "Digital field recording and publication in archaeology" The VERA project invites you to a workshop entitled "Digital field recording and publication in archaeology" to be held in the Archaeology Department of the University of Reading on Wednesday the 3rd of December 2008. The JISC funded Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (VERA) project (http://vera.rdg.ac.uk) plans to create a suitable Web portal that provides enhanced tools to efficiently document archaeological excavation and its associated finds for the user community. VERA aims to develop utilities that help encapsulate the working practices of current research archaeologists unfamiliar with virtual research environments. The aim of this second workshop is to show what the project has achieved so far, having now had two seasons of excavation at Silchester to test the development of the system, and to discuss more broadly the future of Virtual Research Environments and Archaeology. The day will begin at 11am with talks finishing at around 4:30pm. More details, including a timetable and directions to the university, can be found on the VERA website at: http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/events/winter_workshop_2.php Places are limited and priority will be given to all current IADB users, but there will also be places for other archaeologists interested in the VERA project, so please get in touch by the 26th November if you are interested! I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Emma Jane O'Riordan Research Assistant, Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology Department of Archaeology, University of Reading e.oriordan@reading.ac.uk 0118 378 7564 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 9 09:54:16 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A94E26479; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:54:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D0CD26467; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:54:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081109095413.6D0CD26467@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:54:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.308 events: animation & social agents X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 308. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:51:31 +0000 From: A.Nijholt@ewi.utwente.nl Subject: cfp: Computer Animation and Social Agents CASA 2009 Computer Animation and Social Agents http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/CASA09 June 17-19 2009, Amsterdam Call For Papers The Human Media Interaction (HMI) department of the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 22nd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2009) to be held on June 17-19, 2009 in "Het Trippenhuis", Amsterdam, the Netherlands. CASA is the leading international conference in the field of computer animation and social agents. CASA 2009 will provide great opportunities to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the world. In addition, make friends and experience wonderful Amsterdam. The conference venue is located on one of the famous canals of Amsterdam. We are seeking regular full papers, short papers, and posters with the following topics, but which are not limited to: Animation Techniques : Motion Control, Motion Capture and Retargeting, Path Planning, Physics based Animation, Image based Animation, Behavioral Animation, Artificial Life, Deformation, Facial Animation, Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models, Knowledge-based Animation, Motion Synthesis; Social Agents: Social Agents and Avatars, Emotion and Personality, Virtual Humans, Autonomous Actors, AI based Animation, Social and Conversational Agents, Inter-Agent Communication, Social Behavior, Gesture Generation, Crowd Simulation; Other Related Topics: Animation Compression and Transmission, Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Humans/Environments, Animation Analysis and Structuring, Anthropometric Virtual Human Models, Acquisition and Reconstruction of Animation Data, Level of Details, Semantic Representation of Motion and Animation, Medical Simulation, Cultural Heritage, Interaction for Virtual Humans, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, Computer Games and Online Virtual Worlds. All accepted full papers, about 35 of them, will be published, at the time of the conference, in a special issue of The Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds by Wiley. Short papers and posters will be published as CD or hardcopy proceedings with ISBN. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 10 06:25:31 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD672248DF; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:25:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 694F9248C6; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:25:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081110062529.694F9248C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:25:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.309 publication-quality fonts with full Unicode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 309. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:36:38 +0000 From: Erik Fleischer Subject: RE: publication-quality fonts with full Unicode? Hello Daniel, Attractiveness should not be the only criterion adopted to select a suitable typeface for your project -- the actual content of the book and how it is going to be presented (number of columns, frequency of graphic elements such as illustrations, etc) should be the starting point. Also, since different scripts are going to be used, you don't necessarily need a single typeface. You could, for instance, use Minion Pro for the Roman and Greek and Adobe Hebrew for the Jewish (in scholarly circles the script is actually called Jewish, not Hebrew). However, matching typefaces is a much more complicated matter than it may at first seem: one needs to consider factors such as style, weight, x-height, apertures, relative size of bowls and other details that are normally invisible to the untrained eye. You should visit Typophile (http://typophile.com) and post your query there. You'll more than likely receive very good advice from typographers who, unlike me, have set Hebrew texts. Best wishes, Erik > > -----Original Message----- > > Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:30:07 +0000 > > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > > > Subject: publication-quality fonts with full Unicode? > > In-Reply-To: <490811F9.3000907@mccarty.org.uk> > > > > Dear Humanist, > > I am interested in publication quality fonts that have a full unicode > > set and wondering if anyone can help me. > > I am about to send in a manuscript to the University of Chicago Press > > that uses Greek (polysytonic), Hebrew, and standard Hebrew diacriticals > > for transliteration, i.e., hamza, ayin, underdots etc. > > Can anyone recommend really attractive fonts that I might be able to > > suggest to the Press. > > thanks > > Daniel Boyarin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 10 06:27:20 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B9C24A08; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:27:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55EA2249DE; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:27:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081110062718.55EA2249DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:27:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 310. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:41:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hardware and interpretation? Let me try out on everyone here an historical hypothesis and invite all comers to pick at it for weaknesses. Once upon a time some here can remember, before time-sharing operating systems and networks, dealing with computers was a slow process. One thought in terms of the "turn-around time" between submission of a "job" and getting back the printout. If you were very important the turn-around time could be, say, a couple of hours, otherwise many more, even days. Computers were physically inaccessible and formidable, often housed in a building otherwise dedicated to engineering or physics, kept in rooms inaccessible to ordinary users, huge in size and noisy (because of the forced-air cooling which ran in conduits under the floor). Because of all this, in as close to a causal relationship as we get in the social world, computing came to mean something remote and in opposition to us but very powerful. But even for those who were intimates of the machine, such as Alan Turing, remoteness, opposition and power were characteristic, as Turing's famous test suggests. Much has changed since then, of course. Indeed, I would suggest that our relationship to computing is more a kind of resonance than opposition. Now when one computes one "attends from" the machine to something else, as Polanyi said, in a rapid back-and-forth. Be that as it may, however, much of the talk about computing is as if it were still defined by remoteness, opposition and power, as if computers were still as they were in the 1960s. So my historical hypothesis is that in large measure how we think about computing bears the imprint of early hardware. We are still thinking of it as a matter of telling the machine to do something, the machine doing it and then evaluating the results. So, what if we revised our idea to match what in fact we now have? How would that revised view shape the future? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 11 06:34:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F350724BA1; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:34:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B1FD24B64; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:34:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081111063418.8B1FD24B64@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:34:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.311 fonts with Unicode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 311. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:58:24 -0800 From: "Daniel Boyarin" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.309 publication-quality fonts with full Unicode In-Reply-To: <20081110062529.694F9248C6@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Erik, Thanks for this helpful note. By "attractiveness" I meant all that you meant. I just wanted to get a list of suitable fonts for their designers to choose between, since they're not used to working yet with full unicode apparently. thanks db On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 309. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:36:38 +0000 > From: Erik Fleischer > > > Hello Daniel, > > Attractiveness should not be the only criterion adopted to select a > suitable typeface for your project -- the actual content of the book and > how it is going to be presented (number of columns, frequency of graphic > elements such as illustrations, etc) should be the starting point. Also, > since different scripts are going to be used, you don't necessarily need > a single typeface. You could, for instance, use Minion Pro for the Roman > and Greek and Adobe Hebrew for the Jewish (in scholarly circles the > script is actually called Jewish, not Hebrew). However, matching > typefaces is a much more complicated matter than it may at first seem: > one needs to consider factors such as style, weight, x-height, > apertures, relative size of bowls and other details that are normally > invisible to the untrained eye. > > You should visit Typophile (http://typophile.com) and post your query > there. You'll more than likely receive very good advice from > typographers who, unlike me, have set Hebrew texts. > > Best wishes, > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 11 06:35:12 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AC224C12; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:35:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DBE024C07; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:35:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081111063509.2DBE024C07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.312 hardware and interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 312. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (73) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? [2] From: "maurizio lana" (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:54:09 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? In-Reply-To: <20081110062718.55EA2249DE@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Let me try out on everyone here an historical hypothesis and invite all > comers to pick at it for weaknesses. I think that there is an assumption being made which isn't necessarily incorrect, but that reduces the complexity of our relationship with computers. The conception of remoteness and inaccessibility still persist with certain types of computing, even though we all now use computers daily. > Once upon a time some here can remember, before time-sharing operating > systems and networks, dealing with computers was a slow process. One > thought in terms of the "turn-around time" between submission of a "job" > and getting back the printout. If you were very important the > turn-around time could be, say, a couple of hours, otherwise many more, > even days. Computers were physically inaccessible and formidable, often > housed in a building otherwise dedicated to engineering or physics, kept > in rooms inaccessible to ordinary users, huge in size and noisy (because > of the forced-air cooling which ran in conduits under the floor). You seem to imply that computers are now not physically inaccessible, formidable, and housed in separate places which large cooling demands. But, in fact, this is still the case. True, you have on your desktop a computer that allows you to do some things, but more often than not you are using that computer to access websites, databases, servers, which are running (one hopes) on properly maintained servers in a climate and access controlled room elsewhere. The joint academic network through which this message is sent relies on an infrastructure that is still kept remote. A large portion of it runs through our own machine room here in Oxford, and I know I'm nearly deafened by the air conditioning noise when I go in there to tend to one of the servers I occasionally have to kick. I know too that King's has such a room because I'm told that when a water pipe(!!) burst in it last year (or so) the KCL email was down for a week. Your computer in some cases is just the job-submission media; it is if you like the punch card (or the card punch, punch card, and the giving it to the sysadmin to queue up). > Much has changed since then, of course. Indeed, I would suggest that our > relationship to computing is more a kind of resonance than opposition. > Now when one computes one "attends from" the machine to something else, > as Polanyi said, in a rapid back-and-forth. Be that as it may, however, > much of the talk about computing is as if it were still defined by remoteness, > opposition and power, as if computers were still as they were in the 1960s. > > So, what if we revised our idea to match what in fact we now have? How > would that revised view shape the future? I think we still have this remoteness, and those in our fields who are in the position of the early pioneers of computing are still interacting with computers in a similarly remote way. It is just that the basic level of interaction with computers as a tool has risen because we all have them. However, if you are doing cutting edge GRID/e-research computing or similar, you are still submitting your work to some distant computer to process (which then sends it all around the world to various other computers before giving you an answer back). There are many whose computer tasks still take hours if not days, and I think that just because our daily functions with a computer have lost that remoteness, the nature of cutting edge research tasks you are thinking about still fall under the same conception of remote interaction. That remoteness, however, is easier to interact with. However, your point certainly holds with the way we browse the web. It is only with the recent trend for web-based fully functional applications that we are just starting to break down the perspective of our interaction consisting of going to a number of discrete remote sites. Computing applications on smartphones and the like where we all carry a computer with us continually problematise this further; in most cases though we are still accessing services that we view as remote and much software is still on a client/server model. I don't think the idea that we conceive of computing because of a legacy of the way early hardware systems developed, and I think had to develop in that way, is wrong. But I worry that it is an over-simplification and that the vast variety of types of computer usage these days create a plethora of different forms of perceived interaction. My two pence, for whatever that is worth these days, -James -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:20:42 +0100 From: "maurizio lana" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? In-Reply-To: <20081110062718.55EA2249DE@woodward.joyent.us> At 07.27 10/11/2008, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >So my historical hypothesis is that in large measure how we think about >computing bears the imprint of early hardware. We are still thinking of >it as a matter of telling the machine to do something, the machine doing >it and then evaluating the results. I agree to your view. this imprinting is perhaps responsible of the common manner of presenting the computer as a device allowing to do thing more quickly, more and more quickly. where does this speed bring us is not said or is not interesting. all this "love for speed" (or excitement for speed) could be in opposition to the times when one had to wait hours and days only to read in the printout "sintax error at line 12", and then other hours and days of waiting... >So, what if we revised our idea to match what in fact we now have? How >would that revised view shape the future? i think that having the computer doing things for us more quickly and more precisely than we could, interacting with us, should mean that we have more time to think and more effectively. too trivial, too simple "having time to think more"? it's possible, but i like it. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Università del Piemonte Orientale via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 11 06:36:25 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B9924CD5; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5FE224CCC; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081111063622.D5FE224CCC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.313 Latin texts later than 200 AD? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 313. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:39:34 +0000 From: Maurizio Lana Subject: is there something new about PHI latin texts? hello to everyone, i would like to do a research into post-classical latin texts and i wonder if there is something anywhere which could be similar to what the TLG is for greek texts: a complete repository of latin texts up to 476 AD or - better - up to the first half of VI century. i know of the PHI cdrom of latin texts but it ends early (200 AD) for the scope of my study; or does anyone know if the people at Packard Humanities Institute are planning or doing something to continue the PHI cdrom? many many thanks for your help! maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore - Facolt� di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli - Italia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 11 06:37:05 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C9424D4D; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:37:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A118624D3E; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:37:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081111063704.A118624D3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:37:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.314 language learning online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 314. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:32:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language learning online Those interested in how the web is put to good use will want to take note of a former student's work in language learning, LanguageLab.com, based on Second Life. I paste in here part of his advert. WM > Hola, > > * Would you like to learn Spanish through real experiences in a > friendly, Spanish speaking virtual city? > * Have you ever wanted to learn a language but found yourself put > off by dry, uninvolving classes? > * Did you learn Spanish a while ago ... y lo tiene un poquito olvidado? > > > ....Well Languagelab is offering you the chance to learn with our > qualified native speaker Spanish teachers from the comfort of your own > home .... in our very own virtual Spanish speaking city 'Ciudad Bonita'. > > Studying with Languagelab will improve your fluency and help you acquire > vocabulary faster than any other method. It's a great way to get back > into Spanish if you are a little rusty. > > Our method gives you more opportunity to practice with native speakers > than in any other school or programme. You really will be confident in > basic interactions with Spanish native speakers after only 10 weeks. > > > *'Beginners Spanish' at Languagelab is: * > > * *10 week course (beginning 17th November) * > > You will receive: > > * *2 hours of fixed classes per week with qualified Spanish teachers* > * *2 hours of optional live practice with native Spanish speakers in > Ciudad Bonita * > [...] > > For more information click here > http://blog.languagelab.com/2008/11/06/new-learn-spanish-with-languagelabcom/ [...] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 11 09:00:10 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E2A2592E; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:00:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FC5D258DB; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:00:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081111090007.9FC5D258DB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:00:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.315 messed up messages? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 315. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:58:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: messed up messages? Dear colleagues, One of you has reported back that Humanist 22.312 and 22.313 arrived in a totally scrambled form, i.e. rather than, > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:39:34 +0000 > From: Maurizio Lana > > > > hello to everyone, > i would like to do a research into post-classical latin texts and i > wonder if there is something anywhere which could be similar to what > the TLG is for greek texts: a complete repository of latin texts up > to 476 AD or - better - up to the first half of VI century. > i know of the PHI cdrom of latin texts but it ends early (200 AD) for > the scope of my study; or does anyone know if the people at Packard > Humanities Institute are planning or doing something to continue the PHI cdrom? > > many many thanks for your help! > maurizio > > Maurizio Lana - ricercatore - Facolt� di Lettere e Filosofia - > Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli - Italia the following arrived, > ÔZ蘭¦zÀ®šh§‚ÂZ™ëºi¢ > (¹Ë(ŧ.•TÁ+›�ç-Eáâ²Ý¶ß]!j·pj·š�اµêé­ëZ¶*'ØZèšf®®,â¢V§jiZ�©µ©šŠW(›nR¹¸ÞrÔ^éš > +-ÛmõÒ«w«y©ÝŠ{^®šÞµ«b¢}Cj׌¢}t6‹öÓO4ó 4÷í4ÓAk¢bZ™ëºi¢ jg¬ and so on. In other words, there seems to be a character-translation problem somewhere in the new software. (Of course there's always the danger that this message will in part or entirely get scrambled by the same problem.) Would anyone who received these messages in scrambled form please let me know? Sorry for the continuing turbulence. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 07:23:04 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC6E2690F; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9584C268CC; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:23:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081112072301.9584C268CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:23:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.316 hardware and interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 316. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:57:31 -0200 From: "Renata T. S. Lemos" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.312 hardware and interpretation In-Reply-To: <20081111063509.2DBE024C07@woodward.joyent.us> Dear James and Maurizio, I believe you are talking about different things than the question Willard is trying to address. I believe that the idea you are making of computing is still confining its dimension to the PC era. However we are moving far beyond this simple user interface. Let's take a look at William Gibson's latest interview, in which he reassesses what is happening with digital technologies: *WG*: *I wanted a way to visualise the extent to which something has changed since I started writing about information technology. When I coined the word cyberspace, cyberspace was there, and everything else was here. That has reversed itself over the course of my writing. I literally think that cyberspace is now here, and a complete lack of connectivity is now there. If we could see the wireless exchanges of digital information taking place around us, we would be living in a much busier visual landscape. Most of what we do as a society we now either primarily do digitally, in what we used to call cyberspace, or we simultaneously do digitally and in the physical world. If you are driving with a GPS system, you are simultaneously driving your car and manoeuvring your car through a digital construct. I believe that very few of us are aware of the extent to which that has already happened, and I suspect that I'm not aware of it to anywhere near the real extent to which it has happened. * Think about the wireless computing power of your Iphones and blackberrys: how remote can that really be? It's mobile, it's pervasive, and, borrowing a term from Bauman, it's becoming more and more liquid... And I am just talking about the technologies that are already available in the market. If you move into the cutting edge research being made at scientific labs around the world, then you will see that a new revolution based on nano enabled devices is on the verge of coming to existence. So let us not accomodate ourselves to existing perspectives. I agree with Willard in that it is time to starting asking new questions. Regards, Renata Lemos Eletrocooperativa, Knowledge Coordinator PUC SP, Semiotics Researcher _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 07:24:06 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77ED269E7; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:24:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 448E0269D4; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:24:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081112072404.448E0269D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:24:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.317 bathing in blood? true for E. coli? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 317. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:37:22 -0500 From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Fw: Roman blood baths; quote from Jacques Monod ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Raben To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:40 PM I have two queries on which I hope Humanist readers can help me: 1. Does anyone have information on a Roman practice of bathing in blood to achieve longevity? I came across it in a poem by Beaudelaire. 2. Does anyone know the source of the quotation I came across in a book review? The author of the review has not responded to my email. "The illustrious French cell biologist Jacques Monod summed it up pithily: 'What is true for E. coli is true for the elephant.' Joe Raben joeraben@cox.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 07:24:56 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4995926A8A; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:24:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2536A26A7F; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081112072454.2536A26A7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.318 language learning online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 318. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:47:49 -0500 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.314 language learning online *** Attachments: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1226422347_2008-11-11_jgoldfield@mail.fairfield.edu_7023.2.ms-tnef Of particular importance is the second question. Engaging, lively and well-designed language instruction and materials online will make headway in replacing teachers and courses that are "dry" and "uninvolving." At the very least these online resources will provide motivation where needed to continue improving the quality of foreign language instruction. Joel Goldfield Fairfield University ________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Tue 11/11/2008 1:37 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 314. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:32:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language learning online Those interested in how the web is put to good use will want to take note of a former student's work in language learning, LanguageLab.com, based on Second Life. I paste in here part of his advert. WM > Hola, > > * Would you like to learn Spanish through real experiences in a > friendly, Spanish speaking virtual city? > * Have you ever wanted to learn a language but found yourself put > off by dry, uninvolving classes? > * Did you learn Spanish a while ago ... y lo tiene un poquito olvidado? > > > ....Well Languagelab is offering you the chance to learn with our > qualified native speaker Spanish teachers from the comfort of your own > home .... in our very own virtual Spanish speaking city 'Ciudad Bonita'. > > Studying with Languagelab will improve your fluency and help you acquire > vocabulary faster than any other method. It's a great way to get back > into Spanish if you are a little rusty. > > Our method gives you more opportunity to practice with native speakers > than in any other school or programme. You really will be confident in > basic interactions with Spanish native speakers after only 10 weeks. > > > *'Beginners Spanish' at Languagelab is: * > > * *10 week course (beginning 17th November) * > > You will receive: > > * *2 hours of fixed classes per week with qualified Spanish teachers* > * *2 hours of optional live practice with native Spanish speakers in > Ciudad Bonita * > [...] > > For more information click here > http://blog.languagelab.com/2008/11/06/new-learn-spanish-with-languagelabcom/ [...] -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 07:25:30 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891D226B1C; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:25:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A42A26AE7; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:25:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081112072529.0A42A26AE7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:25:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.319 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 11-17 November X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 319. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:23:53 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY for 11-17 November This Week in Ubiquity: November 11 -- 17, 2008 UBIQUITY CLASSICS Immersed in the Future: Randy Pausch on the Future of Educationhttp://www.acm.org/ubiquity Before he became ill, Randy Pausch spoke with Ubiquity Editor John Gehl in 2005. The declining enrollments in computer science were already very much on his mind. At that time, they were down 23 percent. Pausch called this a "huge problem". He noted that, even for those committed to teaching programming from the outset, kids programming in Alice were far more engaged than those trying to find Fibonacci numbers. The enrollments have since declined another 25 percent and the problem is even "huger" than before. Randy's ideas about what turns kids on are even more important today. Peter Denning Editor ----- Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 21:29:56 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF5E266C1; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC378266B1; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081112212954.CC378266B1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.320 messed-up messages; digesting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 320. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:27:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: messed up messages and digesting Dear colleagues, Apparently the problem of messed-up messages, which some of you have experienced recently, is a difficult one to figure out. It would help us enormously if anyone who receives such a message sends me a complaint that specifies (a) the operating system they are using, (b) the mail program, and (c) which version. Sorry about the extra burden. It also turns out that with the change from Listserv and the old software to Mailman and the new it has become quite difficult to allow for the "digest" format. That is, it would be quite expensive to allow for it. So I think it best for us simply not to offer that option any longer. The programmer pointed out to me that we already offer a digest, so it should be possible for recipients to see what they want without scrolling very far down the message. Yours, WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 21:31:16 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B483267D5; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:31:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4FA6267C5; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:31:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081112213114.E4FA6267C5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:31:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.321 hardware and interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 321. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:25:59 -0800 (PST) From: Ms Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.316 hardware and interpretation In-Reply-To: <20081112072301.9584C268CC@woodward.joyent.us> Willard et al., This question is most appropriate, I believe, not only because the hardware has changed, but becausee our whole perception of computing has changed. I saw your original question about Hardware and Interpretation on the same day that I was explaining my work in Natural Language Generation (NLG) to a neighbor. I described the application of creating narrative output for an electronic medical records system, thinking to myself about the language model we had created with Java code. My neighbor listened intently and then asked, "But how does that work with the 0s and 1s?" I had to assume that she had taken a introductory computer class at some point where the notion of binary circuitry was described, and I thought then how far we've come from that concept. That circuitry is still basically the same, but we've built so many layers upon layers of virtual machines on top of the actual hardware, that the notion of "computer hardware" is hardly relevant. I was taken aback by my neighbor's question and redirected the conversation since there was no easy cocktail party answer! When I designed the NLG system, I called it a "narrative engine," in the sense that you put data into the "engine" and get narrative out as a result. The architecture of the narrative engine matches a language model with a grammar, a lexicon, and a set of rules for applying the data to produce natural sentences in English. I never gave a thought to the 1s and 0s, or even the machine code that underlies the "engine." The same can be said about the wireless world. My wireless router at home went out a few weeks ago, and I was lost, being out of touch with the "world." I felt very alienated somehow, not being able to log in and check email, news, and such. But my "smart" cell phone was still connected to its satellite routers, so I really wasn't out of touch. I just had to adapt a bit. Having the immediate ability to connect to wikipedia, to up-to-the-minute news, and stream video as it records events changes our perception of what is "here" vs "there", as Renata says. Personally I don't want to go back and feel pity for folks that haven't yet bought into this new world where so much is instantly available to us. Mary Dee Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. Chief Language Officer Catalis, Inc. Austin, Texas USA --- On Wed, 11/12/08, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 1:23 AM > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 316. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's > College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: > humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:57:31 -0200 > From: "Renata T. S. Lemos" > > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.312 hardware and > interpretation > In-Reply-To: > <20081111063509.2DBE024C07@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear James and Maurizio, > > I believe you are talking about different things than the > question Willard > is trying to address. I believe that the idea you are > making of computing is > still confining its dimension to the PC era. However we are > moving far > beyond this simple user interface. Let's take a look at > William Gibson's > latest interview, in which he reassesses what is happening > with digital > technologies: > > *WG*http://voidmanufacturing.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/william-gibson-interview/: > *I wanted a way to visualise the extent to which something > has changed since > I started writing about information technology. When I > coined the word > cyberspace, cyberspace was there, and everything else was > here. That has > reversed itself over the course of my writing. I literally > think that > cyberspace is now here, and a complete lack of connectivity > is now there. If > we could see the wireless exchanges of digital information > taking place > around us, we would be living in a much busier visual > landscape. Most of > what we do as a society we now either primarily do > digitally, in what we > used to call cyberspace, or we simultaneously do digitally > and in the > physical world. If you are driving with a GPS system, you > are simultaneously > driving your car and manoeuvring your car through a digital > construct. I > believe that very few of us are aware of the extent to > which that has > already happened, and I suspect that I'm not aware of > it to anywhere near > the real extent to which it has happened. * > > Think about the wireless computing power of your Iphones > and blackberrys: > how remote can that really be? It's mobile, it's > pervasive, and, borrowing a > term from Bauman, it's becoming more and more liquid... > > And I am just talking about the technologies that are > already available in > the market. If you move into the cutting edge research > being made at > scientific labs around the world, then you will see that a > new revolution > based on nano enabled devices is on the verge of coming to > existence. > > So let us not accomodate ourselves to existing > perspectives. > > I agree with Willard in that it is time to starting asking > new questions. > > Regards, > > Renata Lemos > Eletrocooperativa, Knowledge Coordinator > PUC SP, Semiotics Researcher > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 12 21:32:11 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DD22685E; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:32:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB30726857; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:32:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081112213209.EB30726857@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:32:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.322 language learning online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 322. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:59:59 -0500 From: "Alexander Murzaku" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.318 language learning online In-Reply-To: <20081112072454.2536A26A7F@woodward.joyent.us> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Engaging, lively and well-designed language instruction and materials > online will make headway in replacing teachers and courses that are "dry" > and "uninvolving." At the very least these online resources will provide > motivation where needed to continue improving the quality of foreign > language instruction. > As all medals, this one has another side as well. I think that what we lack the most is students that want to learn a language for themselves rather than being forced to learn a language as part of the general education requirements (or core curriculum). There are very good offerings for learning languages online (I just tested TellMeMore from Auralog and it was quite good) - we could not adopt it because, to be successful, we have to assume that the person taking the course is really interested in learning. Only a very small percentage (less than 10%) are such students - the rest just want to get done with the requirements (I am talking about US students). When I have had interested students, they can learn and they learned a lot even in "dry" and "uninvolving" courses. So my question is, could these technologies generate the so much sought after "interest" of the students? Until now, the only motivating technique I have found effective has been travelling to the countries where these languages are spoken. It's need that advances learning... Regards, 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 13 06:24:47 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B773126C5C; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A81B26C4A; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:24:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081113062445.0A81B26C4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:24:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.323 hardware and interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 323. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:22:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.312 hardware and interpretation In-Reply-To: <20081111063509.2DBE024C07@woodward.joyent.us> I take James' point, that the computer systems with which I interact are remote from me. But what I was getting at is the experience of the more or less ordinary person who interacts with computing these days. In the mid 1960s, when I got started, no one interacted with the machines except by going to a computing centre and negotiating across an input desk (if you were a user) or in a noisy machine room, with great, hulking cabinets etc. I did both. Then, as the years went on, I passed through each major stage in the development of computing, through terminal access in a computing centre, to a terminal in my study hooked up via an acoustic coupler modem etc etc. Now I sit here, in front of this lovely, quiet machine, in my study miles from the first remote machine, which is to me no more than a ghostly abstraction. My relationship to my machine is so close that if it goes wonky, I feel wonky. Different utterly. I still assert, contra James' message, that so much of our rhetoric about computing has not caught up with the reality. Cultural assimilation of technology takes a long time. What I suggest is that we examine how we talk, e.g. as if Mr Turing's test, which posits a machine on the other side of a barrier, is the right way to think about artificial intelligence. Comments? Yours, WM Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 312. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: James Cummings (73) > > > [2] From: "maurizio lana" (25) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:54:09 +0000 > From: James Cummings > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.310 hardware and interpretation? > In-Reply-To: <20081110062718.55EA2249DE@woodward.joyent.us> > > Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Let me try out on everyone here an historical hypothesis and invite all >> comers to pick at it for weaknesses. > > I think that there is an assumption being made which isn't necessarily > incorrect, but that reduces the complexity of our relationship with > computers. The conception of remoteness and inaccessibility still > persist with certain types of computing, even though we all now use > computers daily. > >> Once upon a time some here can remember, before time-sharing operating >> systems and networks, dealing with computers was a slow process. One >> thought in terms of the "turn-around time" between submission of a "job" >> and getting back the printout. If you were very important the >> turn-around time could be, say, a couple of hours, otherwise many more, >> even days. Computers were physically inaccessible and formidable, often >> housed in a building otherwise dedicated to engineering or physics, kept >> in rooms inaccessible to ordinary users, huge in size and noisy (because >> of the forced-air cooling which ran in conduits under the floor). > > You seem to imply that computers are now not physically inaccessible, > formidable, and housed in separate places which large cooling demands. > But, in fact, this is still the case. True, you have on your desktop a > computer that allows you to do some things, but more often than not you > are using that computer to access websites, databases, servers, which > are running (one hopes) on properly maintained servers in a climate and > access controlled room elsewhere. The joint academic network through > which this message is sent relies on an infrastructure that is still > kept remote. A large portion of it runs through our own machine room > here in Oxford, and I know I'm nearly deafened by the air conditioning > noise when I go in there to tend to one of the servers I occasionally > have to kick. I know too that King's has such a room because I'm told > that when a water pipe(!!) burst in it last year (or so) the KCL email > was down for a week. Your computer in some cases is just the > job-submission media; it is if you like the punch card (or the card > punch, punch card, and the giving it to the sysadmin to queue up). > >> Much has changed since then, of course. Indeed, I would suggest that our >> relationship to computing is more a kind of resonance than opposition. >> Now when one computes one "attends from" the machine to something else, >> as Polanyi said, in a rapid back-and-forth. Be that as it may, however, >> much of the talk about computing is as if it were still defined by remoteness, >> opposition and power, as if computers were still as they were in the 1960s. >> >> So, what if we revised our idea to match what in fact we now have? How >> would that revised view shape the future? > > I think we still have this remoteness, and those in our fields who are > in the position of the early pioneers of computing are still interacting > with computers in a similarly remote way. It is just that the basic > level of interaction with computers as a tool has risen because we all > have them. However, if you are doing cutting edge GRID/e-research > computing or similar, you are still submitting your work to some distant > computer to process (which then sends it all around the world to various > other computers before giving you an answer back). There are many whose > computer tasks still take hours if not days, and I think that just > because our daily functions with a computer have lost that remoteness, > the nature of cutting edge research tasks you are thinking about still > fall under the same conception of remote interaction. That remoteness, > however, is easier to interact with. However, your point certainly holds > with the way we browse the web. It is only with the recent trend for > web-based fully functional applications that we are just starting to > break down the perspective of our interaction consisting of going to a > number of discrete remote sites. Computing applications on smartphones > and the like where we all carry a computer with us continually > problematise this further; in most cases though we are still accessing > services that we view as remote and much software is still on a > client/server model. > > I don't think the idea that we conceive of computing because of a legacy > of the way early hardware systems developed, and I think had to develop > in that way, is wrong. But I worry that it is an over-simplification > and that the vast variety of types of computer usage these days create a > plethora of different forms of perceived interaction. > > My two pence, for whatever that is worth these days, > -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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 14 10:06:24 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FCE26345; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:06:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D62922633E; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:06:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081114100622.D62922633E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:06:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.324 hardware and interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 324. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.323 hardware and interpretation [2] From: John Laudun (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.323 hardware and interpretation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:10 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.323 hardware and interpretation In-Reply-To: <20081113062445.0A81B26C4A@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I take James' point, that the computer systems with which I interact are > remote from me. But what I was getting at is the experience of the > more or less ordinary person who interacts with computing these days. In > the mid 1960s, when I got started, no one interacted with the machines > except by going to a computing centre and negotiating across an input > desk (if you were a user) or in a noisy machine room, with great, > hulking cabinets etc. I did both. Then, as the years went on, I passed > through each major stage in the development of computing, through > terminal access in a computing centre, to a terminal in my study hooked > up via an acoustic coupler modem etc etc. My argument is simply that you were not a 'more or less ordinary person' at that point. The ordinary people weren't using computers in the mid 60s, so if you were then you were then in the same category as those who are now pushing the boundaries of computing. In those boundary-stretching types of research, I think the computing model is still client/server but just in an increasingly distributed way. It isn't that I imagine one computer out there processing my request, but an amorphous cloud of them. At a very basic level ordinary people of the 60s had the same experience as I do in front of my desktop computer today; like me they pressed a key and saw a letter appear before them, the difference was they were using a typewriter. > Now I sit here, in front of this lovely, quiet machine, in my study > miles from the first remote machine, which is to me no more than a > ghostly abstraction. My relationship to my machine is so close that if > it goes wonky, I feel wonky. Different utterly. That is certainly true, and I don't disagree with that aspect of your analogy. And certainly the 1960s ordinary person wouldn't really care that their typewriter ribbon had run out, they'd just be annoyed that it happened in the middle of a letter. But I don't think they'd feel as 'wonky' as we might when we've not checked our email for a few days (or hours in my case). > I still assert, contra James' message, that so much of our rhetoric > about computing has not caught up with the reality. Cultural > assimilation of technology takes a long time. What I suggest is that we > examine how we talk, e.g. as if Mr Turing's test, which posits a machine on > the other side of a barrier, is the right way to think about artificial > intelligence. I don't disagree that our rhetoric hasn't caught up... you are right that it is stuck back in the 60s with then a few additional terms and concepts added here and there. I simply don't think a modern metaphor of computing can only be in opposition to the 1960s client/remoteServer viewpoint. I think that (sometimes accurate) perception of computing needs to exist alongside the views of a personal gadget, an amorphous cloud, clusters networked interactions, etc. For a modern Turing test, we might a imagine whether not only a single individual could be mimicked, but an entire online community of individuals with varying levels and methods of interaction. But I can't think of how you would set up a modern Turing test without there being the perception of the other 'person' or persons being remote in some way, otherwise how does the test work? That's my creative limitations I'm sure. I don't disagree that our interaction with computers has fundamentally changed, I just don't think it has changed to another single form of perceiving it, but multiple, complex and shifting forms. -James -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:50:31 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.323 hardware and interpretation In-Reply-To: <20081113062445.0A81B26C4A@woodward.joyent.us> > I still assert, contra James' message, that so much of our rhetoric > about computing has not caught up with the reality. Cultural > assimilation of technology takes a long time. What I suggest is that > we > examine how we talk, e.g. as if Mr Turing's test, which posits a > machine on > the other side of a barrier, is the right way to think about > artificial > intelligence. I confess that your first message caught my eye, but as a relative newcomer to this list, I did not feel comfortable jumping into the conversation right away. I think, however, that no one yet has offered up any examples of "what people say (or do) when they talk (and think) about computing," to borrow a phrase from Raymond Carver. I throw in the additional notion of doing because, as a folklorist, I think people's thinking is revealed across a wide spectrum of behavior. At a casual level, I think there must be something like "two cultures of computing." The first culture captures a lot of how most people think about and work with computers -- and I am distinguishing between computers here and other kinds of devices, like cell phones, which are in fact specially purposed, but still very capable, computers, e.g., the iPhone. At this end of the spectrum -- because it may be better to think in terms of a continuum instead of two bounded domains of behavior -- computers are instrumental and locative. People will often say they are "at" the computer or "on" the computer. Also in this domain people will talk about how the computer "won't do what I want it to do," as if it were a faulty and/or complicated tool. It's not that the computer has its own logic, but that it does not have any logic at all or its logic is incorrect. At this moment of conflict of two logics, people will often say, as they will of other complex machines, that the computer "has a mind of its own." Computers can especially be fearsome in this way because they "talk to each other," which is not common to other machines. This is re-doubled by what a friend of mine once noted about his own experience of computers: that they were magic and not machines. For him, a senior folklorist who had traveled all over the world, magic was something where you did not know how the input was transformed into output. E.g., one time a series of clicks would result in one thing and another time, a seemingly different outcome. Machines, for him, produced predictable results. That is, machines operate within the sphere of our comprehension, whereas computers are too complex, "too complicated," for most of us, and, doubling this effect, they seem capable of comprehending us -- which is often how people understand the kind of social engineering or other uses of computers. They do not see human agents on the other side but only the computer itself. This kind of thinking is different from the person who not only do things with a computer but in some ways have come to think with them. I don't know where one moves from one domain to another, and I'm not sure that the disorientation many of us feel when we do not have access to our computers and "their" networks is the best example. The poster who mentioned being without power and having to rely on his cell phone struck a "resonant" chord with me: after Gustave we were without power for a while and the way we kept family abreast of what was happening to us was by me posting to my Twitter account. It's also how we tracked the storm's progress. I'm sorry this post got so long and probably adds so little to the conversation. I'll return to lurking now... -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70506 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ Twitter: johnlaudun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 14 10:07:49 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625732640F; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:07:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5744263FB; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:07:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081114100746.D5744263FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.325 software for a digital objects repository? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 325. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:06:29 -0500 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Audet?= Subject: Repository softwares Hi everyone, I am about to begin a project dealing with a digital objects repository. There are many software options. Is there someone who can give me some advice about these different solutions? - OCLC CONTENTdm - Fedora Commons - a generalist CMS as Stellent (with its digital objects management option) - others? I am seeking a software that can manage easily different access types and many collections, generates standard metadata outputs and requires very light programming for search and browse interfaces... Thanks, Ren� Audet ______________________________________________________________ Ren� Audet Professeur, D�partement des litt�ratures Titulaire, Chaire de recherche du Canada en litt�rature contemporaine Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la litt�rature et la culture qu�b�coises (CRILCQ) Universit� Laval, Qu�bec mail rene.audet@lit.ulaval.ca web http://contemporain.info bur Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, bureau 7173 t�l 418 656 2131, poste 2459 fax 418 656 2991 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 14 10:34:35 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB5926EAD; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:34:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 614F426E3D; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:34:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081114103433.614F426E3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:34:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.326 continuing problems X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 326. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:28:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: continuing problems Dear colleagues, As you will have seen, in the query from René Audet, Humanist software is still mangling characters along the way. We are paying attention, never fear. Very frustrating. Some have enquired about "digests" of Humanist messages again, and in doing so have demonstrated my lack of clarity in the previous message on this subject. Please forgive the repetition. Humanist already digests messages by its software-assisted but ultimately manual system, which groups messages by perceived subject or subject-area. This has in fact been the case for over 20 years. Various "list" systems, such as Listserv and Mailman, automatically digest postings so that recipients get only one bundle at a time, though this is not structured by subject. Messages are simply lumped together. Apparently, with the new list-system Humanist is using (Mailman), it would be significantly difficult and expensive to implement unstructured digesting on top of Humanist's unique structured digesting. The difficulty itself is not so much the problem as the expense, which would have to be covered by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), which is a small scholarly organization without much cash. ADHO has been extraordinarily generous so far to fund a professional rewrite of the Humanist system. I doubt very much if there's any money left in the budget to fund additional work to digest on top of digesting. So I am asking those who like the unstructured kind to be content with things as they are. Is this not fair, given the situation? Yours, WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 15 10:50:45 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1882724321; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 04FD32430F; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:50:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081115105043.04FD32430F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:50:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.329 software for a digital objects repository X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 329. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:12:17 -0500 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.325 software for a digital objects repository? In-Reply-To: <20081114100746.D5744263FB@woodward.joyent.us> I would use Eprints.org . It is simple to customize(you probably won't need a programmer, common sense will probably do just fine), free, and meets the standards. You'll need a programmer for fedora, I've not used Contentdm because it's not free. I've used dspace.org software and it is pretty standard if labor intensive to customize. I've never heard of stellant, but i checked it out on http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ and it seems fairly normal. If I had to choose a cms-based system, I'd choose drupal. It is easy enough to customize and it has a huge user community which is growing in education. It also has the plugins that would make a digital object repository work fairly easily, almost rising to the ease of eprints.org. > Hi everyone, > > I am about to begin a project dealing with a digital objects > repository. There are many software options. Is there someone who can > give me some advice about these different solutions? > > - OCLC CONTENTdm ' > > - Fedora Commons > - a generalist CMS as Stellent (with its digital objects management > option) > - others? > > I am seeking a software that can manage easily different access types > and many collections, generates standard metadata outputs and requires > very light programming for search and browse interfaces... > > Thanks, > > Ren� Audet \ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 15 10:59:00 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3D8243D7; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:59:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 48796243C7; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:58:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081115105857.48796243C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:58:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.330 new on WWW: Semiotic Bulletin 13 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 330. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:24:44 +0000 From: Managing Editor Subject: Semiotic Bulletin 13 We are pleased to send you the thirteenth issue of SemiotiX, first edition. SemiotiX is an online global information bulletin that provides reports on institutions, individuals, ideas, events and publications concerning semiotics and related disciplines. The link for the Semiotix Bulletin 13 can be found at: http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix13/ All correspondence should be addressed to the Managing Editor . Reports and News should be submitted to the Editor . ------ Click on this link if you wish to subscribe to the Bulletin: http://chass.utoronto.ca/~twysocki/subscribeFromLink.php?id=7533873 Subscription is free and will ensure that you receive further issues. With best wishes and kind regards, Paul Bouissac Editor _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 15 19:27:13 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7216627DFB; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 300E127DEB; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:27:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081115192710.300E127DEB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:27:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.331 digesting option implemented! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 331. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:23:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digest option implemented Dear colleagues, Due to the level of interest, Malgosia, Humanist's software designer, has added a conventional digesting function that can be set from your own account page. Please let us know of any problems. 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 16 11:21:11 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA9224F91; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:21:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1DD1624F7E; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:21:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081116112108.1DD1624F7E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:21:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.332 hardware and interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 332. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:06:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.324 hardware and interpretation In-Reply-To: <20081114100622.D62922633E@woodward.joyent.us> The discussion gets better. As James Cummings points out, in the early days of my experiences with computing, > ... you were not a 'more or less ordinary person' > at that point. The ordinary people weren't using computers in the mid > 60s, so if you were then you were then in the same category as those who > are now pushing the boundaries of computing. In those > boundary-stretching types of research, I think the computing model is > still client/server but just in an increasingly distributed way. It > isn't that I imagine one computer out there processing my request, but > an amorphous cloud of them. My (refined) point is that what computing meant culturally then was different than it is now. True, ordinary people did not encounter machines, but they encountered stories and pictures about them, showing the big machine-rooms, white-coated assistants (of whom I was one) and so forth. Now "computer" means something quite different. I should say that I am asking my questions in order better to understand how scholars in those early days encountered computing, what they made of it, how they conceptualized the machine, its purposes and implications. Their conceptualizations went straight into the professional and para-professional literature. Furthermore, as I have just been reminded, these ideas of computing are still quite deeply rooted in the academy, in the sort of scholars who are most influential shapers of opinion. Those opposed to computing are not so important any more; they're out of circulation or simply keeping their heads down. The type that concern me much more are those who like the stuff but say silly things which are taken as gospel in a positive or negative sense. James goes on, > At a very basic level ordinary people of > the 60s had the same experience as I do in front of my desktop computer > today; like me they pressed a key and saw a letter appear before them, > the difference was they were using a typewriter. This is why the typewriter analogy was so common then, why people like me were hopping up and down about the computer NOT being a typewriter. In talking to colleagues then one of the prevalent confusions I witnessed centred on the fact that the connection between a key and the resultant action was not simple or even determinate (if whatever program crashed). That wedge of indeterminacy or complexity, that bit of artificial intelligence clearly puzzled if not upset people then. The wonkiness that I wrote about (when, now, something happens to my machine) is related, I'd think, but also an important clue to what has changed. James writes that, > For a modern Turing test, > we might a imagine whether not only a single individual could be > mimicked, but an entire online community of individuals with varying > levels and methods of interaction. But I can't think of how you would > set up a modern Turing test without there being the perception of the > other 'person' or persons being remote in some way, otherwise how does > the test work? That's my creative limitations I'm sure. I don't > disagree that our interaction with computers has fundamentally changed, > I just don't think it has changed to another single form of perceiving > it, but multiple, complex and shifting forms. This is an important point -- that we are now dealing with "multiple, complex and shifting forms" of computing in actuality. (They were always in potentia, thanks to Turing's design.) But my point/implicit question here is at a greater level of abstraction. Would a modern Turing, observing the scene without attachment to what the old Turing proposed, even think of such a test? Thinking thus is based on an idea of difference, between us and computing, which is rapidly vanishing. To get back to my earlier, political argument, I think it's crucial to get such questions straight among ourselves because the case still has to be made among our extra-Humanist colleagues. What many of them are hearing and, I infer, thinking can at times be so wrong as to lead a thoughtful person with critical awareness of computing to a deep state of melancholia. A number of very prominent individuals (i.e. those in charge of jobs and funding) are still thinking that the digital humanities, humanities computing or whatever we call our practice, should be folded into the traditional disciplines and so become a set of shrink-wrapped ideas which hordes of busy academics have not time to examine, criticise and develop. We talk of interdisciplinarity yet seem to do everything to guarantee that it will continue to be impossible in any sense worth thinking about. Comments? Yours, WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 18 11:28:39 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA370241BD; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:28:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3A90E241AB; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:28:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081118112837.3A90E241AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:28:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.333 software for a digital objects repository X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 333. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: ksearsmi (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.329 software for a digital objects repository [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.325 software for a digital objects repository? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:02:51 -0600 From: ksearsmi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.329 software for a digital objects repository In-Reply-To: <20081115105043.04FD32430F@woodward.joyent.us> I'm far from an expert on such matters. But, I have heard around the shop here (NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications) that Fedora provides an assumed standard, and that is worth considering. Do be sure whatever you use is as widely used and interoperable as possible. Best, Kelly -- Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Planning and Development, eDREAM (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) Independent Scholar, Nineteenth Century British Literature & Culture and the Fantastic in the Arts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / http://www.ncsa.edu/AboutUs/People/contact.php?id=1151 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:12:17 -0500 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.325 software for a digital objects repository? In-Reply-To: <20081114100746.D5744263FB@woodward.joyent.us> I would use Eprints.org . It is simple to customize(you probably won't need a programmer, common sense will probably do just fine), free, and meets the standards. You'll need a programmer for fedora, I've not used Contentdm because it's not free. I've used dspace.org software and it is pretty standard if labor intensive to customize. I've never heard of stellant, but i checked it out on http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ and it seems fairly normal. If I had to choose a cms-based system, I'd choose drupal. It is easy enough to customize and it has a huge user community which is growing in education. It also has the plugins that would make a digital object repository work fairly easily, almost rising to the ease of eprints.org. > Hi everyone, > > I am about to begin a project dealing with a digital objects > repository. There are many software options. Is there someone who can > give me some advice about these different solutions? > > - OCLC CONTENTdm ' > > - Fedora Commons > - a generalist CMS as Stellent (with its digital objects management > option) > - others? > > I am seeking a software that can manage easily different access types > and many collections, generates standard metadata outputs and requires > very light programming for search and browse interfaces... > > Thanks, > > Rene Audet _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 18 11:29:24 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AA82422E; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3DF4724226; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081118112923.3DF4724226@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.334 competition: Social Computing in 2020 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 334. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:50:14 -0800 From: "Alan Liu" Subject: "Social Computing in 2020" Bluesky Innovation Competition "SOCIAL COMPUTING IN 2020" BLUESKY INNOVATION COMPETITION The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the "Social Computing in 2020: Bluesky Innovation Competition." What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020? * ELIGIBLE: Undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world. * AWARDS: 1st prize, $3000 USD; 2nd prize, $1000, 3rd prize, $500. * SUBMISSION FORMAT: Description of an idea + Imaginative realization, embodiment, or illustration of the idea in a variety of possible formats (e.g., an essay, story, script, application sketch, fictional business plan, etc.). * DEADLINE: January 30, 2009. * FULL COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Guidelines & Submission Details http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/contest2020/ Students from any discipline--humanities, arts, social sciences, computer science, engineering, etc.--are encouraged to apply. The competition emphasizes visionary, thoughtful, or critical concepts rather than technical knowledge as such. For more information, see the full competition announcement (http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/contest2020/). Inquiries may be directed by email to socialcomputing@lsmail.ucsb.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COMPETITION ORGANIZERS UCSB Social Computing Group (http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu) (A working group in the UC Transliteracies Project: http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu) * Kevin Almeroth - Department of Computer Science; Associate Dean for Advancement and Planning, College of Engineering. * Jennifer Earl - Department of Sociology; Director, Center for Information Technology & Society. * Andrew Flanagin - Department of Communication; Co-director, Credibility and Digital Media@UCSB Project. * James Frew - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. * Alan Liu - Chair, Department of English; Director, UC Transliteracies Project. * Miriam Metzger - Department of Communication; Co-director, Credibility and Digital Media@UCSB Project. (With assistance from the UCSB Graduate Student Social Computing "Bluesky" Group.) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 18 11:36:10 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7DB24331; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:36:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EF592431C; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:36:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081118113608.0EF592431C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:36:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.335 cfp: Computer Applications to Archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 335. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:33:31 +0000 From: Bernie Frischer Subject: [Fwd: CAA 2008, Call for Papers and Posters (deadline: Dec. 19, 2008)] *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS, Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 (CAA)* *www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/* *Deadline: December 19, 2008* The 37th annual CAA conference will be held from 22 to 26 March 2008 in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA) and will bring together students, researchers, heritage managers and other experts to present, examine and discuss current theory and application of quantitative methods and information technologies in Archaeology (www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/). The CAA conference has established a strong tradition of international, open communication and exchange that crosses boundaries between archaeologists and colleagues working in quantitative fields such as mathematics and computer science. The conference also regularly attracts students, researchers and practitioners from geography, geomatics, life sciences, physical anthropology, museology, field archaeology and others. In 2009, CAA will co-meet with ECAI, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (www.ecai.org/ http://www.ecai.org/). It will also offer optional short, introductory courses in the use of equipment (such as 3D scanners), hardware, and software typically used by digital archaeologists today. This Call for Papers invites the submission of abstracts for papers and posters to be presented at the conference. The Scientific Committee (www.caa2009.org/ TopCommittees.cfm http://www.caa2009.org/%20TopCommittees.cfm) has accepted a wide range of proposals for thematic sessions, workshops, and round tables. These have been listed on the conference website at www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/. Posters can also be presented at the conference in a special area set aside for this purpose. Please submit your abstract for a paper or poster online at: www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm http://www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm. An abstract should be between 300 and 500 words in length, should clearly indicate the reason why your work is original and significant, should contain a short bibliography (if there is important earlier work to cite), should indicate the session(s) in which the paper could appropriately be presented, and should also state whether you are requesting 15 minutes for a short presentation or 25 minutes for a long presentation. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to assign a paper to the session that appears most appropriate, which may sometimes not correspond to the session to which the author(s) applied. The abstracts for posters should provide the same information, except for indication of an appropriate session and length. *The deadline for submission of all abstracts is December 19, 2008*. You will be notified by January 15, 2009 about the decision of the Scientific Committee. It is recommended that travelers needing a visa to visit the United States apply at least 90 days before arriving, or by approximately the fourth week of December. The Scientific Committee will try to expedite decisions on abstract submissions of attendees needing a visa so that they will know whether their abstract has been accepted prior to beginning the visa process. If you need a visa and submit your abstract by December 4, 2008, the Scientific Committee will make every effort to notify you of its decision by December 19, 2008. For more information about CAA and previous conferences, please see: www.caaconference.org http://www.caa2007.de/www.caaconference.org . Contact: bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com -- Bernard Frischer, Director IATH University of Virginia www.iath.virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu office tel. +1-434-924-4873 (Alderman Library) office tel. +1-434-243-4080 (10th and Market) home tel. +1-434-971-1435 US cell: +1-310-266-0183 --------------------------------- Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 --------------------------------- Postal address: IATH 100 10th Street, NE, Suite 103 Charlottesville, VA 22902 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 19 07:55:58 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0AD27394; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:55:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45CD52738A; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:55:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081119075556.45CD52738A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.336 job as textbase administrator for Orlando X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 336. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:23:43 +0000 From: Susan Brown Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] Orlando Project Textbase Administator job Textbase Administrator (part-time) Department of English and Film Studies Competition No. - S10036996 Posting Date - Nov 12, 2008 Closing Date - Nov 24, 2008 Position Type - Part Time - Grant Funded Salary Range - $1,914 to $2,427 (pro-rated) per month Grade - 09 Hours - 17.5 per wk This position offers a comprehensive benefits package which can be viewed at: www.hrs.ualberta.ca/AllStaff.aspx. The Textbase Administrator plays a key role in the production of the textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, and is responsible for linking the literary and technical activities of the Orlando Project. The incumbent edits work to maintain quality and integrity of textbase and to track revisions, works with technical personnel to provide ongoing technical support to the publisher and addresses user queries, and collaborates with the literary team to develop ongoing updates and enhancements to the textbase including further developing text encoding schemas and integrating new kinds of material into existing textbase interface and functionality. Duties * Maintains and develops authority control files and text encoding software settings * Ensures cross-system consistency in the use of files and that documents are valid according to text encoding rules * Manages files for project text encoding rules * Coordinates cross-system (batch) processing of information * Works with the technical team to ensure the integrity of material for Web delivery * Documents and performs transformations on information to ensure proper search and retrieval * Compiles discussion documents and implements appropriate revisions to functionality, interface and content for both textbase and delivery help system * Plans training sessions for new team members and research assistants * Coordinates project communication updates and maintains public website Qualifications * College diploma in computer technology, library science or humanities computing; undergraduate degree in literature or history or a graduate degree in a humanities discipline or digital humanities preferred * Solid electronic literacy with respect to standard tools, file management and use of the internet for research purposes * Familiarity with text encoding and advanced web design is preferred * Willingness to learn new skills and experiment with new tools * Experience with large collaborative research projects is an asset Interviews will take place soon after the closing date and the position filled as soon as possible. How to Apply Note: Online applications are accepted until midnight Mountain Standard Time of the closing date. Applications may be forwarded to: Mail - Kris Calhoun Department of English and Film Studies University of Alberta 3-5 Humanities Centre Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5 ** Please reference Competition No. S10036996 on your application. ** Please Note: Applicants being considered will generally be contacted within 3-4 weeks of the deadline date. Those not contacted are thanked for their interest and encouraged to apply for future positions advertised by the University. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. The records arising from this competition will be managed in accordance with provisions of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP). -- Susan Brown Director, The Orlando Project Associate Professor Visiting Associate 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) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles http://orlando.cambridge.org The Orlando Project: http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 19 07:57:03 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735242747D; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:57:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15BAA2746D; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:57:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081119075701.15BAA2746D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.337 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 337. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:57:05 +0100 From: "maurizio lana" Subject: software for concordance and tlg searches under (linux or) ubuntu as many other humanists i am making my way through ubuntu. under such a system i wonder which could be the programs to use for concordance / text analysis (what under windows we can do with monoconc by j. barlow) and for searching the tlg and phi cdrom's (diogenes is the last of a long list). thank you to everyone and excuse me if the question is too naive... maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Facolt� di Lettere e Filosofia Universit� del Piemonte Orientale via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 19 07:58:14 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24445274F5; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:58:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF044274E2; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:58:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081119075811.DF044274E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:58:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.338 events: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 338. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:32:24 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: CFP: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on "Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture" to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen. This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture. The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as: � travelers' accounts, navigational charts and cartography � collections and inventories � numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology � theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres) � the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and architecture � model making � paper making and book printing, production, and binding � manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations � palimpsests and three-dimensional writing � instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific) � arts and crafts � the anatomical and cultural body We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to: � XML and databases and computational interpretation � three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds � virtual research environments � mapping technology � image capture, processing, and interpretation � 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis � artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation Papers might address such topics and issues as: � the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts) � relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image � the metadata of material culture � curatorial and archival practice � mediating the material object and its textual representations � imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases) � the relationship between the abstract and the material text � haptic, visual, and auditory simulation � tools and techniques for paleographic analysis Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 19 08:06:48 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407DF2774F; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2F692773F; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:06:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081119080645.F2F692773F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:06:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.339 NEH Summer Seminar on the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 339. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:04:18 +0000 From: rankinmc@jmu.edu Subject: event: NEH Summer Seminar on the reformation of the book NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650 John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on continuity and change in the production, dissemination, and reading of Western European books during the 200 years following the advent of printing with movable type. In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the Protestant Reformation. Participants will consider ways in which adherents of different religious faiths shared common ground in exploiting elements such as book layout, typography, illustration, and paratext (e.g., prefaces, glosses, and commentaries) in order to inspire reading, but also to restrict interpretation. Employing key methods of the History of the Book, our investigation will consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which readers understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This program is geared to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or cultural history of the Renaissance and/or Reformation, the History of the Book, art history, women's studies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library science (including rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy studies, and more. This seminar will meet from 22 June until 24 July 2009. During the first week of this program, we shall visit 1) Antwerp, Belgium, in order to draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum (the world�s only surviving early modern printing and publishing house) and 2) London, England, in order to attend a rare-book workshop and consider treasures at the British Library. During four weeks at Oxford, where we shall reside at St. Edmund Hall, we plan to draw on the rare book and manuscript holdings of the Bodleian Library and other institutions. Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in teaching at the college or university level and independent scholars who have received the terminal degree in their field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March 2009 are eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,800. Full details and application information are available at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/Reformationofthebook/. For further information, please contact rankinmc@jmu.edu. The application deadline is March 2, 2009. Mark Rankin Assistant Professor of English Director of English Internships Coordinator of Medieval & Renaissance Studies Minor James Madison University Keezell Hall 222 MSC 1801 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA 540-568-3755 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 20 08:28:58 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C72427162; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:28:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2D052715B; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:28:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081120082855.F2D052715B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:28:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.340 new publications: digital humanities; Baudrillard studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 340. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gerry Coulter" (12) Subject: IJBS 6.1 [2] From: Alan Galey (44) Subject: new publication: Digital Humanities and the Networked Citizen --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:29:53 -0500 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: IJBS 6.1 In-Reply-To: <20081115105857.48796243C7@woodward.joyent.us> Volume 6, Number 1 (January 2009) of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies is now available on the Internet. IJBS is a peer review open access journal (www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies) In Volume 6-1 Peter Singer replies to Zizek's thought concerning animal rights. There are various other articles and reviews. Gerry Coulter Editor, IJBS --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:44:06 +0000 From: Alan Galey Subject: new publication: Digital Humanities and the Networked Citizen In-Reply-To: <20081115105857.48796243C7@woodward.joyent.us> This message was originally submitted by galey.lists@GMAIL.COM 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 (43 lines) ------------------ I'm pleased to announce a new special issue of TEXT Technology, available at http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/current_content.html Text Technology Digital Humanities and the Networked Citizen Volume 15, Number 1, 2007 Contents Willard McCarty An Anomalous End-maker Conversation: Foreword for Digital Humanities and the Networked Citizen Alan Galey & Patrick Finn Introduction: Digital Humanities and the Networked Citizen Michael Truscello Free as in Swatantra: Free Software and Nationhood in India Philip Armstrong From Paradox to Partage: On Citizenship and Tele-technologies Sarah Juliet Lauro, Tiffany Gilmore, and Jenni G. Halpin Glass Wombs, Cyborg Women, and Kangaroo Mothers: How a Third-World Practice May Resolve the Techno/Feminist Debate Andrea Austin The Film/Game: Narrative Form and Network Conditioning Terry Butler Monkeying Around with Text Jean-Claude Guédon Afterword: Dé-Partages --- Alan Galey alan.galey@utoronto.ca University of Toronto Faculty of Information Book History and Print Culture Program ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 20 08:29:33 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD379271E7; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:29:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 48BD2271D1; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:29:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081120082931.48BD2271D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:29:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.341 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 341. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:55:31 -0800 From: Joseph Vaughan Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.337 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu? In-Reply-To: <20081119075701.15BAA2746D@woodward.joyent.us> Maurizio, I have no specific recommendations for you, other than to say that, after many years of struggling with this issue in several areas, I finally decided to always have a copy of Windows running in VMWare (first on Debian, now on Ubuntu). It often saves me time, since the time needed to configure or test something may not be available at the time I need to run it. A nice side effect is the portability of the VMWare virtual machine -- I've had the same windows virtual machine through several generations of underlying hardware and Linux software. And of course you don't have to use VMWare. VMWare Player is free, but so is VirtualBox (now owned by Sun Microsystems). I hope this helps. Joseph Joseph Vaughan CIO/Vice-President for Computing and Information Services Harvey Mudd College vaughan@hmc.edu 909 621 8613 free/busy info at http://tinyurl.com/vaughanfreebusy Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 337. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:57:05 +0100 > From: "maurizio lana" > > > > as many other humanists i am making my way through ubuntu. > under such a system i wonder which could be the programs to use for > concordance / text analysis (what under windows we can do with > monoconc by j. barlow) and for searching the tlg and phi cdrom's > (diogenes is the last of a long list). > thank you to everyone and excuse me if the question is too naive... > maurizio > > Maurizio Lana - ricercatore > Facolt� di Lettere e Filosofia > Universit� del Piemonte Orientale > via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli > +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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 21 08:05:03 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09544260C2; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99CAB26091; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:04:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081121080459.99CAB26091@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:04:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.342 software for concordancing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 342. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "William Winder" (92) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.341 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu [2] From: James Cummings (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.337 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:48:02 -0800 From: "William Winder" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.341 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu I would suggest TextStat (in python; gpl): http://www.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/textstat/software-en.html -- W.Winder faculty.arts.ubc.ca/winder > Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 337. > > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:57:05 +0100 > > From: "maurizio lana" > > > > > > > as many other humanists i am making my way through ubuntu. > > under such a system i wonder which could be the programs to use for > > concordance / text analysis (what under windows we can do with > > monoconc by j. barlow) and for searching the tlg and phi cdrom's > > (diogenes is the last of a long list). > > thank you to everyone and excuse me if the question is too naive... > > maurizio > > > > Maurizio Lana - ricercatore > > Facolt� di Lettere e Filosofia > > Universit� del Piemonte Orientale > > via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli > > +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:34:39 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.337 software for concordancing under linux, ubuntu? In-Reply-To: <20081119075701.15BAA2746D@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > as many other humanists i am making my way through ubuntu. > under such a system i wonder which could be the programs to use for > concordance / text analysis (what under windows we can do with > monoconc by j. barlow) and for searching the tlg and phi cdrom's > (diogenes is the last of a long list). > thank you to everyone and excuse me if the question is too naive... > maurizio Hi Maurizio, Almost any java-based program should work. However, a specific recommendation from colleague of mine here who says he uses 'antconc' under ubuntu. http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html I believe it is free and runs on multiple platforms. My concordancing/word frequency needs are far simpler than real linguists so I tend either just to use normal linux commandline tools (cut, sort, uniq all combine easily to do basic word frequency) or do more structured queries with XQuery against texts in an XML database. But I realise that isn't the kind of thing you want to do. I hope that is of some help. Best, -James -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 21 08:06:11 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1B726159; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:06:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09A062614A; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:06:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081121080609.09A062614A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.343 job at the John Nicholas Brown Center X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 343. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:17:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at the John Nicholas Brown Center From: John Nicholas Brown Center Date: Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM Associate in the Technologies of the Public Humanities Position available at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage Research Associate / Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Technologies of the Public Humanities The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University has an opening for a research associate in the technologies of the public humanities. We're looking for a person with experience in the use of technologies in museums, documentation, and the web, and with new ideas about how humanities scholars and the public might communicate using technologies in innovative ways. Help us answer questions including: What are the most successful digital humanities projects, and why? What does the field need? What should students in the public humanities know about technology? What technologies should be available for faculty and students interested in outreach to a public and in opening conversations with communities? The research associate position is available for one or two semesters, starting in July 2009, and may be extended. The research associate will be expected to organize at least one public program during their tenure, as well as to conduct research and participate in the activities of the John Nicholas Brown Center. Among the outcomes of the position might be: a conference on the topic; a series of workshops for universities, museums and cultural organizations; a course for Brown students; an exhibition space designed to allow experimentation with new technologies; new web tools for the public humanities; or a grant proposal outlining a new digital humanities initiative. We welcome proposals for this position. The ideal applicant will have expertise and prior experience working in the technology of public humanities, and an interest in working within an interdisciplinary and public context. A Ph.D. is preferred but not required. Please respond by January 31, 2009, with a c.v. and a 3-5 page proposal outlining your ideas for your tenure in the position. Professor Steven Lubar John Nicholas Brown Center Brown University Box 1880 Providence, RI 02912 401 863-1177; 401 863-7777 (fax) publichumanities@brown.edu More information on the John Nicholas Brown Center available at www.brown.edu/JNBC. About the John Nicholas Brown Center The John Nicholas Brown Center helps connect academic communities and the broader public through history, art, and culture. We support people and organizations that explore, preserve, and interpret cultural heritage. Our programs explore the ways in which the humanities enrich everyday life. We believe that an increased appreciation of diverse cultures and cultural heritage is essential to American society. We are dedicated to helping further understanding by providing the skills practitioners need to preserve and manage cultural heritage, and by building new links between universities, cultural organizations, and communities. Quick Links About the JNBC About Brown University Visiting Brown University John Nicholas Brown Center Brown University Box 1880 Providence, RI 02912 401 863-1177 401 863-7777 (fax) publichumanities@brown.edu -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 21 08:07:51 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22F32621A; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C97E226213; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:07:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081121080749.C97E226213@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:07:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.344 new on WWW: Ubiquity for 18-24 November X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 344. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:06:05 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: November 18 – 24, 2008 UBIQUITY CLASSICS An Interview with Michael Schragehttp://www.acm.org/ubiquity It is November 2008 and much of the globe is in the throes of recession. Innovation is on many minds. We need new products and new services generating new value for our customers and our companies. It is more important than ever to innovate. The problem is that our collective success rate is abysmal -- 4% according to Business Week in August 2005. As we set out on new innovation initiatives, it is a good time to reflect on the illusions that drag our success rates so low. One illusion is that is innovation is a novel ideal or product, another is that those who spend more on R&D get more innovation, and another is that innovation is about great inventions. Michael Schrage of MIT has been challenging these illusions for a long time. He discussed them with Ubiquity editor John Gehl in February 2006. Now is the perfect time to reflect again on what Michael has to say to us about innovation. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 21 08:09:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6054E262F5; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC3EB262E2; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:09:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081121080919.EC3EB262E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:09:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.345 cfp: Internet Research 10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 345. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:38:52 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: CFP: Internet Research 10.0 Internet: Critical > Call for Papers > > Internet Research 10.0 -- Internet: Critical > http://ir10.aoir.org/ > > The 10th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the > Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) > > October 7-11, 2009 > Hilton Milwaukee City Center > Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA > > > As the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous and mundane > medium, the analytical shortcomings of the division between the online > and the offline have become evident. Shifting the focus to the > fundamental intermeshing of online and offline spaces, networks, > economies, politics, locations, agencies, and ethics, Internet: > Critical invites scholars to consider material frameworks, > infrastructures, and exchanges as enabling constraints in terms of > online phenomena. Furthermore, the conference invites considerations > of Internet research as a critical practice and theory, its > intellectual histories, investments, and social reverberations. How do > we, as Internet researchers, connect our work to social concerns or > cultural developments both local and global, and what kinds of agency > may we exercise in the process? What kinds of redefinitions of the > political (in terms of networks, micropolitics, participation, > lifestyles, resistant or critical practices) are necessary when > conceptualizing Internet cultures within the current geopolitical and > geotechnological climate? > > To this end, we call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations > from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions > of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that > address the conference themes, including papers that intersect and/or > interconnect the following: > > • critical moments, elements, practices > • critical theories, methods, constructs > • critical voices, histories, texts > • critical networks, junctures, spaces > • critical technologies, artifacts, failures > • critical ethics, interventions, alternatives. > > Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically > address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, > and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on > topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, > economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the > conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and > interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations > from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. > [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 21 16:46:10 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FF22617B; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92AE626168; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081121164607.92AE626168@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 346. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: affect in text-analysis In a recent lecture, the philosopher Peter Railton pointed to research in cognitive psychology that demonstrates the importance of affect in reading. His argument was that affect kicks in prior to any semantic relationship to the writing, that which it depicts etc, and helps to determine how meaning is formed. Does this not mean that affect has to enter into text-analysis? And how might that be done? Yours, WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 22 08:53:48 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F1828D47; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:53:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D50128D3E; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:53:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081122085346.0D50128D3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.347 affect in text-analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 347. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? [2] From: John Unsworth (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:17:13 -0600 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? In-Reply-To: <20081121164607.92AE626168@woodward.joyent.us> Hi WM and HDG: The short answer is: absolutely! In fact, I see this whole area of research ripe with opportunities. In my lab , we (being led by my PhD student, Xiao Hu) are attempting to triangulate the relationships between/among: 1. the "affect tags" as supplied unsolicited by music lovers 2. the actual audio associated with these tags 3. the lyric text of the above pieces Will let you know how we make out in about 4 months! Cheers, Stephen -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:59:22 -0600 From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? In-Reply-To: <20081121164607.92AE626168@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, There's relevant research on this topic being done at the Beckman Institute here at the University of Illinois: http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/rws/ John Unsworth On Nov 21, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 346. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:02 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > In a recent lecture, the philosopher Peter Railton pointed to research > in cognitive psychology that demonstrates the importance of affect in > reading. His argument was that affect kicks in prior to any semantic > relationship to the writing, that which it depicts etc, and helps to > determine how meaning is formed. > > Does this not mean that affect has to enter into text-analysis? And > how > might that be done? > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 22 10:24:47 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35F428359; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:24:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 63B4328351; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:24:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081122102444.63B4328351@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:24:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.348 cfp: Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 348. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:39:05 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century Call for papers Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org) “Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century” This is to invite proposals for contributions to a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the topic of “Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century”. The intended aim of this issue is not just to say or even to sketch what we believe to be true of the relationship but also to question our views by considering where they come from, both in the present and in the past, and to speculate on what is to be done. The title of this issue echoes the literary critic I. A. Richards’ Poetries and Sciences, a work whose writing and revisions spanned the middle half of the 20th Century. In the book Richards asked what poetry could be in a world deeply and broadly affected by technoscience. The revolution it has brought about, he argued, is “too drastic to be met by any such half-measures” as promotion of wonder at the marvels of nature (1970: 52-3). What could wonder be but an attitude of ignorance when these marvels have or are assumed to have law-like explanation? Science has neutralized nature, he argued, and so deprived poetry of its original well-spring, “the Magical View of the world” (1970: 50). What could a poet say to those for whom making sense ultimately requires the radically plain style of scientific reasoning? His solution was to cut the language of imagination free from the language of belief, hence from epistemological certainty, implying our philosophical freedom to explore possible worlds. Consider also the psychologist Jerome Bruner’s essay “Possible Castles”, in his Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1986). Here Bruner argues that philosophical questioning of science (by Thomas Kuhn et al.) has reawakened the ancient, even tired question of the “two cultures” by revealing science itself to be historically contingent. In response to this reawakening he gives us two opposed trajectories for the sciences and the humanities. Both originate in curiosity and in speculation about the world. Both are highly disciplined forms of the human imagination. Both tell us how things are. Both thrive on anomalous relevatory detail. But the sciences move steadily away from ambiguity, Bruner argues, while the humanities move toward increasing “the alternativeness of human possibility” (Bruner 1986: 53). He concludes his essay by quoting Aristotle on the poet’s function: “to describe not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen” (Poetics II.9). What matters to the poet, Bruner says, is verisimilitude to conceivable human experience. The poet’s job, we might say, is to expand what is conceivable by finding the right words, whereas the scientist’s is to extend what is explicable by equally audacious but differently directed acts of imagination. Much closer to our time yet again, consider the physicist Robert B. Laughlin’s declaration that as much in physics as in biology we have come out of the reductionism which defined science throughout the 20th Century (2005: 208), creating Richards’ dilemma, into an Age of Emergence. If so, then the question to be rescued from the muddle of “two cultures” is truly vigorous and contemporary. Let us say that, to quote theoretical biologist Robert Rosen, we foreswear the crippling mental habit “of looking only downward toward subsystems, and never upward and outward” (2000: 2), which renders us unable to see emergent organizational principles, of poetry or of life itself. What then might poetry and science have to do with each other? What might that preeminent expression of technoscience, computing, have to say about poetry, and how might it go about the saying? How might our most adventurous theories of poetic discourse inform a computing that works “upward and outward” from its object of study? The issue is intended for ISR 35.1 (March 2010). Submissions of 6,000 to 10,000 words will be due by 1 October 2009. Please send a preliminary proposal of about 500 worlds to the Editor at your earliest convenience. Willard McCarty Editor, ISR ----- Bruner, Jerome. 1986. “Possible Castles”. In Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. 44-54. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Laughlin, Robert B. 2005. A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. New York: Basic Books. Richards, I. A. 1970. Poetries and Sciences: A Reissue of Science and Poetry (1926, 1935) with Commentary. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rosen, Robert. 2000. Essays on Life Itself. Complexity in Ecological Systems Series. New York: Columbia 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 22 13:52:03 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D181D27054; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:52:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A2A6827045; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:52:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081122135200.A2A6827045@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:52:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.349 request for reviewers, Interdisiplinary Science Reviews X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 349. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:47:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reviewing for Interdisciplinary Science Reviews? Dear colleagues, From time to time I have papers on a wide variety of topics within the overall purview of my journal, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, which need reviewers. I am writing to solicit volunteers for the latest batch, online at www.isr-journal.org/34.3. To be a reviewer -- perhaps this is not necessary to say... -- you should know what's happening in the academic fields in question. Please let me know privately if you are one such person who is willing to help out, and if so, with which paper(s). 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 24 06:41:43 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B43527A15; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AEC7127A02; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:41:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081124064140.AEC7127A02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:41:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.350 affect in text-analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 350. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK (48) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? [2] From: Stan Ruecker (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.347 affect in text-analysis --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:36:10 +0100 From: Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? In-Reply-To: <20081121164607.92AE626168@woodward.joyent.us> there is lots of work already on this: see the school of empirical literary study (empirische literaturwissenschaft), i.e., the alberta group (miall, bortolussi, dixon, etc.) or graesser at memphis, to mention some of the US/canadian groups, best, steven steven totosy de zepetnek ph.d. professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv * editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu * series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html *center for the humanities and social sciences http://humanitiescenter.nsysu.edu.tw national sun yat-sen university steven.totosy@nsysu.edu.tw *department of media and communication studies http://www.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/kontakt/mitarbeiter/totosy/ university of halle-wittenberg steven.totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de On Nov 21, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 346. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:02 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > In a recent lecture, the philosopher Peter Railton pointed to research > in cognitive psychology that demonstrates the importance of affect in > reading. His argument was that affect kicks in prior to any semantic > relationship to the writing, that which it depicts etc, and helps to > determine how meaning is formed. > > Does this not mean that affect has to enter into text-analysis? And > how > might that be done? > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:38:15 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.347 affect in text-analysis In-Reply-To: <20081122085346.0D50128D3E@woodward.joyent.us> I think that reader affect is part of the research agenda of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (IGEL). They've been around since 1987. Note that the acronym is for the German: http://www.igel.lmu.de/platform/index.php http://igelweb.org/igelweb/IGEL2008/ At the University of Alberta, David Miall (English and Film Studies) and Don Kuiken (Psychology) work together in this area. http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/Essays.htm I don't know how much of this work has found its way into text analysis, though I'm glad to see the notes from Stephen and John. yrs, Stan Ruecker _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 24 06:44:31 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC1C27B30; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5ED6627B1E; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:44:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081124064429.5ED6627B1E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:44:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.351 European Society for Textual Scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 351. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:41:50 +0000 From: Peter Robinson Subject: ESTS website moves; subscription open for 2008-9. In-Reply-To: <38C7E6498E60A149ABBB1C9947191BFC014C0A35@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> Calling all textual scholars... 1. The website for the European Society for Textual Scholarship has now moved to: http://www.textualscholarship.eu Please adjust all your links. 2. Subscriptions for the current membership year, 2008-9, are now open: see http://www.textualscholarship.eu/join.html. As for last year, we offer the opportunity to buy two years membership (currently 2007-8, entitling to Variants 6, and 2008-9) at a reduced rate. Best wishes Peter Robinson Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.ukhttp://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 25 06:56:50 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664A12831B; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1654E28310; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081125065648.1654E28310@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.352 affect in text-analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 352. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:06:50 -0200 From: "Renata T. S. Lemos" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.346 affect in text-analysis? In-Reply-To: <20081121164607.92AE626168@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I believe the analysis that Dr. Natasha D. Schull, from MIT, makes on the relationship of affect and digital cognition is an answer to your last question and also to your previous question about the changes that are occurring in our relationship to digital machines, or to the change in the ontological status of such machines. Her article makes evident that the boundaries between human and digital are getting less and less clear. This kind of approach might resemble a future profile of digital humanities. Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and Design http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/597/1/65 By Natasha Dow Schull Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Las Vegas among game developers and machine gamblers, I correlate a set of digitally enhanced game features with phenomenological aspects of gamblers' experience, demonstrating the intimate connection between extreme states of subjective absorption in play and design elements that manipulate space and time to accelerate the extraction of money from players. The case of the digital gambling interface exemplifies the tendency of modern capitalism to bring space, time, and money into intensified relation and sheds light on the question of what might or might not be distinctive about the rationalities and libidinal investments of the "digital age." Keywords: technology; ethnography; gambling; culture; digital age; capitalism; modernity What do you think? Regards, Renata 2008/11/21 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 346. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:02 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > In a recent lecture, the philosopher Peter Railton pointed to research > in cognitive psychology that demonstrates the importance of affect in > reading. His argument was that affect kicks in prior to any semantic > relationship to the writing, that which it depicts etc, and helps to > determine how meaning is formed. > > Does this not mean that affect has to enter into text-analysis? And how > might that be done? > > Yours, > WM > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 25 06:57:32 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CCF28387; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:57:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 890832837E; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:57:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081125065731.890832837E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:57:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.353 Finneran Award nominations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 353. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:41:55 +0000 From: ROBIN SCHULZE Subject: STS: Call for Finneran Award Nominations Dear Members of the STS Community, As we head toward our March 2009 conference in New York City, it is time once again to nominate worthy books for the Richard J. Finneran Memorial Award. The Society for Textual Scholarship grants the Finneran Award in recognition of the best edition or book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language during the preceding two calendar years. The prize is presented at the biennial New York conference and carries a cash honorarium of $500. We are seeking nominations for volumes published in either 2007 or 2008. Please send your nominations on or before JANUARY 1, 2009 to the members of the Finneran Award Committee, Professors James W. L. West, III, Peter Shillingsburg, and William Hogan: jlw14@psu.edu, pshillingsburg@luc.edu, whogan@providence.edu Thank you for your support of STS. Robin G. Schulze Professor of English Head, Department of English Penn State University 117 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802-6200 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 25 06:58:11 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA762283E3; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:58:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 428E1283D4; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:58:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081125065809.428E1283D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.354 release of Processing 1.0 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 354. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:32:10 -0500 From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." Subject: Processing 1.0 Released Today ANNOUNCING: Processing 1.0 Launch Today, on November 24, 2008, we launch the 1.0 version of the Processing software. Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing quickly developed into a tool for creating finished professional work as well. Processing is a free, open source alternative to proprietary software tools with expensive licenses, making it accessible to schools and individual students. Its open source status encourages the community participation and collaboration that is vital to Processing's growth. Contributors share programs, contribute code, answer questions in the discussion forum, and build libraries to extend the possibilities of the software. The Processing community has written over seventy libraries to facilitate computer vision, data visualization, music, networking, and electronics. Students at hundreds of schools around the world use Processing for classes ranging from middle school math education to undergraduate programming courses to graduate fine arts studios.* At New York University's graduate ITP program, Processing is taught alongside its sister project Arduino and PHP as part of the foundation course for 100 incoming students each year. * At UCLA, undergraduates in the Design | Media Arts program use Processing to learn the concepts and skills needed to imagine the next generation of web sites and video games. * At Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska and the Phoenix Country Day School in Arizona, middle school teachers are experimenting with Processing to supplement traditional algebra and geometry classes. * Tens of thousands of companies, artists, designers, architects, and researchers use Processing to create an incredibly diverse range of projects. * Design firms such as Motion Theory provide motion graphics created with Processing for the TV commercials of companies like Nike, Budweiser, and Hewlett-Packard. * Bands such as R.E.M., Radiohead, and Modest Mouse have featured animation created with Processing in their music videos. * Publications such as the journal Nature, the New York Times, Seed, and Communications of the ACM have commissioned information graphics created with Processing. * The artist group HeHe used Processing to produce their award-winning Nuage Vert installation, a large-scale public visualization of pollution levels in Helsinki. * The University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab used Processing to create a visualization of a coastal marine ecosystem as a part of the NSF RISE project. * The Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies at Miami University uses Processing to build visualization tools and analyze text for digital humanities research. The Processing software runs on the Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux platforms. With the click of a button, it exports applets for the Web or standalone applications for Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux. Graphics from Processing programs may also be exported as PDF, DXF, or TIFF files and many other file formats. Future Processing releases will focus on faster 3D graphics, better video playback and capture, and enhancing the development environment. Some experimental versions of Processing have been adapted to other languages such as JavaScript, ActionScript, Ruby, Python, and Scala; other adaptations bring Processing to platforms like the OpenMoko, iPhone, and OLPC XO-1. Processing was founded by Ben Fry and Casey Reas in 2001 while both were John Maeda's students at the MIT Media Lab. Further development has taken place at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Carnegie Mellon University, and the UCLA, where Reas is chair of the Department of Design | Media Arts. Miami University, Oblong Industries, and the Rockefeller Foundation have generously contributed funding to the project. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (a Smithsonian Institution) included Processing in its National Design Triennial. Works created with Processing were featured prominently in the Design and the Elastic Mind show at the Museum of Modern Art. Numerous design magazines, including Print, Eye, and Creativity, have highlighted the software. For their work on Processing, Fry and Reas received the 2008 Muriel Cooper Prize from the Design Management Institute. The Processing community was awarded the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica award and the 2005 Interactive Design Prize from the Tokyo Type Director's Club. The Processing website (http://www.processing.org) includes tutorials, exhibitions, interviews, a complete reference, and hundreds of software examples. The Discourse forum hosts continuous community discussions and dialog with the developers.Download images and more text about Processing: http://www.processing.org/about/processing-1.0.zip Questions and Answers: What is new in Processing 1.0? The most important aspect of this release is its stability. However, we have added many new features during the last few months. They include a new optimized 2D graphics engine, better integration for working with vector files, and the ability to write tools to enhance the development environment. Who uses Processing? Processing is used by a very diverse group of people, from children first exploring computer programming to professional artists, designers, architects, engineers, and scientists. Processing has a shallow learning curve to make writing code easier for beginners, but it also allows more experienced programmers to write sophisticated software. We've seen the number of people using Processing double each year for the last three years. The increased stability of the software and the publication of six related books in the last two years are the likely reasons for this increase. What is the future of Processing? The 1.0 version of Processing focuses on education and software sketching (prototyping). The next major release of the software will focus on professional users while retaining the simplicity that is Processing's trademark. Specifically, future releases will increase the speed of programs that work with video and complex 3D graphics. Books about Processing: Fry, Ben. _Visualizing Data_. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2008. Greenberg, Ira. _Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art_. Berkeley, CA: Friends of Ed, an Apress Co, 2007. Igoe, Tom. _Making Things Talk. Make: projects_. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2007. Reas, Casey, and Ben Fry. _Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists_. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007. Shiffman, Daniel. _Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction_. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2008. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 26 06:40:49 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85375273A5; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:40:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41EF727375; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:40:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081126064047.41EF727375@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:40:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.355 new on WWW: German TAPoR; Ubiquity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 355. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (52) Subject: German version of TAPoR Portal [2] From: ubiquity (19) Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:56:29 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: German version of TAPoR Portal TAPoR-D: A German Language Text Analysis Portal for Research The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) and the CATMA (Computer Assisted Text MarkUp and Analysis) project at the University of Hamburg's Literary Computing Working Group (ACP) are pleased to announce a partnership for the development of TApoR-D, a German version of the TAPoR portal (portal.tapor.ca). The development will include: - Setting up a version of the portal at Hamburg - Customizing the interface and tutorial materials for German researchers - Adapting and developing tools specifically for the analysis of German texts Jan Christoph Meister and the CATMA project team have received funds from University of Hamburg for this development. They will be working closely with the University of Alberta and McMaster University in Canada to develop the German portal. The TAPoR portal is structured so that different language skins can be added and, for example, a French skin was created at the Université de Montréal. We encourage interested parties to contact us about creating other language skins and tutorial materials. ########### TAPoR-D: Textanalyse-Portal für deutschsprachige Texte Das Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) und das CATMA (Computer Assisted Text MarkUp and Analysis)-Projekt an der Arbeitsstelle für Computerphilologie der Universität Hamburg haben ein Partnerschaftsabkommen über die Entwicklung einer deutschen Version des kanadischen TAPoR-Portals abgeschlossen (siehe portal.tapor.ca). Zum Gegenstand des Entwicklungsvorhabens zählen: - Implementierung einer Portalversion an der Universität Hamburg - Anpassung von Interface und Tutorial-Materialien für deutschsprachige Nutzer - Anpassung und Entwicklung von speziellen Tools für die Analyse deutschsprachiger Texte Das TAPoR-D Entwicklungsvorhaben des CATMA-Projektteams wird finanziell gefördert von der Universität Hamburg. Das deutsche Portal wird in einger Kooperation mit der University of Alberta und der McMaster University realisiert werden. Hierzu wird u.a. im Juni 2009 ein Entwicklertreffen in Kanada stattfinden. Das kanadische TAPoR portal erlaubt grundsätzlich die Erstellung sprachspezifischer Skins. So wurde etwa an der Université de Montréal bereits eine französische Portalversion entwickelt. Interessenten anderer Sprachräume sind herzlich eingeladen, sich mit uns in Verbindung zu setzen. Jan Christoph Meister Literary Theory, Text Analysis, Literary Computing University of Hamburg Geoffrey Rockwell Philosophy and Humanities Computing University of Alberta Stéfan Sinclair Communication Studies and Multimedia McMaster University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:34:49 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: November 25 – December 1, 2008 The Power of Dispositionshttp://www.acm.org/ubiquity Many people have been trying to come to grips with the new ways of learning that are supported by networked tools in recent years. These new ways feature distributed social networks at their core and are proving to be much more popular and often more effective than traditional schooling. Science communities such as faulkes-telescope.comhttp://www.faulkes-telescope.com/ and labrats.org, and massive multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft, are in the vanguard. John Seely Brown and Doug Thomas make an important contribution to understanding what makes these networks so powerful. They use the term disposition to refer to an attitude or stance toward the world that inclines the person toward effective practice. They find that a "questing disposition", which has always been important for inquiry and learning, is encouraged and supported in these vanguard social learning networks. Their work will reward your time and attention. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 26 06:42:48 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECF527481; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36C732746D; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:42:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081126064245.36C732746D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:42:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.356 events: temporal representation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 356. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:02:07 +0000 From: Carsten Lutz Subject: TIME 2009 Call for Papers TIME 2009 Call for Papers Sixteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Brixen, Italy, July 23-25, 2009 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/time-2009/ The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that brings together researchers from all areas of computer science that involve temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is not limited to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the verification of software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap between theoretical and applied research. TIME 2009 encompasses three tracks, but has a single program committee. The conference will span three days, and will be organized as a combination of technical paper presentations, poster sessions, and keynote lectures. * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 6 Paper Submission: April 9 Paper Notification: May 11 Camera Ready Copy Due: May 22 TIME 2009 Symposium: July 23-25 * TOPICS Track 1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web Track 2: Temporal Database Management - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - novel applications of temporal database management - experiences with real applications Track 3: Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model checking algorithms - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security * PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going work are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance of a paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium. Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts embedded). They must be formatted according to the IEEE guide- lines described at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/ proceedings/8.5x11 - Formatting files/ and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be rejected without review. Papers are submitted electronically via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time2009 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 26 06:57:49 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B0C276AE; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:57:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 88B6727698; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:57:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081126065746.88B6727698@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:57:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.357 healthy Humanist at ADHO & its end at Princeton X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 357. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:53:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: end of the Princeton connection Dear colleagues, Evidence suggests that Humanist on the ADHO server is working very well indeed. We would be grateful if you were to report any errors or infelicities you happen notice, but we suspect that work on the transition is quite close to its end. There is therefore no reason to keep Humanist operating at Princeton, so very soon now, by agreement with the Office of Information Technology there, it will cease to exist at Princeton. For years Humanist has been on various organizations' mailing lists; I expect many of these simply post to Humanist at Princeton but do not have a representative who is actually a member. We'd be grateful if you would alert any such you know of so that they can make the change. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 27 07:13:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7F528EC0; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:13:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65FF328EB8; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:13:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081127071320.65FF328EB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.358 seminar on Capturing Context X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 358. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:16:19 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: seminar on Capturing Context Special seminar sponsored by the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Capturing Context for the Analysis of Human Interaction Svenja Adolphs (Nottingham) Tuesday, 2 December 2008 1/16 Waterloo Bridge Wing, Franklin Wilkins Building 3-5 pm Contextual dependencies of linguistic choices are well documented and theorised and there is now a substantial body of research concerned with the development of context-sensitive descriptions of language. In order to be able to develop such descriptions, it is necessary to capture meaningful aspects of context and to group those aspects into meaningful categories. While the notion of ‘context’ has been widely discussed in different research traditions, and various criteria for possible contextual categories have been drawn up and used over the years, the dynamic and multi-modal nature of naturally occurring discourse has long been an issue in many different areas of applied linguistics. In this talk I will explore the role of context and contextual categorisation for the purpose of discourse analysis. I will introduce the Digital Replay System which has been developed at the University of Nottingham to support the analysis and representation of different types of context in relation to language in use. I will then discuss new mechanisms and technologies for capturing aspects of interactions that may be meaningful to the participants in a discourse event, or to the analyst of such discourse. This will include an overview of new types of data that we are now starting to be able to capture in natural settings, including video data and GPS data. The ability to capture such contextually relevant data, and to represent the data in a searchable format, opens up new opportunities for discourse analysis and should enable a much more comprehensive analysis of human communication in social settings. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 29 14:24:54 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4228428DE3; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD47A28DDB; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:24:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081129142451.DD47A28DDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:24:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.359 cfp: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 359. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:11:42 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen. This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture. The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as: • travelers’ accounts, navigational charts and cartography • collections and inventories • numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology • theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres) • the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and architecture • model making • paper making and book printing, production, and binding • manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations • palimpsests and three-dimensional writing • instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific) • arts and crafts • the anatomical and cultural body We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to: • XML and databases and computational interpretation • three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds • virtual research environments • mapping technology • image capture, processing, and interpretation • 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis • artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation Papers might address such topics and issues as: • the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts) • relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image • the metadata of material culture • curatorial and archival practice • mediating the material object and its textual representations • imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases) • the relationship between the abstract and the material text • haptic, visual, and auditory simulation • tools and techniques for paleographic analysis Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009. _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE MBCS FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building 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/slais/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 30 11:53:28 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269E428C12; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:53:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F93028C02; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:53:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081130115325.3F93028C02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:53:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.360 event: Building a Virtual Humanities Collaboratory, Cambridge, 6-7/1/09 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 360. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:28:31 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Building a Virtual Humanities Collaboratory Building a Virtual Humanities Collaboratory Tuesday, 6 January to Wednesday, 7 January Location: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University A Virtual Research Environment (VRE), or collaboratory, promises to bring together tools and resources for Humanities researchers. The exponential increase in online resources and online collaboration, the range of new online tools for creating and mining many different kinds of data - visual and textual - confront Humanities researchers with an often dizzying array of possibilities. Humanities research environments and communities are changing rapidly under the impact of new digital tools and technologies, producing many different kinds of project and databases, and demanding new kinds of expertise. As VREs take root in Universities or departments, disciplines or individual projects, it becomes ever more important to find ways to link these different scales and kinds of operation. Some of the questions to be addressed by speakers and panels during this one and a half-day workshop include: * What are the benefits of a virtual Collaboratory for Humanities researchers? * What are the chief obstacles to digital research in the Humanities at present? * How can universities best provide eHumanities tools and educate future humanities researchers in their uses? * What problems of interoperability with existing infrastructures confront digital researchers in the Humanities? * How can we manage 'data deluge' and what protocols need to be established? * What are the intellectual and academic issues at stake in digital Humanities research? A programme will be available shortly. Inquiries: Dr Katie Boyle http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/751/ -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 1 09:58:54 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2680928000; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:58:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CBAC27FF7; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:58:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081201095851.6CBAC27FF7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:58:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.361 desperately seeking... X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 361. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:10:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: article lost I'd be very grateful for any bibliographic information on the following article: Philip H. Smith, Jr., "The Literary Scholar Faces the Computer" (1981), pp. 209-17. I *think* it was published in a journal frustratingly named "Review". Thanks for any leads. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 1 10:00:53 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CC8270EE; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33642270DA; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:00:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081201100051.33642270DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.362 OUCS's Online Advent Calendar launched X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 362. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:11:51 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Online Advent Calendar launches Each day Intute: Arts and Humanities will highlight academic resources on the Internet on a variety of themes ? artists' lives, anniversaries, soldiers' experiences during the First World War, international awards, film, dance, English literature and languages and literatures from around the world, as well as a few subjects which imply that "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." See http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/blog/2008/12/01/adventcalendar/ Comments welcomed on each post! -- Alun Edwards alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute: Arts and Humanities http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ First World War Poetry Digital Archive English Faculty, University of Oxford http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283347 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 3 06:07:06 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C040283F9; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:07:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C500283D1; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:07:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081203060703.1C500283D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:07:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.363 source for reference (probably) found X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 363. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Lavagnino (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.361 desperately seeking... [2] From: mscolli (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.361 desperately seeking...FOUND --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:12:26 +0000 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.361 desperately seeking... In-Reply-To: <20081201095851.6CBAC27FF7@woodward.joyent.us> A review called Review which is a plausible sort of place for this to appear was published by the University Press of Virginia starting in 1979; at the British Library it's X.0989/1098. This journal only published longish book reviews and no standard articles; the title certainly sounds as though it could be a book review. John Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 361. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:10:38 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > I'd be very grateful for any bibliographic information on the following > article: > > Philip H. Smith, Jr., "The Literary Scholar Faces the Computer" (1981), > pp. 209-17. > > I *think* it was published in a journal frustratingly named "Review". > > Thanks for any leads. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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 > -- Dr John Lavagnino Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26–29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185703 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:36:42 -0500 From: mscolli Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.361 desperately seeking...FOUND In-Reply-To: <20081201095851.6CBAC27FF7@woodward.joyent.us> Smith, Philip H., Jr. "The Literary Scholar Faces the Computer." Review 3 (1981): 209-217. MLA International Bibliography, EBSCOhost (accessed December 1, 2008). -Matthew _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 3 06:07:45 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F47F28537; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:07:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C850128525; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:07:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081203060742.C850128525@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:07:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.364 similar passage detection for PhiloLogic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 364. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:21:51 -0600 From: "Mark Olsen" Subject: PhiloLine: Similar Passage Detection for PhiloLogic Hi all, We are pleased to announce the alpha release of PhiloLine, an extension to PhiloLogic designed identify similar passages in relatively large collections of documents. PhiloLine is based on a simple implementation of a sequence alignment algorithm, a generalized technique used in bioinformatics and other disciplines. This implementation performs an all-to-all comparison of a set of documents loaded in PhiloLogic and generates results which can be linked to and from the database. PhiloLine is an experimental implement of our more generalized PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) implementation which functions without PhiloLogic bindings to be released in Winter 2009. Source code, documentationand release notes, links to relevant papers, and a slide show discussing sequence alignment in digital humanities are available at: http://code.google.com/p/text-pair/ PhiloLine, like PhiloLogic and PhiloMine, are open source systems. Please feel free to contact us at the address listed on the site with your comments, complaints, bug reports (yes, there will be bugs), suggestions and, always most gratefully accepted, code. Best regards, Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center University of Chicago -- Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago 773-702-8687 http://markvolsen.blogspot.com/ FAQ answer: My mother still calls me Marky Maypo or just Maypo, hence the handle. :-) http://www.homestatfarm.com/history_marky_maypo.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 3 12:13:18 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD5226EEE; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:13:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8461226EDC; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:13:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081203121316.8461226EDC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:13:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.365 apologies from your editor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 365. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:12:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: membership My apologies to all those who have waited a seemingly interminable time for action on their requests to become members of Humanist. It turns out that for me to approve each membership request two actions have to be taken on two different web pages. Until yesterday I knew about only one of these and so was happily proceeding on the assumption that I had done all that I needed to do. (To be fair, I was likely told that there were these two actions but forgot.) Mea culpa this time, not the machine's. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 4 05:54:19 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F3D24FF4; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:54:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0341F24FD7; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:54:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081204055416.0341F24FD7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:54:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.366 reference found and specified X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 366. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:53:13 -0500 From: Susanna Pathak/AC/VCU Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.361 desperately seeking... Smith, Philip H., Jr. "The Literary Scholar Faces the Computer." Review, 3 (1981), pp. 209-217. Subject Terms: Literary theory and criticism; application of computer; review article. Language: English Document Type: Journal article Publication Date: 1981 ISSN: 0190-3233 Source info: University Press of Virginia Dept. of English 415 Shanks Hall Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State University Blacksburg VA, United States Phone: 703 231-7759 Fax: 703 231-5692 E-mail: jhoge@ut.edu Editorial Details Editor(s): Hoge, James O.. Sponsoring Organization: University Press of Virginia. First Published: 1979. ISSN: 0190-3233. Scope: Publishes lengthy reviews of scholarly work in all periods and genres of English and American literature. Frequency of publication: Annual. Circulation: 750. Pagination: Consecutive. Languages accepted: English. Reviews books: Yes. Publishes notes: No. Publishes abstracts: No. Peer-Reviewed: Yes. Subscriptions Subscription price: USD 50.00/year. Subscription address: University Press of Virginia, PO Box 3608, University Station, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Phone: 804 924-3469. Fax: 804 982-2655. Source Citation: MLA Directory of Periodicals. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 2002. Reproduced in Literature Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, Cengage Learning 2008. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitRC. Susanna Pathak Planning & Assessment Librarian Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries 901 Park Avenue P.O. Box 2033 Richmond VA 23284-2033 Voice: 804-827-1164 Fax: 804-828-0151 Cell: 804-502-3309 sbpathak@vcu.edu Always reachable via my BlackBerry! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 4 05:56:04 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4938F25070; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:56:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98A0825067; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:56:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081204055601.98A0825067@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:56:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.367 jobs at Portsmouth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 367. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:51:21 +0000 From: David Anderson Subject: Jobs in Humanities Computing University of Portsmouth Research Assistant in Metadata Standards for Digital Preservation and Emulation School of Creative Technologies Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries Fixed term contract for 36 months Salary: £20,226 - £23,449 Reference: RFCC 0018 Closing date: 19th December 2008 Applications are invited for the above post to work on a European Commission FP7-funded project which will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects. The project will address all aspects ranging from safeguarding the original bits from the carrier to offering online services to end-users via a highly portable emulation framework. In addition to producing a software package, the project will deliver understanding about how to integrate emulation-based solutions with an operational electronic deposit system. Existing metadata models will be researched and guidelines will be developed for mapping digital objects to emulated manifestations. The applicant will be working on the metadata aspect of this project and should have a good understanding of data modelling in general and in particular a specific knowledge of bibliographic and/or games data. Applicants must possess at least a good undergraduate degree in Cultural and Heritage Informatics; Information Management / Preservation; Digital Humanities; Library and Information Science; Database Technologies; Computer Science or similar. Relevant research publications and previous research experience with digital libraries would also be advantageous. For informal enquiries about this post, please contact the principal investigator by emailing David.Anderson@port.ac.uk (or by phoning 0239284 5461). To find out more about the University of Portsmouth and this role, visit www.port.ac.uk/vacancies and apply on-line. Alternatively telephone 023 9284 3421. Please quote the reference number on all communications. Further details are available at: http://www.port.ac.uk/vacancies/research/vacancytitle,89692,en.html University of Portsmouth Research Assistant in User Interfaces School of Creative Technologies Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries Fixed term contract for 36 months Salary: £20,226 - £23,449 Reference: RFCC 0017 Closing date: 19th December 2008 Applications are invited for the above post to work on a European Commission FP7-funded project which will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects. The project will address all aspects ranging from safeguarding the original bits from the carrier to offering online services to end-users via a highly portable emulation framework. In addition to producing a software package, the project will deliver understanding about how to integrate emulation-based solutions with an operational electronic deposit system. Existing metadata models will be researched and guidelines will be developed for mapping digital objects to the emulation framework. Applicants must have experience of developing multimedia user interfaces, for local and network (Internet) use, particularly those that utilise database search functionality. The user interface will be required to host the emulation services offered by the project system, so experience of emulation is highly desirable. The successful applicant will also be expected to manage the delivery of a transfer tool framework designed to assist institutions in using various existing media transfer tools (such as floppy/CD imaging software), and enabling the use of existing archived digital objects within the project framework. Familiarity with C++, Java, or an equivalent language is thus essential. For informal enquiries about this post, please contact the principal investigator by emailing David.Anderson@port.ac.uk (or by phoning 0239284 5461). To find out more about the University of Portsmouth and this role, visit www.port.ac.uk/vacancies and apply on-line. Alternatively telephone 023 9284 3421. Please quote the reference number on all communications. Further details are available at: http://www.port.ac.uk/vacancies/research/vacancytitle,89691,en.html Best wishes, David Dr. David P. Anderson B.A.Hons Ph.D. University of Portsmouth Leader Humanities Computing Group "The Newmanry" Room 1003 36-40 Middle Street Portsmouth PO5 4BT Ph. +44 (0)23 9284 5525 Fax: +44 (0)23 9284 6364 http://www.cdpa.co.uk/UoP/ skype address: uophistorygroupda http://flickr.com/photos/17813989@N00/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 4 05:57:15 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F9425148; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89515250F6; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:57:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081204055713.89515250F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.368 new publication: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 33.3 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 368. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:47:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 33.3 (September 2008) [Although this issue of ISR -- my first as the new Editor of this journal -- has only a small bit to do with the digital humanities directly, ISR's new direction has everything to do with the kind of intellectual world that underpins our field, or so I would unsurprisingly argue :-). My inaugural editorial (item 1, below) explaining how I think that is so is provided on ISR's editorial website, www.isr-journal.org. --WM] Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 33.3 (September 2008) 1. ISR Editorial McCarty, Willard pp. 185-188(4) 2. ISR Guest Editorial Philosophy and engineering McCarthy, Natasha pp. 189-201(13) 3. Philosophical underpinning for systems thinking Dias, W.P.S. pp. 202-213(12) 4. Systems and scenarios for a philosophy of engineering Farber, Darryl; Pietrucha, Martin T.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh pp. 214-225(12) 5. Engineering professional ethics in a broader dimension Durbin, Paul T. pp. 226-233(8) 6. The intertwining of ethics and methodology in science and engineering: a virtue-ethical approach Consoli, Luca pp. 234-243(10) 7. Vagueness and software engineering Fahmi, Marco pp. 244-253(10) 8. Towards an 'engineered epistemology'? Doridot, Fernand pp. 254-262(9) -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 4 05:58:21 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F28D251FB; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:58:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A27CA251F3; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:58:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081204055819.A27CA251F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:58:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.369 new on WWW: TL Infobits for November X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 369. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:59:08 +0000 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- November 2008 TL INFOBITS November 2008 No. 29 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitnov08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Youth and New Media and the Implications for Education Effectiveness of Feedback in an Online Course Journal Articles and Authors' Rights New Publications from EDUCAUSE Models of Digital Scholarly Communication Editor's Note Recommended Reading ...................................................................... YOUTH AND NEW MEDIA AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION "In both friendship-driven and interest-driven online activity, youth create and navigate new forms of expression and rules for social behavior. In the process, young people acquire various forms of technical and media literacy by exploring new interests, tinkering, and 'messing around' with new forms of media." "Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project" by Mizuko Ito et al. summarizes the findings of a three-year MacArthur Foundation study of 800 young people and their use of new media. The study sought answers to two research questions: "How are new media being integrated into youth practices and agendas?" "How do these practices change the dynamics of youth-adult negotiations over literacy, learning, and authoritative knowledge?" Some of the study's implications for education include: "Rather than seeing socializing and play as hostile to learning, educational programs could be positioned to step in and support moments when youth are motivated to move from friendship-driven to more interest-driven forms of new media use." "Peer-based learning has unique properties that suggest alternatives to formal instruction. . . . the focus of learning and engagement is not defined by institutional accountabilities but rather emerges from kids' interests and everyday social communication." ". . . [R]ather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement?" The paper is available at http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched a five-year digital media and learning initiative in 2006 "to help determine how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life." For more information about the initiative, go to http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/ or visit the Spotlight blog at http://spotlight.macfound.org/ ...................................................................... EFFECTIVENESS OF FEEDBACK IN AN ONLINE COURSE "While an abundance of research exists on best practices in the face-to-face classroom, the same is not true for online learning. In this new and constantly evolving environment, researchers are just beginning to understand what constitutes effective learning strategies." The paper "Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Group and Individualized Feedback in Online Courses" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 13, no. 11, November 3, 2008), by Phil Ice, et al., reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of instructors' feedback to students in a graduate-level online course. The study revealed that the majority of master's level students "place a much higher value on individualized feedback and believe it is much more effective in helping them understand relevant topics." Doctoral students, however, found group feedback more informative as it "was related to these students' desire to compare and contrast their work with syntheses provided by the instructor." The paper is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2260/2049 First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.org/ ...................................................................... JOURNAL ARTICLES AND AUTHORS' RIGHTS Charles W. Bailey, Jr., publisher of Digital Scholarship has a new publication, "Author's Rights, Tout de Suite," which is "designed to give journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author's rights and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites." The document is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf Bailey's other publications include: SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY," an e-book now in its 73rd version "Google Book Search Bibliography" "Open Access Bibliography" "Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography" These documents and Bailey's other publications are available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ ...................................................................... NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE association recently announced several publications on higher education and information technology. THE TOWER AND THE CLOUD http://www.educause.edu/thetowerandthecloud/ The e-book "examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education." --- "The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008" http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ECAR/TheECARStudyofUndergradua/47485 This EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) study "is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology . . . based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year institutions." --- "A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement" http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/AGuideforthePerplexedLibr/47817 Discusses the recent Google Library Project settlement between Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers. --- New additions to the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI) "7 Things You Should Know About..." series (http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495) include: Flip Cameras http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47762 Ustream -- interactive web streaming platform http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47506 Zotero -- a research tool that "provides users with automated access to bibliographic information for online resources" http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47351 EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu/ ...................................................................... MODELS OF DIGITAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION "In the spring of 2008, ARL [Association of Research Libraries] engaged Ithaka to conduct an investigation into the range of online resources valued by scholars, paying special attention to those projects that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them." The results of this study were made available this month in "Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication: Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries" by Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith. Some of findings include: "[E]xamples of innovative resources can be found across the humanities, social sciences, and scientific/technical/medical subject areas." "Traditions of scholarly culture relating to establishing scholarly legitimacy through credentialing, peer review, and citation metrics exert a powerful force on these innovative online projects." "Some of the resources with the greatest impact are those that have been around a long while. . . . even excellent new digital publications may need years to establish their place in their scholarly community." The report is available at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North America. For more information, contact: Association of Research Libraries, 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-296-2296; fax: 202-872-0884; email: webmgr@arl.org; Web: http://www.arl.org/ Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. For more information about Ithaka, go to http://www.ithaka.org/ ...................................................................... Editor's Note In conjunction with a recent conference presentation, I have revised and updated my document "Self-Publishing Electronic Newsletters." Under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, you are free to copy and share it and to create derivative works. The document is available at http://www.unc.edu/~kotlas/enewsletters.html ...................................................................... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (51) Subject: Final Opportunity for Registration for DHO/TEI workshop at UCG [2] From: Willard McCarty (71) Subject: Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:58:52 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Final Opportunity for Registration for DHO/TEI workshop at UCG Final Announcement! Registrations must be received by next Monday, 8 December. If you have any questions, please contact Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com). Registration should be made using the link below. The Digital Humanities Observatory will be leading a day and a half introductory Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) workshop at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on 15-16 December. Led by DHO Director Susan Schreibman and Metadata Manager Dot Porter, the course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. Individuals and teams from all HSIS Consortium institutions are welcome to attend this Introduction to TEI workshop for free. Attendees from non-HSIS Consortium institutions are also welcome, although their registration will be subject to a €100 fee. To register please follow this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=1fkU6pLZXbHzJEPFl6B93A_3d_3d This workshop is designed for individuals embarking on a text encoding project and who would like a better understanding of the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. No previous knowledge of XML and the TEI is necessary. Encoding poetry and prose will be covered for literary and documentary editions. Students will also be introduced to Document Type Definitions (DTDs), schema, and XSLT. Schreibman and Porter are both active in the international TEI community. The workshop is supported by the Moore Institute for Research in Humanities and the Social Sciences at UNI Galway. * * * * * * * * * We are also delighted to announce that advanced encoding workshops will be offered during the Digital Scholarly Editing Spring School at UNI Galway 13-17 April 2009. The Spring School aims to enable Irish researchers newly engaged in digital humanities projects to bring their skills in scholarly editing with new technologies to an intermediate/advanced level through the provision of specialised workshops, masterclasses and project consultations. Advanced workshops will be offered on a number of topics, including the encoding of premodern source. If you feel that you would like to attend an Advanced Encoding Workshop at the Digital Scholarly Editing Spring School, attending an introductory TEI workshop is mandatory. If you have questions, please email dot.porter@gmail.com. -- ******************************* Dot Porter, MA, MSLS Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA) Pembroke House 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 Email: dot.porter@gmail.com http://dho.ie ******************************* http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:50:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 University of Liverpool, UK http://liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/index.htm http://liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/index.htm Second Call for Papers Following the success of CL2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference will take place from 20 July - 23 July 2009. It will be organised by the Universities of Liverpool, Birmingham and Lancaster and will be hosted by the School of English, University of Liverpool. We are looking forward to an interesting programme and invite abstracts for papers, posters, work-in-progress reports, as well as workshops and colloquia covering any aspect of corpus linguistics. The conference begins with a workshop and colloquium day on Monday 20 July; the main conference runs from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 July, with the conference dinner on Wednesday 22 July. Plenary Speakers: Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool) Joybrato Mukherjee (University of Giessen) Mike Scott (University of Liverpool) We invite 5 categories of abstracts: PAPERS will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Paper abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words (excluding word count for references). WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS will be 10 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (excluding word count for references). POSTER abstracts should be no more than 200 words (excluding word count for references). COLLOQUIA usually take the form of between 4 and 8 papers, with time for audience discussion. We will accommodate short colloquia (2 hours, about 4 speakers) and longer colloquia (4 hours, about 8 speakers). Proposals should be no more than 1000 words (for colloquia of 2 hours) or 2000 words (for colloquia of 4 hours). The proposal should include a rationale for the colloquium, an indication of how much of the time will be allocated to audience discussion, and an abstract for each of the proposed papers. WORKSHOPS usually include one or two short presentations and substantial audience participation. Workshops can take 1 or 2 hours. Proposals should be no more than 500 words (for a 1-hour workshop) or 750 words (for a 2-hour workshop) and should describe the organisation of the workshop and the nature of the audience participation. Additionally, information on technical requirements should be provided. For colloquia and workshops we would encourage you to contact us ahead of the deadline if you have any questions. The language of the conference is English. All abstracts should be in English, though we encourage proposals for colloquia to be given in languages other than English. To submit an abstract go to the following URL and follow the instructions: https://www.softconf.com/s08/CL2009/submit.html Closing date for abstracts: 23 January 2009. For more information please contact the Organising Committee: E-mail: CL2009liverpool.ac.uk http://liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/index.htm http://liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/index.htm Dr. Paul Rayson Director of UCREL Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 5 09:03:16 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE0028A79; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:03:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FC6D28A64; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:03:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081205090313.0FC6D28A64@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:03:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.371 cataloguing of digital resources? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 371. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:55:01 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: cataloguing of digital resources? Hi all, Is anyone aware of any benchmark studies for the cataloguing of digital resources? Thanks, Neil Godfrey Principal Librarian Singapore National Library Board http://metalogger.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 5 09:04:33 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048F728B1C; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:04:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF36E28B12; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:04:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081205090430.EF36E28B12@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:04:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.372 International Journal of Digital Culture & E-Tourism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 372. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:34:29 +0200 From: Lily Diaz Subject: A special Issue of the International Journal of Digital Culture and E-Tourism Dear Humanist readers: DIGITAL MATTER AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE, A special Issue of the International Journal of Digital Culture and E- Tourism Edited by Prof. Lily Díaz and Prof. Maurizio Forte The contents of the issue include an introduction to the topic of intangible heritage by Díaz and Forte from an ecological perspective, as well as articles by distinguished authors in the following topics: Building virtual cultural heritage environments: the embodied mind at the core of the learning processes Elena Bonini 113 - 125 Intangible matter and the body Bernadette Flynn 126 - 138 An entanglement of people-things: Place-Hampi Sarah Kenderdine 139 - 156 Cultural institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own Susan Hazan 157 - 176 Digitality and immaterial culture: What did Viking women think? Maureen Thomas 177 - 191 The economic value of 'immateriality' Andrea Granelli, Roberto Pone, Barbara Marcotulli 192 - 208 Folkvine.org as a model of virtual tourism Craig Saper 209 - 224 Virtual reconstructions as destination tourism? Elizabeth A. Bartley, John E. Hancock 225 - 239 Virtualising ancient imperial Rome: from Gismondi's physical model to a new virtual reality application Gabriele Guidi, Bernard Frischer, Ignazio Lucenti, Janez Donno, Michele Russo 240 - 252 A new media approach: visualisation of a digital exhibition. A case of study Blanca Acuna 253 - 256 AARRE presenting the world through souvenirs Viljo Malmberg, Jenna Sutela 257 - 258 Artivistic fieldwork: participatory platforms, devised events, and socially engaged art storymaking Andrew Gryf Paterson 259 - 262 Participatory platforms for opening dialogues in exhibitions, a design perspective Mariana Salgado 263 - 265 The issue is available online and in printed format. For more information please follow the link below to the Inderscience website. http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=247&year=2008&vol=1&issue=2/3 ------------------------------------- ıı ı ı ı Dr. Lily Diaz Professor, Systems of Representation & Digital Cultural Heritage University of Art and Design Helsinki 135C Hämeentie SF 00560 Helsinki, Finland + 358 9 75630 338 + 358 9 75630 555 (FAX) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 5 09:05:06 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A0728BAF; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:05:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2007E28B8E; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:05:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081205090504.2007E28B8E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:05:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.373 an ancient GIS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 373. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:02:10 +0000 From: Israel Cohen Subject: anthropomorphic maps - an ancient GIS I learned about anthropomorphic maps from the linguist Dan Moonhawk Alford (deceased) and the anthropologist Stan Knowlton. They described the maps of Napi, the creator of the Blackfoot Indians (aka The Old Man) and his wife (The Old Woman) in Alberta, Canada. I "found" similar Phoenician maps of a male body (Hermes ?) in west Asia and a female body (Aphrodite) in north Africa. *Anthropomorphic Maps* Anthropomorphic maps were generated by configuring the body of a god or goddess over the area to be mapped. The name of each part of that body became the name of the area under that part. This produced a scale 1:1 map-without-paper on which each place name automatically indicated its approximate location and direction with respect to every other place on the same map whose name was produced in this way. You are cordially invited to join the BPMaps discussion group on this topic, a very quiet list that averages less than 2 messages per month. The URL is:http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ The Challenge: To produce computer software that will find additional body-part maps elsewhere in the world. Available inputs:(1) geographic databases with ancient place names (e.g., the Perseus project). (2) body-part names on Swadesh lists. Unfortunately, the navel is not included. *Attributes of Anthropomorphic Maps* (1) The navel is the center of the body, the center of the map, and usually the center of the map's language community. (2) Place names (toponyms) may be reversed, metathesized, misspelled or euphemized for various reasons: (a) The same part in the same language exists on another map of a different body. Cranium > Mo[n]rocco because Ukraine existed? Aphrodite is looking backwards over her right shoulder. She is bent at her waist (Misr/Mitzraim = MoSNaiM). (b) The left (sinister) part is altered in names for left-right pairs (arms, legs, eyes, ears). DoFeN = side reversed to Nafud in north Arabia. SHvK = thigh with a T-sound for the letter shin = TvK reversed to Kuwait. BeReKH = knee metathesized to Bahrain. (c) Names that represent taboo body parts or functions are reversed or euphemized: Semitic PoS (female pudenda) reverses to yam SooF = sea of reeds (Red Sea). Mare Rubrum (Latin for Red Sea) represented Aphrodite's menstruation CaNa3an (3 = aiyin with a G-sound as in 3aZa = Gaza) is a reversal of Greek gyneco- . Gaza (3aZa) is a reversal of the sounds in ZooG = couple, as in copulation NeGeV (compare NaKeV = slit, aperture, hole, perforation and N'KeiVaH = female) reverses to vagina Sinai = "snatch" is spelled SiNi in Hebrew. The aleph=CHS is intentionally missing. ZaYiN = weapon (a euphemism for male member) is in Sinai as the desert of Zin. (3) Names may be loan-translated due to conquest or language-change. (a) Roxolania (Semitic Ro[chs]SH = head) => Rus *( Ro@SH) => Ukraine (Greek kranion) * Caused by a change in the sound of the aleph from CHS to a glottal stop. (b) Libya (Semitic LeB = heart) => Cyrenaica (Latin cor = heart, compare coronary) => Libya (4) Rivers and bodies of water may be named after bodily excretions: (a) Milk River in Alberta. (b) Red Sea (Latin Mare Rubrum) is Aphrodite's menstruation. (c) Gulf of Aqaba (Semitic QaVaH = digestion/defecation) (5) Internal body parts may represent subdivisions of external parts. (a) Arabic Misr / Hebrew Mitzraim (< TSaR = narrow) = waist (Hebrew MoSNaim). Egypt (< Greek hepato- = liver). Goshen (with a T-sound shin < Semitic QiTN = bean) = bean-shaped kidney. Goshen exported Arabic QuTN = cotton => Latin Gossypium (English gossamer = cotton-like) (b) Atlas mountains < atlas = first cervical vertebra that supports the cranium. (6) Islands near a body's hands may be named for weapons. (a) Trinacria = trident (< Gk tri = three + Semitic NaKaR = to pierce) => Sicily (< VL *sicila < Latin secula = sickle to harvest wheat; compare Semitic SaKiN = knife). The trident was in Neptune / Poseidon's right hand (Italy, like Anatolia < N'TiLas yad = arm being washed by the seas). (b) Greece = reversal of Semitic S'RoG = (weighted) net, held in his left hand. (c) Crete = reversal of targe = small shield (compare English target) also in his left hand. *Aphrodite* The map of Aphrodite is in north Africa. Her face [PaNim] was lost during the 3rd Punic war. The rest of her is still there. She is looking backwards over her right shoulder, so her CRaniuM is reversed at Morocco. It still has a Fez. Her chin [SaNTir] is reversed at Tunisia. The Atlas (anatomy: first cervical vertebra) mountains support her head. Her hair [Sa3aRa] is the Sahara desert. Her backbone [amood SHiDRa] is the Gulf of Sidra. Her heart [LeB] is Libya. Her breast [SHaD] is Chad. Her narrow [TZaR] waist is Misr / Mitzraim. Her liver (Greek hepato-) is Egypt. Cotton (Arabic QuTN, Latin Gossypium) was exported from Goshen, her [QiTNit = bean]-shaped kidney. Her side [TZaD] is Sudan. Her other side [DoFeN] is Dafur. Her left [SMoL] leg is Somalia. [NeGeV] is a reversal of vagina and may be related to [NeKeV] = aperture. [CaNa3aN] was her Latin cunnus (and a reversal of Greek gyneco-). Its name changed to [YiSRa@eL] at the time when [Ya3aKoV] / Jacob "fought with god and men" [Gen 32:29]. This represented a change in sovereignty from Africa to Asia minor. [ YiSRa@eL] is that body part that gives [@oSHeR] = delight to [@eL] = god when it is [YaSHaR] = straight, upright. Changing Jacob's name from [Ya3aKoV] = "ankle; curved, bent" to [YiSRa@eL] = "straight, upright + god" represents an interesting physiological process. *Hermes* The body-part map of Hermes is in Asia minor. kHermes [kHoR = hole + MoSnaim = waist] lived at Mt. kHermon before he moved Mt. Olympus (Greek omphalos = navel). Later his name was reversed to become Latin Mercury. Compare Amerigo Vespucci and America. Compare the biblical king kHiram of Lebanon. His head [Ro@SH] was at Roxolania/Rus, south of Belarus. Its name changed to the Ukraine (Gk kranion = cranium, *not *Slavic u kraina = to/at the border). His throat [GaRGeret] is Georgia. His left shoulder [KaSaF] is the Caspian sea. His right shoulder [@aTZiL] was Euxinus, now the Black Sea. His right arm/hand is being washed [NaTiLat] at Anatolia. His upper arm (Sanskrit irma) at Armenia, biceps (Greek pontiki = muscle) at Pontus, elbow [KiFooF yaD] at Cappadocia, wrist [m'FaReK] at Phrygia, and thumb [BoHeN] at Bithynia were in Anatolia. His heart (Greek cardia) became Kurdistan. His narrow [TZaR] waist is Syria and his navel (Sanskrit nabhila) reverses to LeBaNon. South of Lebanon is the male member (Greek phallus) named Philistina. See [CaNa3aN / YiSRa@eL] above. His buttocks [YeReKH] is Iraq. His thigh [shin-vav-kuf] sounded like TvK and reversed to Kuwait. His knee [BeReKH] is partially reversed in Bahrain. His right [Y'MiN] foot is at Yemen. These two bodies are connected, literally, at Sinai (with an aleph that is not written in Hebrew, compare "snatch", a reversal of [K'NiSah] = entrance), a part of her body that contains the desert of Zin, his "zaiyin". *Aphrodite as an Anthropomorphic Map* The goddess we call Aphrodite Is not just an old Grecian deity. The Phoenicians did make Her a map. It's not fake. Her body is cartograffiti. The Punic war destroyed her face, The Romans left nary a trace. But her hair is still there, In Sahara, that's where. And her chin's a Tunisian place. Mt. Atlas is her first verTebra. Her backbone is now Gulf of Sidra. Her heart is in Libya, Her left leg, Somalia. Her breast is in Chad wearing no bra. The Greeks called her liver Egypt, an' Her kidney was Biblical Goshen. She's bent at her waist, Now Misr-ably placed. The Red Sea was her menstruation. As a kid I did think the Red Sea Was an English map typo: lost E, From Reed Sea in Hebrew. But that could not be true, Mare Rubrum 'twas Latin, B.C. Aphrodite with Hermes did sin, We know this is true 'cause within Her "snatch" we call Sinai His "zaiyin" does still lie. It's known as the desert of Zin. Best regards, Israel "izzy" Cohen cohen.izzy@gmail.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 8 06:13:18 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7702934C; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:13:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC82229342; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:13:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081208061315.AC82229342@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:13:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.374 SDH/SEMI conference at Carleton, Ottawa, in May X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 374. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:31:59 +0000 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Conference submission reminder Chers collègues, Je vous écris pour vous rappeler la date limite d’inscription à la conférence organisée par la Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs. Venez vous joindre à la conférence annuelle dédiée à la communauté des médias interactifs, qui se tiendra en 2009 à l’université Carleton dans la capitale nationale, Ottawa, ON, du 25 au 27 mai. Veuillez trouver ci-joint un appel à communications en format pdf. Veuillez soumettre un résumé de votre communication avant le 15 décembre à l’adresse suivante : http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/ Avec nos remerciements anticipés. Dear Colleagues, I am writing to remind you of the December 15 submission deadline for the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’études des médias interactifs 2009 conference. Please join us for the annual conference devoted to Canada’s Digital Humanities community, to be held in 2009 at Carleton University in the nation’s capital, Ottawa, ON, from May 25 - 27. Attached to this note is a pdf of our Call for Papers. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:00:12 +0000 From: "radwa.arnous@hindawi.com" Subject: Promoting Special Issue on "Emotion-Aware Natural Interaction" Dear Prof. McCarty, I am writing to let you know about our upcoming Special Issue on "Emotion-Aware Natural Interaction," which will be published in the journal "Advances in Human-Computer Interaction" in October 2009. You can find the Call for Papers for this Special Issue at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/si/eani.html and the deadline for submission is April 1st, 2009. I am contacting you about this Special Issue since I understand that it is closely related to your area of expertise, and I wanted to invite you to submit an article. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction is an open access journal, which means that all published articles are made freely available online without a subscription, and authors retain the copyright of their work. If you have any questions about this Special Issue, or about the journal, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Radwa Arnous ------------------------------------- Radwa Arnous Editorial Office Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/ ------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Alan Galey" (22) Subject: U Toronto iSchool/Toronto Centre for the Book podcast [2] From: ubiquity (13) Subject: UBIQUITY 9-15 December [3] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:40:37 -0500 From: "Alan Galey" Subject: U Toronto iSchool/Toronto Centre for the Book podcast [posted on behalf of Bruce Harpham; apologies for any duplication] University of Toronto iSchool Podcast Launched http://podcasts.ischool.utoronto.ca Last spring, a first year Master of Information Studies student wanted a solution for those people who had to miss interesting lectures at the Faculty of Information due to scheduling conflicts. As a result, the iSchool Podcast was born. At the helm, Bruce Harpham teamed up with fellow students Mark Swartz, Victoria Hill, Dominika Solan, Jessica Rovito, Christina Kim, Robert Keshen, Margaret Lam and Armin Krauss to record and share public lectures on the field of information, broadly understood. Consequently, the project has recorded lectures given at the Toronto Centre for the Book (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/tcb/prog.html) with other events planned for recording. As iSchool Podcast coordinator, Harpham says it is hoped the podcasts will build the iSchool community and provide a way for people to engage with these ideas on their own time and in their own ways. In addition to sharing these lectures with a broad audience, he says the project also provides education to graduate students in how to plan and execute podcasts. Comments on lectures, email suggestions for possible events to record, or questions can be sent to the group's blog (podcasts.ischool.utoronto.ca) or email: ischool.podcast@utoronto.ca. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:47:08 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9-15 December This Week in Ubiquity: December 9 – December 15, 2008 UBIQUITY CLASSICS Long Live the .250 Hitter http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ The dearth of women in computing is very much on everyone's mind. Elena Strange offers a new perspective on this. She observes that the solid, utility hitters (and players) are the backbone of every baseball team. In playing on her computing teams she has no aspirations for MVP awards and strives for personal excellence in the things she does. She asks her male colleagues to value her as a .250 hitter without holding her to the standard of a .314 hitter. This simple change could open the gates to a flood of women in computing. Elena holds Grace Hopper as the equivalent of the legendary .314 hitter in computing. Hopper told her friends that she was never aspiring to be a legendary leader, but only to do the best possible job with the tasks that were before her. Be personally excellent and interact with people from your heart, said Hopper, and all the rest will take care of itself. You can see in Elena's story the seeds that Grace Hopper planted. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:42:20 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 The Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Google Book Search Bibliography, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and Tout de Suite series. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (40) Subject: Humanities and Arts Research Methods Workshop, QUB 11 Dec 2008 [2] From: j trant (42) Subject: MW2009: Program On-line + Registration Open [3] From: Bernard Frischer (50) Subject: Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:55:18 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Humanities and Arts Research Methods Workshop, QUB 11 Dec 2008 Research Methodologies in the Humanities and Arts 11 December 2008, One Day Workshop Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast 9.45 – 10.00 Registration Tea and Coffee available 10.00 – 10.05 Introduction and Welcome, Paul S Ell, CDDA, QUB 10.05 – 10.30 Wizard of Oz or Star Trek? Considering the future of e-research in the humanities, David J Bodenhamer, IUPUI, USA 10.30 – 11.00 Interoperability in Ireland: Metadata and the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dot Porter, DHO, RIA 11.00 – 11.15 Break Refreshments available 11.15 – 12.15 Text Encoding Initiatives The Text Encoding Initiative: An Intellectual Framework for Digital Scholarship, Susan Schreibman, DHO, RIA Software Engineering models and their impact on Historical Text Encoding, John Keating, NUIM 12.15 – 1.15 Buffet lunch 1.15 – 1.45 Interdisciplinary Research at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Sile O'Modhrain, School of Music and Sonic Arts, QUB 1.45 – 2.45 Visualisation and GIS in the Arts and Humanities Data analysis and presentation using 'time ribbon' display of daily life on the nineteenth century farm, Shawn Day, DHO, RIA Harnessing digital technologies for spatio-temporal analysis in historical research: A GIS approach to long-term religious division in Ireland, Niall Cunningham, Department of History, Lancaster University 2.45 – 3.00 Concluding discussion and close David J Bodenhamer, IUPUI, USA 3.00-4.00 NoC Network Meeting Invitation Only The workshop will be held in room 01.009 in the School of Geography’s Elmwood Building. A map of the Queen’s Campus is available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/Location/Maps/Schools/ where ‘G’ is the School of Geography. The workshop is open to academic and research staff and postgraduates. As space is limited please e-mail Elaine Yeates, e.yeates@qub.ac.uk, cc'ing Paul Ell paul.ell@qub.ac.uk if you wish to attend. _________________________________________________ Dr Paul S. Ell Director The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN UK Phone| (Direct): +44 (0)28 90973408 Phone (Office): +44 (0)28 90973883 Fax: +44 (0)28 90321280 E-Mail: paul.ell@qub.ac.uk Web: www.qub.ac.uk/cdda --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:24:08 +0000 From: j trant Subject: MW2009: Program On-line + Registration Open Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ ==> MW2009 Preliminary Program On-line <== The full program for MW2009 [our tag!] is now available on the conference web site, featuring contributions from more than 150 people from a dozen countries. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/sessions/index.html Our thanks to the International Program Committee for their peer-review of proposals, and to everyone who proposed for making their job so difficult. ==> Register On-line <== Registration for Museums and the Web 2009 is now open. Register on-line before December 15, 2008 for the best rates. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.registrationForm.html Remember, pre-conference tours and workshops have limited enrollment, and are first-come first-served. Register early to ensure your choice. ==> Demonstration Proposals <== It's not too late to participate in MW2009. The deadline for Demonstration proposals is December 31, 2008. For full details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/demos/index.html ==> Best of the Web <== Best of the Web nominations will be made this year on the conference community site. Register at http://conference.archimuse.com and watch for the announcement. ==> Need To Know More <== Full details about MW2009 are on the conference Web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ Email mw2009@archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Indianapolis. jennifer and David -- ------------ Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:37:59 +0000 From: Bernard Frischer Subject: Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 *FIRST REMINDER FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS, Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 (CAA)* *www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/ http://www.caa2009.org/* *Deadline: December 19, 2008* The 37th annual CAA conference will be held from 22 to 26 March 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA) and will bring together students, researchers, heritage managers and other experts to present, examine and discuss current theory and application of quantitative methods and information technologies in Archaeology ( X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70FB24BFC; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:13:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F0A424BF3; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:13:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081211091335.1F0A424BF3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:13:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.378 events: CS & humanities at Cambridge; CIT sessions at MLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 378. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (22) Subject: Computer Science 2008, Cambridge, 15-17/12 [2] From: Susan Schreibman (106) Subject: CIT Sessions: 2008 MLA Convention, San Francisco --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:13:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Computer Science 2008, Cambridge, 15-17/12 Computer Science 2008 http://www.computingconference.org/ Computer Science 2008 will be the first research conference for undergraduate students. It aims to challenge, entertain, inform and above all, to enthuse students with the excitement of research in computer science. The conference will take place 15-17th December 2008 in Cambridge and is supported by all the leading bodies in UK Computing. Student bursaries covering the full cost of attending the event are generously sponsored by global technology leaders and have been made available through home institutions. A draft programme is available at www.computingconference.org/draftprogrammecs08.pdf. Note that the humanities have a place on the programme, in Track D, under "Interdisciplinary Research Strands", 11-12.30, on the last day. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:53:46 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CIT Sessions: 2008 MLA Convention, San Francisco Committee on Information Technology Sessions: 2008 MLA Convention, San Francisco Saturday, 27 December 1. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates 2:00–5:00 p.m., Powell, Hilton Program sponsored by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention in conjunction with the MLA Committee on Information Technology Presiding: Robert James Blake, Univ. of California, Davis; Raymond G. Siemens, Univ. of Victoria Do you know how to assess effectively digital work for promotion and tenure? Do you know how to prepare your dossier so that your digital work can be effectively assessed? This three-hour workshop will offer discussion of case studies (including CVs, digital projects, and supporting materials) and identification of effective evaluation strategies and guidelines. The workshop will be limited to thirty participants so that there will be ample time for facilitated discussion. Our facilitators have extensive experience in the evaluation of digital literary scholarship and of work in computer-assisted language learning. Preregistration is required. ------------------ Saturday, 27 December 108. Using Technology to Teach Languages 7:00–8:15 p.m., Yerba Buena Salon 12, Marriott Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology Presiding: Robert James Blake, Univ. of California, Davis 1. “Reconceptualizing the Use of Language Labs in Hybrid Language Courses,” M. Rafael Salaberry, Univ. of Texas, Austin 2. “The Use of E-Portfolios for L2 Assessment: Reflection and Evaluation,” Barbara Lafford, Arizona State Univ.; Michelle Petersen, Arizona State Univ. 3. “Turning Language Learners into Linguists? First Experiences of Learners with a New Corpus-Driven Language-Learning Tool,” Peter Wood, Univ. of Waterloo 4. “Issues in Designing and Implementing Hybrid Course Models for Language Teaching,” Angelika Kraemer, Michigan State Univ. ------------------ Sunday, 28 December 224. Methodologies for Literary Studies in the Digital Age 10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square 14, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology Presiding: Stephen Olsen, MLA Speakers: Tanya Clement, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; David L. Hoover, New York Univ.; Alan Liu, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Kenneth M. Price, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; Susan Schreibman, Royal Irish Acad. ------------------ Monday, 29 December 592. The Good Web: A Workshop in Teaching Your Students How to Evaluate Web Resources 1:45–3:00 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton Program sponsored by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention in conjunction with the MLA Committee on Information Technology Presiding: Matthew Jockers, Stanford Univ.; Susan Schreibman, Royal Irish Acad. Our students will be lifelong users of the Internet. This workshop will introduce participants to methods and strategies to teach students how to be more savvy Web users, from how to evaluate sites and sources to how to find information in the deep Web. For additional information and to preview materials, visit www.mla.org/web_wkshp. ------------------ Monday, 29 December 724. E-Criticism: New Critical Methods and Modalities 9:00–10:15 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology 1. “Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation,” Stacey Berry, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth Lorang, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln 2. “The Poetries of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A Digital Genetic Edition in the Versioning Machine,” Tanya Clement, Univ. of Maryland, College Park 3. “Literary Macroanalysis: Methods and Practice,” Matthew Jockers, Stanford Univ. 4. “Is There a Kindle in This Class? How Convergence Devices May Change Our Understanding of Reading and Our Practices of Teaching,” Kathleen Margaret Lant, California State Univ., East Bay 5. “Changing the Face of the Scholarly Essay: Collex,” Laura C. Mandell, Miami Univ., Oxford 6. “When Authors Won’t Die: Reasserting Authorial Interpretation through Online Forums,” Jessica R. Matthews, George Mason Univ. 7. “Visualizing the ‘Advice to the Ladies of London’: A Digital Humanities Approach to Early Modern Gender,” Jessica C. Murphy, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara 8. “From E-Crit to Critical Media: Literary Criticism Meets Physical Computing,” Marcel O’Gorman, Univ. of Waterloo Attendees will learn to use new computer models, paradigms, and tools for literary criticism. Presenters will provide concurrent demonstrations of their digital work, creating opportunities for discussion. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 12 06:28:07 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AE0240B2; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:28:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3EBCC240A2; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:28:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081212062804.3EBCC240A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:28:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.379 how different subjects are different X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 379. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:25:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how different subjects are different Those here with interests in interdisciplinarity and so how different disciplines go about their business differently will value a recent article by the Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, "What might philosophy of science look like if chemists built it?", Synthese 155.3 (April 2007): 321-36. Also his book, The Same and Not the Same (Columbia University Press, 1995), Part II: "The way it is told", is worth looking at. One of the valuable aspects of both is his argument concerning the reductionism characteristic of 20C physics. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 14 07:08:43 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A343227DE5; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:08:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5554D27DD1; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:08:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081214070841.5554D27DD1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:08:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.381 cfp: Music and the Sciences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 381. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:06:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Music and the Sciences Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org) Special issue Music and the Sciences Guest Editor: Frans Wiering Deadline for papers: Monday 29 June 2009 We invite you to contribute to a volume on music and the sciences. The articles in this issue are intended to provide an overview of how an understanding of music is enriched by the scientific study of it. Musicology, the academic study of music, has always had a distinctly interdisciplinary nature. Strong interaction with the humanities has traditionally included such areas such as literature, arts, history, religion and philosophy. Musicology has likewise been enriched by interdisciplinary contact with the sciences, notably more so in the last few decades. It has become quite acceptable for computer scientists, mathematicians and cognitive scientists to study aspects of music either within their own disciplines or together with musicologists. One reason why this may have happened is a distinctive change of focus in music research. Music is no longer studied in the first place from a ‘structural’ viewpoint, as a thing in itself. Instead, human involvement with music is put at the centre of attention. This is evident in the emergence of a strong research tradition in music perception and cognition, and in the recent involvement of the neurosciences. Music as a social phenomenon, even a means to define one’s personal identity, has attracted attention from sociology, anthropology and evolutionary biology. Music as a commodity has stimulated research from the perspectives of computer science and economics. Music has even become the motivation for interdisciplinary research outside musicology, for example in projects that connect cognition and computing research. Though it is difficult to come up with an accurate estimate, it is clear that today a significant amount of music research is performed outside musicology. Probably the most important challenge such research faces is to bridge the apparent gap between a quantitative or empirical approach, which leads to generic insights, and the individual appreciation of music as an art and the understanding of the uniqueness of ‘musical works’ (to use a convenient expression that is somewhat discredited in recent research). The latter aspect relates to the hardest questions in music research, which concern music and meaning. Music is obviously meaningful to a very large part of humankind. Yet such meaning is subjective, difficult to express, and hard to relate to measurable musical properties. Small wonder that musical meaning was regarded for a long time as an illegitimate question in music research. Yet questions about meaning do not just go away when they are being ignored, as they relate to the fundamental reasons why we want to study at all. Meaning has come back as a central topic in modern musicology, where it is answered using a variety of postmodern philosophical and culture-critical methods. In the sciences, a considerable amount of knowledge has been gathered about how music functions in the human mind and in society. Such knowledge may also be expected to shed some light on problems relating to musical meaning, for example what properties play a role in generating it, how it is perceived, stored and communicated to others, how it depends on training, exposure and cultural background and finally the question why we have music at all. Practical matters For this issue we solicit articles on interdisciplinary music research in the context of the mathematics, computing and the natural and social sciences such as (in no particular order) biology, physics, engineering, medicine, psychoacoustics, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, sociology, anthropology and linguistics. Each article should provide an engaging account of how our understanding of music is enriched by one or more particular disciplines. Articles should present overviews rather than in-depth studies of a particular problem and should appeal in every case to non-specialists. They must, however, appeal to specialists as well. The inclusion of one or two insightful case-studies within the broader context presented in the article is definitely encouraged. All contributions will be peer-reviewed. Articles may contain black-and-white illustrations (for which authors should seek any necessary permissions). Articles should have a maximum length of 6000 words. For details about format see www.maney.co.uk/journals/notes/isr. All contributions should be sent to Frans Wiering, frans.wiering@cs.uu.nl. If you have any further questions, please contact Frans Wiering. Schedule Mo 2 February 2009 Please express your intention to contribute (title, authors, abstract) Mo 29 June 2009 Submit first version Mo 21 September 2009 Decision and reviewers’ comments to authors Mo 30 November 2009 Submit final version March 2010 Publication as Vol. 35:1 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 14 07:09:05 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8541A27E1D; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:09:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 52D2427E14; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:09:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081214070903.52D2427E14@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:09:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.380 the best victory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 380. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:43:57 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.379 how different subjects are different In-Reply-To: <20081212062804.3EBCC240A2@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, thanks for this. I was particularly struck by these three paragraphs on page 330: "Though some people think that neologisms are the way (pace the Condillacian side of Lavoisier), in the long run the way to capture minds may be to introduce the new pretending to be the old. My model here is the two-step evolution of the nature of the chemical bond. The first conflation is of the simple 19th century line, denoting association, with a shared electron pair in a Lewis structure. This was followed by Pauling’s skillful association of the covalent wave function of the new quantum mechanics with Lewis’ shared pairs, and through that with the 19th century bond. Meanwhile, other signatures of bonding—length, energy, vibrations—reified the chemical bond. Another instance, a very recent one in my community of theoretical chemistry, is of using the supposedly unneeded (if not unreal) orbitals of density functional theory in the same ways as the orbitals of a so-called one electron molecular orbital approach to electronic structure. The latter is a poorer theory, with greater explanatory power, and in it my favorite molecular orbitals play the central role. Still another grafting is that of explanations of electrostatics onto a quantum mechanical calculation which from the start has electrostatics built into it. This is going on, with a vengeance, right now." I am not sure if "capturing minds" is quite the formulation I would use for what we are trying to do in the digital humanities, but the principle in some cases is similar. I am reminded of the passage in the Art of War that says that the best victory is one where the opposing general never even knew there was a conflict. It may be worth noting, however, that one consequence of that kind of success is that the best generals may not appear prominently in the history books. yrs, Stan Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 379. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:25:52 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Those here with interests in interdisciplinarity and so how different > disciplines go about their business differently will value a recent > article by the Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, "What might philosophy of > science look like if chemists built it?", Synthese 155.3 (April 2007): > 321-36. Also his book, The Same and Not the Same (Columbia University > Press, 1995), Part II: "The way it is told", is worth looking at. One of > the valuable aspects of both is his argument concerning the reductionism > characteristic of 20C physics. > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 16 07:31:52 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F44A28A79; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:31:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8358E28A71; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:31:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081216073150.8358E28A71@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:31:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.383 source of quotation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 383. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Source of quotation about Physics in the 20th century Fellow humanists: For many years, I have been on the track of a quotation from (as I recall) a noted physicist in the early part of the 20th century. All attempts have failed, and the reference librarians at my university admit defeat. (Against the chance that I had previous posted this query, I searched our database for my name and for the quote but found neither.) Here is the quote as I remember it and what I believe are the references the physicist had in mind. =================================== "Science in the 20th century is about the very large, the very small, the very fast and the very slow." the universe sub-atomic structure relativity evolution and geological change =================================== Can anybody give me a source for that quote? Thanks! _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.1665 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 16 07:32:31 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E5A28B04; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:32:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F4D528AF8; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:32:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081216073229.3F4D528AF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:32:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.384 new publication: Glimpse 1.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 384. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: "Megan Hurst" Subject: "Is the Visual Political?" GLIMPSE volume 1.1 now available From: GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing GLIMPSE volume 1.1, "Is the visual political?" is now available for download http://www.glimpsejournal.com Glimpse is an interdisciplinary, quarterly, electronic and print-on- demand journal that examines the functions, processes, and effects of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world(s). Each theme-focused issue features articles, visual spreads, interviews, and reviews spanning the physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. ________________________________________ Contribute your work to upcoming issues: o China Vision (due 01.05.09) o Color (due 03.01.09) o Visions (due 05.01.09) o Cosmos (due 06.13.09) o http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html Subscribeby Dec. 25 to receive a complimentary 4x4" animated flip book from OpticalToys.com http://www.glimpsejournal.com/subscribe.html Advertise http://www.glimpsejournal.com/advertise.html Tell your colleagues Please forward this message to those who might be interested in "the art + science of seeing" Tell us what you think We welcome your feedback, critiques, and ideas editor@glimpsejournal.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 16 07:33:05 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A173028BAB; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:33:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A30428BA0; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:33:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081216073304.6A30428BA0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:33:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.385 William Blake Archive update X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 385. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:05:08 -0500 (EST) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive Dear all, Here's some news from the William Blake Archive. The Stedman plates represent our first publication of commercial book illustrations engraved by Blake but designed by another artist--in this case, Stedman himself. Enjoy, Will 15 December 2008 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of an electronic edition of Blake's sixteen engravings in John Gabriel Stedman's _Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam_ (1796). We are presenting two versions of these plates, one with the designs uncolored and one with the designs hand colored. These commercial copy engravings are presented in our Preview mode, one that provides all the features of the Archive except Image Search and Inote (our image annotation program). Stedman's _Narrative_ contains a frontispiece to volume 1, an engraved vignette on the title page of each of the two volumes, and eighty numbered full-page plates (including three maps). Thirteen of the numbered plates are signed by Blake; a further three unsigned plates (7, 12, and 14) have been attributed to Blake by modern scholars. As both title pages indicate, the full-page plates are based on drawings by Stedman. None of the drawings on which Blake based his engravings has been traced, but it is likely that Blake made various minor alterations in Stedman's amateur designs. Blake began work on the Stedman plates in 1791. Stedman visited Blake in June 1794, and subsequently the engraver helped the author with various business matters, very probably including negotiations with the book's publisher, Joseph Johnson. Blake's attitudes towards slavery and colonialism were indebted to Stedman's autobiographical narrative, as is particularly evident in the texts and designs of his illuminated books _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ and _America_, both dated 1793. Stedman's relationship with a female slave, Joanna, may have influenced Blake's complex representations of gender and sexuality. Most, possibly all, of the large-paper copies issued in 1796 have hand-colored plates that include touches of liquefied gold and silver. This tinting was very probably executed by anonymous commercial colorists hired by Johnson. A second edition was issued in 1806 and reprinted in 1813. Some copies of these two later issues also have hand-colored plates, but in a style different from the 1796 coloring. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor The William Blake Archive _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 17 06:24:31 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB052880F; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D4803287EE; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081217062427.D4803287EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.386 source of quotation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 386. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "dennis c.l." (2) Subject: Source of quotation about Physics in the 20th century [2] From: "Richard Frank" (57) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.383 source of quotation? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:31:27 -0200 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Source of quotation about Physics in the 20th century from google, try: http://64.233.169.132/search?q=cache:xZPr1krTygcJ:www.iath.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v19/0290.html+%22Science+in+the+20th+century+is+about+the+very+large,+the+very+small,+the+very+fast+and+the+very+slow.%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4 [Note that the above URL points to Humanist 19.296, which is newly accessible as http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Archives/Virginia/v19/0290.html --WM] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:31:27 -0200 From: "Richard Frank" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.383 source of quotation? In-Reply-To: <20081216073150.8358E28A71@woodward.joyent.us> Dr. Weinshank, I see from the Humanist archives that you have been looking for this since at least 2002. I was able to find a very similar quote in the following link from a 1978 lecture by Dewey B. Larson. "Not more than five percent of conventional scientific thought has to undergo any significant change, and these major reconstructions are confined to the far-out regions: the realms of the very small, the very large and the very fast, the same regions in which conventional science is encountering its most serious problems." http://www.reciprocalsystem.com/lec/larlect1978.htm I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for. If not, it likely has a common source. This was a lecture so no citations are given. Cheers. Rick Frank -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:32 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 383. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Source of quotation about Physics in the 20th century Fellow humanists: For many years, I have been on the track of a quotation from (as I recall) a noted physicist in the early part of the 20th century. All attempts have failed, and the reference librarians at my university admit defeat. (Against the chance that I had previous posted this query, I searched our database for my name and for the quote but found neither.) Here is the quote as I remember it and what I believe are the references the physicist had in mind. =================================== "Science in the 20th century is about the very large, the very small, the very fast and the very slow." the universe sub-atomic structure relativity evolution and geological change =================================== Can anybody give me a source for that quote? Thanks! _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.1665 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 18 07:26:51 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A4B283C7; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:26:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB3A7283B5; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:26:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081218072648.AB3A7283B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:26:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.387 jobs at the CCH, King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 387. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:50:25 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Job announcement: three Technical Project Officer posts at CCH,King's College London [Apologies for cross-posting] The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) is seeking to appoint three creative, enthusiastic professionals to develop web-based applications bringing together materials from existing database-and XML-based resources. You would be working closely with colleagues in CCH and in humanities and social science departments. CCH is an academic department in the School of Humanities. It is responsible for undergraduate courses, MA programmes and a PhD. As part of its very active research programme, the Centre is involved in a large number of externally funded collaborative research projects. These posts are intended to support the technical development of a number of these projects. Details about the posts are provided below: ----------------------------------------- [Post 1] TECHNICAL PROJECT OFFICER (Web Application Development). G6/AAV/019/08 Experience in design and in building environments based on database technologies is essential. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and knowledge of these technologies is also critical. Web interfaces are developed with the use of well established JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and in accordance with good XHTML and CSS practices, and experience with these are highly desirable. Familiarity with XML and XSLT is desirable. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition, a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences will be valuable. For more information about this post, see below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=7442 This is a one-year post Closing Date: 12 January 2009 ----------------------------------------- [Post 2] TECHNICAL PROJECT OFFICER (Web Application Development). G6/AAV/020/08 Experience in design and in building environments based on database technologies is essential. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and knowledge of these technologies is also critical. Web interfaces are developed with the use of well established JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and in accordance with good XHTML and CSS practices, and experience with these are highly desirable. Familiarity with XML and XSLT is desirable. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition, a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences will be valuable. For more information about this post, see below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=7443 This is a two-year post Closing Date: 12 January 2009 ----------------------------------------- [Post 3] TECHNICAL PROJECT OFFICER (Web Application Development) G6/AAV/021/08 Experience in design and in building environments based on database technologies and/or XML is essential. Experience with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and related technologies such as Apache AXIS is also necessary. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and knowledge of these technologies is also critical. Web interfaces are developed with the use of well established JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and in accordance with good XHTML and CSS practices, and experience with these are highly desirable. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition, a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences will be valuable. For more information about this post, see below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=7444 This is a one year post Closing Date: 12 January 2009 ----------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 18 07:28:06 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2402847C; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:28:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6EA182843E; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:28:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081218072804.6EA182843E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:28:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.388 events: AHRC Beyond Text; UCL short courses; CAA 2009 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 388. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bond, Katherine" (23) Subject: AHRC Beyond Text Programme - LCACE Information Event [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Short Courses at University College London [3] From: Willard McCarty (79) Subject: FINAL Call for Papers and Posters, CAA 2009 (deadline: Dec. 19, 2008) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:27:25 +0000 From: "Bond, Katherine" Subject: AHRC Beyond Text Programme - LCACE Information Event LCACE Information Event on AHRC Beyond Text Programme Thursday 26th February 10.00am – 2.00pm (including lunch) Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) programme “Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Images, Objects” is hosting an informal workshop for the theatre community in partnership with the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) and ITC. The workshop will be led by Professor Evelyn Welch, the programme director. The aim of the workshop is to explain generally how the theatre sector can participate in academic research, to look at some of the specifics of the Beyond Text Programme and to discuss some of the ways that artists and academics can work in partnership. The event will also include a practical session on expressing your ideas in an application to an academic programme. In previous events, this has proved a very fruitful exercise where there has been a good mix of practitioners and academics. For further details of the event, and to reserve a place please go to the LCACE website This is a free event, but places are limited and advanced booking is essential. To reserve a place please book online at http://www.lcace.org.uk/events/?event=82 More information on Beyond Text can be found at the AHRC website http://www.ahrc.ac.uk Katherine Bond Business Development Manager - Creative & Cultural Industries King’s College London Business Ltd 8th Floor Capital House 42 Weston St London SE1 3QD Tel: +44(0)20 7848 8171 Fax: +44(0)20 7848 3193 email: katherine.bond@kcl.ac.uk Subject: Short Courses at University College London -------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:08:21 +0000 From: Claire Warwick Continuing Professional Development and Short Courses at UCL School of Library, Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS) Many of the modules from the taught programmes offered by UCL's School of Library, Archive and Information Studies for its professional masters programmes can be taken as independent short courses for continuing professional development. There are no formal requirements for admission, although education to GCE A Level or first degree standard is generally expected, and some technical modules have specific pre-requisites (e.g. for Server technologies and programming some programming experience, preferably Introduction to programming and scripting, is required). Modules run for one term and attandence is required for half a day each week. It is also possible to take short course modules for credit for transfer to certificate, diploma and full masters awards. All the information applicants need is at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/teaching/cpd-short-courses/ We are currently considering applications for modules running in the second term (Jan-March 2009). Please note that from January 2009 we will be changing our name to UCL Department of Information Studies. -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Senior Lecturer and Programme Director Electronic Communication and Publishing School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT phone: 020 7679 2548, email: c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/claire-warwick/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:11:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: FINAL Call for Papers and Posters, CAA 2009 (deadline: Dec. 19, 2008) -------- Original Message -------- 19, 2008) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:37:13 +0000 From: Bernie Frischer To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk *FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS, Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 (CAA)* *www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/ * *Deadline: December 19, 2008* *Submit at: http://www.caa2009.org/SubmitProposal.cfm * The 37th annual CAA conference will be held from 22 to 26 March 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA) and will bring together students, researchers, heritage managers and other experts to present, examine and discuss current theory and application of quantitative methods and information technologies in Archaeology (www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/ ). The CAA conference has established a strong tradition of international, open communication and exchange that crosses boundaries between archaeologists and colleagues working in quantitative fields such as mathematics and computer science. The conference also regularly attracts students, researchers and practitioners from geography, geomatics, life sciences, physical anthropology, museology, field archaeology and others. In 2009, CAA will co-meet with ECAI, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (www.ecai.org/ http://www.ecai.org/ ). It will also offer optional short, introductory courses in the use of equipment (such as 3D scanners), hardware, and software typically used by digital archaeologists today. This Call for Papers invites the submission of abstracts for papers and posters to be presented at the conference. The Scientific Committee (www.caa2009.org/ TopCommittees.cfm http://www.caa2009.org/%20TopCommittees.cfm ) has accepted a wide range of proposals for thematic sessions, workshops, and round tables. These have been listed on the conference website at www.caa2009.org http://www.caa2009.org/ . Posters can also be presented at the conference in a special area set aside for this purpose. Please submit your abstract for a paper or poster online at: www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm http://www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm . An abstract should be between 300 and 500 words in length, should clearly indicate the reason why your work is original and significant, should contain a short bibliography (if there is important earlier work to cite), should indicate the session(s) in which the paper could appropriately be presented, and should also state whether you are requesting 15 minutes for a short presentation or 25 minutes for a long presentation. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to assign a paper to the session that appears most appropriate, which may sometimes not correspond to the session to which the author(s) applied. The abstracts for posters should provide the same information, except for indication of an appropriate session and length. *The deadline for submission of all abstracts is December 19, 2008*. You will be notified by January 15, 2009 about the decision of the Scientific Committee. It is recommended that travelers needing a visa to visit the United States apply at least 90 days before arriving, or by approximately the fourth week of December. The Scientific Committee will try to expedite decisions on abstract submissions of attendees needing a visa so that they will know whether their abstract has been accepted prior to beginning the visa process. If you need a visa and submit your abstract by December 19, 2008, the Scientific Committee will make every effort to notify you of its decision by December 22, 2008. For more information about CAA and previous conferences, please see: www.caaconference.org http://www.caa2007.de/www.caaconference.org . Contact: bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com -- Bernard Frischer, Director IATH University of Virginia www.iath.virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu office tel. +1-434-924-4873 (Alderman Library) office tel. +1-434-243-4080 (10th and Market) home tel. +1-434-971-1435 US cell: +1-310-266-0183 --------------------------------- Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 --------------------------------- Postal address: IATH 100 10th Street, NE, Suite 103 Charlottesville, VA 22902 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 20 09:16:45 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3712AE1E; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:16:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 975892AE0E; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:16:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081220091643.975892AE0E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.389 Dictionary looking for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 389. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Dictionary of Words looking for Poets Dear colleagues, I and colleagues are trying to develop a project that would build on the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (dictionary.mcmaster.ca) and are looking for people comfortable reviewing poetry. The idea is to set up an opportunity for poets to work with a graphic designer/programmer to create poems that use the images of the Dictionary. None of us feel comfortable assessing the poetry submitted or the portfolio of previous work of people who might take advantage of this opportunity. We would appreciate hearing from people who have experience assessing poetry whether in verse composition courses or in other venues. If you are interested in being part of a small team that assesses and then works with poets please contact me. Thanks in advance, Geoffrey Rockwell geoffrey [dot] rockwell [at] ualberta [dot] ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 20 09:19:33 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6499B2AEB7; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DE802AEA6; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:19:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081220091931.7DE802AEA6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.391 new on WWW: IL Infobits for December X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 391. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 390. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:45:51 +0000 From: Carolyn Kotlas TL INFOBITS December 2008 No. 30 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitdec08.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... 2008 Survey of Online Education in the U.S Study of Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning Methods "Academia.edu" Networking Site Copyright Lecture and Book Available Online New Journal for Educational Designers Recommended Reading ...................................................................... 2008 SURVEY OF ONLINE EDUCATION IN THE U.S. "Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008" by I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, is the sixth in a series of annual reports on a study conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group for the Sloan Consortium. Using responses from over 2,500 colleges and universities, the study sought answers to several questions on online education: -- How many students are learning online? -- What is the impact of the economy on online enrollments? -- Is online learning strategic? -- What disciplines are best represented online? The complete report is available at http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is a consortium of institutions and organizations committed "to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines." Sloan-C is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. For more information, go to http://www.sloan-c.org/ The Babson Survey Research Group at Babson College (Wellesley, MA, USA) "conducts regional, national, and international research projects, including survey design, sampling methodology, data integrity, statistical analyses and reporting." For more information, go to http://www3.babson.edu/eship/aboutblank/ ...................................................................... STUDY OF ASYNCHRONOUS AND SYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING METHODS "The debate about the benefits and limitations of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning seems to have left the initial stage, in which researchers tried to determine the medium that works 'better' -- such studies generally yielded no significant differences. Consequently, instead of trying to determine the best medium, the e-learning community needs an understanding of when, why, and how to use different types of e-learning." In "Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning" (EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY, vol. 31, no. 4, October–December 2008), Stefan Hrastinski writes on the "benefits and limitations of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning." He provides useful tables comparing the two to help instructors understand when, why, and how to use these delivery modes. The paper is available at http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0848.pdf (PDF format) and http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/AsynchronousandSynchronou/47683 (HTML format). EDUCAUSE Quarterly, The IT Practitioner's Journal [ISSN 1528-5324] is published by EDUCAUSE, which has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Current and past issues are available online at http://www.educause.edu/eq/ See also: "Exploding the Myths of Synchronous E-Learning" By Clive Shepherd INSIDE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, November 2008 http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/magazine/article_full.cfm?articleid=291&issueid=29 "Live events have immediacy, they facilitate networking, they act as targets by which activities must be completed, and they're simpler to design and support." ...................................................................... "ACADEMIA.EDU" NETWORKING SITE Earlier this fall, a team of people from Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge Universities launched the website, Academia.edu, which does two things: -- It shows academics around the world structured in a "tree" format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations. -- It enables academics to see news in their area of research. The site's founders are hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the world, including faculty members, post-docs, graduate students, and independent researchers. People can add their departments and themselves to the tree. Individual entries can list the academic's research interests, papers and books, websites, talks, courses taught, and CVs. To view the site and to add your entry and/or department, go to http://www.academia.edu/ ...................................................................... COPYRIGHT LECTURE AND BOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE Last month, as part of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain Information Ecology Lecture series, Duke Law Professor James Boyle gave a talk titled "A Song's Tale: Mashups, Borrowing and the Law." You can watch the webcast of the lecture online at http://realserver.law.duke.edu/ramgen/fall08/cspd/11242008.rm The lecture was held in conjunction with Boyle's new book, THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ENCLOSING THE COMMONS OF THE MIND (Yale University Press, 2008), which he is making available for reading online at http://www.thepublicdomain.org/ ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL DESIGNERS EDUCATIONAL DESIGNER [ISSN 1759-1325], a free online journal published by the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE), "is intended to promote excellence in the research-based design, development, and evaluation of educational products and processes in the fields of mathematics, science, engineering and technology." Areas in which contributions are expected include: -- What can good educational design achieve? -- What makes a good design? -- Issues in design and design research -- The roles of evaluation -- Research methods, including documentation of outcomes -- Theory of design -- Long term strategies The journal is available at http://www.educationaldesigner.org/ The goals of ISSDE are to "improve the design and development of educational tools and processes; increase the impact of good design on educational practice; build a design community that will move forward toward these goals." For more information contact: Hugh Burkhardt, Chair, ISSDE; tel: +44 115 951 4411; email: hugh.burkhardt@nottingham.ac.uk; Web: http://www.isdde.org/isdde/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Better Learning with Sites and Sound" By Andy Guess INSIDE HIGHER ED, December 3, 2008 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/03/audio "One qualitative study, which surely won't be welcomed by manufacturers of basic word processing software, found that students who create and edit documents using Web-based collaboration tools include more complex visual media in their assignments -- and come away with a better understanding in the process. Another ongoing experiment finds, with statistical significance, that instructors can be more effective in grading students' work if they record their comments directly into documents as audio." ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits ...................................................................... _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 21 09:47:25 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C5B2A9F0; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:47:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD62F2A9E6; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:47:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081221094723.CD62F2A9E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:47:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.392 solstitial celebrations 2008 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 392. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:38:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: solstitial celebrations Dear colleagues, Those relatively new to Humanist may not know that each year at this time I indulge in a long, personal and somewhat whimsical meditation to mark the holidays. A celebratory, generous but still not, I hope, unreasoning mood dominates. On this particular Solstice I find in fact several very good reasons to celebrate. It is true that they are unlikely to impress the taxi driver who asks you what you do for a living, or the person who cuts your hair and wants to know what the social benefits of your research might be. And while these reasons to celebrate are less spiritually transformative than was meant by the Zen master when he said, "I drank a cup of tea and stopped the war", they do help to keep the emotional carborundum at bay, and so us in a better state to answer the hard questions of taxi drivers and cutters of hair -- and to attempt an understanding of how seriously that Zen master meant what he said. My first reason to celebrate is Humanist's new, shiny (but to you almost entirely invisible) vehicle. It replaces an editorial mechanism for processing messages originally designed and implemented by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, then after many years reworked by Malgosia Askanas. Her perl-scripts lasted for quite a while -- more than 8 years, I think it has been. But during this time changes in the complexity of e-mail communications and development of supporting systems made those scripts increasingly inadequate, my job more and more frustrating. Then, over the last many months, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO, www.digitalhumanities.org), Malgosia was paid to rethink, redesign and rebuild all of the mostly invisible infrastructure. Hallelujah! [All those unaffected by British popular culture should skip immediately to the next paragraph. For those who are affected, I intend no X Factor! Rather, as antidote, substitute Jeff Buckley's version, which is much, much better.] Now is the first occasion in some years, I think, that Hanukkah itself begins on the Solstice. I looked up the date because I wanted to send proper greetings to a Jewish friend of mine. This in turn prompted me with extra urgency to make sure the annual Humanist message was sent out on the Solstice. In addition my Muslim neighbours, whose children are deeply fascinated by our Christmas tree, reminded me that Muharram (Islamic New Year) begins on 29 December. Other festivals for very good reason cluster around this time and give varying light in the gloomy darkness. But here I must of course relativize my cozy picture of a gathering of candles in the darkness, connoting unity in the diversity of the world, since the world is in fact round and orbits the sun in a particular way. An Australian colleague, finally handing in a chapter of a book I am editing, commented that now he could go off to enjoy the lazy days of Summer. I still find the reality of a blazing, hot Christmas impossible to get my mind around, having been Downunder only once during the Summer, and then rather further south than the really hot weather reaches. (In mid Summer Tasmania can be quite chilly!) So I hope friends and colleagues in Australasia can forgive all the cozy darkness that has crept into my prose, and perhaps they can contribute some of their warmth. And that's not all. I must also acknowledge my quite inadequate experience of winter darkness in comparison to that of friends in the REAL north. An Australian ex-pat living in Umea, Sweden, once attempted to describe to me, on a very sunny late evening in mid Summer, a typical season of darkness there. He spoke of vivid, hallucinogenic dreams. But then he was Australian and had not lived there all that long. On the home-front geographically speaking there is, I think, good cause to celebrate our growing and developing PhD in Digital Humanities at King's. Its principal constraint is funding, not interest in it from potential students, which is strong, nor the willingness of colleagues in other departments to collaborate. It will surprise no one that the degree is primarily collaborative: a majority of our students with other departments, e.g. Portuguese, History, Byzantine and Modern Greek and the social sciences. But a majority of these have come to the degree because of the "digital humanities" label, and so we have had the pleasure of inviting other departments to participate. There are a few potential applicants in the wings developing their ideas, potentially with English, Computer Science, Philosophy and perhaps Geography. We could easily have 3 or 4 times the number currently enrolled if the funding were in place. We're working on that and on ideas, such as the "semi-distance PhD" I've mentioned before. There now can be no doubt that our subject is capable of vigorously healthy research at the most advanced degree level. Put that under your tree! And there is no end to the intellectual ferment the combination of computing and the humanities brings to the older disciplines, as our colleagues in other departments will attest. Two of the areas that particularly concern me are the development of an historical sense in the field, with the light that throws on the affected disciplines, and the particular way we do interdisciplinarity. I'm astonished at how much raw historical material there is. Even a rather shallow sampling turns up many if not most of the intellectual concerns on our plate today and exhibits great intelligence and imagination. Such has been our progress-driven habit of mind that we've often lost sight of such valuable work. It's not so much that we end up "reinventing the wheel" (an example of a misleading metaphor, as if ideas, and ideas in software, were stable objects like wheels) but that we get caught up in an endless cycle of forgetting. As a result we have great difficulty developing a disciplinary sense of ourselves and so a helpful sense of our disciplinary relations. Every once in a while someone notices that we've not had an IMPACT on a particular field of research. (Feel the billiard balls collide, o wooden heads!) Such complainers seem oblivious to the long history of complaint, dating back to the early 1960s, and so miss the highly intelligent responses to these litanies of failure, the very useful misunderstandings they illuminate and the parallel phenomena in the wider culture. It's a curious shtick but, as I say, helpful as a clue. I digress away from celebration and so beg your forgiveness. Allow me to return via a problem I find particularly fascinating at the moment: the relation of progress (characteristic of technology) to questioning (characteristic of the humanities). The fact that the former cannot be denied seems new in the humanities, at least since codex technology became part of the furniture. Recently a classicist friend of mine wanted to know why it was that I keep going on about changing things. Did I have imperial ambitions? he asked. This got me to thinking about the origins and effects of my progress-affected field, and especially about the fact that new tools actually can augment the intelligence with which we begin and so enable us to think in new ways. So I began to wonder about what the leaven of progress is doing to the bread we bake. In sum the imaginative richness of our own brief past is surely a fine Christmas present to be unwrapped -- again and again. Is there room under the tree? And finally in my catalogue is a great cause to celebrate, directly for us in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, indirectly for the digital humanities as a whole: the result of the U.K. 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, to which we were submitted as an academic department for the first time in this round. The details are complex, but suffice it to say that as these things are measured our field now has robust standing among the disciplines in the U.K. de jure as well as de facto. Whatever one may say about such processes -- indeed, there is much to say both positive and negative -- gaining recognition of this kind allows many good things to happen that would otherwise have little chance nowadays. (Thank you Harold!) Again, being a northern hemispherean, what strikes me is the playing off of our cozy warmth and good cheer against the chill and, and on this day, darkest time of the year. Yes, we are all, as John Donne said, riding westward. But what a ride! Perhaps life would be better at this moment on a beach somewhere in the sun. I certainly hope it is good for computing humanists enjoying such circumstances (with a fast wireless connection, of course). Anyhow, for the twenty-second time I wish you all a happy, merry Christmas, a joyous Hanukkah, a hopeful Muharram and as many sweet etceteras as there are at hand to be enjoyed. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 21 09:48:09 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10802AA49; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:48:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 63F1D2AA41; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:48:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081221094807.63F1D2AA41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.393 call for reviews: Journal of Baudrillard Studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 393. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: Call for book reviews In-Reply-To: <20081122102444.63B4328351@woodward.joyent.us> The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies has updated its list of "Books Available for Review" IJBS publishes reviews of work by and about Baudrillard and of concern to contemporary theory more broadly The list is available at: http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol-6_1/v6-1-books.html If you would like to review one or more books, or would like to suggest another for review, please contact Dr. Gerry Coulter at: gcoulter[at]ubishops[dot]ca The next reviews will be posted in Volume 6-2 (July 2008). Reviews received after April 10, 2008 will appear (if accepted) in Volume 7-1 (January 2009). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 21 09:49:01 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED532AACB; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2AD0B2AABC; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081221094900.2AD0B2AABC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.394 event: DRHA 2009 in Belfast X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 394. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:10:52 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DRHA 2009, QUB, Belfast: CFP **CALL FOR PROPOSALS** Forthcoming Conference DRHA 2009: DYNAMIC NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE: CONTEXTS, CRISES, FUTURES http://www.dho.ie/drha2009 The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage. The conference is hosted by Queen's University, Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy and Swansea University in partnership with the National Library of Wales. It will take place from Sunday 6th September to Wednesday 9th September 2009. It will be held at QUB with its innovative spaces, fantastic architecture and state-of-the-art Sonic Laboratory. The conference will: * Establish new digital communities of knowledge exchange * Promote discussion around the impact of data on scholarship and wider society * Enquire into how innovations become mainstream through mutation, imitation, and the 're-invention of the wheel' * Advance discussion around digitisation of scholarly editions and cultural heritage * Evolve new approaches to the digital representation of time, space and locality * Debate burning issues in digital preservation and sustainability * Investigate user engagement and social participation * Explore the impact of narrative and design in the Arts and Humanities on ICT and vice versa * Promote discussion around education and the digital humanities and arts * Share the theory and practice of creating and documenting digital arts Keynote speakers will include: * Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham * Andrew Green, Librarian of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales * Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, round-tables, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference themes, with attention to 'contexts, crises, futures'. We particularly encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats such as 'town hall' discussions and hands-on workshops that will help to foster 'dynamic networks of knowledge and practice'. DHRA 2009 will also include a round-table event with facilities for enabling international participants to present papers via Second Life, and a further session dedicated to the discussion of Multi-user Virtual Environments such as Second Life. Short presentations, for example of work-in-progress, are also invited for an informal, rapid (Quickfire) slideshow and discussion event (please see DRHA website for further details). Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/main.php?page=soniclab and http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/AboutUs/Facilities/PerformanceSpaces/ for further information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available. Spaces include the Sonic Arts Laboratory, the Harty Room and the McMordie Hall. All proposals, whether papers, performance or other, should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA. The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2009. Abstracts should be between 600 - 1000 words. A selection of submissions will be published in The Edinburgh University Press International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September, QUB with the Digital Humanities Observatory and King's College London, will offer a series of short, pre-conference, hands-on courses in TEI, GIS and Visualisation. Further details and prices will appear on the DHRA 2009 website. Please see http://www.dho.ie/drha2009 for more information and a link for online submission. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 23 10:26:32 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C53F2AB14; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:26:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 47FC92AB03; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:26:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081223102630.47FC92AB03@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:26:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.395 more on solstitial celebrations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 395. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:28:09 +0100 (CET) From: Jim Barrett Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.392 solstitial celebrations 2008 In-Reply-To: <20081221094723.CD62F2A9E6@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I also remember our walk to the antiquarian book shop that fine day here in Umeå (Latitude: 63° 50', North). I am still here (PhD finished in the fall 2009) and this dark winter I am still experiencing "vivid, hallucinogenic dreams"- I am not alone either having had several locals say the same thing to me over the years. In winter we dream a lot (with around three hours of twilight in the middle of the day in December and January) I seem to remember it was Mircea Eliade who drew a connection between cultures where shamanism played a central role and regions that were conjusive to sensory deprivation: tundra, desert, rainforest and the long nights of winter in the arctic. While shamanic practices seem fairly widespread historically, I like to think that the extreme climate here is having an inspirational effect on me. On that note. Best wishes for the New Year from the land of the midnight sun (and the long winter night). /Jim (an Australian in Umeå) > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 392. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:38:14 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > > Dear colleagues, > > Those relatively new to Humanist may not know that each year at this > time I indulge in a long, personal and somewhat whimsical meditation to > mark the holidays. A celebratory, generous but still not, I hope, > unreasoning mood dominates. On this particular Solstice I find in fact > several very good reasons to celebrate. It is true that they are > unlikely to impress the taxi driver who asks you what you do for a > living, or the person who cuts your hair and wants to know what the > social benefits of your research might be. And while these reasons to > celebrate are less spiritually transformative than was meant by the Zen > master when he said, "I drank a cup of tea and stopped the war", they do > help to keep the emotional carborundum at bay, and so us in a better > state to answer the hard questions of taxi drivers and cutters of hair > -- and to attempt an understanding of how seriously that Zen master > meant what he said. > > My first reason to celebrate is Humanist's new, shiny (but to you almost > entirely invisible) vehicle. It replaces an editorial mechanism for > processing messages originally designed and implemented by Michael > Sperberg-McQueen, then after many years reworked by Malgosia Askanas. > Her perl-scripts lasted for quite a while -- more than 8 years, I think > it has been. But during this time changes in the complexity of e-mail > communications and development of supporting systems made those scripts > increasingly inadequate, my job more and more frustrating. Then, over > the last many months, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the > Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO, > www.digitalhumanities.org), Malgosia was paid to rethink, redesign and > rebuild all of the mostly invisible infrastructure. Hallelujah! > > [All those unaffected by British popular culture should skip immediately > to the next paragraph. For those who are affected, I intend no X Factor! > Rather, as antidote, substitute Jeff Buckley's version, which is much, > much better.] > > Now is the first occasion in some years, I think, that Hanukkah itself > begins on the Solstice. I looked up the date because I wanted to send > proper greetings to a Jewish friend of mine. This in turn prompted me > with extra urgency to make sure the annual Humanist message was sent out > on the Solstice. In addition my Muslim neighbours, whose children are > deeply fascinated by our Christmas tree, reminded me that Muharram > (Islamic New Year) begins on 29 December. Other festivals for very good > reason cluster around this time and give varying light in the gloomy > darkness. But here I must of course relativize my cozy picture of a > gathering of candles in the darkness, connoting unity in the diversity > of the world, since the world is in fact round and orbits the sun in a > particular way. An Australian colleague, finally handing in a chapter of > a book I am editing, commented that now he could go off to enjoy the > lazy days of Summer. I still find the reality of a blazing, hot > Christmas impossible to get my mind around, having been Downunder only > once during the Summer, and then rather further south than the really > hot weather reaches. (In mid Summer Tasmania can be quite chilly!) So I > hope friends and colleagues in Australasia can forgive all the cozy > darkness that has crept into my prose, and perhaps they can contribute > some of their warmth. > > And that's not all. I must also acknowledge my quite inadequate > experience of winter darkness in comparison to that of friends in the > REAL north. An Australian ex-pat living in Umea, Sweden, once attempted > to describe to me, on a very sunny late evening in mid Summer, a typical > season of darkness there. He spoke of vivid, hallucinogenic dreams. But > then he was Australian and had not lived there all that long. > > On the home-front geographically speaking there is, I think, good cause > to celebrate our growing and developing PhD in Digital Humanities at > King's. Its principal constraint is funding, not interest in it from > potential students, which is strong, nor the willingness of colleagues > in other departments to collaborate. It will surprise no one that the > degree is primarily collaborative: a majority of our students with other > departments, e.g. Portuguese, History, Byzantine and Modern Greek and > the social sciences. But a majority of these have come to the degree > because of the "digital humanities" label, and so we have had the > pleasure of inviting other departments to participate. There are a few > potential applicants in the wings developing their ideas, potentially > with English, Computer Science, Philosophy and perhaps Geography. We > could easily have 3 or 4 times the number currently enrolled if the > funding were in place. We're working on that and on ideas, such as the > "semi-distance PhD" I've mentioned before. > > There now can be no doubt that our subject is capable of vigorously > healthy research at the most advanced degree level. Put that under your > tree! > > And there is no end to the intellectual ferment the combination of > computing and the humanities brings to the older disciplines, as our > colleagues in other departments will attest. Two of the areas that > particularly concern me are the development of an historical sense in > the field, with the light that throws on the affected disciplines, and > the particular way we do interdisciplinarity. I'm astonished at how much > raw historical material there is. Even a rather shallow sampling turns > up many if not most of the intellectual concerns on our plate today and > exhibits great intelligence and imagination. Such has been our > progress-driven habit of mind that we've often lost sight of such > valuable work. It's not so much that we end up "reinventing the wheel" > (an example of a misleading metaphor, as if ideas, and ideas in > software, were stable objects like wheels) but that we get caught up in > an endless cycle of forgetting. As a result we have great difficulty > developing a disciplinary sense of ourselves and so a helpful sense of > our disciplinary relations. Every once in a while someone notices that > we've not had an IMPACT on a particular field of research. (Feel the > billiard balls collide, o wooden heads!) Such complainers seem oblivious > to the long history of complaint, dating back to the early 1960s, and so > miss the highly intelligent responses to these litanies of failure, the > very useful misunderstandings they illuminate and the parallel phenomena > in the wider culture. It's a curious shtick but, as I say, helpful as a > clue. > > I digress away from celebration and so beg your forgiveness. Allow me to > return via a problem I find particularly fascinating at the moment: the > relation of progress (characteristic of technology) to questioning > (characteristic of the humanities). The fact that the former cannot be > denied seems new in the humanities, at least since codex technology > became part of the furniture. Recently a classicist friend of mine > wanted to know why it was that I keep going on about changing things. > Did I have imperial ambitions? he asked. This got me to thinking about > the origins and effects of my progress-affected field, and especially > about the fact that new tools actually can augment the intelligence with > which we begin and so enable us to think in new ways. So I began to > wonder about what the leaven of progress is doing to the bread we bake. > > In sum the imaginative richness of our own brief past is surely a fine > Christmas present to be unwrapped -- again and again. Is there room under > the tree? > > And finally in my catalogue is a great cause to celebrate, directly for > us in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College > London, indirectly for the digital humanities as a whole: the result of > the U.K. 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, to which we were submitted > as an academic department for the first time in this round. The details > are complex, but suffice it to say that as these things are measured our > field now has robust standing among the disciplines in the U.K. de jure > as well as de facto. Whatever one may say about such processes -- > indeed, there is much to say both positive and negative -- gaining > recognition of this kind allows many good things to happen that would > otherwise have little chance nowadays. (Thank you Harold!) > > Again, being a northern hemispherean, what strikes me is the playing off > of our cozy warmth and good cheer against the chill and, and on this > day, darkest time of the year. Yes, we are all, as John Donne said, > riding westward. But what a ride! Perhaps life would be better at this > moment on a beach somewhere in the sun. I certainly hope it is good for > computing humanists enjoying such circumstances (with a fast wireless > connection, of course). > > Anyhow, for the twenty-second time I wish you all a happy, merry > Christmas, a joyous Hanukkah, a hopeful Muharram and as many sweet > etceteras as there are at hand to be enjoyed. > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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 > -- PhD Candidate, HUMlab. Department of Language Studies. Umeå University +46 (0)90 786 6584 Umeå University.SE-901 87.Umeå.Sweden Blog: http://www.soulsphincter.blogspot.com HUMlab: http://www.humlab.umu.se/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 23 10:29:20 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9E22ABB6; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB4A82ABA3; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:29:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081223102918.CB4A82ABA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:29:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.396 job at MIT in the Media Lab X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 396. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:11:03 +0000 From: Pattie Maes Subject: MIT Media Lab looking to hire jr faculty instorytelling/entertainment computing The M.I.T. Media Laboratory is looking to hire tenure track faculty in among other areas storytelling and entertainment computing: http://facultysearch.media.mit.edu/facultysearch.nsf [From IFIP-EC-NEWS, http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 23 10:30:44 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED282AC6E; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:30:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 786432AC62; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:30:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081223103042.786432AC62@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.397 what does a digital humanist do in Dublin? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 397. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:34:16 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: off topic: was: DRHA 2009 in Belfast; now: visiting Ireland We arrive in Dublin on Christmas Eve and if anyone has suggestions for what we might visit/do/see, we would appreciate it. We are staying near Trinity at the Brooks. Plans now are for a midnight mass and visiting whatever happens to be open on Christmas Day. From there, it's south, near Cobth, over to Kilarney, up near Gallway and back to Dublin. We'll be doing touristy things mostly, but any suggestions to a first timer to Ireland would be appreciated. I understand if this is too off topic for the list. Thanks. Bradley Bleck English Department Spokane Falls CC http://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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 23 10:32:08 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276922AD67; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:32:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69A462ACF5; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:32:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081223103205.69A462ACF5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:32:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.398 cfp: Learning in Virtual Worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 398. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:35:58 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: cfp: Special Issue on Learning in Virtual Worlds Apologies for x-posting-jh CALL FOR PAPERS special issue of Learning, Media and Technology issue theme: Learning in Virtual Worlds Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski Virtual worlds are learning worlds. There is substantial evidence that people learn in virtual worlds. While most learning in these spaces is informal, existing outside the school curriculum, formalised learning environments have also been developed in textual worlds, MOOs, MUSHes, MUDs and multi-media spaces like ActiveWorlds(R), Second Life(R), World of Warcraft (R) to support educational goals in primary, secondary, higher and lifelong learning contexts. The extensive writings on virtual reality and virtual worlds over the past four decades have covered the breadth of the phenomena and experiences of learning via CMC in these situated spaces; this call for papers seeks scholarship that builds upon and extends those accounts. We seek research that deals with learning and research in social networks or among friends, learning through play, learning through artistic creation and learning in unconventional virtual realities. We seek papers that examine learning or modes of learning that occurs in unexpected ways. For example, workshops have been transformed with the inclusion of new materials, like clay or other art equipment, encouraging participants to express themselves through different modes of communication. Such physical practices mirror the opportunities afforded in virtual environments, increasing potential outcomes by breaking down borders of expression, creating a place for play, and expanding discourse. We seek research that aims to capture similar alternative practices in learning within virtual worlds. While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded study in the social or behavioral sciences. We seek a special issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. Submission guidelines: This special issue is edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Please contact them at jhuns@vt.edu and akrotoski@yahoo.com to discuss your submissions. The editors welcome contributions from new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage papers of around 6000 words. Short discussion papers of 2000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed for the 'Viewpoints' section. Learning, Media and Technology submission guidelines and referencing styles will be followed [see: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17439884.asp ] The guest editors will consider papers received by March 15, 2009. Fewer than 10 papers will be accepted. The special issue will be published in early 2010. Please send papers to jhuns@vt.edu, clearly indicating that your submission is for the Special Issue on learning in virtual worlds. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 23 10:34:28 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F72F2ADDA; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:34:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 277752ADD2; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:34:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081223103426.277752ADD2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:34:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.399 two talks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 399. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arun Kumar Tripathi (18) Subject: Don Ihde on Trust in Technology [2] From: Arun Kumar Tripathi (58) Subject: Albert Borgmann on 'The Growth of Information and the Texture of Reality' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:46:00 +0000 From: Arun Kumar Tripathi Subject: Don Ihde on Trust in Technology Dear Prof. McCarty: I am sending you an information, in the form of a talk by Professor Ihde on "Trust in Technology"--which under the banner of "Templeton Research Lectures" he gave at Stony Brook. In the talk, Ihde argues that trust is one of the most important and essential features of the modern world. Without it, most human activities - from interpersonal relationships and mailing letters to boarding aircraft and taking medicines - would grind to a halt like machines drained of oil. Many institutions, from science to religion, have been shaken recently by controversies involving trust. Yet trust is difficult to examine in a comprehensive and systematic way. The Trust Institute at Stony Brook seeks to carry out an innovative and interdisciplinary inquiry into trust and its role in human life. Listen Ihde's talk at http://podcast.ic.sunysb.edu:16080/weblog/templeton/?permalink=DonIhde-TrustandTechnology.html by clicking "Podcast: TRL_Ihde 2.m4a" on the above site. Don Ihde's talk is informative and constructive in the areas of philosophy of technologies. Regards, Arun --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:48:01 +0000 From: Arun Kumar Tripathi Subject: Albert Borgmann on 'The Growth of Information and the Texture of Reality' Dear Prof. McCarty: "The unintended consequences and dangers of technologization are real, and they deserve reflections and replies. Meanwhile the deeper danger of cultural and moral devastation goes unnoticed and is to some extent eclipsed by attention to the overt dangers (which, to repeat, need to be addressed forthwith)." (Albert Borgmann). Albert Borgmann, somewhat in the spirit of French technologist Jacques Ellul, finds technology to be a double-edged sword. He writes that while technology conspires against the gospel, it also bears possibilities of contributing to a rich public life of celebration and personal life of focal practices. However, the commodification that accompanies technology makes a promise of liberation that it is unable to keep. Borgmann outlines contingent aspects of social and political life that remain open to fundamental choices, which can lead us to engagement with our reality. As argued in Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology (2003), technology is shown to be a moral issue with implications of disengagement and loss of meaning. In his book, Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country (Uni. of Chicago Press, 2007), Borgmann demonstrates, in the words of Robert Bellah, "how an increasing tendency for Americans to live in a virtual world undermines our very understanding of ethical responsibility. In a dangerous world and an often unhappy society we need to face reality (or 'get real' as current jargon would put it) if we are to do the right thing." Albert Borgmann argues that modern philosophy has come to see practice as a primary element of human activity, as opposed to the largely theoretical concerns of traditional Western philosophy. Marx, of course, famously argued that material conditions (esp. economic practices and structures) form human being. However, Borgmann suggests that philosophy is still blind to the characteristics of contemporary material culture. Our reality today is dominated by the device paradigm, in which everything bears a surface functionality that distances us from a real human interaction with the other and our environment. Philosophers point out the liabilities, what happens when technology moves beyond lifting genuine burdens and starts freeing us from burdens that we should not want to be rid of, says Albert Borgmann. Albert Borgmann is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana, Missoula where he has taught since 1970. On the eve of event of "The Habitat of Information: Social and Organizational Consequences of Information Growth" (The 8th Social Study of ICT workshop (SSIT8) at London School of Economics, 25 April 2008, Professor Albert Borgmann gave a talk on "The Growth of Information and the Texture of Reality" where he argues that traditionally information has served to illuminate and enrich our world. It has lent the texture of reality definition and splendor. Writing and printing have increased the benefits of information. So have the explosive developments of computers, communication, and media. But they have also rendered the texture of reality brittle and opaque. Its surface has become both glamorous and ambiguous, its substructure both powerful and impenetrable. We feel overwhelmed by information commodities and ruled by the information machinery. The texture of reality can become newly luminous and intelligible if we balance the glamour of its surface with physical and social engagement and lift the opaqueness of its underside through technological literacy. The growth of information will then find its appropriate channels and levels and fulfill its promise of clarity and prosperity. Borgmann's talk is available at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/newsAndEvents/podcasts/borgmann.mp3 The talk of Borgmann's video is available at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/newsAndEvents/2008events/SSIT8/borgmannVideo.htm If any humanities member wants to read Borgmann's essay on 'The Growth of Information and the Texture of Reality'--please let me know. With kind regards, Arun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 24 07:27:29 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5193C2A937; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:27:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 770DB2A926; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:27:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081224072726.770DB2A926@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:27:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.400 solstitial celebrations and northern longings X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 400. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:56:16 +0200 From: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.395 more on solstitial celebrations Dear Jim in Umea, I's jealous, jaleous. jealous - you have fulfilled a dream I've had from my early youth - longer ago than you can perhaps imagine, but still as fresh as a budding daffodil: to spend the heart of winter in the far North. It has always seemed the to me the only true winter experience: the dark freezing cold snowey outside (the outside was never a town, but the edge of a small village, isolated in a vast expanse, which I would cross in a sledge - and the cozy warmth of a wood fire inside, the hot grog or wine - the room smelling of cinnamon and cloves, the winter pastry the Christmas Tree is part of that, but I'm perfectly happy with the Menora prescribed by my faith. Ironically, neither was born in the Northern winter, but in the chilly, but seldom snowey hills of Judea. Yet, (born and raised in Vienna and the Netherlands) I was shocked by the distinctly mediterranean atmosphere on my first visit to the Nazareth Christmas market. So like you, Jim I have dreamt, and am still dreaming of a winter in the far North - mostly day dreaming - but I can easily see these dreams morph into the local "vivid, hallucinogenic dreams" Happy Solstice from Jerusalem, Gerda Elata-Alster ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:26 PM > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 395. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:28:09 +0100 (CET) > From: Jim Barrett > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.392 solstitial celebrations 2008 > In-Reply-To: <20081221094723.CD62F2A9E6@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Willard, > I also remember our walk to the antiquarian book shop that fine day here > in Umeå (Latitude: 63° 50', North). > I am still here (PhD finished in the fall 2009) and this dark winter I am > still experiencing "vivid, hallucinogenic dreams"- I am not alone either > having had several locals say the same thing to me over the years. In > winter we dream a lot (with around three hours of twilight in the middle > of the day in December and January) > I seem to remember it was Mircea Eliade who drew a connection between > cultures where shamanism played a central role and regions that were > conjusive to sensory deprivation: tundra, desert, rainforest and the long > nights of winter in the arctic. While shamanic practices seem fairly > widespread historically, I like to think that the extreme climate here is > having an inspirational effect on me. > > On that note. Best wishes for the New Year from the land of the midnight > sun (and the long winter night). > > /Jim > (an Australian in Umeå) > [...]> -- > PhD Candidate, > HUMlab. > Department of Language Studies. > Umeå University > +46 (0)90 786 6584 > Umeå University.SE-901 87.Umeå.Sweden > Blog: http://www.soulsphincter.blogspot.com > HUMlab: http://www.humlab.umu.se/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 24 07:29:08 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133712A9AE; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:29:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D68E2A9A4; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:29:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081224072906.4D68E2A9A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:29:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.401 books in XML? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 401. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:06:43 +0100 From: Junte Zhang Subject: Looking for books in XML Hi all, I am looking for freely available books in XML format. Does someone know a good repository? Preferably, books related to topics in the Humanities. I know Microsoft has a huge collection, but I would like to use a different set of data. I know Project Gutenberg has online books that you can download, but these are in HTML and do not have real in XML encoded book structure. Thanks! Best, junte _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 24 07:30:38 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F2D2AA6E; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:30:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F8782AA67; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:30:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081224073037.2F8782AA67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:30:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.402 events: Methods for Modalities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 402. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:05:10 +0000 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M6 Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-14, 2009 ===== Scope ----- The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ M4M-6 will be preceded by a two-day mini-course aimed at preparing PhD students and other researchers for participation in the workshop. The mini-course is associated with the FIRST research school (http://first.dk). [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 24 09:54:00 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132AF2AD3B; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 092DB2AD30; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:53:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20081224095358.092DB2AD30@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:53:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.403 writing and pioneering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 403. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:52:41 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: writing and pioneering At the beginning of her astonishingly resonant book, Open Fields: Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1996), Dame Gillian Beer writes about Keats and Darwin -- the poet's insistence in "The Fall of Hyperion" that "only the written gives any hope of survival", and the naturalist's transcribing of what he saw. "Darwin, energetically observing and writing before the establishment of genetic theory," she says, "had to have the patience of the pioneer -- the patience not to know for sure within his lifetime 'Whether the dream now purposed to rehearse / Be poet's or fanatic's', whether it would prove to be authentic or delusive." (p. 14). So, for us a question and a consolation of sorts. The question is, does the same hold true for the digital humanities, that "only the written gives any hope of survival"? Given the short life-span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them and, as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their creators, can any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written commentary and explanation? Solid work in the history of science and technology gives us the intriguing idea of "thing knowledge", but in any given case, can we say what that knowledge is without using words? Is it knowledge without words? (Those here who know their Swift will recall in Gulliver's Travels, book 3, chapter 5, his description of the Laputan "Scheme for entirely abolishing all Words whatsoever": "that since Words are only Names for Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them, such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business they are to discourse on.... which hath only this Inconvenience attending it, that if a Man's Business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged in Proportion to carry a greater bundle of Things upon his Back, unless he can afford one or two strong Servants to attend him. I have often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their Packs, like Pedlars among us; who, when they met in the Streets, would lay down their Loads, open their Sacks, and hold Conversation for an Hour together; then put up their Implements, help each other to resume their Burthens, and take their Leave." Of course a laptop with a fair sized hard disc isn't nearly as heavy.) The consolation is, I suppose, that we may look back at those, like Darwin, who were as uncertain of what they said and did as we are of what we say and do. Often I contemplate by example what a mature discipline allows its practitioners to do. We can only hope, I suppose, for a magnanimous audience and do what we can to cultivate it. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 26 11:07:11 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F02623C21; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:07:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF83023C10; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:07:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081226110709.DF83023C10@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:07:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.404 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 404. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:08:54 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.403 writing and pioneering In-Reply-To: <20081224095358.092DB2AD30@woodward.joyent.us> This is a question that has been exercising me lately. I believe that we do have categories of artifacts that both reify knowledge and communicate it. Hand tools are an example. Not all hand tools, certainly, can be interpreted outside their historical context. Anyone doubting that statement need only visit one of the Saskatchewan Western Development Museums (although perhaps not their web site). But in general, if I have opposable thumbs and an elbow, which I do happen to have, then a hammer seems fairly straightforward to interpret. Pre-existing knowledge about nails does help. Another example is art. Certainly not all art is accessible without some training in how to look at it, but a kind of knowledge is often available by direct observation. I would argue that the same is true for photography and architecture. I think there are two questions: is there knowledge without words? and is the knowledge without words the same as the knowledge with words? My answers would be yes and no, respectively. For some categories the two kinds of knowledge may be closer than for others, and for every category there is the option of adding knowledge with words to the knowledge without words, as we do in art history, for example. There are also cases like literary studies, where we add knowledge with words to knowledge with words, but that is a different case. Now the main issue for digital humanists is where in this terrain to place artifacts such as software, interfaces, visualizations, and prototypes. Lev Manovich at DH2007 famously stood up and said "a prototype is a theory. Stop apologizing for your prototypes." I have heard similar statements from others in our community. If we take that principle as a way forward, then it seems to me that we haven't really found a solution to a conundrum, but we do have an opportunity by analogy (or identity, depending on how strongly you interpret Manovich). I would say that theories are for discussing, strengthening or weakening with evidence, testing in various ways, inventing experiments for, and also using as lenses to turn onto other material, in order both to frame specifics within the general, and to inform in turn our understanding of the general. We can also set one theory against another for comparison. We can try our hand at taking thesis and antithesis and reaching synthesis. If a prototype is a theory, then we should be able to do all those things with one. yrs, Stan Ruecker Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 403. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:52:41 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > At the beginning of her astonishingly resonant book, Open Fields: > Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1996), Dame Gillian Beer writes > about Keats and Darwin -- the poet's insistence in "The Fall of > Hyperion" that "only the written gives any hope of survival", and the > naturalist's transcribing of what he saw. "Darwin, energetically > observing and writing before the establishment of genetic theory," she > says, "had to have the patience of the pioneer -- the patience not to > know for sure within his lifetime 'Whether the dream now purposed to > rehearse / Be poet's or fanatic's', whether it would prove to be > authentic or delusive." (p. 14). > > So, for us a question and a consolation of sorts. > > The question is, does the same hold true for the digital humanities, > that "only the written gives any hope of survival"? Given the short > life-span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them and, > as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their > polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their creators, can > any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written > commentary and explanation? Solid work in the history of science and > technology gives us the intriguing idea of "thing knowledge", but in any > given case, can we say what that knowledge is without using words? Is it > knowledge without words? > > (Those here who know their Swift will recall in Gulliver's Travels, book > 3, chapter 5, his description of the Laputan "Scheme for entirely > abolishing all Words whatsoever": "that since Words are only Names for > Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them, > such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business they > are to discourse on.... which hath only this Inconvenience attending it, > that if a Man's Business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be > obliged in Proportion to carry a greater bundle of Things upon his Back, > unless he can afford one or two strong Servants to attend him. I have > often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their > Packs, like Pedlars among us; who, when they met in the Streets, would > lay down their Loads, open their Sacks, and hold Conversation for an > Hour together; then put up their Implements, help each other to resume > their Burthens, and take their Leave." Of course a laptop with a fair > sized hard disc isn't nearly as heavy.) > > The consolation is, I suppose, that we may look back at those, like > Darwin, who were as uncertain of what they said and did as we are of > what we say and do. Often I contemplate by example what a mature > discipline allows its practitioners to do. We can only hope, I suppose, > for a magnanimous audience and do what we can to cultivate it. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 26 11:08:03 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E057323C70; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:08:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7354E23C69; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:08:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081226110802.7354E23C69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:08:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.405 cfp: text-mining and information retrieval X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 405. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:23:04 -0500 From: Dominic Forest Subject: CFP: CJILS, Text mining and information retrieval (reminder) (La version française se trouve après le texte anglais) *** Call for publications (reminder) *** TEXT MINING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science GUEST EDITORS - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Lyne Da Sylva (Université de Montréal, Canada) THEME The guest editors of this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science invite original research from all disciplines reporting on various aspects of the integration of text mining techniques within information retrieval applications. This includes, but is not limited to: - developing text mining strategies within an information retrieval context - evaluating text mining operations for information retrieval - identifying contexts for text mining (thematic analysis, management of digital libraries, information extraction and visualization, knowledge extraction, cross-linguistic information retrieval, etc.) Text mining approaches described in the papers may be based on numerical or linguistic techniques, or both. Special attention should be given to the description and evaluation of the information retrieval system where the text mining techniques are embedded, where applicable. Applications described in the papers can be academic prototypes or commercial software. Manuscripts will undergo the normal double-blind review process for submissions to CJILS. THE JOURNAL The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science , established in 1976, is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada. LANGUAGE Submissions are accepted in either English or French. IMPORTANT DATES (TO BE CONFIRMED) - January 15, 2009 : Submission deadline - March 15, 2009 : First decision of the reviewers - May 15, 2009 : Final version due - June 15, 2009 : Final decision of reviewers - August 2009 : Publication SUBMISSION Please send your manuscript (Word or RTF) to: Dominic Forest École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 E-mail : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Instructions for authors are available on-line on the journal website (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm). ************************************************** *** Appel à publications (rappel) *** FOUILLE DE TEXTES ET RECHERCHE D'INFORMATIONS Numéro thématique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie RÉDACTEURS INVITÉS - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Lyne Da Sylva (Université de Montréal, Canada) THÈME Les rédacteurs invités de ce numéro thématique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie invitent les chercheurs provenant de différentes disciplines à soumettre les résultats de travaux de recherche originaux traitant de l'intégration de techniques de fouille de textes dans un contexte de recherche d'informations. Ce thème inclut, sans pour autant s'y limiter, les aspects suivants : - l'évaluation de la pertinence des différentes opérations de fouille de textes pour la recherche d'informations - le développement de méthodologies de fouille de textes à l'intérieur du processus de recherche d'informations - l'identification de contextes d'utilisation d'outils de fouille de textes (analyse thématique, bibliothèques numériques, extraction et visualisation des connaissances, recherche multilingue, etc.) Les techniques de fouille de textes qui seront décrites dans les contributions pourront être de nature aussi bien numérique que linguistique ou hybride. Une attention particulière devrait être accordée à la description et à l'évaluation du système de recherche intégrant les techniques de fouille de textes, le cas échéant. Par ailleurs, les applications de recherche d'informations, ainsi que celles de fouille de textes mises à contribution, peuvent être tant des prototypes académiques que des applications destinées à des utilisations commerciales. Les propositions reçues feront l'objet d'une évaluation anonyme par des pairs selon les modalités normales d'évaluation de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie. LA REVUE La Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie, établie en 1976, est la revue officielle de l'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information. Elle a pour objectif de contribuer à l'avancement des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie au Canada. LANGUE Les soumissions sont acceptées en français et en anglais. ÉCHÉANCIER (À CONFIRMER) - 15 janvier 2009 : Date limite de soumission - 15 mars 2009 : Première décision du comité de rédaction - 15 mai 2009 : Version révisée - 15 juin 2009 : Décision finale du comité de rédaction - Août 2009 : Parution SOUMISSION Veuillez envoyer votre manuscrit en version électronique (Word ou RTF) à : Dominic Forest École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Courrier électronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Les instructions pour les auteurs sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines_fr.htm). ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Dominic Forest Professeur adjoint Adresse postale : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Adresse civique : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 3150 Jean-Brillant, bureau C-2046 Montréal (Québec) H3T 1N8 Téléphone : (514) 343-6119 Télécopieur : (514) 343-5753 Courrier électronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Sites Internet : www.dominicforest.name et www.ebsi.umontreal.ca ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 27 10:21:24 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B57424899; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:21:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx169.postini.com [64.18.2.127]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with SMTP id CA9BA24886 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:21:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([81.187.30.52]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx169.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:21:22 EST Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.6]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LGWIJ-0003Ff-G0 for humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:21:19 +0000 Message-ID: <49560190.6070700@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:21:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Organization: King's College London User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org References: <20081226110709.DF83023C10@woodward.joyent.us> In-Reply-To: <20081226110709.DF83023C10@woodward.joyent.us> X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:71.44630/99.90000 CV:99.9000 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 ) X-pstn-settings: 1 (0.1500:0.1500) cv gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses: from forward (user good) [69/3] Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.404 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk, humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Stan Ruecker's note on "thing knowledge" raises two questions I'd like = to push a bit further. One is about the degree to which physical = objects, such as hand-tools, communicate what they're about without = verbal gloss, the other about prototypes as theories. To heft a hammer is to understand its basic purpose almost immediately. = The fist at the end of the arm is almost a hammer. A stone gripped in = the hand is even closer. Any heavy, hard, proportional object tied to = the end of a stick is a hammer, "An instrument having a hard solid head, = usually of metal, set transversely to the handle, used for beating, = breaking, driving nails, etc." (OED, where the etymological note goes on = to say, "The Norse sense =91crag=92, and possible relationship to Slav. = kamy, Russ. kamen stone, have suggested that the word originally meant = =91stone weapon=92."). A caliper mimics the opposed digits and so needs = little glossing. Chopsticks require, I'd think, someone using them to = show one what they are for and how to use them. And we can go on from = there, to objects that definitely require words, spoken and/or written. = (A piece of Ikea furniture often features humorously to illustrate the = need for a perspicuous symbolic language.) And when we go from = knowledge-of-use to meaning? What about Thor's hammer? The hammer and = sickle? About prototypes as theories -- Manovich's point, which Stan cites. It = seems to me that his declaration, "a prototype is a theory", is = circular. The work it seems to do is first to assert by implication that = the term "prototype" is poorly understood ("a prototype is"), then to = secure its understanding by identifying it with something that is well = understood ("a prototype is a theory"). The main problem is, however, = with the word "theory", which not at all well understood in this = context. It is marvellously polysemous and adaptable, having in fact = many different meanings across the disciplines. So before we all relax, = breathe a sigh of relief and get on with making prototypes, we need to = ponder what exactly we mean by "theory". What does a "theory" in our = field look like? What is a "theory" not? An understanding of this term = that makes everything qualify won't be very useful to us. It's a rather different thing to say that something, like a prototype, = is "theoretical", i.e. that it can be involved in the activity of = "theorizing". Anything can qualify. Still the problem isn't solved. So I = ask again, what does a "theory" in our field look like? What work does = it do? For a great example of an attempt to deal with this question, see = Clifford Geertz's essay, "Thick Description: Toward an interpretative = theory of culture", in The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973. But apart from that struggle, the question of how software objects = communicate remains, which is also the question of whether an unglossed = complex human artefact can by itself qualify as research output. To = answer in the affirmative would, I'd think, require us to show that not = only can it be put to immediate and proper use (like a hammer) but that = its particular contribution to some field or fields of enquiry, its = "contribution to knowledge", be self-evident -- and that anything = requiring words to become evident be discounted. Or am I being too = demanding? I recall a case of an undergraduate dissertation at Reed College in = mathematics that comprised a half-page of equations with the single = word, "Behold!", at the end. One could say that the single word was = otiose, a witty flourish, a bit of bravado. Anyhow the dissertation was, = I think, awarded a distinction. Mathematics is in some sense a language. So do we look for the sense of = a self-explanatory artefact in the gap between a mathematical statement = and a machine? Where do we put software in this interval? Comments? Yours, WM Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 404. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > = > = > = > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:08:54 -0700 > From: Stan Ruecker > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.403 writing and pioneering > In-Reply-To: <20081224095358.092DB2AD30@woodward.joyent.us> > = > This is a question that has been exercising me lately. I believe that we = > do have categories of artifacts that both reify knowledge and = > communicate it. Hand tools are an example. Not all hand tools, = > certainly, can be interpreted outside their historical context. Anyone = > doubting that statement need only visit one of the Saskatchewan Western = > Development Museums (although perhaps not their web site). But in = > general, if I have opposable thumbs and an elbow, which I do happen to = > have, then a hammer seems fairly straightforward to interpret. = > Pre-existing knowledge about nails does help. > = > Another example is art. Certainly not all art is accessible without some = > training in how to look at it, but a kind of knowledge is often = > available by direct observation. I would argue that the same is true for = > photography and architecture. > = > I think there are two questions: is there knowledge without words? and = > is the knowledge without words the same as the knowledge with words? My = > answers would be yes and no, respectively. For some categories the two = > kinds of knowledge may be closer than for others, and for every category = > there is the option of adding knowledge with words to the knowledge = > without words, as we do in art history, for example. There are also = > cases like literary studies, where we add knowledge with words to = > knowledge with words, but that is a different case. > = > Now the main issue for digital humanists is where in this terrain to = > place artifacts such as software, interfaces, visualizations, and = > prototypes. Lev Manovich at DH2007 famously stood up and said "a = > prototype is a theory. Stop apologizing for your prototypes." I have = > heard similar statements from others in our community. > = > If we take that principle as a way forward, then it seems to me that we = > haven't really found a solution to a conundrum, but we do have an = > opportunity by analogy (or identity, depending on how strongly you = > interpret Manovich). I would say that theories are for discussing, = > strengthening or weakening with evidence, testing in various ways, = > inventing experiments for, and also using as lenses to turn onto other = > material, in order both to frame specifics within the general, and to = > inform in turn our understanding of the general. We can also set one = > theory against another for comparison. We can try our hand at taking = > thesis and antithesis and reaching synthesis. > = > If a prototype is a theory, then we should be able to do all those = > things with one. > = > yrs, > Stan Ruecker > = > Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 403. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:52:41 +0000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> > = >> At the beginning of her astonishingly resonant book, Open Fields: = >> Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1996), Dame Gillian Beer writes = >> about Keats and Darwin -- the poet's insistence in "The Fall of = >> Hyperion" that "only the written gives any hope of survival", and the = >> naturalist's transcribing of what he saw. "Darwin, energetically = >> observing and writing before the establishment of genetic theory," she = >> says, "had to have the patience of the pioneer -- the patience not to = >> know for sure within his lifetime 'Whether the dream now purposed to = >> rehearse / Be poet's or fanatic's', whether it would prove to be = >> authentic or delusive." (p. 14). >> >> So, for us a question and a consolation of sorts. >> >> The question is, does the same hold true for the digital humanities, = >> that "only the written gives any hope of survival"? Given the short = >> life-span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them and, = >> as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their = >> polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their creators, can = >> any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written = >> commentary and explanation? Solid work in the history of science and = >> technology gives us the intriguing idea of "thing knowledge", but in any = >> given case, can we say what that knowledge is without using words? Is it = >> knowledge without words? >> >> (Those here who know their Swift will recall in Gulliver's Travels, book = >> 3, chapter 5, his description of the Laputan "Scheme for entirely = >> abolishing all Words whatsoever": "that since Words are only Names for = >> Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them, = >> such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business they = >> are to discourse on.... which hath only this Inconvenience attending it, = >> that if a Man's Business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be = >> obliged in Proportion to carry a greater bundle of Things upon his Back, = >> unless he can afford one or two strong Servants to attend him. I have = >> often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their = >> Packs, like Pedlars among us; who, when they met in the Streets, would = >> lay down their Loads, open their Sacks, and hold Conversation for an = >> Hour together; then put up their Implements, help each other to resume = >> their Burthens, and take their Leave." Of course a laptop with a fair = >> sized hard disc isn't nearly as heavy.) >> >> The consolation is, I suppose, that we may look back at those, like = >> Darwin, who were as uncertain of what they said and did as we are of = >> what we say and do. Often I contemplate by example what a mature = >> discipline allows its practitioners to do. We can only hope, I suppose, = >> for a magnanimous audience and do what we can to cultivate it. >> >> Comments? >> >> Yours, >> WM > = > = > = > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted= /listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.p= hp > = -- = Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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/l= istmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 27 10:26:21 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A1224A9B; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:26:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B532B24A89; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:26:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081227102618.B532B24A89@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:26:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.406 more on thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 406. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:21:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.404 thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081226110709.DF83023C10@woodward.joyent.us> Stan Ruecker's note on "thing knowledge" raises two questions I'd like to push a bit further. One is about the degree to which physical objects, such as hand-tools, communicate what they're about without verbal gloss, the other about prototypes as theories. To heft a hammer is to understand its basic purpose almost immediately. The fist at the end of the arm is almost a hammer. A stone gripped in the hand is even closer. Any heavy, hard, proportional object tied to the end of a stick is a hammer, "An instrument having a hard solid head, usually of metal, set transversely to the handle, used for beating, breaking, driving nails, etc." (OED, where the etymological note goes on to say, "The Norse sense ‘crag’, and possible relationship to Slav. kamy, Russ. kamen stone, have suggested that the word originally meant ‘stone weapon’."). A caliper mimics the opposed digits and so needs little glossing. Chopsticks require, I'd think, someone using them to show one what they are for and how to use them. And we can go on from there, to objects that definitely require words, spoken and/or written. (A piece of Ikea furniture often features humorously to illustrate the need for a perspicuous symbolic language.) And when we go from knowledge-of-use to meaning? What about Thor's hammer? The hammer and sickle? About prototypes as theories -- Manovich's point, which Stan cites. It seems to me that his declaration, "a prototype is a theory", is circular. The work it seems to do is first to assert by implication that the term "prototype" is poorly understood ("a prototype is"), then to secure its understanding by identifying it with something that is well understood ("a prototype is a theory"). The main problem is, however, with the word "theory", which not at all well understood in this context. It is marvellously polysemous and adaptable, having in fact many different meanings across the disciplines. So before we all relax, breathe a sigh of relief and get on with making prototypes, we need to ponder what exactly we mean by "theory". What does a "theory" in our field look like? What is a "theory" not? An understanding of this term that makes everything qualify won't be very useful to us. It's a rather different thing to say that something, like a prototype, is "theoretical", i.e. that it can be involved in the activity of "theorizing". Anything can qualify. Still the problem isn't solved. So I ask again, what does a "theory" in our field look like? What work does it do? For a great example of an attempt to deal with this question, see Clifford Geertz's essay, "Thick Description: Toward an interpretative theory of culture", in The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973. But apart from that struggle, the question of how software objects communicate remains, which is also the question of whether an unglossed complex human artefact can by itself qualify as research output. To answer in the affirmative would, I'd think, require us to show that not only can it be put to immediate and proper use (like a hammer) but that its particular contribution to some field or fields of enquiry, its "contribution to knowledge", be self-evident -- and that anything requiring words to become evident be discounted. Or am I being too demanding? I recall a case of an undergraduate dissertation at Reed College in mathematics that comprised a half-page of equations with the single word, "Behold!", at the end. One could say that the single word was otiose, a witty flourish, a bit of bravado. Anyhow the dissertation was, I think, awarded a distinction. Mathematics is in some sense a language. So do we look for the sense of a self-explanatory artefact in the gap between a mathematical statement and a machine? Where do we put software in this interval? Comments? Yours, WM Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 404. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:08:54 -0700 > From: Stan Ruecker > > In-Reply-To: <20081224095358.092DB2AD30@woodward.joyent.us> > > This is a question that has been exercising me lately. I believe that we > do have categories of artifacts that both reify knowledge and > communicate it. Hand tools are an example. Not all hand tools, > certainly, can be interpreted outside their historical context. Anyone > doubting that statement need only visit one of the Saskatchewan Western > Development Museums (although perhaps not their web site). But in > general, if I have opposable thumbs and an elbow, which I do happen to > have, then a hammer seems fairly straightforward to interpret. > Pre-existing knowledge about nails does help. > > Another example is art. Certainly not all art is accessible without some > training in how to look at it, but a kind of knowledge is often > available by direct observation. I would argue that the same is true for > photography and architecture. > > I think there are two questions: is there knowledge without words? and > is the knowledge without words the same as the knowledge with words? My > answers would be yes and no, respectively. For some categories the two > kinds of knowledge may be closer than for others, and for every category > there is the option of adding knowledge with words to the knowledge > without words, as we do in art history, for example. There are also > cases like literary studies, where we add knowledge with words to > knowledge with words, but that is a different case. > > Now the main issue for digital humanists is where in this terrain to > place artifacts such as software, interfaces, visualizations, and > prototypes. Lev Manovich at DH2007 famously stood up and said "a > prototype is a theory. Stop apologizing for your prototypes." I have > heard similar statements from others in our community. > > If we take that principle as a way forward, then it seems to me that we > haven't really found a solution to a conundrum, but we do have an > opportunity by analogy (or identity, depending on how strongly you > interpret Manovich). I would say that theories are for discussing, > strengthening or weakening with evidence, testing in various ways, > inventing experiments for, and also using as lenses to turn onto other > material, in order both to frame specifics within the general, and to > inform in turn our understanding of the general. We can also set one > theory against another for comparison. We can try our hand at taking > thesis and antithesis and reaching synthesis. > > If a prototype is a theory, then we should be able to do all those > things with one. > > yrs, > Stan Ruecker > > Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 403. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:52:41 +0000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> > >> At the beginning of her astonishingly resonant book, Open Fields: >> Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1996), Dame Gillian Beer writes >> about Keats and Darwin -- the poet's insistence in "The Fall of >> Hyperion" that "only the written gives any hope of survival", and the >> naturalist's transcribing of what he saw. "Darwin, energetically >> observing and writing before the establishment of genetic theory," she >> says, "had to have the patience of the pioneer -- the patience not to >> know for sure within his lifetime 'Whether the dream now purposed to >> rehearse / Be poet's or fanatic's', whether it would prove to be >> authentic or delusive." (p. 14). >> >> So, for us a question and a consolation of sorts. >> >> The question is, does the same hold true for the digital humanities, >> that "only the written gives any hope of survival"? Given the short >> life-span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them and, >> as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their >> polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their creators, can >> any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written >> commentary and explanation? Solid work in the history of science and >> technology gives us the intriguing idea of "thing knowledge", but in any >> given case, can we say what that knowledge is without using words? Is it >> knowledge without words? >> >> (Those here who know their Swift will recall in Gulliver's Travels, book >> 3, chapter 5, his description of the Laputan "Scheme for entirely >> abolishing all Words whatsoever": "that since Words are only Names for >> Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them, >> such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business they >> are to discourse on.... which hath only this Inconvenience attending it, >> that if a Man's Business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be >> obliged in Proportion to carry a greater bundle of Things upon his Back, >> unless he can afford one or two strong Servants to attend him. I have >> often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of their >> Packs, like Pedlars among us; who, when they met in the Streets, would >> lay down their Loads, open their Sacks, and hold Conversation for an >> Hour together; then put up their Implements, help each other to resume >> their Burthens, and take their Leave." Of course a laptop with a fair >> sized hard disc isn't nearly as heavy.) >> >> The consolation is, I suppose, that we may look back at those, like >> Darwin, who were as uncertain of what they said and did as we are of >> what we say and do. Often I contemplate by example what a mature >> discipline allows its practitioners to do. We can only hope, I suppose, >> for a magnanimous audience and do what we can to cultivate it. >> >> Comments? >> >> Yours, >> WM > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 27 10:28:01 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5E424BE9; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:28:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75F6824BD9; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:27:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081227102758.75F6824BD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:27:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.407 the BIBLINDEX project online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 407. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:31:56 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: the BIBLINDEX project -------- Original Message -------- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:24:20 +0000 From: Gonnet To: dominique.gonnet@mom.fr The BIBLINDEX project is carried out by the "Institut des Sources Chretiennes", part of HiSoMA (CNRS UMR 5189). Biblindex is funded mainly by the "Cluster 13" of the Rhone-Alpes Regional Council and by the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterranee-Jean Pouilloux". The first stage of the project is completed. An index of approximately 400,000 biblical quotations and references from Greek and Latin patristic texts of the first five centuries is now available online. This index is essentially based on: -- published volumes of Biblia Patristica, CNRS Editions, 1975-2000. -- archives of the "Centre d'Analyse et de Documentation Patristique" (CADP) concerning Athanasius of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Theodoret of Cyrus, Procopius of Gaza, Jerome. This is only the first step towards a comprehensive index of all biblical references from patristic writings. Technical improvements are still necessary. To this end, in November, an application was submitted to ANR, a project-based funding agency to advance French research. Simple searches of the available corpus are already possible, however. To search references in Biblindex, you can open a user account on the site : http://www.biblindex.mom.fr/index.php?lang=en and follow directions for use. Any question, comment or suggestion is welcome. Please write to biblindex.sc@mom.fr Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! From Laurence Mellerin PS - Apologies for cross-posting. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Le premier stade du projet BIBLINDEX, porté par l'Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, composante d'HiSoMA (CNRS UMR 5189), financé essentiellement par le Cluster 13 de la Région Rhône-Alpes, et aussi par la Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen dans le cadre de la préparation des projets ANR, est arrivé à son terme : sont désormais disponibles en ligne environ 400.000 références bibliques présentes dans les textes patristiques grecs et latins des cinq premiers siècles. Il s'agit essentiellement de la reprise des volumes publiés de Biblia Patristica, CNRS Editions, 1975-2000, augmentés des archives non publiées du Centre d'Analyse et de Documentation Patristique (CADP) concernant Athanase d'Alexandrie, Cyrille d'Alexandrie, Jean Chrysostome, Théodoret de Cyr, Procope de Gaza, Jérôme. Ce n'est que la première étape d'un projet à vocation exhaustive, et des améliorations fonctionnelles restent à prévoir: un projet ANR a été déposé en novembre pour poursuivre le travail. Mais une interrogation simple du corpus disponible est déjà opérationnelle. Pour accéder à ces données, il vous suffit de créer un compte sur le site, http://www.biblindex.mom.fr, et de suivre les indications du formulaire de recherche. Pour toute question, suggestion ou remarque, n'hésitez pas à écrire à l'adresse biblindex.sc@mom.fr. Joyeux Noël et bonne année ! De la part de Laurence Mellerin P.S.- Avec toutes nos excuses pour les doubles envois. -- Professor Charlotte Roueché charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 27 10:34:28 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FEE24EC2; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:34:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF01524EBB; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:34:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081227103426.BF01524EBB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:34:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.408 events: philosophy of language; digital humanities at MLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 408. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Piotr Stalmaszczyk" (48) Subject: PhiLang2009, 3rd circular [2] From: "Lavagnino, John" (24) Subject: Digital humanities at the 2008 MLA Convention --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:56:21 +0100 From: "Piotr Stalmaszczyk" Subject: PhiLang2009, 3rd circular International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics PhiLang2009, University of Łódź (Poland), 14-15 May 2009 Third Circular and Call for Papers Extended deadline! The Department of English and General Linguistics at University of Łódź announces the first International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. The title of the Conference is deliberately ambiguous: we wish to investigate the relation between 'philosophy of language' and 'linguistics', but we also want to focus on 'philosophy of language' as opposed to 'philosophy of linguistics'. Are the two in opposition, or do they perhaps complement one another? We also intend to question and verify 'the myths and dogmas' current in contemporary philosophy of language. The principal aim of our Conference is to bring together philosophers and linguists; we would like the papers to address the following research questions: . What are the new problems and issues in the philosophy of language in the 21st century? . Have any traditional problems been successfully solved? . How does research in linguistics influence the philosophy of language and philosophy of linguistics? . How does philosophy influence modern linguistics? . What are the myths and dogmas of contemporary philosophy of language? We also invite papers investigating the following themes (the list is not exhaustive): . The philosophical background of the 'cognitive revolutions' in linguistics . Categorization in philosophy and language . Frege, Wittgenstein and contemporary linguistics . Myths of objectivism and subjectivism in philosophy and language . Axiology in philosophy and language . The concept of truth in philosophy and language . Time in philosophy and language . The duality of mind and body in philosophy and language . Possible worlds in logic, philosophy and literature . The relation between philosophy of language and literature and literary theories. The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the conference as plenary speakers: Eros Corazza & Kepa Korta (Carleton University, Ottawa & ILCLI, Donostia-San Sebastian) on Two Dogmas of Philosophical Linguistics Katarzyna Jaszczolt (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge) on Time in Language and Thought Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Łódź) on Events as they are Michael Morris (Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex) on The Myth of the Sign Jaroslav Peregrin (Department of Logic, Charles University, Prague) on The Myth of Semantic Structure Abstracts of papers of max. 500 words should be forwarded by e-mail to philang2009@uni.lodz.pl and to piotrst@uni.lodz.pl New deadline for submission is 15 February 2009. Presentations should last max. 30 minutes (including discussion and questions). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2009. A volume of conference proceedings will be published with an international publisher. The conference fee is 150 EUR (100 EUR for PhD students). It covers the cost of participation, conference materials and conference dinner. Payment of the conference fee should be made to the following bank account: PhiLang2009, Uniwersytet Łódzki PL14 1240 3028 1111 0010 0434 7782 SWIFT CODE: PKOPPLPWLDZ Please note that payment counts as registration. Accommodation will be provided at the University of Łódź Conference Center (Łódź, Kopcińskiego 16/18). Single and double rooms are available. The cost of a single room per night is 140 PLN, double 210 PLN, breakfast is included in the price. Mails and questions concerning registration and accommodation should be directed to philang2009@uni.lodz.pl and to rasinski@uni.lodz.pl Further information about accommodation and social program will appear in the Fourth Circular, in March 2009, and at: http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/philang Organizing committee: prof. dr hab. Piotr Stalmaszczyk ( piotrst@uni.lodz.pl ) prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Kosecki ( kosecki@uni.lodz.pl ) dr Janusz Badio ( jbadio@uni.lodz.pl ) Jerzy Gaszewski ( jgaszewski@op.pl ) Ryszard Rasiński ( rasinski@uni.lodz.pl ) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:17:25 +0000 From: "Lavagnino, John" Subject: Digital humanities at the 2008 MLA Convention Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in San Francisco, starting on Saturday the 27th. There's a bunch of talks on digital humanities and related subjects at the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to these talks, based on the convention program. It is available at: http://www.ach.org/mla/mla08/guide.html The level of d.h. activity at the MLA has risen for the third year running, and as always the range of subjects these sessions touch on covers many languages and kinds of study. As far as I can tell this is the first year in which there are MLA talks openly advertising themselves as being about Second Life. John -- Dr John Lavagnino Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26–29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185703 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 28 09:41:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D5F2AE7B; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:41:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 644952AE67; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:41:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081228094119.644952AE67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:41:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.409 more on thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 409. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:06:07 -0400 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.406 more on thing knowledge Could I ask for a context for Manovich's original comment: "stop apologizing for your prototypes." What prompted that? I just wrote a few paragraphs which I thought would contribute to this discussion, only to realize that I hit a wall when I got to the part that is newest to me, the proposal that a prototype is a theory. I can certainly see myself agreeing with that, depending on, as Willard has noted, what is meant by "theory" and, I'd simplify even further, what is meant by "prototype." But before I can either agree or disagree, or even intelligently join the discussion, I find myself substituting "theory" for "prototype" in the assertion Stan offered as his point of departure, Manovich's "stop apologizing for your" theories. If "stop apologizing for prototypes" is followed by "a prototype is a theory" then it follows that whatever else a "theory" is, it is assumed to be the kind of thing one doesn't have to apologize for. Where? In what context? When speaking to or with whom? If the rock is the prototype of the hammer, I can see how it is also a theory of the hammer. But I can also see the rock tied into the cleft at the end of a stick as a better prototype and better theory of the hammer. Thus, if I'm tasked with developing a hammer, the engineer who handed me just the rock has, to some extent, wasted my time (albeit unintentionally). Does that proto-engineer then owe an apology? This is why I feel I need some context for the original comment. What was being apologized for, and to whom were the apologies offered? I guess at a fundamental level I don't get why, aside from taking people in the wrong direction and thereby wasting time, money, and energy, anyone would apologize for a prototype, whether or not a prototype is a theory. I should probably add that I'm in higher education rather than industry because I prefer to doubt the entire concept of wasted time and energy in such a context. If we didn't learn what we thought we'd learn, well, did we learn something else? Confirm a known something (theory, fact, whatever)? Disprove something? I find it almost impossible to waste time doing. And any point along the line of developing then testing then discarding or adopting a prototype is doing. But I remain curious about the apologies. Can anyone fill me in, please? Thanks, Richard Cunningham On 27-Dec-08, at 6:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 406. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:21:04 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > In-Reply-To: <20081226110709.DF83023C10@woodward.joyent.us> > > Stan Ruecker's note on "thing knowledge" raises two questions I'd like > to push a bit further. One is about the degree to which physical > objects, such as hand-tools, communicate what they're about without > verbal gloss, the other about prototypes as theories. > > To heft a hammer is to understand its basic purpose almost > immediately. > The fist at the end of the arm is almost a hammer. A stone gripped in > the hand is even closer. Any heavy, hard, proportional object tied to > the end of a stick is a hammer, "An instrument having a hard solid > head, > usually of metal, set transversely to the handle, used for beating, > breaking, driving nails, etc." (OED, where the etymological note > goes on > to say, "The Norse sense ‘crag’, and possible relationship to Slav. > kamy, Russ. kamen stone, have suggested that the word originally meant > ‘stone weapon’."). A caliper mimics the opposed digits and so needs > little glossing. Chopsticks require, I'd think, someone using them to > show one what they are for and how to use them. And we can go on from > there, to objects that definitely require words, spoken and/or > written. > (A piece of Ikea furniture often features humorously to illustrate the > need for a perspicuous symbolic language.) And when we go from > knowledge-of-use to meaning? What about Thor's hammer? The hammer and > sickle? > > About prototypes as theories -- Manovich's point, which Stan cites. It > seems to me that his declaration, "a prototype is a theory", is > circular. The work it seems to do is first to assert by implication > that > the term "prototype" is poorly understood ("a prototype is"), then to > secure its understanding by identifying it with something that is well > understood ("a prototype is a theory"). The main problem is, however, > with the word "theory", which not at all well understood in this > context. It is marvellously polysemous and adaptable, having in fact > many different meanings across the disciplines. So before we all > relax, > breathe a sigh of relief and get on with making prototypes, we need to > ponder what exactly we mean by "theory". What does a "theory" in our > field look like? What is a "theory" not? An understanding of this term > that makes everything qualify won't be very useful to us. > > It's a rather different thing to say that something, like a prototype, > is "theoretical", i.e. that it can be involved in the activity of > "theorizing". Anything can qualify. Still the problem isn't solved. > So I > ask again, what does a "theory" in our field look like? What work does > it do? For a great example of an attempt to deal with this question, > see > Clifford Geertz's essay, "Thick Description: Toward an interpretative > theory of culture", in The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973. > > But apart from that struggle, the question of how software objects > communicate remains, which is also the question of whether an > unglossed > complex human artefact can by itself qualify as research output. To > answer in the affirmative would, I'd think, require us to show that > not > only can it be put to immediate and proper use (like a hammer) but > that > its particular contribution to some field or fields of enquiry, its > "contribution to knowledge", be self-evident -- and that anything > requiring words to become evident be discounted. Or am I being too > demanding? > > I recall a case of an undergraduate dissertation at Reed College in > mathematics that comprised a half-page of equations with the single > word, "Behold!", at the end. One could say that the single word was > otiose, a witty flourish, a bit of bravado. Anyhow the dissertation > was, > I think, awarded a distinction. > > Mathematics is in some sense a language. So do we look for the sense > of > a self-explanatory artefact in the gap between a mathematical > statement > and a machine? Where do we put software in this interval? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 404. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:08:54 -0700 >> From: Stan Ruecker >>> In-Reply-To: <20081224095358.092DB2AD30@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> This is a question that has been exercising me lately. I believe >> that we >> do have categories of artifacts that both reify knowledge and >> communicate it. Hand tools are an example. Not all hand tools, >> certainly, can be interpreted outside their historical context. >> Anyone >> doubting that statement need only visit one of the Saskatchewan >> Western >> Development Museums (although perhaps not their web site). But in >> general, if I have opposable thumbs and an elbow, which I do happen >> to >> have, then a hammer seems fairly straightforward to interpret. >> Pre-existing knowledge about nails does help. >> >> Another example is art. Certainly not all art is accessible without >> some >> training in how to look at it, but a kind of knowledge is often >> available by direct observation. I would argue that the same is >> true for >> photography and architecture. >> >> I think there are two questions: is there knowledge without words? >> and >> is the knowledge without words the same as the knowledge with >> words? My >> answers would be yes and no, respectively. For some categories the >> two >> kinds of knowledge may be closer than for others, and for every >> category >> there is the option of adding knowledge with words to the knowledge >> without words, as we do in art history, for example. There are also >> cases like literary studies, where we add knowledge with words to >> knowledge with words, but that is a different case. >> >> Now the main issue for digital humanists is where in this terrain to >> place artifacts such as software, interfaces, visualizations, and >> prototypes. Lev Manovich at DH2007 famously stood up and said "a >> prototype is a theory. Stop apologizing for your prototypes." I have >> heard similar statements from others in our community. >> >> If we take that principle as a way forward, then it seems to me >> that we >> haven't really found a solution to a conundrum, but we do have an >> opportunity by analogy (or identity, depending on how strongly you >> interpret Manovich). I would say that theories are for discussing, >> strengthening or weakening with evidence, testing in various ways, >> inventing experiments for, and also using as lenses to turn onto >> other >> material, in order both to frame specifics within the general, and to >> inform in turn our understanding of the general. We can also set one >> theory against another for comparison. We can try our hand at taking >> thesis and antithesis and reaching synthesis. >> >> If a prototype is a theory, then we should be able to do all those >> things with one. >> >> yrs, >> Stan Ruecker >> >> Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 403. >>> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >>> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:52:41 +0000 >>> From: Willard McCarty >>>> >>> At the beginning of her astonishingly resonant book, Open Fields: >>> Science in cultural encounter (Oxford, 1996), Dame Gillian Beer >>> writes >>> about Keats and Darwin -- the poet's insistence in "The Fall of >>> Hyperion" that "only the written gives any hope of survival", and >>> the >>> naturalist's transcribing of what he saw. "Darwin, energetically >>> observing and writing before the establishment of genetic theory," >>> she >>> says, "had to have the patience of the pioneer -- the patience not >>> to >>> know for sure within his lifetime 'Whether the dream now purposed to >>> rehearse / Be poet's or fanatic's', whether it would prove to be >>> authentic or delusive." (p. 14). >>> >>> So, for us a question and a consolation of sorts. >>> >>> The question is, does the same hold true for the digital humanities, >>> that "only the written gives any hope of survival"? Given the short >>> life-span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them >>> and, >>> as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their >>> polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their >>> creators, can >>> any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written >>> commentary and explanation? Solid work in the history of science and >>> technology gives us the intriguing idea of "thing knowledge", but >>> in any >>> given case, can we say what that knowledge is without using words? >>> Is it >>> knowledge without words? >>> >>> (Those here who know their Swift will recall in Gulliver's >>> Travels, book >>> 3, chapter 5, his description of the Laputan "Scheme for entirely >>> abolishing all Words whatsoever": "that since Words are only Names >>> for >>> Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them, >>> such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business >>> they >>> are to discourse on.... which hath only this Inconvenience >>> attending it, >>> that if a Man's Business be very great, and of various kinds, he >>> must be >>> obliged in Proportion to carry a greater bundle of Things upon his >>> Back, >>> unless he can afford one or two strong Servants to attend him. I >>> have >>> often beheld two of those Sages almost sinking under the Weight of >>> their >>> Packs, like Pedlars among us; who, when they met in the Streets, >>> would >>> lay down their Loads, open their Sacks, and hold Conversation for an >>> Hour together; then put up their Implements, help each other to >>> resume >>> their Burthens, and take their Leave." Of course a laptop with a >>> fair >>> sized hard disc isn't nearly as heavy.) >>> >>> The consolation is, I suppose, that we may look back at those, like >>> Darwin, who were as uncertain of what they said and did as we are of >>> what we say and do. Often I contemplate by example what a mature >>> discipline allows its practitioners to do. We can only hope, I >>> suppose, >>> for a magnanimous audience and do what we can to cultivate it. >>> >>> Comments? >>> >>> Yours, >>> WM >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php >> Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php >> > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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 ------------- Richard Cunningham Associate Professor, English & Theatre Director, Acadia Media Centre Acadia University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 28 09:41:59 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449732AECD; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:41:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96C1E2AEB2; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:41:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081228094157.96C1E2AEB2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.410 video games and longings X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 410. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:38:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: video games Some here will very much appreciate John Lanchester's article on video games, "Is it Art?", in the London Review of Books 31.1 (1 January 2009), pp. 18-20, fortunately also available online at www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html. I quote a small bit of it as a taster (here I take "USP" to stand for "Unique Selling Point"): > Most games, as Poole argues, are work-like. They have a tightly > designed structure in which the player has to earn points to win > specific rewards, on the way to completing levels which earn him the > right to play on other levels, earn more points to win other rewards, > and so on, all of it repetitive, quantified and structured. The > trouble with these games – the majority of them – isn’t that they are > maladapted to the real world, it’s that they’re all too well adapted. > The people who play them move from an education, much of it spent in > front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, > quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, > to a work life, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full > of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards > goals determined by others, and for recreation sit in front of a > computer screen and play games full of competitive, repetitive, > quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others. > Most video games aren’t nearly irresponsible enough. [...] > This sense of agency is the cultural and aesthetic USP of video > games. The medium doesn’t have, and probably never will have, a sense > of character to match other forms of narrative; however much it > develops, it can’t match the inwardness of the novel or the sweep of > film. But it does have two great strengths. The first is visual: the > best games are already beautiful, and I can see no reason why the > look of video games won’t match or surpass that of cinema. The second > is to do with this sense of agency, that the game offers a world in > which the player is free to act and to choose. It is this which gives > the best games their immense involvingness. You are in the game in a > way that is curiously similar to the way you are in a novel you are > reading – a way that is subtly unlike the sense of absorption in a > spectacle which overtakes the viewer in cinema. The interiority of > the novel isn’t there, but the sense of having passed into an > imagined world is. [...] > And what do [the majority of game-players] want? The same thing the > audience for any new medium always wants: they want pornography, > broadly defined. They want to see things they aren’t supposed to see. > This is why video games, in general (and away from the world of > Miyamoto-san) are so preoccupied with violence – it’s what young men > want to see. (Pornography in the sexual sense is less of an issue: > they can get that from the internet, any time they want.) Their > rule-bound, target-bound educations and work lives leave them with a > deep craving to go and commit imaginary crimes – as well they might. > Not all games are cynically, affectlessly violent, but a lot of them > are, and this trend is holding video games back. It’s keeping them at > the level of Hollywood blockbusters, when they could go on to be > something else and something more. > Lanchester's observation about the "rule-bound, target-bound educations and work lives" applies of course to our students, who are trapped in the first and in sight of the second. While it would be irresponsible of us not in some sense to prepare them for their work-lives, it seems to me that to do so by aping the world of work, as we are doing now, is to throw away the opportunity to supply that imaginative engagement with worlds of endless possibility to which gaming appeals. It's not just that game-players want distraction, I think Lanchester is saying, they want something better, something worthy of the imagination. And we want to train them to be better workers? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 29 06:26:34 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFBE2AB1C; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:26:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA2F02AB13; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:26:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081229062631.BA2F02AB13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:26:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 411. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (394) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.409 more on thing knowledge [2] From: Stan Ruecker (386) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.409 more on thing knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:58:50 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.409 more on thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081228094119.644952AE67@woodward.joyent.us> Lev Manovich's statement that 'a prototype is a theory' is either a tautology or a regrettable manifestation of the anti-banausic prejudice that is still unfortunately rampant in Literary Studies and other humanities departments affected influenced by that discipline. It is a tautology in the sense that any human action is shaped by some purpose of which one could give a more or less adequate account. You can call that implicit purpose a theory, if you want to. There is not always a strong correlation between the success of the action and the agent's ability to give such an account. A prototype is an experiment. A few of them work the first time. Most do not. All of them benefit from iterative and incremental improvement. No progress without prototypes. Why should anybody ever have to apologise for them? What happens if now glorify the prototype by calling it a theory? Are we going to get better prototypes? Almost certainly not. In 2000 the German essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote a wonderful piece about the digital revolution in Der Spiegel. He called it "Am Anfang waren die Bastler" or "In the beginning were the tinkerers." This is an open allusion to the famous passage in which Goethe's Faust tries to translate the opening sentence of John "In the beginning was the LOGOS". Faust doesn't like 'word', goes through series of other inadequate choices and finally settles on "Tat": "In the beginning was the deed." Hegel later said that the owl of Athena begins its flight at dusk. Good prototypes are creatures of dawn. Aristotle observes in the Nicomachean ethics that bridlemaking is ancillary to the art of horsemanship. And so it is. But where would the horseman be without the bridlemaker? Did the horseman at some point think up a theory of the bridle and ask some banausos or tradesman to make it -- an uninteresting and prosaic activity once you've had the theory? Or did someone at some point have a bright but inchoate idea, fiddled with it, and after many failed trials bridles happened and the history of riding changed forever? In Manovich's statement that 'a prototype is a theory' I hear a hidden (or not-so-hidden) contempt for skill that manifests itself in the doing or making. As for digital humanities, we need better doing and making. Let's worry about the "theory" later. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:31:28 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.409 more on thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081228094119.644952AE67@woodward.joyent.us> > Could I ask for a context for Manovich's original comment: "stop > apologizing for your prototypes." What prompted that? I suspect we'd been doing some apologizing, mainly, as you rightly surmise, because prototypes aren't production systems, and at least some of them--perhaps the majority of them--never will be. DH2007 had several sessions involving prototypes as well as discussions of prototyping. Manovich's comment was in the question and answer period after Stefan Sinclair and I had been describing three of our recent ideas about tools for browsing XML. I think one of the issues is to what extent a prototype can be understood either as a kind of experiment in its own right, or else as an experimental apparatus that primarily exists to serve other kinds of experiments. In both cases, I believe that there are some research questions that can only be properly addressed by building something and trying it out. An apparatus is one thing. If you are Robert Hooke and you are interested in very tiny things, then you need to grind some lenses, or get some lenses ground for you, and look through them at tiny things. But you aren't necessarily interested in lenses per se. You are interested in the tiny things they reveal, and the lens and any interest you have in it is a kind of side effect of the main project. Hoffman (Humanist 22.379 how different subjects are different) points to a different kind of artifact when he cites Komatsu et al., who wanted to know if someone could do surgery on a molecule of Buckminsterfullerene and encapsulate a molecule of hydrogen in it. Someone had already encapsulated an atom, so a molecule was the logical next thing to try. In this case, the whole point was to build something new. The object itself is of interest. If these two examples mark fairly widely separated points on a terrain, then can software prototypes be placed at the same points or elsewhere? If you are Martin Wattenberg and you are interested in what kind of data people will visualize if you give them an easy way to do it, you build a site like Manyeyes and find out (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/). I would say this is much like Hooke's microscopes. The site and its various tools are a kind of side effect of the main project, although some tools (e.g. the Wordtree) are perhaps experimental environments in their own right. BTW, there is a complete list of the Manyeyes tools here (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Visualization_Options.html) Alternatively, if you are Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, and you are interested in getting an overview of how people express emotion in blogs, you can build a tool like We Feel Fine and watch the emotions emerge from the blog scrapes (http://wefeelfine.org/). I would say it is similar to a project like ManyEyes, but not identical, since in this case the system itself is of primary interest. A research question here might be "how best can we provide such a visual overview?" You can see that they have tried several different ways, since there is a menu that lets you select different forms. yrs, Stan Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 409. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:06:07 -0400 > From: Richard Cunningham > > > Could I ask for a context for Manovich's original comment: "stop > apologizing for your prototypes." What prompted that? > > I just wrote a few paragraphs which I thought would contribute to this > discussion, only to realize that I hit a wall when I got to the part > that is newest to me, the proposal that a prototype is a theory. I > can certainly see myself agreeing with that, depending on, as Willard > has noted, what is meant by "theory" and, I'd simplify even further, > what is meant by "prototype." But before I can either agree or > disagree, or even intelligently join the discussion, I find myself > substituting "theory" for "prototype" in the assertion Stan offered as > his point of departure, Manovich's "stop apologizing for your" > theories. If "stop apologizing for prototypes" is followed by "a > prototype is a theory" then it follows that whatever else a "theory" > is, it is assumed to be the kind of thing one doesn't have to > apologize for. Where? In what context? When speaking to or with whom? > > If the rock is the prototype of the hammer, I can see how it is also a > theory of the hammer. But I can also see the rock tied into the cleft > at the end of a stick as a better prototype and better theory of the > hammer. Thus, if I'm tasked with developing a hammer, the engineer > who handed me just the rock has, to some extent, wasted my time > (albeit unintentionally). Does that proto-engineer then owe an > apology? This is why I feel I need some context for the original > comment. What was being apologized for, and to whom were the > apologies offered? I guess at a fundamental level I don't get why, > aside from taking people in the wrong direction and thereby wasting > time, money, and energy, anyone would apologize for a prototype, > whether or not a prototype is a theory. I should probably add that > I'm in higher education rather than industry because I prefer to doubt > the entire concept of wasted time and energy in such a context. If we > didn't learn what we thought we'd learn, well, did we learn something > else? Confirm a known something (theory, fact, whatever)? Disprove > something? I find it almost impossible to waste time doing. And any > point along the line of developing then testing then discarding or > adopting a prototype is doing. > > But I remain curious about the apologies. Can anyone fill me in, > please? > > Thanks, > Richard Cunningham > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 29 06:28:12 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC13A2ACD1; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:28:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 700F92AC9E; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:28:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081229062810.700F92AC9E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:28:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.412 video games X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 412. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:23:21 +0000 From: "Blaxill, Luke" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.410 video games and longings In-Reply-To: <20081228094157.96C1E2AEB2@woodward.joyent.us> As someone with a long-running interest in major shifts in developments in the video-gaming world, I'd take issue with a number of Lancaster's arguments. To start with, although many video games are driven by specific goals which are attained by performing repetitive tasks, I think the industry as a whole is moving increasingly away from this old-fashioned paradigm, and towards the increasing ability to customise, create, and explore the gaming worlds and the characters in them for reasons other than gain in terms of points or progressing in the game. These arguments would have been a lot more applicable five or ten years ago. Even the most objectionable games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto can include the facility to design levels, and the simple desire to explore scenic portions of enormous playing areas. Furthermore, there has been a huge movement in recent years towards Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games like Second Life. In these games, one creates an avatar and interacts with other gamers in any way one chooses- you play competitively if you wish, to gain money to purchase upgrades for your character and the like, or you can choose simply to meet other players in the world and role-play with them. You can watch the sunset, go hunting together, or cook a meal together, or whatever. Such an entirely non-linear world, where the other players are real, can- like life – be played in a never-ending variety of ways, but with the ability to things that in the real would be impossible, unaffordable, and impractical. These games have an extremely loosely designed structure, It isn’t repetitive or structured, and the rewards are not prescribed. The potential for exploring whatever you want in a virtual world is enormous. I also feel that Lancaster’s base of examples consist of a relatively small number of popular games in Britain and America, which even when taken together, do not make up a majority of the market. If one looks outside the famous and popular games with the higher elements of violence, one can find a huge number of obviously extremely artistic titles. In Japan (where, we must remember, the video games market is collosal, and comprises a huge percentage of what it is globally) games are very often showcases for the work of artists and musicians who design characters, worlds, and soundtracks. One of the great interests at the release of Chrono Cross some years ago was its beautiful soundtrack, which was released alongside the game. With recent titles such as Shining Wind on the Playstation 2, advertisements lead with the name of the artist(s) responsible for the design of the characters, and artbooks containing their illustrations are released at the same time. I wouldn’t say such games are in a majority, even in Japan, but only a small number of games from the genre of first-person shooters are ridiculously and excessively violent. Platformers, Role Playing Games, Puzzle Games, Strategy Games, and Simulation games (to name but a few other genres) are very seldom violent and gory. I also would not underestimate the extent to which games can be played artistically. The objective is not necessarily always to ‘best’ the game, but to do so beautifully, in an elegant or aesthetically pleasing manner- like playing a beautiful point in a game of tennis, or drawing an expressive free-flowing sketch. In one-on-one beat ‘em ups (where you play as a character and have to defeat one their opponent like a boxing match) like the famous Streetfighter, players gain prestige amongst friends for performing a beautiful and visually pleading chain of ‘moves’ to defeat an opponent quickly, elegantly, and without suffering any damage in return- perhaps with a particularly skilful or spectacular climax at the crescendo of the background music. It’s almost like a perfectly choreographed dance routine. A look at youtube will also demonstrate the extent to which players will find all manner of ways to adapt, change, and personalise games playing experiences- adding their own music, characters, or playing the game in their own way. Many fans even now seek to create their own games either from scratch, or using flexible designing packages like RPGMaker or Games Factory. Recent developments in the games industry permitting high levels of customisation, and the ability that players now have to customise graphics and music on home PCs and share the fruits of their labours with others on the internet, ensure that the potential for video games to be artistic is greater than ever before. The player has increasingly been given the sketchpad and the potential artist is no longer necessarily just the game producing company. -------------------------------------- Luke Blaxill, Room 1, Shepherd's Bush Office Division of History and Digital Humanities, School of Humanities, King's College London 2nd Floor 232A Uxbridge Road Building LONDON W12 7JD Tel: (+44) 0207 746 9386 (office) (+44) 07903 404 268 (Mobile) luke.blaxill@kcl.ac.uk ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: 28 December 2008 09:41 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 410. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:38:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: video games Some here will very much appreciate John Lanchester's article on video games, "Is it Art?", in the London Review of Books 31.1 (1 January 2009), pp. 18-20, fortunately also available online at www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html. I quote a small bit of it as a taster (here I take "USP" to stand for "Unique Selling Point"): > Most games, as Poole argues, are work-like. They have a tightly > designed structure in which the player has to earn points to win > specific rewards, on the way to completing levels which earn him the > right to play on other levels, earn more points to win other rewards, > and so on, all of it repetitive, quantified and structured. The > trouble with these games – the majority of them – isn’t that they are > maladapted to the real world, it’s that they’re all too well adapted. > The people who play them move from an education, much of it spent in > front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, > quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, > to a work life, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full > of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards > goals determined by others, and for recreation sit in front of a > computer screen and play games full of competitive, repetitive, > quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others. > Most video games aren’t nearly irresponsible enough. [...] > This sense of agency is the cultural and aesthetic USP of video > games. The medium doesn’t have, and probably never will have, a sense > of character to match other forms of narrative; however much it > develops, it can’t match the inwardness of the novel or the sweep of > film. But it does have two great strengths. The first is visual: the > best games are already beautiful, and I can see no reason why the > look of video games won’t match or surpass that of cinema. The second > is to do with this sense of agency, that the game offers a world in > which the player is free to act and to choose. It is this which gives > the best games their immense involvingness. You are in the game in a > way that is curiously similar to the way you are in a novel you are > reading – a way that is subtly unlike the sense of absorption in a > spectacle which overtakes the viewer in cinema. The interiority of > the novel isn’t there, but the sense of having passed into an > imagined world is. [...] > And what do [the majority of game-players] want? The same thing the > audience for any new medium always wants: they want pornography, > broadly defined. They want to see things they aren’t supposed to see. > This is why video games, in general (and away from the world of > Miyamoto-san) are so preoccupied with violence – it’s what young men > want to see. (Pornography in the sexual sense is less of an issue: > they can get that from the internet, any time they want.) Their > rule-bound, target-bound educations and work lives leave them with a > deep craving to go and commit imaginary crimes – as well they might. > Not all games are cynically, affectlessly violent, but a lot of them > are, and this trend is holding video games back. It’s keeping them at > the level of Hollywood blockbusters, when they could go on to be > something else and something more. > Lanchester's observation about the "rule-bound, target-bound educations and work lives" applies of course to our students, who are trapped in the first and in sight of the second. While it would be irresponsible of us not in some sense to prepare them for their work-lives, it seems to me that to do so by aping the world of work, as we are doing now, is to throw away the opportunity to supply that imaginative engagement with worlds of endless possibility to which gaming appeals. It's not just that game-players want distraction, I think Lanchester is saying, they want something better, something worthy of the imagination. And we want to train them to be better workers? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 30 09:22:27 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3854E23C51; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:22:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29B6923C3E; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:22:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081230092225.29B6923C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:22:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 413. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Hunsucker, R.L." (27) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge [2] From: Stan Ruecker (271) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge [3] From: Fernando Flores (21) Subject: About "thing knowledge" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:40:38 +0100 From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge Martin Mueller schreef : > As for digital humanities, we need better doing and > making. Let's worry about the "theory" later. If one thinks of a theory as a conception/suggestion of how the world works ( or, normally, how a quite limited aspect of the world works ) -- and should one *not* think of the matter in that way ? --, is the above then really such a good idea, I wonder ? - Laval Hunsucker U. Amsterdam, UB --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:58:34 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081229062631.BA2F02AB13@woodward.joyent.us> I always hesitate before disagreeing with Martin Mueller, in part because he is a senior colleague I respect, in part because he writes so eloquently, and in part because he writes with such authority. Nonetheless, here goes. Martin writes: "What happens if now glorify the prototype by calling it a theory? Are we going to get better prototypes? Almost certainly not." It is sometimes hard to predict effects from knowing causes, but in this case, I would say the prototype as theory points us toward some clear advantages. One is that it allows us to ignore for a moment the standard features that are not the object of interest. Let me provide an example. I was part of a group that thought it might have been a misstep to believe received wisdom that the best way to avoid information overload was to reduce the amount of information on a screen. What if we took an alternative route, and filled the screen with what Tufte calls "small multiples," but then attempted to reduce the perceptual or cognitive overload by also providing tools for manipulating the arrangement of all those objects? Would be people be overwhelmed, or, as I believed, reassured? It was hard to tell until we built some prototypes and tried them out with people. We haven't built many prototypes yet, and we haven't tried them out with very many people, but the early results suggest we get good results on measures of both performance and preference, for these kinds of interfaces, provided the collections are of the right kind and not too large. Here is another example. We wondered if it was true that people in browsing objects on the screen would all tend to do it the same way, or if they would make roughly equal use of all the ways available to them. So again we built a prototype and tried it out. We provided 16 different facets of data and found that the people using the system logged roughly equal use of all 16 facets. I think for designers this has important implications, because what I was taught, at least, was that it was my job as a designer to figure out the one way to navigate the data that people would use 85% of the time, then build that. In both these cases, the people using the system also mentioned that they would like all kinds of standard features. There should be a search function. There should be some way to save results and send them to your friends. There should be an annotation option, for both public and private annotations. And so on. Duly noted, I said. But because these were prototypes to test theories about people interacting with collections, I felt justified in saving the time and money that would have gone into building those other features. It is true those are good features--it has been well established that they are generally useful. In fact, it is so well established that I can't find anything contestable, defensible, and substantive to say about them. That is, there's nothing to publish about having included a search function, even if it is a great search function. You should have them in production systems. End of story. Another advantage of calling a prototype a theory is that it reminds us to look for ways of evaluating the prototype other than as a lens onto something else. We can ask ourselves what theory this particular prototype is embodying, and whether there are other prototypes that embody it differently, and how do they compare? I included in an earlier note in this thread all the things I think we typically do with theories. In this case, it may suffice to say that if we think of prototypes as theories, we will want to analyse them, argue about them, put them to tests, and so on. I am always slightly disheartened whenever I give a paper or see a paper given that is largely descriptive, since I believe a better approach is analytical, and a better one yet is analysis with some data brought to the table in the form of some kind of trying it out with people. I do agree with Martin that it isn't necessarily a good idea to call all implicit purposes theories, which leads me to what I believe is the third advantage of saying "a prototype is a theory"--namely that it may help remind us that theorizing by prototyping is different from building production systems, however elegant they may be. There is always a temptation to forget that thinking by building, as Richard Cunningham reminds us, is one of the things we are about. Not very long ago now, I was co-supervising a very good graduate student who had built three very different prototypes. One day he arrived at a meeting with a fourth system, already built, that looked essentially like iTunes. I had to exercise what little diplomacy I had to point out that yes, this would work, but there was nothing new about it. It just addressed the problem from the current best practices. If I had explained to him earlier that a prototype is a theory, I think I could have saved him a lot of time and effort. yrs, Stan --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:23:28 -0300 From: Fernando Flores Subject: About "thing knowledge" In-Reply-To: <20081229062631.BA2F02AB13@woodward.joyent.us> I understand the relationship between the prototype and the theory as the relationship between intentionality and knowledge in the intentional act known as work. Umberto Eco said that the meaning of an artefact is its function. The meaning of an artefact or thing, reveals in praxis. What is to say the same is that: if we have forgotten "how to do with the thing" we can not grasp its meaning. So, back to Willard McCarty's question (I quote): "Given the short life- span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them and, as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their creators, can any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written commentary and explanation?€ My answer is no: To read old programming languages will be the same as to understand dead natural languages; a question for specialists. Yours, FF Fernando Flores Moador Associate Professor Department of Cultural Sciences Humanistic Informatics Lund University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 31 07:00:08 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1A52A589; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:00:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7A0182A57C; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:00:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20081231070005.7A0182A57C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:00:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.414 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 414. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge [2] From: Martin Mueller (244) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge [3] From: "Gerry Coulter" (7) Subject: Theory... Later? [4] From: Richard Cunningham (220) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge [5] From: John Laudun (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:11:14 -0600 From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge Dear Willard and colleagues, one of the joys of these holidays has been the gift of time - one that I've used, among other things, to catch up with my reading/lurking of Humanist. This thread has especially intrigued me, because it calls to mind Rilke's Ninth Duino Elegy, especially the following: Praise the world to the angel, not the unutterable world; you cannot astonish him with your glorious feelings; in the universe, where he feels more sensitively, you're just a beginner. Therefore, show him the simple thing that is shaped in passing from father to son, that lives near our hands and eyes as our very own. Tell him about the Things. He'll stand amazed, as you stood beside the rope-maker in Rome, or the potter on the Nile. Show him how happy a thing can be, how blameless and ours; how even the lamentation of sorrow purely decides to take form, serves as a thing, or dies in a thing, and blissfully in the beyond escapes the violin. And these things that live, slipping away, understand that you praise them; transitory themselves, they trust us for rescue, us, the most transient of all. They wish us to transmute them in our invisible heart--oh, infinitely into us! Whoever we are. I'm not sure it's entirely appropriate to this thread: but what I hear in Rilke's (admittedly, perhaps too Romantic?) lines is a sense of how we know the world _through_ things and especially the artifacts that we create - a knowledge, moreover, that is at once cognitive and emotive. What may be helpful to add here: this sense is one that has gained increasing articulation and support over the past twenty years or so - in work that has been mentioned in Humanist (Damasio), but also in recent phenomenological work (Albert Borgmann, Barbara Becker, Darren Barney), especially as focusing on embodiment. Along these lines, Clifford Geertz has also noted: Šthe fact that brain and culture co-evolved, mutually dependent the one upon the other for their very realization, has made the conception of human mental functioning as a intrinsically determined intracerebral process, ornamented and extended, but hardly engendered by cultural devices ­ language, rite, technology, teaching, and the incest tabu ­ unsustainable Š Our minds are not in our bodies, but in the world. (_Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics_. Reprint edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. P. 205) All of this would seem to support the view articulated by Martin Mueller, and captured nicely in the quote he provides from Enzensberger: "Am Anfang waren die Bastler". That is, given what we now seem to know about how we know the world as embodied beings, it appears that there is something indeed essential to the processes of our coming to know the world more fully - a knowledge that at some point will include theory - in our first tinkering with things via our bodies, and developing a feel for (or, to use the phrase common in phenomenology, getting a grip on) how some-_thing_ might be modified, changed, developed, in order to work better in our hands and with our bodies. Along these lines, finally, a bibliographic reference: Susan Stuart (Glasgow University) has an excellent survey of how we come to know the world as embodied beings: >From agency to apperception: through kinaesthesia to cognition and creation, _Ethics and Information Technology_, Volume 10, Number 4 (December, 2008): 255-264. (DOI 10.1007/s10676-008-9175-5) Susan proposes here that we turn to what she calls "pre-reflective bodily consciousness" and imagination for the sake of developing "a softer ontology, one which encompasses our notions of embedded, situational, and extended minds." While Susan's primary focus here is on what all of this might mean regarding ethics - especially the ethical implications of breaking down hard Cartesian dichotomies of mind/body, virtual/real, internal/external - the larger overview she provides of these developments may be of interest to Humanist readers also intrigued by this thread on things and knowledge. With all best wishes to Humanist readers for the new year! - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Center http://www.drury.edu/gp21 Drury University Springfield, MO 65802 USA President, Association of Internet Researchers Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://ijire.uwm.edu Co-chair, CATaC conferences Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:37:05 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081230092225.29B6923C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Responding to both R. L Hunsucker and Stan Ruecker, I quite agree with them. What they say covers my first point that to call a prototype a theory is a tautology. Of course, you have to some idea of what you're trying to prove or disprove. You have to think ahead, and you have to ask "what if" -- a question that Stan asks twice in his posting. There is a perfectly good term for building a prototype. It's called 'proof concept'. We're in a world of experimentation, we try to figure out whether something that works 'in theory' also works in practice, whether the practical obstacles observed map to the obstacles expected, whether a successful prototype could scale, etc. That is the world of intelligent tinkering or model building for which I have the greatest respect. But that is not what I heard when I read Lev Manovich's perhaps quite casual remark that a 'prototype is a theory'. What I heard there was the use of 'theory' in English departments. As used there (and in cognate disciplines), the word 'theory' and its awful verbal partner 'theorize' has almost nothing to do with an experimental attitude of designing and testing models, looking for evidence that confirms or disconfirms a hypothesis, and generally giving an account of what you are doing in the light of constraints, opportunities, and available facts. It is rather a term that marks a stance of airy speculation that already knows better and is scornful of such things as 'evidence', 'relevant facts', 'constraints', 'proof'. I am a great admirer of Michael Oakeshott in general and of the hermeneutical introduction to his late work On Human Conduct. There are some wonderful and trenchant remarks on this peculiarly restricted and inflated use of the word 'theory' and 'theorist'. If we associate prototype with 'theory' in that sense, God help us. If you think of it as a synonym for 'hypothesis' or 'concept', that's OK. But those seem to me much better words to explain what goes on when somebody builds a good prototype. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:47:11 -0500 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: Theory... Later? In-Reply-To: <20081230092225.29B6923C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Re: F Flores (and S Ruecker and R L Hunsucker) Worry about the theory later...? Theory precedes the world... Did Foucault and Baudrillard's entire ouevres suddenly disappear? Maybe we'll worry about them later??? Best for 2009 Gerry Coulter gcoulter@ubishops.ca --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:25:05 -0400 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.413 thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081230092225.29B6923C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Perhaps I'm dense. Certainly I'm simplifying. But . . . in following this thread I'm increasingly inclined to believe that a prototype is not a theory, but follows from a theory. In the examples provided by Stan, below, I think a theory about, as Laval Hunsucker puts it (again, below) "how the world works" precedes the prototyping. In fact, probably numerous theories precede the prototyping. One might be that people's brains are subject to cognitive overloading. I know this to be true at the level of statistics (that is, people in general), but I also know too few tests have been run on those whose brains we might describe as higher order or higher functioning. That is, does the human brain necessarily suffer cognitive overload, or is it largely a function of some external factors, factors that an individual might--by accident of living or by careful upbringing or by assiduous self-control--overcome? A second theory might be that the kind of information to be provided is the kind best presented via the medium of an electronic interface. (I'm at a loss to imagine a kind of information that doesn't fall into that category, but there might be such.) Neither of these theories is a prototype, but both are necessary and necessarily precede the development of a prototype, don't they? If that's right, that only shows that not all theories are prototypes, even if some are. Thus, it doesn't invalidate the assertion that "prototypes are theories" but, like Martin Mueller's contribution, it leads me toward disagreeing with that assertion. Am I splitting hairs when I suggest that a prototype can be the manifestation of or embodiment of a theory? Richard Cunningham ------------- Richard Cunningham Associate Professor, English & Theatre Director, Acadia Media Centre Acadia University --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:17:46 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.411 more on thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20081230092225.29B6923C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear All, I find it fascinating that we moved from a concern about permanency within the digital humanities to a discussion of prototypes as theory in relationship to hammers. I return to Pr. McCarthy's original comments -- and please forgive me if I misunderstood at some point -- in which he noted: > The question is, does the same hold true for the digital humanities, that "only the written gives any hope for survival"? Given the short life-span of software artefacts, our ignorance of how to read them, and, as Peter Galison has noted for non-verbal artefacts generally, their polysemous existence beyond the meaning assigned by their creators, can any such artefact ever stand for itself wholly without written commentary and explanation? Solid work in the history of science and technology gives us the intriguing idea of "thing knowledge", but in any case can we say what that knowledge is without using words? Is it knowledge without words? I think I hit a bump in my reading when software was described as "non- verbal." Software, to my limited imagination, is primarily literary -- one of the reasons that code is sometimes compared to poetry. If anything, I imagined when I joined this list that we would be moving to include within the scope of humanistic investigation the writing of software itself, precisely because, as Pr. McCarthy points out, so many of us remain "ignorant of how to read" it. Even in my limited time of doing a bit of observation with an open source group -- the RadiantCMS project (a Ruby on Rails application), it's clear to me that there are a number of literary tropes being practiced. A fuller discussion of what those folks are up to will have to wait until I am further along in that research. For now, I am still in the midst of the investigation of a complex artifact known as "the crawfish boat" here in south Louisiana and which was born out of the complex interactions between two semi- distinct but deeply intertwined cultural groups: the Cajuns and the Germans. The former are of course quite famous; the latter much less well known to those not familiar with the area's history. These craft -- a few can be glimpsed here: http://flickr.com/photos/johnlaudun/sets/72157605735666828/ -- surely stand somewhere between the proverbial rock and software. I'd like to pass over for a moment all the discussions about the obviousness or non-obviousness of handtools, be they rocks or hammers. (Anyone who has seen a rock used as a pestle to grind grain in the hollow of another, larger rock, or has had to explain the use of the "claw" part of the hammer will appreciate that tools are, by their very nature, cultural and thus always surrounded by their meanings.) I do this in order to move more quickly to a point that Pr. Mueller makes about the "hidden (or not-so-hidden) contempt for skill that manifests itself in the doing or making" that lingers in prototype theory. In particular, I am drawn in my own writing now to try to describe in words that ways in which these men think, quite literally, in metal. When they communicate with each other -- in the case of at least one of the shops the communication is between two brothers who have worked together for two decades -- they begin with their hands, describing curves and folds and holes and welds, and move slowly toward words, which always seem insufficient to the task of quickly describing a dynamic, three-dimensional scene. Thus, there is, even in the best of metal shops, regular miscommunication when one job must pass from one person to another and why so often these men tend to work alone on a job. They seem the opposite of many of us because they do not seem to be good with words, an appearance which is quickly belied if you take one of them to lunch and get them telling stories. They are, in fact, by and large quick-witted pranksters and sly storytellers. Their tongues seem tied when it comes to the objects they make and to the things they do to craft them because the telling is so impoverished, in terms of information, to the doing. I have, along the way, found and interviewed the two men who made, contemporaneously in 1983, the first of these spectacular boats, and how what they did refutes or revises prototype theory is not something I am prepared to comment on. But I did feel compelled to try to add a dimension or two to the discussion of "thing knowledge" which I felt had gotten a little side-tracked by sticking to rocks and hammers as the prototypical things. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 1 10:26:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4593C2AED0; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 84EBD2AEC8; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:26:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090101102643.84EBD2AEC8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:26:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.415 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 415. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francois Lachance (24) Subject: Thing-Theory thing [2] From: Willard McCarty (86) Subject: "no idea but in things" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:46:53 -0500 (EST) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Thing-Theory thing Willard, I would like to propose some loose notes on the Thing-Theory Thing (or thread). Both prototype and theory are objects of discourse. As objects of discourse they productive of stories. They are especially productive if they are considered as events (as any object can be considered as a reified event). I think the submerged theme to this thing-theory thread is the question of what types of stories should be told (this in the guise of what stories can be told). I point out that the intervention that produced the hook (prototypes _are_ theory) arose in reaction to statements of humility (coded as apology). I would venture an imperative ... the discourse of humanities and by extension that of humanities computing must address not only the present discursive community, some of its message must be destined to those yet to come. The route to such an engagement with the future sometimes passes through forms such as the dialogue of the dead. Sometimes such a regard for history and the future is cultivated by the sense of an audience that lives extra muros. Every blog entry, every posting to a discussion list, every syllabus available online, every archived transcription of the transactions of a learned society, contributes to an aggregate sense of engagement. Good stories happen to those who can tell them well. Telling a story well takes practice. I believe that good practice begins when the metaphoric leap (X _is_ Y) is eschewed and a more comparative mode is commonplace (A is like B or C or D). Metaphors run to inflationary hype. Modest comparisons create linkages and an expansive discursive economy. Mind you, an overarching metaphor is sometimes perfect for stiring the pot but there are other ways to cook or prepare food. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:23:36 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "no idea but in things" In-Reply-To: <20081231070005.7A0182A57C@woodward.joyent.us> from "Humanist In the discussions of "thing knowledge" so far, often we've slipped into using words in a rather thing-like fashion, or rather, in the half-aware way that we treat things themselves, as if they were simply lumpishly "out there". A number of comments on the epistemic, culturally informed way that things exist in the world we share with them, even those not made by us, have brought forward the core of what Davis Baird means by his term "thing knowledge". Perhaps words are so familiar to us that they -- esp "theory", but also "experiment" in the present context, indeed also "context" -- have become even more dull, lumpish, object-ified than things have been. The point I wish to make has been made quietly, too quietly perhaps, by Laval Hunsucker ("If one thinks of a theory as..."), Martin Mueller ("You can call that implicit purpose a theory...") and perhaps others. Let me shout it with a New Year's enthusiasm for an improving turn. We are using "theory" as if its meaning were singular and clear -- which it is most definitely not -- as a result of which the word takes on the trendy mind-stopping, experiment-snuffing force it has in so much of literary studies and in Manovich's utterance as it has been quoted. (Compare the similar effect of "socially constructed".) Of course there's truth in what Manovich says, but if it isn't a tautological truth, as Martin has argued, then it's very close to that. So I ask, WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "THEORY" in each of the contexts in which we use that word? What is a "theory" not? How, in any given use, would a word such as "idea" or "concept" or "notion" not be as good -- or better, perhaps much clearer? And now that we're on a roll philologically speaking, with our dictionaries out, let us also ask, WHAT IS AN "EXPERIMENT"? When would a replacement of "to experiment" by "to try out" result in an improvement of sense? A cynic might think that (forgive the demeaning of a noble tool) words are to us like hammers, to have the maximum possible IMPACT on our colleagues. I commend to everyone's attention Peter Galison's Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (Chicago, 1997), and for present purposes chapter 6, "The Electronic Image: Iconoclasm and the New Icons", pp. 433-552. A couple of quotations will help in the present context. Galison is discussing the popular idea, e.g. in Andrew Pickering's analysis of a particular situation, that the experiment in question was tuned in a "theory-laden" way on the basis of a pre-existing "theoretical construct". He comments, "This sort of dichotomy, characteristic of both positivist and antipositivist philosophy of science, has obscured a richer, subtler spectrum of registers in which experimental augmentation proceeds.... Data are already interpreted. But 'interpreted' does not mean shaped by a governing theory.... There are no original, pure, and unblemished data. Instead there are judgments, some embodied in the hardwired machinery, some delicately encoded into software.... But to call these moves of interpretation 'theories' is to grossly misread the nature of experimental culture." (pp. 543-4) What this says to me is that having turned away from uncritical uses of the term "theory", taking on board Kuhn's and Hacking's arguments (from the 1960s and 1980s) about experiment having "a life of its own", as Hacking says, and before we start thinking of what we properly do as "experiment", it would be wise to check out how the latter word is used by all those colleagues of ours in the tradition running back at least as far as Bacon. Significantly Galison has turned to anthropology for explicating the "richer, subtler spectrum of registers in which experimental augmentation proceeds". Allow me to leave you with the following: > As the "tradition of the instruments" makes clear, objects travel > clothed in culture and human interactions. Objects (like the paten > and chalice) are encumbered, covered with meanings, symbolisms, > power, and the ability to represent but also to preserve specific > elements of continuity. Yet precisely because things come dressed > with meaning, it is essential not to picture the handing down as > occurring without alteration. There are no purely neutral exchanges > or donations, no "technological transfer" that is isolable from the > contexts of origin and destination.... So while it would be an error to > suppose that machines can be plucked cleanly from their context, it > would be equally distorting to assume that objects carry the totality > of their cultural embedding with them. Clothes wear away, dyes fade, > and meanings themselves shift over time. One of the central arguments > of this book is that there is a partial peeling away, an (incomplete) > disencumberance of meaning that is associated with the transfer of > objects.... Our histories must be dense and specific enough to > understand the limits of the malleability of objects and meanings as > they travel from domain to domain. Objects draw together clusters of > cultural practices the way pidgins and creoles bind languages." (pp 435f) Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 2 06:38:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA0B2AF5B; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:38:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A61A42AF49; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:38:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090102063833.A61A42AF49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:38:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.416 role vs rule? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 416. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:37:06 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: role vs rule? Dear colleagues, I would be grateful for any pointers to philosophical discussions of the difference between playing a role and following a rule -- apart from Peter Winch's in The Idea of a Social Science and, of course, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Is the latter the locus classicus? Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 3 06:16:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BE12A0B9; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:16:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BE7652A0B0; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:16:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090103061619.BE7652A0B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:16:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.417 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 417. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (96) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.410 video games and longings [2] From: "Arata, Luis Prof." (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.415 thing knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:07:39 +0000 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.410 video games and longings In-Reply-To: <20081228094157.96C1E2AEB2@woodward.joyent.us> Further to Willard's recommendation and comments on John Lanchester's article on video games, "Is it Art?", in the London Review of Books 31.1 (www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html) some of you may also be interested in the collection of essays 'Videogames and Art', ed. by Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell, Intellect 2007. Many contributors take the question – is it art? – for granted, which suggests that they think they know what art is in the first place! Ernest W. Adams, gives us a game designer's take on the question 'Will computer games ever be a legitimate art form?'. For him art is a grey area, yet he is brave enough to look for common characteristics in art and games (e.g. both have the capacity to express ideas). Jim Andrews considers videogames as literary devices. Another author believes that videogame art is art that retains a sense of humour. Etc, etc. All in all, much food for thought. Imagination – as Willard points out - is the key. In art, work and longings! Best wishes, Anna --- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:15:50 -0500 From: "Arata, Luis Prof." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.415 thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20090101102643.84EBD2AEC8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and colleagues, The thread “thing knowledge” has been fascinating. Trying to make sense, I offer the following comments that at best build on what contributors to this thread have already expressed more clearly. Pushing beyond Nietzsche’s perspectivism, perhaps from some perspective there is a matter of power associated with the prototype/theory issue. In this light, a theory tends to propose how something else is out there, in a true/false fashion, and a prototype tends to shun from trenchant assertions about how something out there is all about. This may appear as a weakness, hence the apologies when compared to the more powerful, commanding theoretical style. Within this perspective, to exclaim that a prototype is a theory is to refuse such weakness. Yet in this narrow sense the protest falls short. The effort is also unproductive: battling it out with theory leaves out the far more interesting, valuable, productive uses of prototypes. Shifting the perspective, Lev Manovich’s statement that a prototype is a theory, becomes a nicely illuminating tautology. No apologies needed. We can say that a theory is a very special type of prototype (or, more generally, a type of model) constructed to make truth representations about something out there. A theory is a prototype (a model) about external truth matters. But as engineers and makers from all disciplines are aware, there is more to be done than theorize. Things have to be built, tasks accomplished, repairs made, explorations carried out. This does not diminish the value of theoretical discourses. On the contrary. They are an integral part of what we make, how we see experiment and see ourselves in the world. Yet theory does not constitute the entire fabric. It seems that more is accomplished through prototypes (models) that have little or no clear theoretical basis beyond personal/community styles, inclinations, and beliefs. What seems to be different about this second perspective is that it widens beyond the ‘knowledge of the world’ issue towards the ‘doing & building things in the world’ attitude. It still includes ontological matters but in a more pragmatic way. This has a benefit: rather than keep fueling warfare between theories, there is now room for diversity, for coexistence, and for mutually enhancing cooperation among former antagonists, or at least rivals. A gift of new media is that it facilitates such interactions. To comment on Willard’s question: <“WHAT IS AN "EXPERIMENT"? When would a replacement of "to experiment" by "to try out" result in an improvement of sense?>, it seems that people like Edison are more of the “try out” type: more playful, eclectic, even artistic, more concerned with discovery than proof, more risk-taking explorers, more ingenious, more of the engineer. Best wishes for the new year, Luis Arata Professor of Modern Languages Quinnipiac University luis.arata@quinnipiac.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 3 06:17:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54F62A18A; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D0B302A173; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:17:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090103061714.D0B302A173@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.418 roboethics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 418. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:12:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: [Fwd: Re: ICRA 09 Roboethics Workshop] [Following is an invitation sent directly to me but mistaking me for someone accomplished in the subject of the workshop, which I am not. But the topic may fall well within someone's range here. --WM] -------- Original Message -------- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:26:47 +0000 From: Fiorella Operto To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk Dear Professor McCarthy, I wish you all my best for a Happy and Fruitful New Year. I am glad to inform you that the IEEE-Robotics and Automation Society's Technical Committee on Roboethics, which is co-Chaired by Gianmarco Veruggio, is organizing an international Full Day Workshop, 17th of May, 2009, in the frame of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), to be held in Kobe, Japan, from 12 to 17 May 2009. Here you can find the Workshop's website: http://www.roboethics.org/icra2009/ In light of your interest on Roboethics, and of your outstanding research activity in the field of human-robot interaction, I think that the participants will be glad and inspired by a talk of yours. I warmly hope you can send to the Committee an abstract and a paper. I am at you disposal for any information you would need. I am using this occasion to send you my kindest regards, on behalf of Gianmarco Veruggio. Yours, cordially, Fiorella Operto -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 3 14:07:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351FB2AAFE; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 14:07:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 335432AAF5; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 14:07:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090103140705.335432AAF5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 14:07:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.419 events: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 419. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:05:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for January/February You are cordially invited to attend the meetings of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, tinyurl.com/r2dxl. Following are the events for January and February. All Seminars take place from 17.30 to 19.30. Those for the following are in room 275, Stewart House, for which a map is provided on the Seminar page. Please note that Dr Janovic (Head, Classical Philology, Zagreb) is coming to London for his Seminar from Croatia and is interested in making contacts while he is here. Anyone with interests in Neo-Latin things of Croatian or digital flavour is most welcome to make contact directly with him, neven.jovanovic@ffzg.hr. Yours, WM (1)------------------------ 22 January Anouk Lang (University of Birmingham), "Mediated reading across the nation" This paper explores ways in which analytical techniques from corpus linguistics can be used in conjunction with other methods to gain insight into the social significance of nationwide community-reading projects that have arisen over the past decade. Using three corpora of news texts which address Canada Reads, Richard and Judy?s Book Club in the UK and The Big Read programme sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in the US, the analysis focusses on two features: 1) the kinds of topics that media commentators discuss alongside reading, and 2) the use of evaluative language to frame reading in overwhelmingly positive terms. These findings are then set against participants? textual responses to an online survey and verbal responses in the context of a focus group. This multi-disciplinary approach helps to identify the social ?work? such reading programmes are seen to be performing, and to give a sense of the discourses circulating around these events which may have less to do with reading and more to do with the construction of national imaginaries, the replication of discourses of community-building issuing from elsewhere, and the covert articulation of taste-hierarchies. Anouk Lang is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she works on the AHRC project ?Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, the US and Canada?. She is currently editing a volume on reading practices in the 21st century and the impact of technology on individuals' relationships with books, and is also preparing a manuscript on Canadian and Australian literary modernism. (2)------------------------ 12 February Neven Jovanovic (University of Zagreb), "What shall we do with a text collection?" A good resource must enable us to do something we could not do without it. So what new things have resources like Google Book Search, the Perseus Project, and the German neo-Latin CAMENA collection enabled me --- a scholar trained as a classical philologist, working in a small country in Southern Europe --- to do? After considering some obvious responses, it is important to note that those digital, web-based experiments, both with their successes and their shortcomings, have made it possible, even necessary, to imagine an act of building a digital collection that is also an act of building a community around the collection. Imagine a collection or an archive designed in such a way to be able to support itself, enabling its users to contribute and persuading them to want to contribute, to enrich and personalize the collection and to share their own personalizations with others. Furthermore, imagine such a collection designed not around a very famous or popular subject but around something special, something relatively unknown, exotic, or esoteric. How to create such space? What tools, what services, what strategies are needed? Do we have them already, or do they have yet to be devised? I will try to propose answers using the example and the experience of the Croatiae auctores Latini, a digital collection in the making, intended to become both a "knowledge site" and "a village of scholars" (as envisioned by Peter L. Shillingsburg) around the so far unsufficiently researched phenomenon of Croatian Latin texts, written by people of Croatian origin from the ninth to the twentieth centuries. Neven Jovanovic works in Zagreb, Croatia, at the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He acquired his PhD in 2005, with the thesis "Problems in Construing a Neo-Latin Stylistics on the Example of the Evangelistarium by Marko Marulic" (University of Zagreb). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 4 07:23:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB452A2C9; Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:23:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DD122A2C2; Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:23:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090104072321.5DD122A2C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:23:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.420 doctoral fellowship in digital curation at UNC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 420. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:49:57 -0500 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: The Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellowship Program (CDCDF) NOW RECRUITING! Begin forwarded message: > > The School of Information and Library Science (www.sils.unc.edu) at > the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill encourages > applications for Ph.D. fellowships in digital curation supported by > the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded > DigCCurrII project (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/aboutII.html#cdcdf). > DigCCurr II seeks to develop an international, doctoral-level > curriculum and educational network in the management and > preservation of digital materials across their life cycle. This > project will prepare future faculty to perform research and teach in > this area, as well as provide summer institutes for cultural > heritage information professionals already working in this arena. > > > What the Fellowship Offers > > · A 20 hr/wk position as a Research Fellow for the Institute > of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project, “DigCCurr II: > Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral > Students and Practitioners.” > > · A stipend of $19,000 for three years > > · In-state tuition and health coverage > > · Annual enrichment funds of $800 > > · Extensive opportunities to meet key leaders in the Digital > Curation research and practice arenas through workshops and symposia > to be held at UNC > > Applying for the Fellowship > > To apply for the fellowship, please follow the regular application > procedures found on the SILS Ph.D. Admissions page. The deadline to > apply for the Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellowships (CDCDF) > program is February 15, 2009; however, earlier applications are > encouraged. In addition to the required written statement of your > intended research focus, we ask that you write a separate essay > elaborating on these goals and how they are related to the goals of > DigCCurr II. Please send this essay in an email to Dr. Helen Tibbo > at tibbo@email.unc.edu, Dr. Cal Lee at callee@email.unc.edu, or > Heather Bowden at hbowden@email.unc.edu, no later than February 15, > 2009. Earlier applications are encouraged. Please note that we are > only able to accept applications from United States Citizens at this > time. > > For more information on Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral > Fellowship opportunities, send e-mail to Dr. Helen Tibbo at tibbo@email.unc.edu > , Dr. Cal Lee at callee@email.unc.edu, or Heather Bowden at hbowden@email.unc.edu > . > > Interested applicants may also direct correspondence to: > > DigCCurr II Fellowships > School of Information and Library Science > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > Campus Box 3360 Manning Hall > Chapel Hill NC 27566-3360 > > > Dr. Helen R. Tibbo >School of Information and Library Science >201 Manning Hall CB#3360 >University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 >Tel: 919-962-8063 >Fax: 919-962-8071 >Email: tibbo@email.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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 4 07:32:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9802A3E9; Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:32:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 240162A3D7; Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:32:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090104073240.240162A3D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:32:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.421 identity of a painting? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 421. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:31:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: identity of painting? This is a request for any ideas toward identifing a modernist painting I saw in the Museum of Modern Art or perhaps the Metropolitan (New York) years ago. I won't bother to explain why, or what this painting has to do with the digital humanities tangentially, though it does fit neatly into an argument I am constructing. My memory of it is as follows: 20C, Russian, depicting a little girl in various stages of development sitting on and suspended from branches of a tree which turns into or is identified with aspects of her anatomy, esp her central nervous system & circulatory system. I saw this painting so long ago that I cannot at all be sure that aspects of it have been created subsequently in my imagination. A Google image search has yielded thousands of images, only the first 40 pages of which I've browsed through. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 5 06:22:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073282AC3F; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:22:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A431F2AC29; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:22:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090105062218.A431F2AC29@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:22:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.422 the painting is by Tchelitchew X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 422. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 02:38:04 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.421 identity of a painting? In-Reply-To: <20090104073240.240162A3D7@woodward.joyent.us> That is most likely Pavel Tchelitchew - - Alan On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 421. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:31:48 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > This is a request for any ideas toward identifing a modernist painting I > saw in the Museum of Modern Art or perhaps the Metropolitan (New York) > years ago. I won't bother to explain why, or what this painting has to > do with the digital humanities tangentially, though it does fit neatly > into an argument I am constructing. > > My memory of it is as follows: 20C, Russian, depicting a little girl in > various stages of development sitting on and suspended from branches of > a tree which turns into or is identified with aspects of her anatomy, > esp her central nervous system & circulatory system. I saw this painting > so long ago that I cannot at all be sure that aspects of it have been > created subsequently in my imagination. A Google image search has > yielded thousands of images, only the first 40 pages of which I've > browsed through. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: | http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | sondheim@panix.com, sondheim@gmail.org, tel US 718-813-3285 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 5 06:22:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06142AD5A; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:22:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E75482AD4A; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:22:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090105062247.E75482AD4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.423 job as webmaster X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 423. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:28:02 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Webmaster vacancy Webmaster vacancy The American Conference for Irish Studies is looking for a webmaster to maintain and update its website (_http://www.acisweb.com_ http://www.acisweb.com/ ). The position is overseen by the ACIS Secretary, who acts as the ACIS liaison for the webmaster. The website is set up so that members can post their own announcements and cfps, but certain information (e.g. the announcement of the annual book prizes and book prize committees) needs to be periodically updated by the webmaster. That person is also responsible for keeping members' access information current, and enabling the online ACIS elections every other year. The webmaster should also be able to upgrade the website's software as necessary. The following skills are required for the position: Familiarity with Object-Oriented PhP programming Familiarity with MySQL and the SQL Query language Familiarity with HTML Familiarity working with ISPs and Domain Registration agencies. The position of ACIS webmaster carries an annual stipend of $1500. For more information about the position, including technical requirements, please contact ACIS Secretary Matthew Jockers (mjockers@stanford.edu ). =========================================================== Professor Josepha Lanters Department of English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA Tel. +414-2294799 (office) or +414-2294511 (department 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 5 06:23:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F952ADD1; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:23:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CACF72ADBF; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:23:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090105062338.CACF72ADBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:23:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.424 Digital Document Quarterly 7.4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 424. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:37:58 +0000 From: Henry Gladney Subject: DDQ 7(4) is now available 16 The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 7 number 4 is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_4.htm. Its table of contents is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm#Y2008. In 2006, Deanna Marcum, Assoc. Librarian at the Library of Congress wrote, "we kept on producing digital resources because we had to while whistling in the dark about their long-term preservation". This DDQ number sums up the long-term digital preservation (LDP) situation by asserting that it is time for major institutions to choose LDP strategies, arguing that the technical alternatives are now known, with few surprises likely about what can be done. Readers who want to acquire understanding of the topic quickly can do so by selectively following Web links in recent DDQ numbers. The number also summarizes a recent CLIR assessment of the role of research librarians. Its conclusions are unlikely to please members of the profession. As usual, the number provides technical news, practical advice, and recommends books that I found excellent. Best wishes, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ (408)867-5454 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 6 07:01:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF752A62E; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 87D782A5F0; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:01:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090106070146.87D782A5F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:01:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.425 printing, medicine and self-knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 425. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:57:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: printing, medicine and self-knowledge In his remarkable catalogue, Dream Anatomy, to a U.S. National Library of Medicine exibition of the same name (www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/), Michael Sappol notes that Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) overturned many of the ideas of the great Greek physician Galen by dissecting human cadavers rather than animal, as Galen had done. Galen's ideas had been set down and communicated mostly in words, I suppose for the obvious reason that at the time there was no way to transmit much else reliably. The revolution in ideas about the body that Vesalius brought about was possible because very accurate drawings could be reproduced and accompanied by commentary thanks to the printing press. (This is essentially the same argumen that Eugene Ferguson makes about engineering in his book The Mind's Eye.) Sappol begins his catalogue with the observation that all of us, however medically educated, if at all, carry around with us a mental map of the inside of our bodies. Most of us know the names of our organs and at least approximately where they are. The difference this makes to how we relate to the world is well brought out by the ecologist Paul Shepard in his remarkable book The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (1996). But, I suppose further, the degree to which our physiological self-knowledge was enhanced and intensified by the printing-press-enabled ideas of Vesalius must be very great indeed. This is undoubtedly a point made at length by those who study book history. But Sappol's explication of Vesalius' importance does give us quite a persuasive example of how very simple facts have enormous consequences. Like many others I resist being content with access to resources as a subject for study. I want much more complex, analytically sophisticated phenomena to burrow into. But, again, what a difference simply having some important resource, such as JSTOR, makes! Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 7 06:33:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5550F2A092; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:33:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 779542A081; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:33:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090107063314.779542A081@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:33:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.426 thing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 426. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:44:50 -0500 From: "Alan Galey" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.417 thing knowledge In-Reply-To: <20090103061619.BE7652A0B0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and all, I'd like to echo Luis Arata's comment that this is a fascinating thread. The formula "every X is a theory" shows up now and again, and perhaps it would be useful to compare "every prototype is a theory" with a similar statement that Bernhard Cerquiglini makes in his small but rich book, _In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology_ (Johns Hopkins, 1999). He asserts that "every edition is a theory" in a discussion of conservative approaches to editing medieval texts (whose primary characteristic he takes to be textual variance between copies): "Tempted by diplomatic copy, these editions have been drawn into the fantasy of the facsimile, of honestly providing in the most complete form all the intact data, which will become the wealth of the reader. Because a loyal magnanimity was their only choice, they forgot that every edition is a theory: though one must show what is there, one must above all make it understood" (78-9). (This leads into a discussion of digital editions as a viable alternative for representing the complexity of mss traditions.) What I take from Cerquiglini is another way of reading "every prototype is a theory" -- not that "theory" is some ineffable quality that redeems prototypes from rude mechanical status, but that theory is a responsibility to consider how the objects we build (incl. editions) function discursively, even epistemologically. In other words, it's an admonishment against hiding behind value-neutrality in editing and design philosophies. Perhaps this is a way of suggesting that that prototypes are bound to embody values and theories no matter what, so we'd better make them good ones. This might also be an example of how a number of good digital humanities debates have precursors -- or at least parallels -- in fields such as book history and scholarly editing. The latter has its own curious history of prototypes that predate electronic computing. All the best, Alan Galey Faculty of Information Book History and Print Culture Program University of Toronto individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 7 06:34:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26BE2A113; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:34:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71C612A101; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:34:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090107063448.71C612A101@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:34:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.427 innards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 427. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:07:57 -0600 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.425 printing, medicine and self-knowledge In-Reply-To: <20090106070146.87D782A5F0@woodward.joyent.us> On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Sappol begins his catalogue with the observation that all of us, > however > medically educated, if at all, carry around with us a mental map of > the > inside of our bodies. Most of us know the names of our organs and at > least approximately where they are. The difference this makes to how > we > relate to the world is well brought out by the ecologist Paul > Shepard in > his remarkable book The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (1996). > But, I > suppose further, the degree to which our physiological self-knowledge > was enhanced and intensified by the printing-press-enabled ideas of > Vesalius must be very great indeed. Consider, too, how an understanding of the innards of a computer changes one's relationship to it. My students are usually astonished to discover how a register machine works, and their reaction is something like, "Is that all?" Of course, it isn't all. Computers, like bodies, are very complex things. But when I work with computers, I am forever demystifying their innards in my mind -- re-schematizing them into abstract (and sometimes, quite concrete) models. Always, I am saying to myself (as I say to my students): "It's a simple thing, really." Joseph Campbell once remarked that he would have no trouble mythologizing the personal computer. I don't think the wider culture does either, and I daily see examples of the mythopoetic computer being treated as the body once was: the site of strange energies and inscrutable movements. We even refer to it using language mostly reserved for the strange and marvelous: web, cloud, ether, space . . . Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 7 06:35:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B99A2A153; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4651B2A148; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090107063524.4651B2A148@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.428 PhD studentships in Scotland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 428. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:47:01 +0000 From: Andy Miah Subject: Phd Studentships in Scotland - immortality and science communication/ human enhancement in film Dear Colleagues, Please find below info about 2 new phd studentships. Please feel welcome to circulate this information. Also, note the very title deadline: 12 Jan, 2009. http://www.uws.ac.uk/research/MediaStudentships.asp Finally, here are the project titles: Prospects of immortality: public engagement with Biogerontology and life/health span expansion (Ref.PHDMLM004) Due to its broad application to a number of other sciences, biogerontology is one of the most relevant fields of inquiry today. It speaks to the convergence of the NBIC sciences and to the redefinition of health care that arises by describing ageing as a disease to be cured, rather than a natural process to accept. Biogerontology engages us with the prospect of extending health or life span to an unknown degree and, as such, it is a controversial discipline. Over the last ten years, work in this area has shifted from scientific impossibility to becoming a core part of scientific endeavour. A range of media coverage, from aspersion to fascination, has accompanied this shift. In the literature on public understanding of science, there is no research yet attending to this distinct, but profound area of scientific inquiry. As such, this PhD studentship aims to explore the following questions: * How has biogerontology been articulated though the media? * What issues surround the political economy of research into life-extension? * How do different research communities orientate themselves around the various media narratives on life-extension? * How do journalists report research on biogerontology? * What can be learned from this subject area to broadly inform work into science communication? Candidates should have a higher degree in science communication and qualitative research methods in media sociology. Director of Studies: Dr Andy Miah External Adviser: Dr Aubrey de Grey The ethics of human enhancement in film (Ref.PHDMLM005) Studies in the ethics of human enhancement have advanced considerably in the last five years through the emergence of new communities of scholarly inquiry. A number of scientific disciplines have been brought under the spotlight due to their likely use for lifestyle, non-therapeutic purposes. The connections between filmic narratives and bioethics are made manifest in recent cultural studies and can be linked to broader, literary origins. Yet, there is very little research that investigates the range of narratives that emerge on the ethics of human enhancement within film. This absence affects the degree of complexity that is brought to how such debates are played out in the media and in policy. This PhD explores the contribution of film to such imaginations and aims to add complexity to our understanding of how film conveys such alterations. It should also help us understand how film functions as a posthuman device of expressing humanly experiences, such as process of remembering, perceiving and the possible disruption of sensory encounters. It also aims to explore the limitations of cultural reference points within scientific policy making on the ethics of human enhancements, exploring the range of metaphors, analogies and stories that contribute to shaping the public understanding of science. Candidates should have a higher degree and particular expertise in film theory and technological fiction. Director of Studies: Dr Andy Miah Best wishes to all, Andy Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Andy Miah Liverpool University Press & FACT / University of Chicago Press (Available from 11 December 2008 UK / 28 February 2009 USA). ISBN: 978-1-84631-181-9 (HB), 350pp, 200+ images, 25 Chapters, http://humanfutures.wordpress.com Dr Andy Miah | email@andymiah.net | http://www.andymiah.net | http://andymiah.wordpress.com Fellow, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT, Liverpool) http://www.fact.co.uk Reader in New Media & Bioethics School of Media, Language and Music University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, KA8 0SR, UK Fellow in Visions of Utopia and Dystopia Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) | http://ieet.org [t] +44 7962 716 616 [f] +44 1292 886371 [e] email@andymiah.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 7 06:35:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8CC2A1D5; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4899A2A1C4; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090107063550.4899A2A1C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:35:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.429 who said? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 429. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:59:19 +0100 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: Who said... Who said, or could have said, or wished he/she had said, something like the following (if, perhaps, in better English): We go away from the text and hide in the forest of numbers, only to return to the text with the insight we derive from the numbers. We cannot understand the numbers without understanding the text, but the numbers will help us grasp hitherto unrealized senses of the text, senses which, in turn, might become a remedy for the postmodern cognitive relativism of contemporary humanities and its distrust of the possibility of any objective truth. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Jan Rybicki _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 8 06:32:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C371B2BEF8; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:32:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F8BB2BEE7; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:32:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090108063212.1F8BB2BEE7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.430 theory and experiment X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 430. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (9) Subject: "theory" [2] From: Willard McCarty (75) Subject: experiment to theory --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:50:00 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "theory" Those here still interested in use of the word "theory" may find useful Andrew Chesterman's "On the idea of a theory", Across Languages and Cultures 8.1 (2007): 1-16. WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:33:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: experiment to theory Following the discussion on prototypes and theories with respect to computing, I've found a good example in an old article I've mentioned before, Margaret Masterman, "The Intellect's New Eye" (1962). Making a case for a truly revolutionary outcome of computing, Masterman cites the work in classification that was then coming out of combinatorics. Here is what she says: > As an example of this new power, and following up Leibniz's thought, > consider in general the activity of classification. Long before the > seventeenth century, and long after, thinkers ranging from Aristotle > to Nelson Goodman, interested in exploring the general nature of > classifying, had not yet succeeded in obtaining any new fundamental > knowledge of it. Now, however, using digital computers, a new and > elegant mathematical theory of classification is being developed all > over the world. To get the feel of this, consider the following > problem: You have discovered 150 characteristics, characterizing 100 > so-called "species" (say of tapioca plants, or diseases, or sorts of > words, or what-have-you). The problem is to find out how these newly > discovered characteristics re-group up the 100 antecedently named > species. Seen in terms of the groupings of these 150 characteristics, > for instance, have we really got 100 species of tapioca plant? If > not, how tnany have we? Human intuition, unaided, fails here; for we > have too much classifying material. By making a 100 X 150 array, > however, into the squares of which we put a 1 wherever a species has > one of the characteristics, we can provide basic long-range data for > a computer. And by adopting some agreed-to-be-satisfactory criterion > of similarity between any new species, we can provide it also with > its immediate fodder. (Tanimoto's criterion of such similarity, for > instance, is the number of properties in common between the two > species divided by the number shown by at least one of themso that, > if the two species had three properties in common, the first having > five altogether and the second six, the coefficient would be 318.) > > This preparation achieved, a whole new classificatory countryside > opens out; for, using the computer, the measures of similarity thus > obtained can be compared, ordered and clustered, and the resulting > clusters or clumps recompared with the original data, which may then > suddenly appear in a new light. The range of application of this new > kind of analysis is clearly enormous; already it is being, or has > been, applied to classificatory problems in information retrieval, > linguistics, medicine and anthropology. But that's only the start of > the potential range of application; and that's only the start of the > development of the theory. For, once you have begun to think in this > new kind of way, it becomes clear that other nonobvious criteria of > similarity can bc tried out with sometimes the most unexpected > effects. Now what Masterman describes depends for its newness on a new "order of power" (her earlier phrase) beyond what would be practical for a human being to undertake. Hence what she points to isn't new with respect to thought -- if it were it could not be programmed -- rather new with respect to action. Afterward, when the action has been carried out and results obtained, the new thinking comes in the attempt to theorize what has been discovered. Thus experiment leads to theory, or at least to new ideas. When we in our nervousness to justify ourselves reach for something new to pull out of our collective hat, we tend to dismiss whatever *could have been done before*, i.e. in theory. But what we find in the hat are not new theories, or not primarily, but ways of acting extensible beyond first what one would do, then what one might be inclined to do, then what one could do, then what an old fashioned German academic project could do in more than a century and so forth. In other words the criterion is wrong. A sign of this is in our turning to broad socio-intellectual consequences of computing, which are very important indeed but hard to argue beyond the anecdotal at this early stage. And besides, we need the social scientists for that sort of thing. Whether one cites Genesis or John, action and word are one in that domain, as is certainly not the case with us here below. Does not "Im Anfang war die Tat" betray the confusion of a thoroughly fallen mind? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 8 06:32:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8832BF4B; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:32:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5496C2BF33; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:32:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090108063249.5496C2BF33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:32:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.431 job as editorial assistant X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 431. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:14:27 -0500 From: Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK Subject: call for editorial assistants with online journal Call for editorial assistants with CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb = In keeping with the advantages of publishing scholarship online, the commitment to peer-reviewed and open-access scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences, and the adjoining advantages of training and learning in new media technology and scholarship, CLCWeb appoints advanced graduate students and junior faculty to work with the journal as editorial assistants. CLCWeb editorial assistants http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebeditors work with the editor in the processes of production of all materials published in the journal (see the aims and scope of the journal at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebaims ); editorial assistants receive on-going training and guidance from the editor in their work; work with the journal affords editorial assistants with knowledge and expertise in the processes of editing, new media scholarship and technology, the publishing industry, methods and new knowledge management of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences and in the acquiring of knowledge in the current state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; in addition to editorial work with the journal, editorial assistants engage in the journal's efforts to be listed and linked to in university libraries, appropriate websites, and other bibliographical and library resources; the tasks of editorial assistants include work with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html & http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs the journal is affiliated with. Please send proposals with a brief bioprofile to clcweb@purdue.edu. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 9 06:45:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A75A2479A; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:45:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB06124788; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:45:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090109064555.DB06124788@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:45:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.432 John Bradley receives Mellon Award X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 432. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:24:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: John Bradley receives Mellon Award John Bradley receives Andrew W Mellon Foundation 'Award for Technology Collaboration' http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ ----- A computer software tool developed by a King’s College London academic has won a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. John Bradley of the College’s Centre for Computing in the Humanities was awarded $50,000 for creating Pliny, a scholarly annotation tool. The Mellon Awards honour not-for-profit organisations for leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with application to scholarship in the arts and humanities, as well as cultural-heritage not-for-profit activities. Pliny is a software tool which facilities note-taking and annotation while a person is actually reading (a key element of Humanities research for many scholars), and furthermore allows readers to integrate their initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal interpretation. Pliny has components that go beyond annotation to help manage and organise the notes, even if there are thousands of them to work through. It can be used with materials in both digital (web sites, images and PDF files) and non-digital (books, printed journal articles) format. It may be downloaded at http://pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk/. Pliny was first presented at the Digital Humanities conference in Paris, 2006, where it won the Poster Prize. The software is named after the classical Roman author, naturalist and military commander Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79), who was famous for expressing his curiosity about all things by constantly recording notes about them. According to his nephew, Pliny the Younger, he left behind 160 books in very small handwriting. In making the award to John Bradley, at an event in December in Washington DC, Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, a man often called the ‘Father of the Internet’, said in his citation: ‘Within the crowd of scholarly annotation tools, Pliny stands out for at least two reasons. First, it can handle both direct annotation, marking up content which the scholar is permitted to modify, and indirect annotation, storing annotations separately from content. Second, and in contrast to many annotation tools, it has received widespread praise for working in ways that humanists actually work. Our Committee also praised Pliny for its re-use of widely available open source technology, the Eclipse project, as a foundation.’ John Bradley is Project Leader and Senior Analyst in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), The primary objective of the CCH is to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with research partners across the disciplines, to design and build applications which implement these possibilities, in particular those which produce online research publications. In the recent Research Assessment Exercise CCH was ranked either first or as equal second within its sector. John Bradley said: ‘We at CCH are very aware of the huge potential of computing methods and tools for Humanities research, with much of this potential still to be realized. I very much hope that Pliny can help to promote fundamentally new thinking about how computing can help scholars in the actual conduct of their research.’ Harold Short, Director of CCH, said: ‘The Mellon Award is richly deserved. It can be seen not only as just recognition of the intellectual innovation that underlies the Pliny software, but also as marking in a symbolic way his exceptional contribution to scholarship in the Digital Humanities over many years.’ One of the CCH‘s Professors of Humanities Computing, Willard McCarty, has been using Pliny intensively in preparation for study leave, and has this to say: ‘Pliny is one of those very rare software programs that embodies a profound understanding of the human activity that it enables. It is designed in the best tradition of computing, not to automate human work but to augment human intelligence. The particular activity it is designed to enable is one of the most ancient scholarly acts, perhaps also the most essential: the making of commentaries. The scholar's central role is to mediate between cultural artefacts and the society of which he or she is a part. Commenting is how the scholar does that. Pliny is the best tool for the job I have ever encountered --and I've been looking for decades.’ The awards event marked the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s third annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) competition, in which a total of $650,000 was awarded in prizes to ten not-for-profit institutions. The panel that decided the awards included Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web), Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), John Gage (at the time, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; now, Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers), and Tim O'Reilly (Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 9 06:48:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F2624940; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:48:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89D3D24935; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:48:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090109064807.89D3D24935@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.433 job in Leipzig X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1510937121==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1510937121== Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 433. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:35:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job in Leipzig *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1231482972_2009-01-09_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_6085.2.pdf The Natural Language Processing Division at the Computer Science Department of the University of Leipzig, Germany, is the leading partner in the E-Humanties project eAQUA – a project financed by the German Ministry of Research and Technology for applying advanced text mining technology to digital ancient texts (www.eaqua.net). For this project we are searching for computer scientist with demonstrated research expertise in one or more of the following areas: Experience in Text Mining and Natural Language Processing, Programming skills in Java with applications in the E-Humanties, Processing of large digital text resources. Prior experience in participating in large European or other transnational initiatives is highly desirable. The starting date for this full-time position is February 1, 2009. The initial period of appointment is for two years, with the possibility of renewal subject to follow-up funding. The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (M.A. or equivalent required). The salary is determined by the German civil servants standard (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) and amounts to 42000-52000 Euro per year. The exact salary depends on the successful applicant's experience. Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of references. Applications should be sent by mail or by email to the address below. Prof. Dr. Gerhard HeyerAutomatische Sprachverarbeitung Institut für Informatik Universität Leipzig Postfach 10 D – 04009 Leipzig Germany email: heyer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Applications received by January 31, 2009 will receive full consideration, although interviews may start at any time and will continue until the position has been filled. Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as non-disabled applicants. The University of Leipzig strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply.-- Marco Büchler Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 04109 Leipzig, Germany Room : 5-43 Phone : 0341 / 97-32257 eMail : mbuechler@eaqua.net Web : http://www.eaqua.net --===============1510937121== 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 --===============1510937121==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 9 06:48:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E146C249D0; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:48:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F312249BB; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:48:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090109064852.0F312249BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:48:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.434 scholarship about Google Earth? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 434. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:10:48 -0800 From: Ruth Mostern Subject: scholarship about google earth? Dear Humanist Colleagues, I am looking for references to scholarship about Google Earth. I am particularly interested in approaches that are friendly but also measured and critical. I would prefer references to articles in peer-reviewed journals over links to blog posts (though I'll take those too). Articles that reference GE applications for historical studies would be nice, but that's not essential. If this query results in an extensive bibliography, I will collate it and re-post it to the list. Many thanks in advance, and apologies for cross-posting. Ruth Mostern _______________________________ Ruth Mostern Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts University of California, Merced http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern rmostern@ucmerced.edu 209-228-2961 (office) 209-205-8566 (cell) Mailing address: UC Merced SSHA, P.O. Box 2039, Merced, CA 95344 Physical address: 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 Office: COB 379 Fax: (209) 228-4007 Skype: ruth.mostern _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 9 06:49:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB9324A29; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:49:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC273249F8; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:49:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090109064910.DC273249F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.435 new book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 435. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:55:10 +0000 From: Heather Skinner Subject: new book: EX-FOLIATIONS: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path A sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age. EX-FOLIATIONS: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Terry Harpold University of Minnesota Press | 368 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-5101-6 | hardcover | $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-5102-3 | paperback| $25.00 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 25 Terry Harpold investigates paradoxes of reading's backward glances in the theory and literature of the digital field. In analyses of Vannevar Bush's Memex and Ted Nelson's Xanadu, and in readings of hypertext fictions by Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, Harpold asserts that we should return to these landmarks of new media scholarship with attention on questions of media obsolescence, changing user interface designs, and the mutability of reading. "Ex-foliations stands out among other books on new media textuality through its attention to the visual aspects of digital texts (their interface), its informed discussion of the prehistory of hypertext, and its presentation and analysis of rare and very interesting documents. No other book gives a better sense of the hidden machines that perform digital text and of the dependency of the reading experience upon their features. "-Marie-Laure Ryan For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/harpold-ex.html For more information on the Electronic Mediations Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 9 06:51:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAAC24AD3; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:51:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9433724AC6; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:51:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090109065148.9433724AC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:51:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.436 new on WWW: Scholarly E-pubs; e-codices X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 436. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Roueche, Charlotte" (35) Subject: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland [2] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 74, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:05:16 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland -------- Original Message -------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:38:24 +0000 From: Christoph Flüeler To: christoph Flueler *e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland *"What started as a pilot project in 2005 grew sharply last year, when the Saint Gallen project was incorporated into a program to digitize all of Switzerland's roughly 7,000 medieval manuscripts" The New York Times, October 18, 2008 * a project of the Medieval Institute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland * accessible at: www.e-codices.ch http://www.e-codices.ch/ * follow-up project of /CESG/ - Codices electronici Sangallenses. * high resolution digital images: over 138'000 facsimile pages * regularly updated: now 363 complete manuscripts from 16 Swiss manuscript collections * new web application * manuscript descriptions, browse and search functions * sponsed by the Mellon Foundation and E-lib (Digital Library of Switzerland) accessible in German, French, Italian and English English: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en German: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de French: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr Italian: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/it http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/it -- Professor Charlotte Roueché Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/byzmodgreek/staff/roueche.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:03:11 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 74, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 74 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Annual PDF Editions The 2006 and 2007 annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (PDF files designed for printing) are also available. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201 Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 9 06:53:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA8724B51; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:53:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BF7224B3F; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:53:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090109065301.6BF7224B3F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:53:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.437 events: philology; cartography; text; humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 437. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kerzel, Martina" (27) Subject: E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop - 22.01.09 - Einladung [2] From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (76) Subject: Digital Philology Conference in Verona, 15-6th January 2009 [3] From: Sarah Frank (33) Subject: Developing Cartographic Literacy with HistoryMaps -- NEH Summer Seminar [4] From: "Kerzel, Martina" (29) Subject: TextGrid Summit - 21.-22.01.2009 - Invitation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:05:09 +0000 From: "Kerzel, Martina" Subject: E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop - 22.01.09 - Einladung ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, wir möchten Sie an den Abschluss-Workshop des e-Humanities-Projekts erinnern, der am 22. Januar 2009 in der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen stattfindet. Für die Panel-Diskussion über die "Zukunft der IT basierten Geisteswissenschaften" haben Hans-Dieter Bienert (DFG), Rüdiger Eichel (MWK Niedersachsen), Axel Horstmann (Volkswagen Stiftung) und Helge Kahler (BMBF) zugesagt. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Diskussion der Roadmap zum Aufbau einer e-Humanities-Infrastruktur in Deutschland und würden uns freuen, mit Ihnen in den Dialog zu treten. * E-Humanities-Abschluss-Workshop (DFG; Konferenzsprache: Deutsch) ** 22.01.09, 11.00-16.00 Uhr Anmelden können Sie sich (bis zum 15.01.09) hier: http://www.textgrid.de/konferenzen/e-humanities-abschluss-workshop-dfg.html Sollten Sie Fragen haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an die Organisatoren der Veranstaltung: konferenz@sub.uni-goettingen.de Wir freuen uns auf eine interessante Zeit mit Ihnen! Martina Kerzel für das E-Humanities-Projektkonsortium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martina Kerzel Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB) Forschung & Entwicklung -Projekt TextGrid- Papendiek 14 37073 Göttingen Tel.: 0551/39-13777 Fax: 0551/39-3856 E-Mail: kerzel@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:31:05 +0000 From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco Subject: Digital Philology Conference in Verona, 15-6th January 2009 [Apologies for cross-posting] Università degli Studi di Verona Dipartimento di Germanistica e Slavistica Sezione di Filologia Germanica ------------------------------ INCONTRI DI FILOLOGIA DIGITALE ------------------------------ Verona, 15-16 gennaio 2009 ======================= Programma ======================= 15 Gennaio 2009, ore 14.30 Sala Banco Popolare, Via San Cosimo 10 Presentazione del Convegno: Licinia Ricottilli (Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Umanistici, Verona) Giovanna Massariello (Verona) Presiede Giuseppe Brunetti (Padova) James Cummings (Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford) ENRICHing Electronic Manuscripts with TEI P5 XML Daniel Paul O’Donnell (Text Encoding Initiative/Digital Medievalist, University of Lethbridge) Mind the Gap: Representing the Relationships among Constituents in a Multi-Object Digital Edition Pausa Roberto Rosselli del Turco (Digital Medievalist Project - Pisa - Torino) Marcatura e visualizzazione di edizioni digitali: il progetto EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) Fabio Ciotti (Roma Tor Vergata) Biblioteche digitali e web semantico Arianna Ciula (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) Pubblicazioni ibride: quando stampa e digitale convivono. L'esperienza del progetto Henry III Fine Rolls. Discussione -------- 16 Gennaio 2009, ore 9.00 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica, Vicolo San Sebastiano 3 Presiede Agostino Contò (Biblioteca Civica di Verona) Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (SISMEL - Firenze) Studi umanistici 2.0: strumenti digitali per lo studio e la ricerca nell'era di Internet Alfredo Trovato - Mariachiara Pellegrini (Verona) Storia della lingua e storia della scrittura: l'epigrafia alla luce dei supporti informatici Discussione Pausa Presiede Jens Høyrup (Roskilde) Federico Giusfredi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München), Alfredo Rizza (Pavia) Filologia computazionale e lingue anatoliche Adele Cipolla - (Verona) - Federica Goria (Torino) - Roberto Rosselli del Turco (Digital Medievalist Project - Pisa - Torino) Mare magnum nella rete: A Bibliography of Snorri Sturluson’s Edda sul web -------- 16 Gennaio 2009, ore 15.30 Aula Informatica S1, Università di Verona, Polo Zanotto, Viale dell’Università Roberto Rosselli del Turco - Federica Goria - Mosè Nicoli Laboratorio di codifica testuale ------------------------------------------------- Comitato scientifico Prof. Adele Cipolla - adele.cipolla@univr.it Prof. Roberto Rosselli del Turco - rosselli@ling.unipi.it Organizzazione Dott. Mosè Nicoli - mose.nicoli@gmail.com Segreteria del Dipartimento di Germanistica e Slavistica Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 41 Tel. 0458028011 gabriella.vinco@univr.it ------------------------------------------------- -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio 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) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:50:19 +0000 From: Sarah Frank Subject: Developing Cartographic Literacy with HistoryMaps -- NEH Summer Seminar “Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps” NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers 22 June to 10 July 2009 at the Newberry Library in Chicago The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography invites school teachers nationwide to apply for its 2009 NEH summer seminar, Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps, which will take place on June 22 - July 10, 2009. This 3-week seminar led by James Akerman (The Newberry Library) and Gerald Danzer (The University of Illinois at Chicago) is designed to develop cartographic literacy and encourage effective use of map documents in the classroom through study in the history of cartography. A program of seminars based on recent scholarship in the history of cartography and guided individual research will allow teachers to explore the relevance of map study to their own interests and curricular needs. Seminars and workshops will serve as forums for refining and applying the skills necessary to read maps as products of science, artistic creations, storytellers, wayfinding tools, and expressions of power; and as representations of worldviews and local landscapes. Applications are encouraged from teachers of a broad range of courses and grade levels. Full-time K-12 educators working in public, private, and religiously-affiliated schools, as well as home-school educators in the United States or its territorial possessions are eligible; see the application guidelines for complete eligibility criteria. Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $2,600 to help defray travel and housing expenses. Successful applicants may elect to receive CPDU credit, if eligible, for participation in this seminar. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than Monday, 2 March 2009. Additional information and application materials are available at http://www.newberry.org/smith/summermaps.html or by contacting Sarah Frank, The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St, Chicago IL 60610; email: franks@newberry.org, phone: 312–255–3659. “Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps” is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:58:28 +0000 From: "Kerzel, Martina" Subject: TextGrid Summit - 21.-22.01.2009 - Invitation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Please forward this information ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear colleagues, we would like to turn your attention to the TextGrid Summit, January 21 in Göttingen. A lot of international experts will be on the spot to discuss the further development and the prospects of the virtual research environment for text scientists and other specialists in the arts and humanities. You are cordially invited to take part in the TextGrid Summit and to join indiscussing this part of the emerging e-Humanities infrastructure. * TextGrid Summit (conference language: English) ** 21.01.09, 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. - a symposium with international keynotes, TextGrid Hands-on Session ** 22.01.09, 11.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. - Developers' Workshop Several hotels agreed to special rates. For registration (until 15.01.2009) and further information please visit: http://www.textgrid.de/konferenzen/summit.html We would be glad to answer any questions! Please contact: konferenz@sub.uni-goettingen.de We look forward to seeing you! Martina Kerzel for the TextGrid Consortium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martina Kerzel Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB) Forschung & Entwicklung -Projekt TextGrid- Papendiek 14 37073 Göttingen Tel.: 0551/39-13777 Fax: 0551/39-3856 E-Mail: kerzel@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ http://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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 10 07:20:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931822B443; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:20:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 749402B439; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:20:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090110072007.749402B439@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.438 Google Earth in scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 438. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:49:20 +0000 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.434 scholarship about Google Earth? In-Reply-To: <20090109064852.0F312249BB@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Ruth, There are *plenty* of blogs on this subject (a generally well-regarded example being Ogle Earth - http://www.ogleearth.com/), but two publications that might be of use to you are: L. Ullmann and Y. Gorokhovich: 'Google Earth and some practical applications for the field of archaeology', CSA Newsletter Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (2006), published online: http://csanet.org/newsletter/winter06/nlw0604.html M. F. Goodchild: 'What does Google Earth mean for the Social Sciences?', in M. Dodge, M. MacDerby and M. Turner (eds.) 2008: Geographic Visualization. John Wiley & Sons: 11-23. By way of a background discussion of the role of Google Earth in scholarship more generally you mind find... A. Scharl: 'Towards the Geospatial Web: Media platforms for managing geotagged knowledge repositories', in A. Scharl and K. Tochtermann (eds.) 2007: The Geospatial Web: How geobrowsers, social software and the Web 2.0 are shaping the network society. Springer: 3-14. ...useful. Good luck, and I would be interested in any conclusions you come to on this subject. -Stuart ----------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 09 January 2009 06:49 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 434. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:10:48 -0800 From: Ruth Mostern Subject: scholarship about google earth? Dear Humanist Colleagues, I am looking for references to scholarship about Google Earth. I am particularly interested in approaches that are friendly but also measured and critical. I would prefer references to articles in peer-reviewed journals over links to blog posts (though I'll take those too). Articles that reference GE applications for historical studies would be nice, but that's not essential. If this query results in an extensive bibliography, I will collate it and re-post it to the list. Many thanks in advance, and apologies for cross-posting. Ruth Mostern _______________________________ Ruth Mostern Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts University of California, Merced http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern rmostern@ucmerced.edu 209-228-2961 (office) 209-205-8566 (cell) Mailing address: UC Merced SSHA, P.O. Box 2039, Merced, CA 95344 Physical address: 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 Office: COB 379 Fax: (209) 228-4007 Skype: ruth.mostern _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 10 07:22:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9D82B4BA; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D43E2B4B1; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090110072208.3D43E2B4B1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.439 from 1967 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 439. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:22:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how things looked in 1967 In an anonymous TLS review of two German books on mathematical studies, one of poetry and the other of Jacob Leed's collection of essays on stylometry, the following bit of wisdom: > The number of facts that can be stated about a poem, even about the > form of a poem, is strictly infinite: the job of the researcher is to > find out which of those facts are relevant to the problem he is > trying to solve. A theory may help to indicate them; in the absence > of a theory the researcher has to find out by trial and error what > facts are relevant. (TLS for 9 February 1967, p. 106) I am not at all sure about what might be meant by "theory" here if it is any different from a Geertzian "thick description". But, if you would, tell me in terms of the work you do, whether the following is a fair statement of where we're at: implementing trial-and-error mechanisms within a plausible framework of possibilities supplied by current ideas of the artefact and by our own experience. If that is fair, then is it more or less our eternal condition as computing humanists? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 10 07:22:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9CF2B50D; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 331E12B4FC; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090110072245.331E12B4FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.440 John Bradley receives Mellon Award X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 440. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:11:07 -0600 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.432 John Bradley receives Mellon Award In-Reply-To: <20090109064555.DB06124788@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John: A hearty congratulations from your friends and colleagues at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinoi, Urbana-Champaign. Keep up the brilliant work! Cheers, Stephen Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 432. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:24:40 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > John Bradley receives Andrew W Mellon Foundation 'Award for Technology > Collaboration' > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ > ----- > > A computer software tool developed by a King’s College London academic > has won a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. John Bradley of the > College’s Centre for Computing in the Humanities was awarded $50,000 for > creating Pliny, a scholarly annotation tool. > > The Mellon Awards honour not-for-profit organisations for leadership in > the collaborative development of open source software tools with > application to scholarship in the arts and humanities, as well as > cultural-heritage not-for-profit activities. > > Pliny is a software tool which facilities note-taking and annotation > while a person is actually reading (a key element of Humanities research > for many scholars), and furthermore allows readers to integrate their > initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal > interpretation. Pliny has components that go beyond annotation to help > manage and organise the notes, even if there are thousands of them to > work through. It can be used with materials in both digital (web sites, > images and PDF files) and non-digital (books, printed journal articles) > format. It may be downloaded at http://pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk/. Pliny was > first presented at the Digital Humanities conference in Paris, 2006, > where it won the Poster Prize. > > The software is named after the classical Roman author, naturalist and > military commander Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79), who was famous for > expressing his curiosity about all things by constantly recording notes > about them. According to his nephew, Pliny the Younger, he left behind > 160 books in very small handwriting. > > In making the award to John Bradley, at an event in December in > Washington DC, Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist > of Google, a man often called the ‘Father of the Internet’, said in his > citation: > > ‘Within the crowd of scholarly annotation tools, Pliny stands out for at > least two reasons. First, it can handle both direct annotation, marking > up content which the scholar is permitted to modify, and indirect > annotation, storing annotations separately from content. Second, and in > contrast to many annotation tools, it has received widespread praise for > working in ways that humanists actually work. Our Committee also praised > Pliny for its re-use of widely available open source technology, the > Eclipse project, as a foundation.’ > > John Bradley is Project Leader and Senior Analyst in the Centre for > Computing in the Humanities (CCH), The primary objective of the CCH is > to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities > scholarship and, in collaboration with research partners across the > disciplines, to design and build applications which implement these > possibilities, in particular those which produce online research > publications. In the recent Research Assessment Exercise CCH was ranked > either first or as equal second within its sector. > > John Bradley said: ‘We at CCH are very aware of the huge potential of > computing methods and tools for Humanities research, with much of this > potential still to be realized. I very much hope that Pliny can help to > promote fundamentally new thinking about how computing can help scholars > in the actual conduct of their research.’ > > Harold Short, Director of CCH, said: ‘The Mellon Award is richly > deserved. It can be seen not only as just recognition of the > intellectual innovation that underlies the Pliny software, but also as > marking in a symbolic way his exceptional contribution to scholarship in > the Digital Humanities over many years.’ > > One of the CCH‘s Professors of Humanities Computing, Willard McCarty, > has been using Pliny intensively in preparation for study leave, and has > this to say: ‘Pliny is one of those very rare software programs that > embodies a profound understanding of the human activity that it enables. > It is designed in the best tradition of computing, not to automate human > work but to augment human intelligence. The particular activity it is > designed to enable is one of the most ancient scholarly acts, perhaps > also the most essential: the making of commentaries. The scholar's > central role is to mediate between cultural artefacts and the society of > which he or she is a part. Commenting is how the scholar does that. > Pliny is the best tool for the job I have ever encountered --and I've > been looking for decades.’ > > The awards event marked the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s third annual > Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) competition, in which > a total of $650,000 was awarded in prizes to ten not-for-profit > institutions. The panel that decided the awards included Sir Timothy > Berners-Lee (Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of > the World Wide Web), Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John > Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), John Gage (at the > time, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun > Microsystems, Inc.; now, Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and > Byers), and Tim O'Reilly (Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media). > -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 10 07:23:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFFC2B57B; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:23:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 267E32B569; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:23:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090110072346.267E32B569@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:23:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.441 Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation at UIUC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 441. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:48:24 -0600 From: Lauren Teffeau Subject: Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation May 18-22, 2009 Data Curation Education Program Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science will hold a Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from May 18 through 22. The Institute will be directed by Allen H. Renear, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research at GSLIS, and sessions will be conducted by leading specialists in the various fields that are involved in the curation of humanities data. Data curation is the active and on-going management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, GSLIS has been a pioneer in the development of data curation education within library and information science. Last year's institute focused on data curation for science data. This year's workshop focuses on data services and curation activities for humanities data, particularly in academic libraries. Topics to be covered include: metadata, text encoding, format and encoding management, technical aspects of data repository systems, day-to-day digital preservation, support for tools and applications, and resource requirements for a data curation program that includes humanities data. Participants will learn: - what skill sets, resources, and collaborations are necessary to develop and implement a data curation program in an academic library or research project. - the principles and best practices for implementing and doing humanities data curation; - the components of a repository development plan (goals, institutional commitment, responsibility, collection development policy, preservation plan, data management plan). A particular focus of this year's institute will be managing textual data, including textbases, repositories, XML text encoding, preservation, metadata, and tools for analysis Invited session leaders include: Julia Flanders (Brown University), Syd Bauman (Brown University), Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Michael Sperberg-McQueen (MIT/W3C), Carole Palmer (University of Illinois), John Unsworth (University of Illinois), and other faculty from the University of Illinois. An opening keynote will be presented by Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist of OCLC. The institute will run from Monday morning, May 18, through noon Friday, May 22. Rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites in Champaign have been reserved for Sunday, May 18, through Thursday (night), May 21, 2009, ($119/night). There will be shuttle service to and from campus. Thanks to support from IMLS, no tuition will be charged for the institute. In addition, a small number of lodging bursaries are available and will be awarded based on need. We are accepting applications from practicing academic librarians and other information professionals who want to learn more about data curation services in academic libraries. Up to three people from a single institution may apply. The Institute will be limited to 24 participants. Application Requirements: Please complete the form, which is available at: https://illinois.edu/formBuilder/Secure?id=1017281 Questions? Contact Institute Coordinator Lauren Teffeau at teffeau@illinois.edu or (217) 333-1980. More information about the Data Curation Education Program at the University of Illinois can be found here: http://cirss.lis.uiuc.edu/CollMeta/dcep.html -- Lauren Teffeau Project Coordinator & Interim Assistant Director Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (Formerly the Library Research Center) Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 309 Library and Information Science Building, MC-493 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-5881 email: teffeau@illinois.edu http://cirss.lis.uiuc.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 11 07:24:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB612B204; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:24:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 47BE42B1FC; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:24:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090111072417.47BE42B1FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:24:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.442 new on WWW: Human IT 9.3 on games and action X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 442. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:42:49 +0100 From: Mats Dahlström Subject: Human IT 9.3 - Games and action Dear all, (usual apologies) A new issue of Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/ This is the first of two consecutive issues on the theme of "Games and action", with Jonas Linderoth (Univ. of Gothenburg) acting as guest editor. Following a 2007 conference on computer games and action held in Gothenburg and a subsequent call for papers, Human IT received such a large amount of fine, reviewed and accepted articles that we decided to split the material in two issues. Enjoy your reading! Table of contents: * Herbert Rosenstingl & Michael Wagner Towards a Positive Assessment Policy for Computer and Console Games (Open section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/hrmw.htm * Konstantin Mitgutsch Digital Play-Based Learning: A Philosophical-Pedagogical Perspective on Learning and Playing in Computer Games (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/km.htm * Lars-Erik Berg Aspects of Identification in Computer Gaming (Open section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/leb.htm * Jo Helle-Valle & Ardis Storm-Mathisen Playing Computer Games in the Family Context (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/jhvasm.htm * Jana Rambusch & Tarja Susi The Challenge of Managing Affordances in Computer Game Play (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/jrts.htm * Ulf Wilhelmsson Roger Caillois ur en narratologs perspektiv [= Roger Caillois from a narratological viewpoint] (People and Opinions section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/uw.htm * Björn Sjöblom Gaming as a Situated Collaborative Practice (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//3-9/bs.htm Human IT is a multi-disciplinary and scholarly journal with the goal of bringing forth new research and discussion about digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. It is published by the University College of Borås. For more information, please contact human.it@hb.se Best wishes, Mats Dahlström, editor ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlström, associate professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science UC Borås / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mats dot Dahlstrom at hb dot se ; +46 33 435 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/~mad/ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 13 06:40:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448CD2BE22; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:40:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AA592BE0A; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:40:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090113064006.3AA592BE0A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.443 PhD studentship in *serious* gaming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 443. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:02:11 +0000 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: Advert for PhD position in Serious Gaming Open position for Ph.D. student as Game Developer: Are you computer wise with a genuine passion for programming? Do you like developing your own games? Are you keen on game controller re-design? Would you like to further this into your career? The Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology has an opportunity you can take to join a team for development of serious games for medical simulation, with a focus on birth delivery. You will join a multidisciplinary team for the development of the game and you will also enroll as a PhD candidate within our department. We are on the lookout for talented and enthusiastic programmers with game development experience. The successful candidate must have 1st class programming skills, game development experience preferably on XBOX or Wii consoles, a flair for realistic graphics and game interaction. You are therefore keen on both developing games and designing/engineering specialized game controllers; you will also have evidences of game development and/or (re)design of game controllers. Because of the short delays for the recruitment, People who have clearance to work in The Netherlands will be given priority. Vacancy also available soon at http://w3.tue.nl/en/services/dpo/excellent_jobs_for_excellent_people/vacancies/vacancies_industrial_design/ Application Please send a written application or e-mail, including a letter explaining your specific interest in the project and extensive curriculum vitae, to the following address: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department of Industrial Design Attn. Ms. Julma Braat, room HG 3.93 P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Or by e-mail to: j.a.c.l.braat@tue.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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 13 06:42:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C802BEAF; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:42:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECFA72BE9E; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090113064220.ECFA72BE9E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:42:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.444 texts on WordHoard X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 444. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:50:05 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: 334 texts of Early Modern English Drama available on WordHoard Humanists whose institutions are subscribers to the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) may be interested in an experimental implementation of WordHoard that surrounds all of Shakespeare with ~300 other English plays from the TCP archive published between 1520 and 1660. This is available at http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu. We have enabled access to a group of CIC universities, but I know that there are many other subscribers on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. We do not quite have a bullet-proof production service, but we would like to accommodate users. If you are in a subscribing institution and would like access please send me an email. We will do our best to accommodate all requests that we can manage in the current environment. What can you do with Early Modern English plays in WordHoard that you cannot do just as easily or better with Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online, the Michigan interface, or Mark Olsen's Philologic? 'Remediation' is a useful term coined by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their recent book of that title. It draws attention to the way in which changes in medium shape or inflect your encounter with an object. In Wordhoard we tried to build on and improve on philological tools and procedures that make it easier to go from the word here to the words there. Such procedures have a history that reaches back to the biblical concordances of medieval monks or Jefferson's Lazy Susan bookstand (http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/110000.html). Try looking at two different pages of the same book at the same time. WordHoard is to my knowledge the only digital tool that does a good job of displaying two arbitrarily chosen pages in the same field of vision. "Save the time of the reader" is Ranganathan's fourth law of library science. WordHoard's very flexible concordance features are a faithful and ingenious application of that law. Digital texts may be said to carry a built-in concordance with them. Where a search retrieves only a handful of hits, readers 'eyeball' them quickly and informally. But as the list of hits grows, working through it becomes a tedious very soon. Wordhoard will let you group, sort, and keep count of hits by author, work, date, preceding or following word, part of speech, spelling, or lemma. The reshuffling of results is instant and makes it much easier to get an overview of the distribution of common words, such as 'honour' or 'think'. Wordhoard is typically slower than Philologic in retrieving an initial result list, but the overall time cost for a given search will nearly always be lower because Wordhoard has much more powerful affordances for postprocessing an initial result set. The reshuffling prowess of Wordhoard shows up in two specialized features. There is a table of contents in which the plays can be displayed by author, date, or genre (The date and genre assignments are based on the Annals of English Drama by Harbage and Schoenbaum). There is also a Lexicon of all lemmas used in Early Modern Drama. It gives you the document and collection frequencies for each lemma, that is to say the number of plays in which it occurs and the total count. You can sort and filter this lexicon in various ways. You can also cut and paste it into Excel, which lets you manipulate the data with even greater flexibility. The texts for the WordHoard edition of Early Modern Drama come from the Text Creation Partnership -- the same texts that you consult in Philologic. But the texts have been morphosyntactically tagged and lemmatized. Thus a search for a lemma or modern dictionary entry form of a word will retrieve all orthographic and morphological variants of that word. You can search across the 334 plays as if they were written and spelled in modern English. Several cautions are in order here. First a word about the texts. The transcriptions are full of gaps, letters or words that the transcribers could not decipher. They cry out for user-contributed error corrections. Improving these texts over time will be a worthwhile task for the community of users. Second, the process of 'linguistic annotation', to use the term of art for lemmatization and morphosyntactic tagging, is error prone. It is done automatically, using either rule-driven or probabilistic taggers. Such taggers achieve accuracy rates of 97% when working with modern texts in standardized spelling. The tagger used in WordHoard, Phil Burns' MorphAdorner, does a remarkably good job with Early modern English, but there are lots of errors. We have not yet had the time to review the plays. Even in its current form the results will be useful for many purposes, but there is much room for improvement, and at some point in 2009 we will have a release that will fix quite a few errors. The Shakespeare data are cleaner because they have been checked for errors on numerous occasions. On the other hand, the Shakespeare data have a different history -- the texts do not come from the TCP collection -- and there are some residual inconsistencies in tagging and lemmatization. Third, the display of acts, scenes, prefaces, prologues, and the like is governed by the structure of the SGML source files from the Text Creation Partnership. What with the variable practices of early modern printers and the no less variable practices of contemporary encoders, there are a lot of odd features. Some of them show up only when you do display them in an environment that is as elegantly and consistently designed as John Norstad's 'digital page.' Here, too, there is room for improvement, and I hope that within months we will have an updated versions in which the encoding practices are standardized so that variance reflects more faithfully the practices of early modern printers. WordHoard has two statistical features that help with J. B. Firth's dictum and advice "you shall know a word by the company it keeps": collocation analysis and Dunning's log likelihood test. The former lets you identify other words that are characteristically associated with a given word in an author. The difference of the 'associates' of 'honour' in Chaucer and Shakespeare, for instance is very striking. Dunning's log likelihood statistic is an excellent tool for identifying words that are disproportionately common or rare in one set of texts when compared with another. You can construct your own sets for that purpose, but there are a number of prefabricated work sets, including not only the entire corpus of Early Modern Drama, but the works of each other, and aggregates by genre, such as 'comedy', 'history', and 'tragedy'. WordHoard now has a 'tag cloud' feature uses typefont size and color (black/grey) to visualize the results of a log likelihood test. Phil Burns is responsible for the ingenious version of the tag cloud, which lets you remove statistical outliers and focus on the middle as well as the top of a range. To sum up: for any inquiry that benefits from close attention to verbal detail the remediation of a very substantial proportion of Early Modern English drama creates a digital environment with affordances that are not matched elsewhere. There are obvious ways in which the texts and the interface can benefit from further work. If enough users care about it, those improvements move into the range of the possible. Martin Mueller Professor 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 13 06:44:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6DB2BF49; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BF822BF39; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:44:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090113064444.6BF822BF39@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:44:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.445 events: 2nd Life; Beyond Analogue X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 445. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (14) Subject: Beyond Analogue [2] From: "Laws, Tom" (104) Subject: Research_conference in the Second Life world --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:51:42 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Beyond Analogue Dear Colleagues, The graduate students in the Humanities Computing MA program at the University of Alberta are organizing a full day conference titled, *Beyond Analogue: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing* February 13th, 2009 Telus Centre, Room 217 University of Alberta For more information see: http://www.huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf/ Our keynote speakers will be Daniel O'Donnell and Paul A. Youngman. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals for short papers or posters. All are encouraged to attend. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:00:34 +0000 From: "Laws, Tom" Subject: Research_conference in the Second Life world SLACTIONS 2009 Research conference in the Second Life® world - Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms September 24-26, 2009 http://www.slactions.org/ *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. The conference focus is scientific research on applications and developments of these metaverse platforms: Second Life, OpenSim, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Open Source Metaverse, Project Wonderland, and others, providing a forum for the research community to present and discuss innovative approaches, techniques, processes, and research results. SLACTIONS 09 is the first international conference held simultaneously in several countries on the topic of metaverses. SLACTIONS 09 aims at covering most areas currently enabled by metaverse platforms, from educational research to content production, from gender studies to media distribution, and from metaverse-based branding, advertising, and fundraising to emerging mash-ups and technology applications. SLACTIONS 09 is unique in its format too, as a one-of-a kind event conducted both in a metaverse platform (Second Life) and on-site in multiple countries in Europe and in North and South America. SLACTIONS will thus contribute to the current redefinition of the way we think about hybrid online and on-site scholarly collaborations. Whereas metaverses are no longer a novel topic, they still pose challenges for the adaption of conventional instructional and business practices, research methodologies, and communication practices. We are looking forward to presenting a program of research results, case studies, panel discussions, and demonstrations that scholars, educators, and businesses can port to their own environments and apply in their research, teaching, and business strategy. We will accept papers from the full spectrum of intellectual disciplines and technological endeavours in which metaverse platforms are currently being used: from Education to Business, Sociology to Social Sciences, Media Production to Technology Development, Architecture and Urban Planning to the Arts. Topics covered may include but are not limited to: * Accessibility in metaverse platforms * Advanced scientific visualization in metaverse platforms * Automatic content generation * Behavioral studies in the metaverse * Combination of metaverse platforms with external systems (e-learning, e-business, etc.) * Communicational paradigms in the metaverse * Content management * Creativity, design, and arts on the metaverse * E-business and e-commerce applications * Educational research, applications, and case studies * Embodiment in metaverses and Gender Studies * GIS/metaverse mash-ups * Integration between metaverse platforms * Nonprofit activities and fundraising * Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies * Social Sciences studies in or through metaverse platforms * Space representation, use, and management in metaverses * Using metaverse platforms for cooperation Format SLACTIONS 09 has the format of a hybrid online and on-site conference. All paper presentations and plenary sessions by guest speakers will be held on-line, and projected locally for participants attending physically. Workshops are conducted locally - or in mixed format accross several participating chapters - and chapters may held local topical round tables. Submissions Authors are invited to submit: * A full paper of eight to ten pages for oral presentation * A Flickr image or YouTube video, indexed with the tag "slactions 09" for poster presentations 'in-world' or presentation in SL using a creative format All submissions are subject to a double blind review process and should be professionally proofread before submission. All manuscripts should be formatted according to the ASIS&T proceedings template. (Disclaimer: SLACTIONS 2009 is not associated with ASIS&T.) No manuscripts will be accepted that do not meet the required format. All accepted papers will be published on-line and in an ISBN-registered CD-ROM/DVD-ROM of proceedings. The Scientific Committee will invite authors of selected full papers to provide revised and expanded versions for publication in an ISBN-registered book. The authors of the best papers will be invited to provide revised and expanded versions for publications in special editions of journals or as single contributions to theme-specific journals. Check out www.slactions.org regularly for more information and developments on the book publisher, book series, and journal venues for best papers. Official language of the conference: The official language for the on-line space and all submissions is English only. However, at the physical site of local chapters you can also use the native language of that location. Important dates * February 28th, 2009 - Deadline for paper submissions * March 31st, 2009 - Submission results provided to authors * June 30th, 2009 - Deadline for early registration * July 31st, 2009 - Deadline for print-ready versions of accepted papers * September 24-26th, 2009 - Conference Local chapters Belgium - Ghent University Brazil/Rio Grande do Sul - Unisinos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) Brazil/São Paulo - Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo Portugal/North - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade do Minho, Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade do Porto USA/Texas - University of Texas-Austin USA/West Coast - University of California-Berkeley Note: If you believe your institution can hold a physical chapter in an as-yet unsupported region, please contact the organization at info@slactions.org. Programme Committee Adriana Bruno, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas-Austin, USA António Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Augusto Abade, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Santos, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Dor Abrahamson, University of California-Berkeley, USA Ederson Locatelli, Unisinos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos), Brazil Eliane Schlemmer, Unisinos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos), Brazil João Barroso, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Leonel Morgado, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Lucia Pesce, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil Luís Pedro, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Lynn Alves, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil Martin Leidl, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Martin Valcke, Ghent University, Belgium Miltiadis Lytras, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Nelson Zagalo, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Niall Winters, London Knowledge Lab, UK Paulo Frias, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Pedro Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Pedro Sequeira, Escola Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior, Portugal Pilar Lacasa, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell, University of California-Berkeley, USA Stefan Göbel, ZGDV, Germany Teresa Bettencourt, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Tim Savage, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Organization Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas-Austin, USA Leonel Morgado - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Nelson Zagalo - Universidade do Minho, Portugal Contacts Organization: info@slactions.org -- Yours sincerely Margaret Cox Professor Emerita of Information Technology in Education Department of Education & Professional Studies and Senior Research Fellow at King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas's Hospitals Professorial Fellow - University of Melbourne Contact address: Department of Education & Professional Studies Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London , SE1 9NH Tel: 020 7848 3126 or 020 7848 1517 Fax: 020 7848 3182 homepage: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/education/staff/mcox.html COS profile: http://myprofile.cos.com/margaretcox For urgent contact: Home phone/fax/answerphone: 01483-566949 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 14 07:07:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119B32AD41; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:07:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 385072AD17; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:06:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090114070658.385072AD17@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:06:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.446 text-analysis winners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 446. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:27:06 +0000 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: TREX-08 Winners Dear Colleagues, TADA (the Text Analysis Developers' Alliance) has announced winners of the 2008 T-REX Competition (for text analysis tools development and usage). The panel of judges reviewed the many submissions received and has recognized winners in five categories: Best New Tool o Degrees of Connection by Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker o Ripper Browser by Alejandro Giacometti, Stan Ruecker, Ian Craig, Gerry Derksen Best Idea for a New Tool o Magic Circle by Carlos Fiorentino, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura Best Idea for Improving a Current Tool o Collocate Cloud by Dave Beavan o Throwing Bones by Kirsten C. Uszkalo Best Idea for Improving the Interface of the TAPoR Portal o Bookmarklet for Immediate Text Analysis by Peter Organisciak Best Experiment of Text Analysis Using High Performance Computing o Back-of-the-Book Index Generation by Patrick Juola More information available at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/trex/08/ Congratulations to all winners and thanks to all participants! Watch this space for upcoming TADA events, including the next TREX Competition. Stéfan -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 14 07:09:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857C72AE03; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EEDD82ADF1; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:09:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090114070940.EEDD82ADF1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:09:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.447 MA programme in computational logic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 447. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:57:38 +0000 From: Bertram Fronhöfer Subject: European Master's Program in Computational Logic This message was originally submitted by Bertram.Fronhoefer@INF.TU-DRESDEN.DE 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. 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This program is offered jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in Spain and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two of the five European universities. You will graduate with a MSc in Computer Science from each of the two universities you have selected. Information on the universities and the program including the application form are provided here: http://european.computational-logic.org Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR per year. We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships of 42.000 EUR for non-EU students in our European Master Program in Computational Logic. EU-students may apply for a three-month scholarship of 3100 EUR for doing their project at NICTA in Australia. Application deadline is February 10, 2009. Online-applications (pdf- files, ONLY) are possible and must contain: # Application form # Curriculum Vitae # Reports on university examinations (transcripts) and diploma (first degree or bachelor degree). If the bachelor degree will only be available after the deadline, students are required to send us a PRELIMINARY certificate. # English language certificate (TOEFL and IELTS) More information on the application procedure are available from: http://european.computational-logic.org/content/course/how_to_apply.php?id=69 Do not hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions. Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler Steffen Hoelldobler sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 14 07:10:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B882AE67; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:10:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 957F82AE55; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:10:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090114071010.957F82AE55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:10:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.448 Day of Digital Humanities Project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 448. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:30:05 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Day of Digital Humanities Project Digital Humanists, On March 18th, 2009, digital humanists from around the world are planning to collectively document their day, and we are looking for interested participants! A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (ADLDH) is a community project that will bring together digital humanists to document what they do on one day, March 18th. It is an autoethnography project by digital humanists about the digital humanities. The goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together the journals of the participants into a picture that answers the question, “Just what do computing humanists really do?” Participants will document their day through photographs and commentary in a blog-like journal. The collection of these journals with links, tags, and comments will make up the final work online. To participate, please complete the application form by January 30th. Apply yourself or encourage your colleagues and students to join in. We will accept reasonable applications that provide different perspectives on what it is to do computing in the humanities. We are looking for a diversity of participants from different regions, backgrounds, roles, and disciplinary perspectives. More information can be found at: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 15 10:06:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 186C82B655; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:06:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09F8C2B645; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:06:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090115100640.09F8C2B645@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:06:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.449 events: CFPs on text-mining & publishing; lecture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 449. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dominic Forest (129) Subject: CFP: CJILS, Text mining and information retrieval (EXTENDED DEADLINE) [2] From: Susan Schreibman (24) Subject: Lecture by Dot Porter in Dublin, 26 January [3] From: Ray Siemens (48) Subject: cfp: Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:29:38 -0500 From: Dominic Forest Subject: CFP: CJILS, Text mining and information retrieval (EXTENDED DEADLINE) (La version française se trouve après le texte anglais) *** Call for publications (EXTENTED DEADLINE - February 15th, 2009) *** TEXT MINING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science GUEST EDITORS - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Lyne Da Sylva (Université de Montréal, Canada) THEME The guest editors of this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science invite original research from all disciplines reporting on various aspects of the integration of text mining techniques within information retrieval applications. This includes, but is not limited to: - developing text mining strategies within an information retrieval context - evaluating text mining operations for information retrieval - identifying contexts for text mining (thematic analysis, management of digital libraries, information extraction and visualization, knowledge extraction, cross-linguistic information retrieval, etc.) Text mining approaches described in the papers may be based on numerical or linguistic techniques, or both. Special attention should be given to the description and evaluation of the information retrieval system where the text mining techniques are embedded, where applicable. Applications described in the papers can be academic prototypes or commercial software. Manuscripts will undergo the normal double-blind review process for submissions to CJILS. THE JOURNAL The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science , established in 1976, is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada. LANGUAGE Submissions are accepted in either English or French. IMPORTANT DATES (TO BE CONFIRMED) - February 15, 2009 : Submission deadline (EXTENDED DEADLINE) - March 15, 2009 : First decision of the reviewers - May 15, 2009 : Final version due - June 15, 2009 : Final decision of reviewers - August 2009 : Publication SUBMISSION Please send your manuscript (Word or RTF) to: Dominic Forest École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 E-mail : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Instructions for authors are available on-line on the journal website (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm). ************************************************** *** Appel à publications (PROLONGATION - 15 février 2009) *** FOUILLE DE TEXTES ET RECHERCHE D'INFORMATIONS Numéro thématique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie RÉDACTEURS INVITÉS - Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Lyne Da Sylva (Université de Montréal, Canada) THÈME Les rédacteurs invités de ce numéro thématique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie invitent les chercheurs provenant de différentes disciplines à soumettre les résultats de travaux de recherche originaux traitant de l'intégration de techniques de fouille de textes dans un contexte de recherche d'informations. Ce thème inclut, sans pour autant s'y limiter, les aspects suivants : - l'évaluation de la pertinence des différentes opérations de fouille de textes pour la recherche d'informations - le développement de méthodologies de fouille de textes à l'intérieur du processus de recherche d'informations - l'identification de contextes d'utilisation d'outils de fouille de textes (analyse thématique, bibliothèques numériques, extraction et visualisation des connaissances, recherche multilingue, etc.) Les techniques de fouille de textes qui seront décrites dans les contributions pourront être de nature aussi bien numérique que linguistique ou hybride. Une attention particulière devrait être accordée à la description et à l'évaluation du système de recherche intégrant les techniques de fouille de textes, le cas échéant. Par ailleurs, les applications de recherche d'informations, ainsi que celles de fouille de textes mises à contribution, peuvent être tant des prototypes académiques que des applications destinées à des utilisations commerciales. Les propositions reçues feront l'objet d'une évaluation anonyme par des pairs selon les modalités normales d'évaluation de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie. LA REVUE La Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie, établie en 1976, est la revue officielle de l'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information. Elle a pour objectif de contribuer à l'avancement des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie au Canada. LANGUE Les soumissions sont acceptées en français et en anglais. ÉCHÉANCIER (À CONFIRMER) - 15 février 2009 : Date limite de soumission (PROLONGATION) - 15 mars 2009 : Première décision du comité de rédaction - 15 mai 2009 : Version révisée - 15 juin 2009 : Décision finale du comité de rédaction - Août 2009 : Parution SOUMISSION Veuillez envoyer votre manuscrit en version électronique (Word ou RTF) à : Dominic Forest École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Courrier électronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Les instructions pour les auteurs sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines_fr.htm). ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Dominic Forest Professeur adjoint Adresse postale : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Adresse civique : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 3150 Jean-Brillant, bureau C-2046 Montréal (Québec) H3T 1N8 Téléphone : (514) 343-6119 Télécopieur : (514) 343-5753 Courrier électronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Sites Internet : www.dominicforest.name et www.ebsi.umontreal.ca ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:13:10 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Lecture by Dot Porter in Dublin, 26 January The DHO announces an upcoming presentation by DHO Metadata Manager Dot Porter entitled 'Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch'. The lecture is presented as part of the Culture and Technology Seminar Series organized by Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, and will be simultaneously webcast. Ms. Porter holds an MA from the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University and has worked on several digital editing projects of medieval manuscripts. Date: 26 January 2009, 15:00-16:00 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 All Welcome http://www.digitalhumanities.ie/node/59 Abstract: In recent years there has been a growth amongst humanities scholars in the interest in the materiality of objects including manuscripts, printed books, and inscribed stones, as they relate to the text inscribed upon them and contained within them. This interest has shown itself in the digital humanities as well, as scholars explore how computers might be made to express the physical in the digital. This may take many forms, including 2D images, 3D images or scans, or textual descriptions of objects. This presentation will explore how digital elements describing, expressing, or representing different aspects of a single physical object might be used to study the creation of that object. The focus will be on a manuscript commonly known as the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch (BL Cotton Claudius B.iv.), an Old English translation of the first six books of the Old Testament that includes over 400 color illustrations. In his recent book The Illustrated Old English Hexateuch, Cotton Claudius B.iv: The Frontier of Seeing and Reading in Anglo-Saxon England (British Library Press, 2007), Benjamin Withers describes a theory for how the relationship between the images and text prescribed both the layout of the content and the physical construction of the entire manuscript. How might Withers' theory be expressed, visualized, or tested in a digital environment? This presentation is intended to be the start of a conversation, rather than the answer to a very complex and wide-ranging question. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory Pembroke House 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com Email: s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:34:57 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: cfp: Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference >From Heather Morrison PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Organizing Committee heatherm@eln.bc.ca ** with apologies for duplicate messages ** The final deadline for the call for papers for the 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference (Vancouver, July 8 - 10, 2009) has been extended to February 9, 2009. Quick links: PKP 2009 Conference website: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009/pkp2009 Call for papers: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009/pkp2009/schedConf/cfp About the conference: The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second international PKP conference will be held from July 8 - 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around the world. A selected set of conference papers was subsequently published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday. The conference will appeal not just to members of the PKP community, but to anyone interested in trends and developments for scholarly publishing and communication. There will be a wide range of topical sessions on new reading and publishing technologies; open access initiatives; alternative publishing and funding models; national and international collaborative projects; new roles and partnerships for libraries, scholarly publishers and others; and sustainability for open access publishing and open source software. Prospective and first time users of OJS and other PKP software will be able to learn more about the systems and establish contacts with the PKP community. Experienced implementers, developers, and system administrators will have an opportunity to participate in technical sessions and exchange information. The conference will commence with an opening keynote session on the evening of July 8 convened by John Willinsky, the founder of the Public Knowledge Project. There will be several pre-conference workshops on July 8, and the main conference program will present a combination of concurrent and single track sessions during on July 9 and 10. The conference will conclude with three special symposia on community and network building intended for each of the core PKP constituents: journal editors and publishers; librarians; and software developers. The conference will be hosted at Simon Fraser University's downtown campus and will be adjacent to a wide range of accommodations, restaurants, and other popular tourist destinations. Please mark the July 8 - 10 dates on your 2009 calendars. The PKP partners look forward to welcoming you to the second PKP conference. Heather Morrison PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Organizing Committee heatherm@eln.bc.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 16 09:47:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE202BA5D; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:47:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF7BC2BA49; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:47:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090116094732.AF7BC2BA49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:47:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.450 D-Lib for January/February X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 450. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:59:55 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January/February 2009 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The January/February 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six articles, two conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the website Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, courtesy of Jessica Fries-Gaither, The Ohio State University. The articles include: A Policy Checklist for Enabling Persistence of Identifiers Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward, and Kerry Blinco, Link Affiliates A Set of Transfer-Related Services Justin Littman, Library of Congress Sharing Functionality on the Web: A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library Theo van Veen and Michel Koppelaar, Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Georg Petz, Austrian National Library; and Christian Sadilek, Austrian Research Centers Search Web Services - The OASIS SWS Technical Committee Work: The Abstract Protocol Definition, OpenSearch Binding, and SRU/CQL 2.0 Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress Institutional Repository on a Shoestring George Wrenn, Carolyn J. Mueller, and Jeremy Shellhase, Humboldt State University Classroom Information Needs: Search Analysis from a Digital Library for Educators Marcia A. Mardis, Florida State University The Conference Reports include: A Workshop Series for Grid/Repository Integration Andreas Aschenbrenner, State and University Library, Goettingen; Tobias Blanke and Mark Hedges, King's College London; Neil P Chue Hong, OMII UK, and Nicholas Ferguson, OGF Europe Baltimore SPARC IR and SUN PASIG Meetings: Towering Content and Evolving Online Scholarly Publishing Models Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar 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 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 18 10:05:55 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3AD2B100; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5F8E12B0ED; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090118100554.5F8E12B0ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.451 ID locators in TLG and PHI? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 451. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:18:53 +0100 From: Maurizio Lana Subject: id locators in TLG and PHI style dear humanists, i'm digitizing, for a research i'm doing, quite a large corpus of text, and would like to manage/analyze it using the tools for TLG ad PHI cdroms (musaios and the like). in order to do that, i think, i must put in the texts the locators in phi-style but knowledge about this matter doesn't seem available online. is there anyone knowing where i could get the info i need? with many thanks in advance maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università del Piemonte Orientale via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 18 10:06:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E192B14E; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:06:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CDF112B13D; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:06:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090118100633.CDF112B13D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:06:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.452 a manifesto for the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 452. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:51:46 +0000 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: DH Manifesto Some folks at UCLA have drafted--as part of a Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities--a "Digital Humanities Manifesto" and are soliciting comments: http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2008/12/15/digital-humanities-manifesto/ I suspect that the "manifesto" will offer the DH community of Humanist much food for thought, discussion, debate, and etc. Matt -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 18 10:07:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDED62B18A; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:07:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CE742B177; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:07:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090118100701.6CE742B177@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:07:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.453 cfp: Mapping the World X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 453. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:29:41 -0500 From: Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK Subject: cfp: Mapping the World: Migration and Border-crossing Call for papers: 2009 International Conference, Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences http://humanitiescenter.nsysu.edu.tw , National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. "Mapping the World: Migration and Border-crossing," 17-18 October 2009. Migration is one of the most relevant phenomena of contemporary times and thus a prominent topic of research in the humanities and the social sciences in recent years. Migration is a result among other reasons of political persecution, economical pressures, or the pursuit of opportunities. The inquiry into aspects of migration is to study the history of human experiences from a variety of perspectives such as ethnicity, race, nation, and society. The Center for the Humanities at National Sun Yat-sen University conducts and promotes research on migration, race, and ethnicity and its 2009 conference Mapping the World: Migration and Border-crossing will be held on 17-18 October. Topics of interest for the conference include migration and cityscapes; border and border crossing; the politics of frontiers; cultural assimilation and the politics of language; transformations of languages and dialects; language and nationhood; representations of the (im)migrant in literature and media; (im)migration and diaspora; travel and exploration; maritime culture, literature, and the arts; and nationalism, post-nationalism, and the (im)migrant. Abstracts of 200 words in English or Chinese with the author's bioprofile are invited by 25 February 2009 to Professor I-Chun Wang at chsc705@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 19 09:08:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D892B6C6; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:08:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B03202B6B2; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:08:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090119090840.B03202B6B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:08:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.455 ID locators in TLG and PHI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 455. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:33:21 +0100 From: Guido Milanese Subject: Re: 22.451 ID locators in TLG and PHI? In-Reply-To: <20090118100554.5F8E12B0ED@woodward.joyent.us> On Sunday 18 January 2009 11:05:54 Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > dear humanists, > i'm digitizing, for a research i'm doing, quite a > large corpus of text, and would like to > manage/analyze it using the tools for TLG ad PHI cdroms (musaios > and the like). in order to do that, i think, i must put in the > texts the locators in phi-style but knowledge > about this matter doesn't seem available online. > is there anyone knowing where i could get the info i need? Dear Maurizio, may I suggest to have a look at "Diogenes" (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/index.php). It works both with TLG and with PHI, it's multiplatform and open software. Besides this, the author, Dr Peter Heslin, is extremely helpful. Best regards, guido -- Guido Milanese - Professor of Latin Language and Literature The Catholic University, Milano, Italy http://docenti.unicatt.it/milanese_guido http://www.arsantiqua.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 19 09:09:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A5E2B73B; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:09:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 187972B72B; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:09:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090119090939.187972B72B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:09:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.456 grants for digging into data X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 456. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:35:53 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: International Grant Opportunity: The Digging into Data Challenge The Digging into Data Challenge The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH http://www.neh.gov/ ) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF http://www.nsf.gov/ ) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC http://www.sshrc.ca/ ) from Canada. What is the "challenge" we speak of? The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to answer the question "what do you do with a million books?" Or a million pages of newspaper? Or a million photographs of artwork? That is, how does the notion of scale affect humanities and social science research? Now that scholars have access to huge repositories of digitized data -- far more than they could read in a lifetime -- what does that mean for research? Check out the competition website: http://www.diggingintodata.org/. ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/odh/ (202) 606-8401 bbobley@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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 19 15:21:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D31C2BB8F; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:21:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD2722BB7B; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:21:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090119152150.CD2722BB7B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:21:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.457 London Seminar this Thursday X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 457. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:17:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for January All are cordially invited to the following seminar this Thursday: Anouk Lang (University of Birmingham), "Mediated reading across the nation" London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 17.30-19.30 Thursday, 22 January Room 275 Stewart House (ies.sas.ac.uk/about/stewarthouse.htm) Russell Square London This paper explores ways in which analytical techniques from corpus linguistics can be used in conjunction with other methods to gain insight into the social significance of nationwide community-reading projects that have arisen over the past decade. Using three corpora of news texts which address Canada Reads, Richard and Judy?s Book Club in the UK and The Big Read programme sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in the US, the analysis focusses on two features: 1) the kinds of topics that media commentators discuss alongside reading, and 2) the use of evaluative language to frame reading in overwhelmingly positive terms. These findings are then set against participants? textual responses to an online survey and verbal responses in the context of a focus group. This multi-disciplinary approach helps to identify the social ?work? such reading programmes are seen to be performing, and to give a sense of the discourses circulating around these events which may have less to do with reading and more to do with the construction of national imaginaries, the replication of discourses of community-building issuing from elsewhere, and the covert articulation of taste-hierarchies. Anouk Lang is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she works on the AHRC project "Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, the US and Canada". She is currently editing a volume on reading practices in the 21st century and the impact of technology on individuals' relationships with books, and is also preparing a manuscript on Canadian and Australian literary modernism. Refreshments are provided. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 19 15:22:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DDA2BBCF; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:22:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E01D32BBBD; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:22:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090119152238.E01D32BBBD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:22:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.458 e-mail for people at the PHI? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 458. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:33:30 +0100 From: "Maurizio Lana" Subject: email address for people at Packard Humanities Institute? In-Reply-To: <20090119090939.187972B72B@woodward.joyent.us> dear humanists, does anyone know of an email address to get in touch with people at Packard Humanities Institute? they keep the address(es) well hidden so - in order to respect their will - you can answer me privately. thank you in advance maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università del Piemonte Orientale via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 20 09:26:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537252B5AF; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:26:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9BA72B59C; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:26:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 22.459 the longue durée From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090120092601.C9BA72B59C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:26:01 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 459. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:02:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: counsel to patience In his survey of quantitative approaches to the social sciences (within which he includes history), W. G. Runciman takes up various charges levelled against the quantifiers. Among them is the great amount of apparently unprofitable ingenuity put into numerical manipulations of historical and social data. What, he asks in his role as devil's advocate, have any of the ingenious quantifiers managed to contribute that begins to rival older methods of research? The answer is -- or was when he wrote in 1971 -- not much. He in his role as himself answers: > No doubt the rewards of ingenuity, even if coupled with perseverance, > are often meagre. They may indeed be particularly meagre in the > traditionally less exact sciences. But this may mean that in due > course the opportunities for spectacular advance will be all the > greater. Every branch of science has had its false starts, its > deluded hopes and its naively mis-applied techniques.... it > remains true that habits of mind usually take a generation to be > overturned: wasteful techniques, unfruitful hypotheses and > misconceived presuppositions are apt to fade out only with the deaths > of their protagonists. We may have to wait two or three hundred years > before we know what are the most rewarding applications of > quantitative methods to the sciences of man, and meanwhile it is > irrelevant if not positively unhelpful to carp at lack of immediate > success. W. G. Runciman, "Thinking by numbers 1: on the use of statistics in sociology, their virtues and their limitations". Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 1971, pp. 943-4. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 20 09:27:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1882B667; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:27:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 10A072B63E; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:27:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090120092756.10A072B63E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:27:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.460 N American sources for commentary? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 460. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:22:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: N American source for historical commentary on computing? I would be most grateful for recommendations of specifically North American periodicals and journals that for the period 1945-1990 would be likely to yield commentary on computing. Intelligent, insightful commentary is of course desirable, but I am also very much interested in the full range of how people in Canada and the U.S. were thinking as they saw computing rise in prominence and influence. Silly reactions can in some contexts be as valuable as ones we would at the time tended most to respect. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 20 09:29:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA2F2B6E8; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:29:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D42C22B6E0; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:29:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090120092916.D42C22B6E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:29:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.461 postdoc opportunity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 461. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:15:35 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunity SHARCNet, a high performance computing consortium in Ontario, has announced the results of Round IX of their Fellowships competition. Stéfan Sinclair at McMaster university has been awarded funding for a Postdoctoral Fellow for a project titled, "From Batch to Burst: Designing Real-Time Text Analysis Tools for HPC." The project will focus on developing mechanisms for enabling computationally intensive processes to happen within the time- sensitive context of web applications. One of the first anticipated uses of this work is for integration within the TAPoR Project. If you are interested in the position contact Stéfan Sinclair immediately at sgsinclair@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 20 09:41:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57BD2B91C; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:41:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C2222B90C; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:41:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090120094119.6C2222B90C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:41:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.463 cfp: data mining; gaming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 463. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." (25) Subject: cfp: Methodology Track ISAGA2009 [2] From: Jian Pei (56) Subject: ADMA 2009 First Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:33:56 +0000 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: cfp: Methodology Track ISAGA2009 40th ISAGA 2009 conference Singapore, 29 June to 3 July 2009 Theme: Learn to Game and Game to Learn http://www.ISAGA2009.org http://www.ISAGA2009.org/ C a l l for P a p e r s Track Gaming & Simulation Methodology Design is a key activity in gaming & simulation. As Klabbers (2008) has pointed out, design - broadly conceived - aims at implementing courses of action with the purpose of changing existing (dysfunctional) situations or systems into preferred ones. According to Klabbers we need to distinguish two levels of design: a) design-in-the-small and b) design-in-the-large. Design-in-the-large offers a basis for various forms of consulting, training and education in an attempt to foster new ways of thinking and acting in the context of organizational development. Games & simulations, and related design methodologies offer effective approaches to the framing and better understanding of social systems and to the generation of ideas and the shaping of action repertoires for change. Design-in-the-small produces games and simulations (artifacts) as such, and related interactive learning environments with the aim of modifying existing organizational cultures and structures. Used with that goal in mind, they contribute to the design-in the-large process of social systems. Games can be designed for dual purposes: a) to generate a practical tool (artifact) for supporting the design-in-the-large, or b) to devise a method or model in the analytical science tradition for developing and testing theories. In both cases games are being used to simulate (to model) existing social systems. Klabbers stresses the fact that members of gaming and simulation associations represent two distinct branches of science: a) design sciences (communities of practice) and b) analytical sciences (community of observers). The basic concept of the design sciences is to build games and assess their effects and usability. The scientific methods of the analytical sciences aim at using games for developing and testing theories. Both communities focus on different notions of causality and use different criteria for success. The methodology track will focus on and welcome papers that explore such topics as, • game design • theory testing • assessment studies (evaluation) • Gaming & change processes (design-in-the-small & design-in-the-large) • Game research (e.g., comparison between various sorts of games or classification schemes, playfulness of rigid-rule versus free-form games, competitive versus cooperative gaming, and so on). Submissions are welcome on all methodology related issues with respect to simulation and gaming, their design, use, and evaluation. We plan “traditional” paper presentations with discussion and we also plan to organise a panel discussion with interactive Q&A session on “Bridging the gap between design science and analytical science domains of gaming & simulation”. We further plan a joint publication with invited participants of the track. Excellent background discussions can be found in the following symposiums (guest editor Jan Klabbers) in Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal http://sg.sagepub.com: • “State of the Art and Science of Simulation & Gaming”, Volume 32, 4, 2001 • “Simulation and Gaming: The Art and Science of Design”, Volume 34, 4, 2003 • “Artifact Assessment versus Theory Testing”, Volume 37, 2, 2006 The symposium (guest editor Willy Kriz) in Simulation & Gaming: • “Bridging the Gap: Transforming Knowledge into Action through Gaming and Simulation”, Volume 40, 1, 2009. The books: • Duke, R. & Geurts, J. (2004). Policy games for Strategic Management. Tilburg. • Klabbers, J. H. G. (2008). The Magic Circle: Principles of Gaming & Simulation. Rotterdam. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:56:42 +0000 From: Jian Pei Subject: ADMA 2009 First Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <5856a6a30901190759h7cabe813v562421dfea9d5224@mail.gmail.com> ADMA 2009 Call For Papers The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2009) August 17-19, 2009, Beijing, China http://www.adma2009.org Contact: adma2009@bnu.edu.cn A growing attention has been directed to the study, development and application of data mining. As a result there is an urgent need for sophisticated techniques and tools that can be utilized to explore new fields of data mining, e.g. spatial data mining in the context of spatial-temporal characteristics, streaming data mining, biomedical data mining, etc. Our knowledge on data mining should also be expanded to new applications. The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2009) aims at bringing together the experts on data mining from around the world, and providing a leading international forum for the dissemination of original research findings in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems, as well as different applied disciplines with potential in data mining. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and indexed by EI. We invite authors to submit papers on any topics of advanced data mining and applications, including but not limited to: - Advanced Data Mining Topics 1. Grand challenges of data mining 2. Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms 3. Mining on data streams 4. Graph and subgraph mining 5. Spatial data mining 6. Text, video, multimedia data mining 7. Web mining 8. High performance data mining algorithms 9. Correlation mining 10. Bench marking and evaluations 11. Interactive data mining 12. Data-mining-ready structures and pre-processing 13. Data mining visualization 14. Information hiding in data mining 15. Security and privacy issues 16. Competitive analysis of mining algorithms - Data Mining Applications (applied data mining in following listed areas) 1. Database administration, indexing, performance tuning 2. Grid computing 3. DNA Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Genomics, and biometrics 4. Image interpretations 5. E-commerce and Web services 6. Medical informatics 7. Disaster prediction 8. Remote monitoring 9. Financial market analysis 10. Online filtering 11. Application of Data Mining in Education Paper submission Paper submission will be electronic through the ADMA2009 website. The paper should be in English and contain unpublished contributions to the data mining fields. The paper should not exceed 14 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 21 06:39:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101F22B2BD; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 224382B2B5; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090121063958.224382B2B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.464 historical sources for commentary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 464. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: ksearsmi (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.460 N American sources for commentary? [2] From: "James J. O'Donnell" (2) Subject: THIMK [3] From: robert delius royar (28) Subject: Periodicals that I remember --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:11:28 -0600 From: ksearsmi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.460 N American sources for commentary? In-Reply-To: <20090120092756.10A072B63E@woodward.joyent.us> Omni (1978-1995 print; -1998 online) would be an especially good place to go, I would think, for hip but informed commentary on computing and its perceived futures. The magazine was a pop science periodical that also ran a high-end science fiction story each issue. In complement, its non-fiction offerings tended to have a futurist / speculative flavor. wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_(magazine) Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Planning and Development, eDREAM (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) Independent Scholar, Nineteenth Century British Literature & Culture and the Fantastic in the Arts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / http://www.ncsa.edu/AboutUs/ People/contact.php?id=1151 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:14:57 -0500 From: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: THIMK In-Reply-To: <20090120092756.10A072B63E@woodward.joyent.us> For your search for commentary: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=720433 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:27:42 -0500 From: robert delius royar Subject: Periodicals that I remember In-Reply-To: <20090120092756.10A072B63E@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, This message strays off topic a bit. I began being interested in computers in 1965-66 in the 4th grade from seeing some science short that Walter Cronkite hosted. From then I remember reading about computers in Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic (in short passages about lasers and space), and in our statewide newspaper from syndicated columns in the Sunday comics and science sections. Before graduating college with a BA I began reading Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas" column in the Scientific American because a psycholinguistics course I took had one textbook about modelling human responses in a therapy session using a Lisp/Prolog engine. Earlier (ca. 1974/75) I had taught myself to program BASIC by using open terminals and a "found" username/password at my university. I did not take any programming. After the Hofstadter columns (ca. 1979), learning to program became a goal. I purchased a small computer in 1981/82 and began to learn BASIC all over. In 1983 I purchased a KayPro and began learning Lisp. The magazines I remember from the 1980s were popular for computists but not for the culture at large. I read a number of them, four of which I recall: Dr. Dobb's Journal (the mass-market version), MicroCornucopia, BYTE, and The C Journal. It's possible that Nat. Geo. (and its other children-focused editions) and Scientific American might be ones that would not quickly come to mind as relating to computers in the 1960-1980 period. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 21 06:45:07 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B452B37D; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:45:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BAF2C2B36D; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:45:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090121064505.BAF2C2B36D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:45:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.465 cfp: Interacting with Immersive Worlds 2009 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2019282098==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============2019282098== Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 465. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:13:25 -0500 From: Kevin Kee Subject: CFP: Interacting with Immersive Worlds 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Interacting with Immersive Worlds: Second Brock University Conference on the Interactive Arts & Sciences BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO JUNE 15-16, 2009 The first Interacting with Immersive Worlds conference was held in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula at Brock University in June of 2007. Presenters and attendees from a multiplicity of disciplines heard keynote presentations by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University), James Gee (Arizona State University), Chris Csikszentmihalyi (MIT Media Laboratory), and Denis Dyack (Silicon Knights). The 2009 conference will be just as provocative, with keynote speakers such as Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Espen Aarseth (IT University of Denmark), so be sure to electronically submit your abstracts to the program committee by February 2, 2009. The primary focus of the conference is to explore the growing cultural importance of interactive media. All scholarship on, and creation of digital interactive media (including but not limited to computer games and interactive fiction) will be considered in one of four broad conference streams: The Challenges at the Boundaries of Immersive Worlds stream features creative exploration and innovation in immersive media including ubiquitous computing, telepresence, interactive art and fiction, and alternative reality. The Critical Approaches to Immersion stream looks at analyses of the cultural and/or psychological impact of immersive worlds, as well as theories of interactivity. The Immersive Worlds in Education stream examines educational applications of immersive technologies. The Immersive Worlds in Entertainment stream examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies, such as computer games. We welcome the submission of abstracts for a 20-minute presentation plus a 10-minute discussion. Send a 500-word abstract plus a brief biographical statement. Please include a separate cover page with the following: • Author’s name and affiliation • Email • Mailing address • Title of presentation Since all abstracts will be anonymously reviewed, include the title of the paper on the abstract but not the author’s name, affiliation, email or mailing address. Deadline extended - deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 2, 2009. Please email your abstract to jmitterer@brocku.ca Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 15, 2009. Visit the conference web site for details http://www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds/ Organizing Committee: Jean Bridge, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, jbridge@brocku.ca Martin Danahay, Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University, mdanahay@brocku. Kevin Kee Canada Research Chair of Humanities Computing and Associate Professor, Brock University kevin.kee@brocku.ca --===============2019282098== 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 --===============2019282098==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 22 06:12:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6142C541; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:12:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45F062C52F; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:12:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090122061242.45F062C52F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:12:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.469 N American sources for commentary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 469. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:19:24 -0700 From: Mark Davies Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.460 N American sources for commentary? In-Reply-To: <20090120092756.10A072B63E@woodward.joyent.us> > I would be most grateful for recommendations of specifically North > American periodicals and journals that for the period 1945-1990 would be > likely to yield commentary on computing. The TIME Corpus (http://corpus.byu.edu/time) has 100 million words from the 1920s-2000s. There are almost 12,000 tokens for [computer], going back to the 1940s. Via this interface, one can also see the frequency of any word or phrase over time (by decade and year). One can also easily find collocates (including by time periods) -- which provides useful insight into possible shifts in the usage of the words and phrases (without having to look at each of the thousands of tokens individually). For a nice, quick example, try: WORD(S): [computer] CONTEXT: * MIN FREQ: [5] (checked) SECTIONS: Yes Best, Mark Davies ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics Brigham Young University (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906 Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** ============================================ > -----Original Message----- > From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist- > bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:28 AM > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 460. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:22:51 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: N American source for historical commentary on computing? > > > I would be most grateful for recommendations of specifically North > American periodicals and journals that for the period 1945-1990 would be > likely to yield commentary on computing. Intelligent, insightful > commentary is of course desirable, but I am also very much interested in > the full range of how people in Canada and the U.S. were thinking as > they saw computing rise in prominence and influence. Silly reactions can > in some contexts be as valuable as ones we would at the time tended most to respect. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 23 06:34:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FE42C520; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:34:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22E132C50F; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:34:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090123063411.22E132C50F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:34:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.470 N American sources for commentary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 470. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Helena Barbas" (104) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.469 N American sources for commentary [2] From: ksearsmi (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.469 N American sources for commentary --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:42:55 -0000 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.469 N American sources for commentary In-Reply-To: <20090122061242.45F062C52F@woodward.joyent.us> There is a Blog with some newspapers clips for the period in question: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/category/computers/ Best regards Helena Barbas ------------- Helena Barbas (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Portugal url: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/docentes/hbarbas Member of CENTRIA - http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:02:18 -0600 From: ksearsmi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.469 N American sources for commentary In-Reply-To: <20090122061242.45F062C52F@woodward.joyent.us> To underscore Mark Davies excellent suggestion of TIME as a source of commentary -- see the December 1982 issue, when the computer was TIME's "Man of the Year" (the first inanimate honoree). http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa050400a.htm -- Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Planning and Development, eDREAM (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) Independent Scholar, Nineteenth Century British Literature & Culture and the Fantastic in the Arts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / http://www.ncsa.edu/AboutUs/ People/contact.php?id=1151 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 23 06:35:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99F22C592; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:35:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6FBEF2C56C; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:35:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:35:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 471. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:10:13 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: rude words Our dept has received an enquiry from an academic that wishes to put up some web pages that feature rude words (with good academic reason, of course). The question is, does anyone know of any techniques that would avoid having this page tagged as 'bad' content (or even porn) by search engines, parental controls etc.? Is substituting asterisks for vowels an effective method, or is this likely to be worse? Are there any meta tags to put in the head that might help? There was also some concern that such pages would contravene a University's regulations. However if there is a valid academic purpose behind the use of potential offensive language then I don't think there's any question of that. Any thought's on the subject would be most appreciated, but remember: keep it clean people... Regards, Ally -- Alun Edwards alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute: Arts and Humanities, Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ First World War Poetry Digital Archive, English Faculty, University of Oxford http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 24 08:59:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3629B2BCBC; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:59:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9CDA92BCA9; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:59:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090124085929.9CDA92BCA9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:59:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.472 rude words online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 472. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (28) Subject: publishing rude words [2] From: Ian Johnson (87) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? [3] From: Virginia Knight (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? [4] From: John Laudun (47) Subject: Re: rude words online? [5] From: James Rovira (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:29:27 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: publishing rude words This is somewhat tangential to Alun Edwards' recent query about putting rude words online. If the person wanting to do such things is not aware of the following he or she might want to look at Maladicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression (http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/journal.html), 1977-1989, then 1994-6, approximately; Tony McEnery's Lancaster Corpus of Abuse, for which see his "Swearing in English", Applied Linguistics 27.3 (2006); and among more specialised works, James N Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (1990). I should explain, perhaps, that I ran across Maladicta while doing some research into onomastics (the study of names), where rude epithets get attention. In other media, the work of Lenny Bruce and, more recently, Steve Anderson's documentary Fuck (Mudflap Films) are worth a look. But here I stop arbitrarily. Maladicta and the personal history of its editor both exhibit the perils of this research, psychological and legal. In reading around in the journal I found myself wondering more than once about the motivations of the authors published there. But the subject is genuinely fascinating, no doubt, psychologically, linguistically, philologically and so on. And, of course, the particular problem about which Alun has enquired makes bad language a subject for computational research. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:45:07 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Johnson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? In-Reply-To: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> A small script to convert the rude word to an image - we've used thsi to create symbols for maps - would seem to me to be the best appraoch, or you could use a service - a quick search on 'text to image' turned up http://text2image.ning.com/ but I am suere there will be others Ian Ian Johnson [johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au] Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory Deputy Director, Digital Innovation Unit Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology Australia: Archaeological Computing Laboratory http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Digital Innovation Unit in the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation Room 310 - 314, F09 Madsen Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 +61 (0)2 9351 2552 (direct) ..3142, ..8981 (msg) 3644 (fax) +61 (0)402 389 190 mobile France: Esparoutis, St Cybranet 24250 +33 (0)5 53 28 39 24 fixed +33 (0)6 37 18 93 42 mobile Email: johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au Project URLS: Rethinking Timelines: http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines TimeMap: http://www.TimeMap.net Associate of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative http://www.ecai.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:53:09 +0000 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? In-Reply-To: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> I'm afraid I can't offer practical suggestions, but you might be interested in the article by Seth Finkelstein on censorware and search-engine filtering, and the resulting 'internet burka of "safeness"', in yesterday's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/google-censorship We all I'm sure have our favourite examples of 'false positives' scored by such systems, even where no remotely rude words are used. I found that a usually reliable anti-spam system used to play havoc with book reviews where the word 'longer' occured near the abbreviation 'pp.' and didn't like me signing off 'Best Wishes, Virginia' (at my suggestion they amended their criteria to avoid these problems). A public library I know abandoned one censorware package which substituted X's for 'rude words', after a reader found themselves looking at a page about Her Majesty's CustomX & XXcise. Virginia Knight ---------------------- Virginia Knight, Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4369 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 4396 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:39:54 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: rude words online? In-Reply-To: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> The "very public" nature of the web does raise some interesting questions. As a folklorist, I have published the complete transcripts of very lively -- also known as rude some places -- speech. Of course, the very thing that we sometimes laments about paper (its cost circumscribing distribution, etc.) made it possible to leave "everything in." When asked to "clean up" a similar piece for a piece going into all the state's school libraries, I used an em dash to alter parts of words that would otherwise be recognizable to knowing readers but not otherwise flaggable as offensive. (The asterisk leads has multiple uses in searches.) And so, I think everyone recognizes "motherf—er", and it doesn't have the disadvantage of looking like pr0n, which can be nonsensical to a percentage of readers. (Surely someone somewhere has catalogued all the standardized typos? Does anyone have a link?) If everything being elided is kept in context, most readers have no problem understanding what it is they are (not) seeing. I hope that helps. But, to your larger point, it would be nice to have some sort of broader set of conventions in place that we could all reliably use. best, john -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ Twitter/Facebook: johnlaudun --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:53:30 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? In-Reply-To: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> Might want to look around at the various slang dictionaries already available online -- see how they get around it, and then consider how what may be put up here will be different. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 24 09:00:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675AF2BD7D; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08BDE2BD74; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:00:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090124090011.08BDE2BD74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:00:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.473 job at Stanford Libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 473. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:17:36 -0800 From: Cathy Aster Subject: Stanford Libraries Job Posting *Digital Manuscript Specialist* *Stanford** University** Libraries & Academic Information Resources* The Digital Manuscript Specialist will serve as a key team member on a collaborative project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project supports the development and conduct of a workshop that will examine specific instances of research and teaching based on selected medieval manuscript collections with a view to defining certain parameters of future work. Instances of such research and teaching involve several humanistic disciplines and auxiliary sciences like paleography and codicology, and focus special attention to approaches that rely heavily or essentially on the availability and use of data in digital form. The project is especially interested in the development or exercise of tools and architectures that (1) facilitate access to materials in multiple digital collections, (2) link sites and collections via common or cross-walked metadata schema, (3) link text and image at the feature or information content level, (4) link primary materials and secondary scholarship, and (5) help establish specifications for new and future projects. The Digital Manuscript Specialist will work as a part of a small team charged to analyze the overlapping and intersecting requirements of the use-cases in the context of digitized manuscript collections generally. Required Knowledge · A postgraduate degree in a relevant subfield of medieval or early modern studies, with significant experience and background (formal or informal) in descriptive metadata encoding of digital manuscripts. · Core technical skills: experience with XML, and specifically descriptive metadata schemas such as TEI, EAD, METS, and MODS. · The ability to blend domain expertise in medieval manuscript studies with technical expertise in prevailing standards and best practices in the development of digital manuscript tools and repositories. · Excellent organizational and communication skills, and proven ability to meet deadlines. · Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and successfully in a team-based environment. · Minimum related experience required: 1 year; 2-3 years desired Distribution of Effort: · Consult with the six PI’s allied with the project to develop and execute use-cases that demonstrate the potential of digital manuscript projects and that suggest future directions for interoperability that support teaching and research. (20%) · Consult with the six PI’s and Stanford Libraries’ technical staff on various projects to develop XML schema for describing digitized medieval artifacts and related secondary works in ways that support teaching and research goals, and comply with community best practices and standards. (30%) · Analyze tools, metadata approaches and technical architectures for selected digital manuscript projects and repositories. (30%) · Produce an integrated report on the outcomes of the use cases and the framework for interoperability they suggest. (20%) This is a grant-funded position with a maximum length of 12 months. The position is available beginning April 1, 2009, but the exact start date is negotiable. No matter the start date, however, the job ends on March 31, 2010. Please apply by searching for “33546” in the Keyword Search field (with nothing else highlighted) at: http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html, and clicking on the Apply button. Applications submitted as soon as possible will be in the best position to receive full consideration. -- Cathy Aster Digital Collections Project Manager Digital Library Systems & Services Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources Stanford, CA 94305-6004 office 650.725.4042 mobile 650.619.3930 http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dlss/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 24 09:01:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297CA2BF3E; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:01:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5F1A2BF23; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:01:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090124090142.A5F1A2BF23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:01:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.474 cfp: Learning Infrastructures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 474. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:15:10 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities Special issue of the journal Learning Inquiry (http://www.springerlink.com/content/120592/) Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger Papers Due: May 15th 2009 Please contact the editor to discuss topics at jhuns.(@)vt.edu (remove brackets) In the last 20 years, the learning infrastructures of the social sciences and humanities have transformed dramatically toward a more plural set of practices, methods, systems, and tools. In this issue, we are looking for contributions from social informatics, humanistic informatics, cultural informatics, digital humanities, internet studies, design research, media studies, and related fields dealing with the learning infrastructures. I am seeking papers that deal empirically, analytically and/or critically with the learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities. Cyberinfrastructures, physical infrastructures and organizational infrastructures have been transformed through the politics, economics, and technologies surrounding our learning infrastructures. Learning infrastructures are part of professors and students scholarly experiences everyday. These infrastructures are part of how students begin their engagement with the social sciences and humanities and perhaps become part of how they maintain that engagement throughout their lives. Beyond our professors, departments, centers and institutes, our learning infrastructures are mediating our disciplinarity and interdisciplinarities to our students. In short, learning infrastructures are a part of how students learn to be scholars in various disciplines and citizens in the world-at-large. Part of the debate surrounding learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities is the over/under-definition and over/ underdetermination of terms such as learning and infrastructure in disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. In this CFP, I want to encourage papers that help to define and critically engages those terms. Possible topics: • Transformation of institutions in relation to learning infrastructures • New methods, new understandings in the social sciences and humanities related to learning infrastructures • New disciplines, interdisciplines and transdisciplines and learning infrastructures • Political economics of learning infrastructures • Ethics, norms, and politics surrounding learning infrastructures • Openness and/or closedness in learning infrastructures • Social/Cultural/Informatics informatics and learning infrastructures • New directions for learning infrastructures based on social sciences and humanities • Cultural environmentalism and learning infrastructures • Knowledge/Design ecologies and learning infrastructures Review process will be double blind peer review following editorial selection. We expect to place fewer than 8 papers in this special issue. We would prefer papers between 4000-16000 words. Papers should be submitted tohttp://www.editorialmanager.com/linq/ Please contact the editor to discuss your paper and/or when you submit your paper. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 25 11:06:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1127D2CA5E; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 073222CA4E; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:06:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090125110653.073222CA4E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:06:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.476 new publication: "Neuroscience: the humanities and arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 476. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 475. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:04:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 33.4 (December 2008) "Neuroscience: the humanities and arts" www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr www.isr-journal.org 1. Editorial 2. Philip Davis, "Syntax and pathways" 3. Marjolein van Velzen and Peter Garrard, "From hindsight to insight - retrospective analysis of language written by a renowned Alzheimer's patient" 4. Sarah de Rijcke, "Drawing into abstraction. Practices of observation and visualisation in the work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal" 4. Norman N. Holland, "Spider-Man? Sure! The neuroscience of suspending disbelief" 5. Morten L. Kringelbach, Peter Vuust and John Geake, "The pleasure of reading" 6. William A. Kretzschmar, "Neural networks and the linguistics of speech" 7. Suzanne Nalbantian, "Neuroaesthetics: neuroscientific theory and illustration from the arts" Please note that the content of this issue may be downloaded free of charge for a limited time. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 26 08:01:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832432B320; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:01:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B70F2B314; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:01:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090126080157.4B70F2B314@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:01:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.477 rude words online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 477. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:00:03 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.471 rude words online? In-Reply-To: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> The simplest way is to make the words into images so web marshal can't parse them. That is how "TV go home" gets around Web Marshal. http://www.tvgohome.com/ (NSFW - coarse language) Siobhan King x6092 -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Friday, 23 January 2009 7:35 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 471. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:10:13 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: rude words Our dept has received an enquiry from an academic that wishes to put up some web pages that feature rude words (with good academic reason, of course). The question is, does anyone know of any techniques that would avoid having this page tagged as 'bad' content (or even porn) by search engines, parental controls etc.? Is substituting asterisks for vowels an effective method, or is this likely to be worse? Are there any meta tags to put in the head that might help? There was also some concern that such pages would contravene a University's regulations. However if there is a valid academic purpose behind the use of potential offensive language then I don't think there's any question of that. Any thought's on the subject would be most appreciated, but remember: keep it clean people... Regards, Ally -- Alun Edwards alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute: Arts and Humanities, Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ First World War Poetry Digital Archive, English Faculty, University of Oxford http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 26 08:35:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F552B7DA; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC9252B7C8; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:35:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090126083537.EC9252B7C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:35:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.478 brain science podcasts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 478. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:25:46 -0800 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: Brain Science Podcasts for Digital Humanist In-Reply-To: Digital Humanists: Ginger Campbell MD is not too quietly developing a reputation as a trusted source in the diffusion of book reviews, interviews, and the assembly of informative practices related with brain science, neuroscience, cognitive science, AI, embodied intelligence, and linguistics. Listening to her podcasts will bring you in contact with leading ideas and the people behind those ideas. She is amassing a Who's Who of people to track. She is well on her way as a fixture within the neuroscience community as she single-handedly is bridging basic research and public awareness of neuroscience. Given this recent posting on neuroscience in the humanities and arts I am forwarding samples from Ginger Campbell's podcast blog. http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/ You have two options there: series on brain science and "Books and Ideas." Campbell signals what an active mind can do with a passion for reading, learning, and intellectual discourse. For highly informative podcasts on current brain science practices and topics on language, reading, and human performance I highly recommend: Episode 53 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will by Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown. This book challenges the widespread fear that neuroscience is revealing an explanation of the human mind that concludes that moral responsibility and free will are illusions created by our brains. Instead the authors argue that the problem is the assumption that a physicalist/materialistic model of the mind must also be reductionist (a viewpoint that all causes are bottom-up). In this podcast I discuss their arguments against causal reductionism and for a dynamic systems model. We also discuss why we need to avoid brain-body dualism and recognize that our mind is more than just what our brain does. The key to preserving our intuitive sense of our selves as free agents capable of reason, moral responsibility, and free will is that the dynamic systems approach allows top-down causation, without resorting to any supernatural causes or breaking any of the know laws of the physical universe. This is a complex topic, but I present a concise overview of the book’s key ideas. http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2009/01/17/53-freewill/ Brain Science Podcast #52 is our Second Annual Review Episode. We review some of the highlights from 2008. I also discuss the various other on-line resources that I have created for listeners. Then we look ahead to what I have planned for 2009. This episode is aimed at all listeners, including those who are new to the show. http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/12/19/podcast52-review/ Podcasts which align well with digital humanities include: Dr. Maryanne Wolf, Director of The Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University Brain Science Podcast #29 is an interview with cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. I discussed her book in Episode 24, so this interview was an opportunity to ask her some follow-up questions, and to focus more on how children learn to read. Dr. Wolf shares her ten years of experience helping children learn to read and developing programs to help children with problems like dyslexia. She shares some practical advice for parents as well as her concerns about how reliance on the internet could influence reading skills. http://brainsciencpodcast.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/brain-science-podcast-29-interview-with-dr-maryanne-wolf/ Episode 38 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of "On Intelligence." Hawkins is well-known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring. He invented the Grafitti handwriting recognition system and helped develop the Palm Trio SmartPhone. Since he published his bestseller "On Intelligence" he has worked full-time on his passion for neuroscience. His current company, Numenta, is developing software that models the hierarchal structure of the neocortex. In this interview we talk about the ideas in Hawkins book and how he is applying them to develop a computer model of cortical function. This is a follow-up to Episode 2, which first aired in December of 2006 http://brainsciencepodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=344454 Episode 37 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. We talk about how exercise, sleep, and stress effect our brains with an emphasis on practical advice for healthier brain function. We also look at how research on memory, vision and the brain’s attention system suggests how we can improve our ability to learn and our ability to share ideas with others. Dr. Medina’s focus is on considering real world examples of how our schools and work environments could be reformed to utilize the growing knowledge of neuroscience. But he also stresses the importance of compiling sufficient experimental data before embarking on new programs. http://brainsciencpodcast.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/37-medina/ #23 Brain Science Podcast: Interview with Sandra Blakeslee, co-author of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. This is a follow-up on Episode 21, which a discussion of Blakeslee's new book about body maps. In the interview we talk about the relationship between body maps (in the brain) and neuroplasticity, as well as how body maps may explain alternative healing methods and out-of-body experiences. http://brainsciencepodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=266609 Episode 30 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally. We focus mostly on the first part of the book, which tells the story of how the study of language evolution has grown from almost a banned subject to a new field of inquiry called evolutionary linguistics. We also reflect on how recent findings in neuroscience like the importance of plasticity are influencing the field. http://brainsciencpodcast.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/brain-science-podcast-30-the-evolution-of-language/ On meditation: http://brainsciencepodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=370642 On fascia: http://brainsciencpodcast.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/books-and-ideas-podcast-15-dr-robert-schleip-discusses-fascia/ Nathaniel Bobbitt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 06:43:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603102B0F4; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:43:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C9DE2B0E3; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:43:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090127064309.6C9DE2B0E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.479 rude words online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 479. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:39:15 +0100 From: Csaba Pozsarko Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.477 rude words online In-Reply-To: <20090126080157.4B70F2B314@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Ally, What Siobhan sys is a good tip.The correct metatag in the section would be: or even if you want to include further links to them. The words could even be scrambled with javascript. Best; Csaba 2009/1/26 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 477. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:00:03 +1300 > From: Siobhan King > > In-Reply-To: <20090123063510.6FBEF2C56C@woodward.joyent.us> > > > The simplest way is to make the words into images so web marshal can't > parse them. That is how "TV go home" gets around Web Marshal. > http://www.tvgohome.com/ (NSFW - coarse language) > > Siobhan King > x6092 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 06:45:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4485D2B1AC; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:45:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D87E32B191; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:45:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090127064507.D87E32B191@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:45:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.480 computing the intuitive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 480. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:32:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing the intuitive >From an article on computing in medicine (1971): "It is a remarkable paradox... that we can use this machine with particular effect in manipulating the non-computable. We can compute (with or without a computer) a death rate, the protection rate of a vaccine, the survival rate following a treatment, or the risk of getting lung cancer in terms of the amount we smoke. These results mark the end of a computational process. But we can *not* compute a new disease entity, or a management decision, or the natural history of a tumour, or the cause of cerebral thrombosis, or the best way of running a screening programme; these non-computable items must be declared intuitively. However, they can be used to initiate computational processes which will work out formally the consequences of our untuitive good (or bad) judgement and permit a comparison between these consequences and our data or our desires. These methods of working are quite distinct, the first deriving a result from data, the second deriving a consequence from premises." E. G. Knox, "A case for the computer", Thinking by Numbers 4, The Times Literary Supplement, 3 September 1971, pp. 1059-60. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 06:47:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D142B28B; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:47:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B5742B284; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:47:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090127064752.7B5742B284@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:47:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.481 academia.edu X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 481. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:46:05 -0800 From: "Dr. Richard Price" Subject: Announcing "Academia.edu" to the Humanist Community Dear all, I recently finished my Ph.D at Oxford on the philosophy of perception. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a website, Academia.edu, which does two things: - It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations. - It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers and talks. We are hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the world -- Faculty Members, Post-Docs, Graduate Students, and Independent Researchers. Academics can add their departments, and themselves, to the tree by clicking on the boxes. Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 25,000 academics have added themselves in the last three months. Some professors on the site include: - Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins - Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking - Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman - Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky - Steven Pinker - http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker We're trying to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as possible. It would be terrific if you could visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the tree at http://www.academia.edu/signup?humanist. If your university is not there, you can add it. Independent researchers - if you are a researcher that is not associated with a university, I encourage you to add yourself to the "Independent Researchers" portion of the tree at http://independent.academia.edu/signup?humanist. And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. Many thanks, Richard Dr. Richard Price http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 06:48:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324A02B2DC; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:48:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 649812B2D5; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:48:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090127064832.649812B2D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:48:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.482 events: e-learning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 482. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:56:37 -0500 From: "Henry C. Alphin Jr." Subject: CFP: 7th Annual E-Learning 2.0 Conference - Drexel University Presentation proposals are currently being accepted for the 7th annual e-Learning 2.0 Conference, hosted by Drexel's Office of Information Resources & Technology. The conference will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Behrakis Grand Hall at the Creese Center. Past conferences have included presentations on leveraging existing and emerging technologies to augment face-to-face classes, teach hybrid Web-enhanced classes, and facilitate completely online, Web-delivered classes. For more information about the conference and to submit a proposal, please visit the conference website at http://www.drexel.edu/irt/elearningconf2009/index.html. Last year's conference was a huge success, with more than 160 participants and 36 presenters from over 40 institutions all around the region! This is a tremendous opportunity for presenters to share their knowledge and expertise with an academic technology-focused regional community. It promises to be a fantastic learning and networking event as well. A small registration fee will cover welcome materials, access to the presentations and keynote speaker sessions, a continental breakfast, lunch, afternoon refreshments, and a door prize drawing at the conclusion of the event. If you are interested in presenting at the conference or know someone who is, please visit the proposal submission form on the conference website. Presentations should be approximately 50 minutes in length. The deadline for proposal submission is February 27, 2009. Any questions or concerns can be directed to el2n@drexel.edu. We look forward to your participation in this year's event! Online Learning Team Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 Forwarded by: Henry C. Alphin Jr. Drexel University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 08:41:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04952C84B; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2FE42C83C; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090127084122.D2FE42C83C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.483 celebration at LLCC, Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 483. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:28:16 +0000 From: John Dawson Subject: Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre, Cambridge In-Reply-To: <497AFFF5.3070802@mccarty.org.uk> Advance Notice! in 2009 the Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre of Cambridge University will celebrate several anniversaries LLCC will be 45 years old It will be 20 years since the University Computing Service took over LLCC John Dawson is retiring, having managed LLCC for 35 years Put this date in your 2009 diary ... Friday 2 October 2009 A one-day seminar to celebrate the creation and work of the Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre in Cambridge To register your interest and to receive further details when they are available, please email LLCC@ucs.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 08:41:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056FD2C87C; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF2302C874; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090127084146.CF2302C874@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.484 cfp for MLA 2009 session X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 484. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:55:47 +0000 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: cfp for MLA 2009: Media Studies and the Digital Scholarly Present In-Reply-To: <4F50C0D3-8082-43D7-AD2D-6F83D9E5C1BC@pomona.edu> Session sponsored by the MLA's Media and Literature Discussion Group for the 2009 convention in Philadelphia: Media Studies and the Digital Scholarly Present Not the future of digital scholarly publishing but the material form of such mediated communication as it exists today. 1-page abstract and short vita by March 15 to Kathleen Fitzpatrick, kfitzpatrick@pomona.edu. -- Kathleen Fitzpatrick Associate Professor of English and Media Studies, Pomona College Coordinating Editor, MediaCommmons kfitzpatrick@pomona.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 27 12:38:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DB62C77C; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:38:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 564442C769; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:38:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090127123833.564442C769@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:38:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.485 taming reality or ignoring it? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 485. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:27:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: taming reality In his long article on computerization and numerical methods in archaeology, "Modernizing the recovery of the past", in the Thinking by Numbers series, TLS 29 October 1971, J. B. Ward-Perkins considers as an example of a seemingly ideal find the pottery in the Athenian Agora. The question he considers is how in practice to classify "a vast middle range of humanan artifacts whose individual idiosyncracies can be exasperatingly resistant to the sort of Yes/No classification which the computer demands." He concludes: > The theoretical answer is a rigid standardization of descriptive > terminology, rigidly applied; but as anybody knows who has ever tried > to achieve this outside the relatively narrow circle of inquiry which > he and his immediate associates can control, the results are rarely > commensurate with the effort involved. Quot homines, tot > sententiae may be scientifically regrettable, but it is the only > realistic assessment of a great many aspects of the contemporary > archaeological scene. -- in 1971. But how familiar this sounds now. In our struggles with textual encoding, at the depths of interpretation rather than simply formatting for publication, have we done any better? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 28 08:33:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2F52C24D; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 287962C236; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090128083320.287962C236@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.486 taming reality or ignoring it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 486. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:39:46 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.485 taming reality or ignoring it? > But how familiar this sounds now. In our struggles with > textual encoding, at the depths of interpretation rather than simply > formatting for publication, have we done any better? Not when we try to do computationally what we were/are already very good at doing on our own. Where we have done better is when the introduction of computation changes the nature of the object of study -- as Barthes suggested long ago, I believe, in his essay on interdisciplinarity ("The Young Researchers"?). Or, as I recently suggested to a student, when computational abilities glean patterns that our minds already perceive (but dimly, as if on the tip of our tongue) but articulates/concretizes them in such a way as to bring them to the fore of our attention for our conscious consideration. john -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: johnlaudun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 28 08:33:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571F52C27D; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 02C992C271; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 487. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:29:34 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: www.academia.edu? The service recently announced on Humanist, http://www.academia.edu/, has struck one member of this group as rather odd. He does not want to have his remarks attributed, so I report them here and add some of my own. He has found people assigned to universities that have no record of them. Indeed, the service seems cheerily to allow anyone to give themselves or anyone else whatever job in whatever department (never was an academic appointment easier to obtain), to delete others who have signed up (or easier to lose), even to create new universities (for the ambitious). See, for example, Bogus State or the Western Academy of Anomalous Results. Has anyone here had experience of www.academia.edu? Opinions? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 28 08:34:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49502C2CC; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:34:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D60A52C2B9; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:34:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090128083429.D60A52C2B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:34:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.488 events: NINES in Dublin; Digital Dialogues at MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 488. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." (17) Subject: deadline extended for NINES in Dublin [2] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (39) Subject: MITH's Spring Digital Dialogues --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:54:58 -0500 From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." Subject: deadline extended for NINES in Dublin Call for Proposals NINES Summer Workshop Co-Sponsored by the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland. NINES is delighted to be collaborating with the DHO, the national Digital Humanities Center of Ireland, in its first Summer School held outside the US, bringing together European and North American scholars. Dublin is one of the most vibrant capitals in Europe, with excellent theater and priceless literary collections. This week-long workshop for scholars undertaking digital projects in nineteenth-century Irish, British, and American literary and cultural studies will be held at the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, 13-17 July 2009. The workshop will provide a practical setting where scholars can develop their own shared interests, goals, and problems to be addressed. The workshop will focus on theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of specific projects. The Summer School will offer four strands: 1) training in TEI Text Encoding (James Cummings and Dot Porter); 2) Database Design and Development (Don Gourley, Aja Teehan); 3) Data Design and Visualization (Paolo Battino, Shawn Day, and Faith Lawrence); 4) XML Transformations (Laura Mandell and Kirstyn Leuner). In addition the Summer School will feature lectures and master classes by Jerome McGann and Hans Walter Gabler, two leading experts and theorists in digital humanities. The cost of the workshop is 375 Euro, not including room and board. Both hotels and dormitory rooms are available. Possible social events include a pub crawl, theater outings, and excursions. How to Apply: Applications should not exceed two single-spaced pages. They should be headed with a project title and a one-sentence description of the project. They should include as well a developed project description that addresses each of the following matters: * The scholarly rationale for the project; · The technical and theoretical problems that face the project; · The expected duration of the project, its phases, and some description of the current state; · The digital technology used or needed by the project; · The technical support available to the scholar at his or her home institution. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Send applications by February 20, 2009 to: workshops@nines.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:59:24 +0000 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: MITH's Spring Digital Dialogues The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is very pleased to announce another semester of weekly Digital Dialogues talks on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. All talks are Tuesdays at 12:30-1:45 in MITH's Conference Room, located on the basement level of McKeldin Library. All talks are free and open to the public. We'd love to see colleagues from the DC area and beyond (the campus is accessible from the DC Metro system's Green line). 2.3 Merle Collins (English and Comparative Literature), "Saracca and Nation: African Memory and Re-creation in Grenada" (film screening) 2.10 Jeremy Boggs (George Mason University), "Managing Projects in the Digital Humanities" 2.17 Jean Dryden (iSchool), "Copyright in the Real World" 2.24 William Noel (Walters Art Museum), "Archimedes in Bits: Ten Years of Work on the Archimedes Palimpsest" 3.3 Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins), "An Abundant Humanities Library" 3.10 Project Bamboo: An Open Meeting (facilitated by Neil Fraistat) 3.24 Despina Kakoudaki (American University), "Are Robots Real? The Robot as an Object of Study" 3.31 Shakespeare's Quartos: A MITH Research Update 4.7 Wendell Piez (Mulberry Technologies), "How to Play XML: Markup Technology as Nomic Game" 4.14 Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia), "From Electronic Editions to Digital Scholarship: Using What We've Made" 4.21 Mills Kelly (George Mason University), "What Happens When You Teach Your Students to Lie Online?" 4.28 Preserving Virtual Worlds: A MITH Research Update 5.5 Katie King (Women's Studies), "Networked Reenactments" Please forward and post as appropriate! -- 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://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 29 06:39:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE3D2C1E6; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DF722C1D4; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:39:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090129063937.7DF722C1D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:39:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.489 much about www.academia.edu X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 489. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dunn, Stuart" (53) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [2] From: "Ken Friedman" (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [3] From: Alun Edwards (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [4] From: peter jones (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [5] From: Claire Warwick (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [6] From: Jockers Matthew (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [7] From: Joseph Vaughan (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? [8] From: Willard McCarty (16) Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu?] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:42:44 +0000 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, I have no experience myself of using academia.edu, but last November the Times Higher Ed. ran an article on it: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404394 All best, -Stuart ----------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 28 January 2009 08:34 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 487. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:29:34 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: www.academia.edu? The service recently announced on Humanist, http://www.academia.edu/, has struck one member of this group as rather odd. He does not want to have his remarks attributed, so I report them here and add some of my own. He has found people assigned to universities that have no record of them. Indeed, the service seems cheerily to allow anyone to give themselves or anyone else whatever job in whatever department (never was an academic appointment easier to obtain), to delete others who have signed up (or easier to lose), even to create new universities (for the ambitious). See, for example, Bogus State or the Western Academy of Anomalous Results. Has anyone here had experience of www.academia.edu? Opinions? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:01:16 +1100 From: "Ken Friedman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, After receiving several invitations and the note explaining that Paul Krugman has an entry, I decided to join. Prof. Krugman is my must-read columnist in the New York Times, and the fact that he holds a Nobel Prize in economic science doesn't hurt. When I signed up, the process worked fairly well. I especially like the fact that I could use a jolly photo instead of the usual head shot that most sites limit you to by requiring fewer bytes than a nice picture requires. But I realized it would take time to make a serious entry so I stopped with a picture. Even Prof, Krugman's entry only contains a link to his official page at Princeton, with a further link to the unofficial page about him. One can probably game the site easily. It's rather like a deliberately bad edit in a Wiki or a hoax. I note, however, that there are no staff at Bogus State or the Western Aacademy. And the site is working slowly right now, doubtless the result of many Digital Humanities subscribers checking Bogus State. It's not the worst idea on the net. I'm not sure what it will ultimately be good for, but I'm happy with my picture. That's it. As Joe Friday used to say on Dragnet, "Just the facts." Ken Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS Professor Dean Swinburne Design Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia Telephone +61 3 9214 6755 www.swinburne.edu.au/design --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:13:35 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Your subscribers might want to read this article from the Times Higher (Nov 2008) http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404394 Best wishes, Ally -- Alun Edwards alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk Intute: Arts and Humanities http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ First World War Poetry Digital Archive English Faculty, University of Oxford http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:12:24 +0000 (GMT) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> This service has been publicised a lot since the summer. I follow quite a few lists across a range of disciplines and on several occasions I felt that either I was being 'stalked' or was a 'stalker' myself... I was encouraged to join by another member who I know from another list. I had asked when first learning of the site what about 'independent scholars'? I was advised that I could add myself creating the organisation / department of my choice. This I have done: 'pantology'.... I've just reviewed Gary Hall's "DIGITIZE THIS BOOK!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now" http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2009/01/book-review-gary-halls-digitize-this.html The review includes mention of 'Independent Scholars' since the web can and is facilitating their influence and numbers? Perhaps, I should add a point about academia.edu as Hall is also concerned with authority and legitimacy? I was somewhat troubled adding myself - and so am engaged in watchful waiting.... Regards Peter Jones RMN, RGN, CPN(Cert.), BA(Hons) Comp/Phil, PGCE, PG(Dip) COPE http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:35:33 +0000 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> It strikes me that this a good example of a much under-appreciated problem with web 2.0 applications. In many ways they are a great idea, but they do not work for everything, especially in areas in which what people may say about themselves requires verification. Yet there is a tendency on the part of some content providers to assume that any kind of electronic publication is better with user generated content, and to underestimate the need for moderation or verification of information. It's interesting in this context that Wikipedia is now having to impose moderation on contributions from unknown editors. There are areas where the authority and imprimatur of web 1.0 works better, notably when people need to trust the information that is being produced as truthful. So in this context, it occurs to me to wonder why anyone would need to join this site, when they will be listed on their own university's web 1.0 page, which comes with the authority of its reputation and branding. It's almost an invitation to falsification. And for the readers of the THE, there is indeed an entry for the University of Poppleton. It this weren't so crazy it would be funny! Claire --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:41:47 -0800 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> I found the same thing; a record for the "School of Hard Knocks" deterred me and several colleagues here from adding our names to the site. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:54:42 -0800 From: Joseph Vaughan Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> I at first thought that it was using the Wikipedia model of "crowd sourcing". In theory, accuracy emerges because people will correct mistakes. But I just tried to delete the Western Academy of Anomalous Results and couldn't find a way to do it. Joseph Vaughan CIO/Vice-President for Computing and Information Services Harvey Mudd College vaughan@hmc.edu 909 621 8613 free/busy info at http://tinyurl.com/vaughanfreebusy --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:02:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu?] In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> The following sent to me by someone who wishes to remain in the shadows.... WM -------- Original Message -------- I initially thought academia.edu http://academia.edu was legitimate and signed up late last year, but since then, I´ve seen at least two similar such notices for "academic social network software". When I saw the notice posted on Humanist, I did have a feeling that this starts to look like academic spam..."What an easy way to harvest information/identities" is what I thought. I share your concerns. I´ve left scant details on academia.edu http://academia.edu , mostly to see where this leads. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 30 06:51:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BCB2B91E; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09AFA2B90C; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090130065100.09AFA2B90C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.490 even more on academia.edu X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 490. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sebastian Rahtz (6) Subject: academia.edu [2] From: Ian Johnson (110) Subject: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:25:28 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: academia.edu http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404394 may amuse -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:47:04 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Johnson Subject: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? In-Reply-To: <20090128083346.02C992C271@woodward.joyent.us> It seems to me that people are getting their knickers in a twist the way they did with Wikipedia a few years back (and hiding beind Willard's coat tails). Treat it the same way, use it to get information, then check your facts if you depend on them. All those who don't use Wikpiedia, not ever, hold up your hands. silence ... Sure academia.edu isn't perfect, but it's a big leap to go from there to condeming it as 'a rogue thing', just because it isn't embedded in a University. Maybe there is some scuttlebut: why is Sebastian calling a local initiative a rogue rather than nurturing it? Is the originator someone no-one can stand, or are there turf wars at issue? These are things we are scarcely likely to find out on an open list. >From an external perspective, as long as it's offering a useful free service for academia and maintains acceptable standards I see little problem with it being .edu and gaining some amount of acceptance within the target community through that designation. It doens't seem to be a Nigerian scam. If it later turns commercial, then it had better get off, but I don't really see that model working. Perhaps they are harvesting and sellign the information, but I for one use Google Docs and GMail and I know THEY do it, and in this case the contributors are making the info they put in public in any case. Besides, the whole idea of 'free and respectable' ignores the fact that all the 'free' academic systems are being paid for by taxes, student fees, unpaid work, exploitation of non-renewable resources and centuries of colonial advantage. Certainly it needs wiki-like rollback of incorrect info and an easy way of reporting abuse (a one-click 'spam' type of mechanism in addition to a feedback field). You can in fact delete bogus universities/departments if they are empty (soory Bogus State University, I was your nemesis), you can't edit universities or departments if you're not associated. You can presumably associate a bogus identity with a department to get your hands on the controls. Worryingly, I can change the name of my University, but what is the alternative: contact every universtiy on the planet and try to get them to designate a contact person, and keep the contact up-to-date? No, of course not. This is the brave new world of user-based content production. Once we all have single-sign on identities it will be possible to do a much better job, but for now this is the mechanism which works. New paradigms are often uncomfortable until one adapts and rather creaky until the mecahnisms mature, but instead of fighting what seems like a pretty good initiative, let's email the developer ideas for better control mechanisms and see if the gaps get plugged. Ian On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:33:46 +0000 (GMT) > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 487. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:29:34 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: www.academia.edu? > > The service recently announced on Humanist, http://www.academia.edu/, > has struck one member of this group as rather odd. He does not want to > have his remarks attributed, so I report them here and add some of my > own. He has found people assigned to universities that have no record of > them. Indeed, the service seems cheerily to allow anyone to give > themselves or anyone else whatever job in whatever department (never was > an academic appointment easier to obtain), to delete others who have > signed up (or easier to lose), even to create new universities (for the > ambitious). See, for example, Bogus State or the Western Academy of > Anomalous Results. Has anyone here had experience of www.academia.edu? > Opinions? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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 > ======================================================================== Ian Johnson [johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au] Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory Deputy Director, Digital Innovation Unit Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology Australia: Archaeological Computing Laboratory http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Digital Innovation Unit in the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation Room 310 - 314, F09 Madsen Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 +61 (0)2 9351 2552 (direct) ..3142, ..8981 (msg) 3644 (fax) +61 (0)402 389 190 mobile France: Esparoutis, St Cybranet 24250 +33 (0)5 53 28 39 24 fixed +33 (0)6 37 18 93 42 mobile Email: johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au Project URLS: Rethinking Timelines: http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines TimeMap: http://www.TimeMap.net Associate of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative http://www.ecai.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 30 06:51:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3972B975; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1DA82B966; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090130065133.C1DA82B966@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.491 new list, new proposals X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 491. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Humanities (31) Subject: ESF CALLS FOR PROPOSALS 2009 [2] From: Ray Siemens (9) Subject: DH-Collaboration list --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:46:37 +0000 From: Humanities Subject: ESF CALLS FOR PROPOSALS 2009 Call for proposals now open 1. Please find a below a link to the 2009 ESF Calls for proposals Call on line at: www.esf.org/calls http://www.esf.org/calls 2. ESF-LiU Conference on 'The Changing Use and Misuse of Catha Edulis (Khat) in a Changing World: Tradition, Trade and Tragedy' 5-9 October 2009, Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden Programme and applications: accessible online at www.esf.org/conferences/09274 http://www.esf.org/conferences/09274 Deadline for applications: 5 July 2009 Chair: Dr. Michael Odenwald, University of Konstanz, Germany Vice-chairs: Dr. Nasir Warfa, Queen Mary, University of London, UK - Dr. Axel Klein, University of Kent, UK Scope: The conference will present and discuss the current state of knowledge on the multi-faceted and swiftly changing issues related to khat (a naturally occurring stimulant plant, traditionally used in a number of African and Arab countries) at the Horn of Africa, in Europe and elsewhere. It will foster the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion among economists, social and political scientists, natural scientists, social and medical scientists, healthcare and social care professionals, health service providers, as well as policy makers, international organisations and community groups. The programme will cover: 1. Economic, ecological and political issues of khat use 2. The changing culture of khat use 3. Pharmacological, medical and psychological issues related to khat use 4. Legislation, regulation and international schedulling Grants: are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel costs Further information: visit www.esf.org/conferences/09274 or contact Ms. Jean Kelly, Conference officer (jkelly@esf.org) Kind regards Irma Vogel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irma Vogel Senior Administrator & Unit Coordinator Standing Committee for the Humanities European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F - 67080 Strasbourg Tel +33 (0)388 76 71 26 Fax +33 (0)388 76 71 81 Email: ivogel@esf.org Web: http://www.esf.org/human --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:59:22 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: DH-Collaboration list Hi Folks – In response to discussion in and around several related things – among them the Digging into Data initiative, the Networks of Centres of Excellence program and, most importantly, the collaborative, cooperative and collegial spirit of our community – it was suggested that we establish a discussion list intended specifically to act as a space for coordinating and facilitating collaboration in Digital Humanities initiatives, serving also as a complement to what is provided via other mechanisms and extant collaborative structures in our community. While the list will have some slight technical moderation, it isn’t intended that the list have a leader or moderator; rather, content and results will be driven by its participants. If you’d like to be added as a member of this list, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line. All best, Ray ____________ R.G. Siemens English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1 Phone: (250) 721-7272 Fax: (250) 721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 30 06:52:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A942B9F4; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7DBF2B9E4; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090130065222.D7DBF2B9E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.492 events: Immersive Worlds; ICT Cultures and Values X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 492. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kevin Kee (77) Subject: FINAL CFP: Immersive Worlds 2009, June 15-16 [2] From: "Dr. Indira Guzman" (38) Subject: cfp and reviewers on ICT CULTURES AND VALUES --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:47:53 -0500 From: Kevin Kee Subject: FINAL CFP: Immersive Worlds 2009, June 15-16 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1233247592_2009-01-29_kevin.kee@brocku.ca_28912.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1233247592_2009-01-29_kevin.kee@brocku.ca_28912.1.2.pdf FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Interacting with Immersive Worlds: Second Brock University Conference on the Interactive Arts & Sciences BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO JUNE 15-16, 2009 The first Interacting with Immersive Worlds conference was held in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula at Brock University in June of 2007. Presenters and attendees from a multiplicity of disciplines heard keynote presentations by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Claremont Graduate University), James Gee (Arizona State University), Chris Csikszentmihalyi (MIT Media Laboratory), and Denis Dyack (Silicon Knights). The 2009 conference will be just as provocative, with keynote speakers such as Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Espen Aarseth (IT University of Denmark). It will also feature an evening tour, wine tasting, and dinner party among the vines, at a Niagara winery. Be sure to electronically submit your abstracts to the program committee by February 2, 2009. The primary focus of the conference is to explore the growing cultural importance of interactive media. All scholarship on, and creation of digital interactive media (including but not limited to computer games and interactive fiction) will be considered in one of four broad conference streams: The Challenges at the Boundaries of Immersive Worlds stream features creative exploration and innovation in immersive media including ubiquitous computing, telepresence, interactive art and fiction, and alternative reality. The Critical Approaches to Immersion stream looks at analyses of the cultural and/or psychological impact of immersive worlds, as well as theories of interactivity. The Immersive Worlds in Education stream examines educational applications of immersive technologies. The Immersive Worlds in Entertainment stream examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies, such as computer games. We welcome the submission of abstracts for a 20-minute presentation plus a 10-minute discussion. Send a 500-word abstract plus a brief biographical statement. Please include a separate cover page with the following: • Author’s name and affiliation • Email • Mailing address • Title of presentation Since all abstracts will be anonymously reviewed, include the title of the paper on the abstract but not the author’s name, affiliation, email or mailing address. Deadline extended - deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 2, 2009. Please email your abstract to jmitterer@brocku.ca Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 15, 2009. Visit the conference web site for details http://www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds/ Organizing Committee: Jean Bridge, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, jbridge@brocku.ca Martin Danahay, Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University, mdanahay@brocku.ca Denis Dyack, Silicon Knights, Catharines, Ontario, denis@siliconknights.ca Barry Grant, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, bgrant@brocku.ca David Hutchison, Faculty of Education, Brock University, davidh@brocku.ca Kevin Kee, Department of History, Brock University kkee@brocku.ca John Mitterer, Department of Psychology, Brock University, jmitterer@brocku.ca Michael Winter, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, mwinter@brocku.ca Philip Wright, Information Technology Services, Brock University, philip.wright@brocku.ca --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24:58 +0000 From: "Dr. Indira Guzman" Subject: cfp and reviewers on ICT CULTURES AND VALUES Call for Papers and Reviewers for the AMCIS 2009 Mini Track: IT Cultures and Values Under the Track: Social Issues in IS Mini-track: IT Cultures and Values: Occupational and Organizational Description: The goal of research on culture and IT is diverse in both context and method. Rather than focusing on cross-cultural studies that compare IT development and use in different countries, the focus of this mini-track is to provide a forum for research that seeks to understand the values and assumptions embedded in both the technology, and the human group served by the technology (i.e. the occupational group, the organization, the society). This mini-track was initiated in 2008, capturing the attention of researchers who look for an opportunity to promote the understanding, research, and theorization of cultural issues related to information and communication technologies. We encourage you to participate. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) cultures: the IT culture, the information culture, the digital culture, the online culture and the geek culture • Organizational culture and ICTs • IT values in organizations and the society • IT culture and system conflicts within organizations and the society • Impact of IT cultures on occupational, organizational and societal use of IT • Conflict resolution and culture change at the organizational and societal levels • The IT Workforce’s enculturation • IT cultural issues and modern society • Methodological issues conducting IT culture research • Organizational culture and IT case studies, ethnography, mixed methods • An assessment of software for supporting culture studies work • Ethnography and culture in virtual environments • Mixed, qualitative, and quantitative approaches of the study of culture and IS. • IT Culture and education • Linking culture and information sharing • Culture as more than end-user studies Papers Due: February 20, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 2, 2009 Camera Ready Copy Due: April 20, 2009 Please contact the Mini-track chairs if you would be able to participate as reviewer or if you have any questions about this mini-track: Indira R. Guzman, Tui University, iguzman@tuiu.edu 1-714-816-0366 Ext.2026 Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Syracuse University, mlbrow03@syr.edu 1-315-443-1892 Conference web site: http://amcis2009.org/ Thanks, Indira Indira R. Guzman, Ph.D. Coordinating Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Management Information Systems Tui University http://www.tuiu.edu/ ; 5665 Plaza Dr. Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. Tel: 714.816.0366 or 1.800.375.9878 Ext.2026; Fax: 714.229.8934 iguzman@tuiu.edu | http://www.indiraguzman.com http://www.indiraguzman.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 31 09:23:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1412C04C; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:23:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2AD082C03C; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:23:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090131092321.2AD082C03C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:23:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.493 academia.edu not enough? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 493. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:54:44 +0000 From: "Lopez, Tamara" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.490 even more on academia.edu In-Reply-To: <20090130065100.09AFA2B90C@woodward.joyent.us> To the discussion I'd add that there are other models for this kind of work that have been around for a while. Katy Börner's work at Indiana University to map knowledge domains springs to mind: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/research/index.html#VisualizingKnowledgeDomains - and some graphics - http://www.asis.org/Publications/ARIST/Vol37/BornerFigures.html I believe this work includes developing systems for authoritatively and unambigiously identifying researchers to avoid duplicate, if not bogus entries. Perhaps not Web 2.0-ey enough? Tamara Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 490. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Sebastian Rahtz (6) > > > [2] From: Ian Johnson (110) > Subject: [Humanist] 22.487 www.academia.edu? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:25:28 +0000 > From: Sebastian Rahtz > Subject: academia.edu > > http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404394 > may amuse > > -- Tamara Lopez Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481237 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 31 09:23:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF902C08D; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:23:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99DDF2C07C; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:23:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090131092352.99DDF2C07C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:23:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.494 new on WWW: TL Infobits for January X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 494. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:54:00 +0000 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- January 2009 TL INFOBITS January 2009 No. 31 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjan09.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... 2009 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies Learning with Customized Networks Teaching and Learning Challenges for the Coming Year Principles for Excellence in Online Teaching Teaching in Virtual Environments Recommended Reading Infobits Subscribers -- Where Were We in 2008? ...................................................................... 2009 HORIZON REPORT ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES The 2009 Horizon Report is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year the report "describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years." Some of the technologies to watch this year include: Cloud Computing: "Cloud computing . . . has emerged as the unifying technology supporting grassroots video, collaboration webs, and social operating systems . .. has the potential to change the way we think about computing . . ." The Personal Web: "Armed with tools for tagging, aggregating, updating, and keeping track of content, today's learners create and navigate a web that is increasingly tailored to their own needs and interests: this is the personal web." Semantic-Aware Applications: "Tools that can simply gather the context in which information is couched, and that use that context to extract imbedded meaning are providing rich new ways of finding and aggregating content." Critical challenges identified in the report include: "There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy." "Schools are still using materials developed decades ago, but today's students come to school with very difference experiences than those of 20 or 30 years ago, and think and work very differently as well." "A challenge cited as critical now for several years running, academic review and faculty rewards are out of sync with the practice of scholarship." "Higher education is facing a growing expectation to make use of and to deliver services, content, and media to mobile devices." The 32-page 2009 Horizon Report is available at no charge and has been released with a Creative Commons license to facilitate its widespread use, easy duplication, and broad distribution. It can be accessed at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf or http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/2009HorizonReport/48003 NMC is an "international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies." For more information, go to http://www.nmc.org/ ELI is a "strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that advance learning." For more information, go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=86 ...................................................................... LEARNING WITH CUSTOMIZED NETWORKS "The idea that digital environments should be customized to suit the user is now the expected norm of the digital world. Users instantly expect to have their own view of whatever the context is fully represented and sustained. Indeed, having to plough through irrelevant and unnecessary information not only discourages the user from the environment but immediately disassociates the user from the environment, which results in a decision to not return. Therefore customization means relevancy for the user. Taking this idea and transferring the implications to a learning environment, educators should be challenged with the same reality." In "Communities of Learners Redefined: Customized Networks That Impact Learning" (T.H.E. JOURNAL, January 2009), Ruth Reynard writes that by tailoring the learning experience to the student, educators could expect to see "a higher level of learning from the learner." She argues that, rather than viewing students' social networking activities disrupting the learning environment, instructors should harness these tools to help students "develop skills of negotiation, debate (an almost forgotten academic skill), critical inquiry, and cognitive positioning--all of which are essential in becoming successful lifelong learners as well as developing expertise in their discipline." The article is available online at http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23837_2 T.H.E. (Technology Horizons in Education) Journal [ISSN 0192-592X] is a monthly magazine that is "dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology. Launched in 1972, T.H.E. Journal was the first magazine to cover education technology." For more information, contact: T.H.E. Journal, 16261 Laguna Canyon Road, Suite 130, Irvine, CA 92618 USA; tel: 949-265-1520; fax: 949-265-1528; Web: http://www.thejournal.com/ ...................................................................... TEACHING AND LEARNING CHALLENGES FOR THE COMING YEAR The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) sponsored "Challenges 2009" -- a discussion in the teaching and learning community that began with brainstorming at the 2008 EDUCAUSE annual meeting and continued online. The goal was to formulate and rank by popularity a list of the top teaching and learning challenges of 2009. The resulting top five are: 1. Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation. 2. Developing 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual). 3. Reaching and engaging today's learner. 4. Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT. 5. Advancing innovation in teaching and learning (with technology) in an era of budget cuts. For more details, visit the Challenges 2009 wiki at http://connect.educause.edu/wiki/TLChallenges09?time=1232111967 ELI is a "strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that advance learning." For more information, go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=86 ...................................................................... PRINCIPLES FOR EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE TEACHING For teaching online "[i]t is not sufficient to be a content expert. Nor is it sufficient to be 'tech-savvy.' It is not even sufficient to be an excellent traditional classroom teacher. Because the online world is a categorically different environment[,] a particular blend of skills and knowledge is necessary if success is to be found in this domain." Authors Jim Henry and Jeff Meadows, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, draw upon their own online teaching experience and that of others in the field to compile a list of principles to guide new online instructors and course developers. Some of their principles include: Technology is a vehicle, not a destination. Great online courses are defined by teaching, not technology. A great web interface will not save a poor course; but a poor web interface will destroy a potentially great course. Excellence comes from ongoing assessment and refinement. The paper, "Absolutely Riveting Online Course: Nine Principles for Excellence in Web-Based Teaching" (CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 34, no. 1, Winter 2008), is available at http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/179/177 The Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology [ISSN: 1499-6685], published by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, is a peer-reviewed journal that welcomes papers on all aspects of educational technology and learning. For more information, contact CNIE/RCIE, 260 Dalhousie Street, Suite 204, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1N 7E4; email: cjlt@ucalgary.ca; Web: http://www.cjlt.ca/ ...................................................................... TEACHING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS "In the past two years, over 300 colleges and universities have claimed virtual land in Second Life and in other virtual environments in an attempt to enhance content delivery, raise institutional profiles, and explore new frontiers in education." The latest issue of INNOVATE (vol. 5, no. 2, December 2008/January 2009) explores how virtual environments provide opportunities and challenges for educators and their institutions. Papers include: "Hacking Say and Reviving ELIZA: Lessons from Virtual Environments" By Rochelle Mazar and Jason Nolan http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=547 "Using Second Life with Learning-Disabled Students in Higher Education" By Stephanie McKinney, et al. http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=573 "Knowledge-Driven Design of Virtual Patient Simulations" By Victor Vergara, et al. http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=579 The entire issue is available at http://innovateonline.info/ Registration is required to access the complete articles; registration is free. Innovate: Journal of Online Education [ISSN 1552-3233], an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal, is published bimonthly by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. For more information, contact James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief; email: innovate@nova.edu; Web: http://innovateonline.info/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. REMIX: MAKING ART AND COMMERCE THRIVE IN THE HYBRID ECONOMY By Lawrence Lessig New York: Penguin Group, 2008 ISBN 9781594201721 "For more than a decade, we've been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century's model of 'copyright law.' In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19th century, and to the promise of the 21st. Our past teaches us about the value in 'remix.' We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new 'hybrid economy' -- one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate." An interview podcast with Lessig discussing his new book is available from the journal FIRST MONDAY at http://www.firstmondaypodcast.org/audio/lessig_final.mp3 A transcript of the podcast is also available at http://www.firstmondaypodcast.org/transcript_nov08.htm ...................................................................... INFOBITS SUBSCRIBERS -- WHERE WERE WE IN 2008? Each January issue of Infobits includes an annual subscriber tally listing the countries represented by our subscribers. At the end of January 2009, there were 7,577 subscribers (an increase of 44 subscribers since last year's count). Here are some brief statistics about our current subscribers. The majority of the subscribers we could identify by country are in the United States (3,581) and other English-speaking countries: Canada (441), Australia (279), and the United Kingdom (167). Each of the following countries has between ten and forty-five subscribers: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. Each of the following countries has fewer than 10 subscribers: Bolivia, Argentina, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, International, Kuwait, Macedonia, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia. In addition to subscribers whom we can positively identify by a geographic location, the following sites don't have a geographic designation: 1,746 subscribers from commercial (.com) sites, 194 subscribers from .org sites, and 633 subscribers from .net sites. Many thanks to all the subscribers for your support in 2008! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 31 09:24:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB71F2C0C3; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:24:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C3E92C0B0; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:24:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090131092418.0C3E92C0B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:24:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.495 events: Museums and the Web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 495. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:19:25 +0000 From: j trant Subject: Museums and the Web 2009: Deadlines This Weekend Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ ** There are two key deadlines this weekend for MW2009. ** ** Regular Registration Deadline: January 31, 2009 ** The deadline for regular registration for MW2009 is this Saturday. Payment for regular registrations must be *received by January 31, 2009*. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure your budget goes the furthest. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.registrationForm.html ** Best of the Web Nominations Close February 1, 2009 ** The Best of the Web contest is taking place on-line this year. See http://conference.archimuse.com/page/best_web_2009_nomination_process for details. Nominate your favourite site *by February 1, 2009*. There are no fees, and nominating a site other than your own is encouraged. You can also review -- and comment on -- the sites nominated. Voting for the 'MW2009 People's Choice' award will open in April. Watch for the announcement. ** Why come to Museums and the Web? ** MW is leading international venue where people working in museums, science centers and art galleries share how they are responding to the challenges of our networked world. At MW2009 you can connect with people who understand what you are doing, and who have dealt with the issues you're now facing. As delegates at MW2008 said: "I finally have found a conference that caters to the work that I am doing". And we have fun doing it. There are "so many great people " and MW is "one of the friendliest conferences I've been to ... that's useful". We hope to see you in Indianapolis! jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 2 06:20:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA102CF2E; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:20:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57F0D2CF09; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:20:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090202062017.57F0D2CF09@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:20:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.496 academia.edu X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 496. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:55:01 -0800 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.493 academia.edu not enough? In-Reply-To: <20090131092321.2AD082C03C@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Tamara, Kathy is a well established researcher, active in information visualization. One can learn from her projects. Please let me know what is the research basis of academia.edu? How does academia.edu fit into research in social networks, perception, or models of online communities to be found in academia.edu? N Bobbitt http://www.nabslab.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 2 06:20:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07412CF75; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:20:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E68F2CF6D; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:20:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090202062053.5E68F2CF6D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.497 feedback on proposal? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 497. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:32:16 -0600 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Feedback requested, please: Draft of JCDL 2009 workshop proposal Hi gang (am cross posting to maximize exposure): I have been struggling with the crafting of a workshop proposal for JCDL 2009 (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) on the topic of tightly integrating analytic tools within digital library systems. I would appreciate any and all feedback and suggestions on this draft. The proposal itself is due at JCDL HQ, Feb 16. Proposal draft: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/draft_downie_jcdl_wkshp_prop.pdf Comments and suggestions about who might want to get involved, in whatever capacity, are also most welcomed. It is my intention, once this thing gets polished, to solicit some workshop/participant support from NSF for this and possible follow-up workshops/meetings. Thanks gang, I really do appreciate your input. Cheers, Stephen -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 2 10:51:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1A62CE71; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:50:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A27BF2CE5C; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:50:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090202105057.A27BF2CE5C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:50:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.498 studentships in linguistics at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 498. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:37:21 +0000 From: "Rampton, Ben" Subject: Studentships in linguistics at King's College London A range of PhD (and MRes) studentships in linguistics are available at King's College London, affiliated to the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication. The Centre for LDC is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK (www.esrc.ac.uk) for its research training. It also works across departments (including the Centre for Computing in the Humanities), and it offers supervision in text & discourse analysis, linguistic ethnography, literacy studies, media discourse, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied, educational, historical, cognitive and corpus linguistics. Applicants should have very good qualifications and a clear research idea, and to apply, there are a number of steps to follow: 1) Identify a potential supervisor, referring to our webpages at www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc. (For those interested in the digital humanities, note that co-supervision with the CCH is well established.) 2) Email the person you have identified, providing information about your background, qualifications and a draft research proposal (if you are unsure of who to contact, please send the material to ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk, inserting 'Studentships' as the Subject of the email). 3) If your potential supervisor encourages you, submit an ORDINARY application form to the department in which he or she is based (you have to have applied for an ordinary place before your studentship application can be considered). The ordinary application forms are at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply. 4) Choose which studentship(s) you want to apply for, consulting the information at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/ and checking your eligibility very carefully. The possibilities include:* Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Studentship (deadline: 27 February 2009) www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/grad/bursaries.html * Economic & Social Research Council Quota & Competition Awards www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/education/research/studentships.html (deadline: 3 April) * KCL Social Science and Public Policy (SSPP) Studentships (deadline: 3 April) www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/grad/bursaries.html * Robert Browning Memorial Award (deadline: 1 May 2009) www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/hrc/chs/rbscholar.html 5) Start working on the studentship application forms well before the deadline. Your potential supervisor can discuss your proposal with you, but she/he will need the time to do so. You will also need to contact your referees to ensure that you have their references in time. If you need further advice, contact ldc@kcl.ac.uk or Professor Ben Rampton (ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk) inserting 'Studentships' in the message Subject. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 3 06:47:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206DC2CF47; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:47:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5EBF92CF3B; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:47:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090203064743.5EBF92CF3B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:47:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.499 academia.edu X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 499. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:22:23 +0000 From: "Lopez, Tamara" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.496 academia.edu In-Reply-To: <20090202062017.57F0D2CF09@woodward.joyent.us> Dear N Bobbitt, I think the duplication in your last sentence of academia.edu was unintended. Did you mean to write something like: "How does academia.edu fit into research in social networks, perception, or models of online communities to be found in Dr. Borner's research?" I think academia.edu fits into the research of social networks, perception and models of online communities precisely because it forces the community to consider its values -what is important about how we identify each other and what makes us trust what we read? Though I was not at all clear, my post was intended to respond to the previous poster, who was largely in favour of the model employed at academia.edu, suggesting that the scholarly community needs to adjust to the "brave new world of user-based content production". That thread seemed to argue that some simple refinements to this technology while we wait for the (inevitable) implementation of the 'single sign-on' will produce a global directory of scholarly resources. However, citation analysis in its oldest and newest forms (as represented by Dr. Borner's research) has always depended upon user-based content production in the form of the references made in texts by authors and indexers to the work of other scholars. A great many conventions for producing these references have arisen to try to ensure that they are unambiguous, authoritative and sufficiently attributive, and a large number of people along the scholarly communication chain are involved in checking and re-checking the references to make sure that they are "properly" expressed. Even so, a great deal of machine-based citation analysis requires painstaking cleaning and refinement of these references (again mostly by humans). This is so because the user-contributed content, even when produced using the clearest conventions and the best mechanisms, remains too messy too allow for accurate synthesis and analysis. I'm unconvinced that applying the control mechanisms of wikipedia to academia.edu will solve problems of data integrity that would be necessary to produce a comprehensive scholarly resource directory, or to produce a resource that adequately recreates current systems for conveying trust and authority in scholarly communication. Tamara ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:20 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 496. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:55:01 -0800 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.493 academia.edu not enough? In-Reply-To: <20090131092321.2AD082C03C@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Tamara, Kathy is a well established researcher, active in information visualization. One can learn from her projects. Please let me know what is the research basis of academia.edu? How does academia.edu fit into research in social networks, perception, or models of online communities to be found in academia.edu? N Bobbitt http://www.nabslab.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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 3 09:48:52 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DBB2C0F5; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:48:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57E6A2C0E1; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:48:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090203094850.57E6A2C0E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:48:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.500 changes in libraries and institutions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 500. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:46:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: changes in libraries In a Times Literary Supplement article, "The changing role of the librarian" (15 January 1971), D. J. Foskett places the developments then happening because of the computer into the broader historical context of changes in libraries, esp in the 20th Century. He argues that the greatest change -- he calls it "cosmic" -- was the invention of the role of "information officer". This role, he says, developed out of the huge pressures on researchers in industry to produce results, which helped librarians to overturn the old model of librarian as keeper of books and to replace it with the model of librarian as controller and distributor of information accepted as an equal partner in research. This new model, Foskett said in 1971, was then coming into university libraries "with a welcome that is long overdue but still not quite wholehearted". Foskett argues that the same pressures were then at work on young university scientists, who, he said, see what their industrial colleagues have and want the same. Something less than welcome to librarians must have happened to block this change. In 1992 Jaroslav Pelikan, in The Idea of the University: A Reexamination, argued that the change to making librarians and technical experts "equal partners in the research enterprize" was long overdue -- and a matter of justice. We in humanities computing have seen -- and continue to see -- separate and unequal status given to our kind as a matter of course. The times are changing, but very slowly, especially where tenure rules. We are not so naive, I think, as to suppose that gatekeeping is not necessary. As long as the area of activity in question is unattractive, the problem is small, but when it becomes desirable the problem quickly grows. Putting aside such matters as laziness and other human weaknesses we all share, we know from experience that on the whole rigorous training, with the certification which must follow, makes a real difference to how one can think and how one behaves. So, my questions. How does Foskett's story match with reality? If an injustice remains, how do we deal with it? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 4 06:14:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE0F2D3B9; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:14:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31EDC2D3A7; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:14:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090204061407.31EDC2D3A7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:14:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.501 librarians & team-research in the digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 501. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:14:20 +0000 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Librarians and DH This is especially for all of you who work in the library sector. We'd be very grateful if you are able to take part in our survey, the results of which will be compared to the earlier survey we carried out on DH teams. Thanks in advance, Claire ---------- Dear Librarian / Digital Librarian / Researcher, Collaboration and research teams are increasingly becoming the norm within the academic research environment, especially within the Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities (HC) environment. The research projects in this area need a variety of skills and expertise to accomplish their goals. At present, there are several national and international projects as well as numerous ones at the local level with many others in development. Despite this extensive use of research terms, there are few protocols in place to prepare individuals to work as part of a team. To address this gap, a team of researchers is undertaking work to identify effective work patterns and intra-team relationships and recommend supports for existing and future teams. The first step towards this goal is to learn more about how research teams function within this environment. Recently we surveyed the HC community, and we discovered that libraries and librarians are consistent participants in the research done by HC teams. Therefore we now seek your help. We are distributing a questionnaire to the library community in order to learn more about your experiences and knowledge of research teams. The survey is posted until 20^th Febrary, and can be accessed via _http://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/rcunningham/surveys/ImpliedConsent-DL.html_ Your input will help us understand the nature of team research, especially within Humanities and Library environments, and it will help us develop supports and research preparation tools to maximize the likelihood of success by minimizing the associated challenges of team research. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Richard Cunningham If you have any questions, please feel free to contact: Richard Cunningham Director, Acadia Media Centre Acadia University, Canada _Richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca_ _ _ Lynne Siemens Assistant Professor University of Victoria, Canada _siemensl@uvic.ca_ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 5 06:50:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CD32CE7B; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:50:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F7B32CE72; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:50:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090205065045.3F7B32CE72@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.502 job for an ontologist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 502. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:30:42 +0000 From: Barry Smith Subject: Postdoctoral Research Position in Ontology The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (http://ncbo.us) seeks applicants for a post-doctoral research position to work on projects relating to applications of ontology in medicine and biology. The successful candidate will work with ontology researchers in the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. He or she will have expertise in at least two of the following areas: ontology, logic, philosophy of science, bioinformatics, biology, medicine, computer science. Further details are available from Barry Smith or under posting number 0900040 at http://ubjobs.buffalo.edu. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 5 06:52:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B212C2CEFE; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:52:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C07432CEF4; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:51:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090205065158.C07432CEF4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:51:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.503 digital research survey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 503. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:36:51 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital research data survey Dear Sir/Madam, In the course of their work, researchers routinely create, use and re-use digital information. The results of such research are usually published and preserved for future generations by publishers and/or libraries. But what happens to the underlying research data which is vital for verifying the research outcome, or which might prove of great value to other researchers in other contexts? Digital data are much more fragile than printed resources, as hardware and software platforms evolve. Which present-day computer can deal with an 8-inch floppy disk with Wordstar text on it? The European Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science (http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/ ) aims to build a European infrastructure to preserve research data for future re-use, and a number of Alliance partners have initiated a project entitled PARSE.insight (http://www.parse-insight.eu http://www.parse-insight.eu/ ) which aims to gain insight into the present practices of researchers, data managers and funding agencies with regard to creating and storing research data. The results of this project will help the European Commission determine how to invest in the European research infrastructure. Filling out our survey allows you to express your opinions on the way the EC should invest its resources. In other words, a small investment of your time now may help make your valuable research data save for future access and use. *Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JmgTTZ251MBEDyYBoKoUmA_3d_3d* * * The survey will take about *15 to 20 minutes*. Reponses are aggregated for analysis and made anonymous. Thank you. PARSE.insight team _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 5 06:55:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8C292C011; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91DA82C006; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:55:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090205065554.91DA82C006@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:55:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.504 events: archaeology; classics; editing; early-career projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 504. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katherine L Walter (29) Subject: 4th Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop [2] From: Susan Schreibman (27) Subject: Digital Scholarly Editing Spring School: Registration Open [3] From: Bernie Frischer (5) Subject: Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 [4] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (35) Subject: Call For Proposals: Work-in-Progress seminars, London 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:49:55 -0600 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: 4th Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host the fourth annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 2 & 3, 2009, and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in the digital humanities. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the selected scholars. Selected scholars will receive full travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach. Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via URL or disk on or before April 24, 2009 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1@unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100. ********************* Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 kwalter1@unl.edu (402) 472-3939 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:06:14 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital Scholarly Editing Spring School: Registration Open Date: 13 - 17 April 2009 Venue: Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway Co-Directed by Dr Susan Schreibman and Professor Sean Ryder URL: http://dho.ie/dse2009 The DHO and the Moore Institute are delighted to host a week-long spring school on the topic of digital scholarly editing. This event, the first of its kind in Ireland, will provide Irish researchers the opportunity to engage with cutting edge theories, methods, and technologies through a mixture of specialised workshops, masterclasses, and project consultations. Workshop tracks will cater to those who have some experience in digital scholarly editing as well as to the novice. Morning lectures and afternoon master classes will be given by international experts in addition to three workshop strands. Two of the strands are for those with some experience of text encoding: TEI Encoding for Digital Scholarly Editions of Printed Texts, and Encoding Manuscripts and Other Handwritten Materials. The third strand is for those with no experience, aptly titled An Absolute Beginner's Introduction to the TEI for Scholarly Editions. Lectures and Master Classes will be given by international experts in digital scholarly editing, including John Bryant (Hofstra University, USA), Dino Buzzetti (University of Bologna, Italy), Fotis Jannidis (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany), John Lavagnino (Kings College London, UK), Kenneth Price (University of Nebraska, USA), Edward Vanhoutte (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium). Participants will have many opportunities to interact with teaching staff both formally and informally, as well as exchange knowledge across projects enabling the building of networks that are vital for this kind of multi-disciplinary and team-based research. This event has been generously funded with a grant from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (IRCHSS). Advance registration is required and places are limited. See http://dev.dho.ie/dse2009 for further details -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory Pembroke House 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com Email: s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:23:10 +0000 From: Bernie Frischer Subject: Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 Early Registration Available until Feb. 9, 2009 for Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 (March 22-26, 2009, Williamsburg, Virginia)! The 37th annual CAA conference will be held from 22 to 26 March 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA) and will bring together students, researchers, heritage managers and other experts to present, examine and discuss current theory and application of quantitative methods and information technologies in Archaeology (www.caa2009.org). The hosts of CAA 2009 are The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. Over 250 papers and posters have been accepted for presentation. The preliminary program can be downloaded at: www.caa2009.org/CAA2009_PrelimSched012909.pdf. The CAA conference has established a strong tradition of international, open communication and exchange that crosses boundaries between archaeologists and colleagues working in quantitative fields such as mathematics and computer science. The conference also regularly attracts students, researchers and practitioners from geography, geomatics, life sciences, physical anthropology, museum studies, field archaeology and others. In 2009, CAA will co-meet with ECAI, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (www.ecai.org/). It will also offer optional short, introductory courses in the use of equipment (such as 3D scanners), hardware, and software typically used by digital archaeologists today. The deadline for early registration is Feb. 10, 2009. To register online and reserve a hotel room, please go to: www.caa2009.org/ConfRegistration.cfm. For further information, please contact Prof. Bernard Frischer, Director, IATH, University of Virginia (bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com) --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:46:29 +0000 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Call For Proposals: Work-in-Progress seminars, London 2009 Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress Seminars (London, 2009) Call for Presentations The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of Work-in-Progress seminars in Summer 2009, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that involves equal collaboration with a computer scientist or that would be considered serious research in the Computing field as well as Classics, Archaeology, and/or Ancient History. The Work-in-Progress seminars run on Friday afternoons from June to August in Senate House, London, and are sponsored by the Institute for Classical Studies (UofL), the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL), the Centre for e-Research (KCL), and the British Library. In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in a special issue of an online journal (2006), edited as a printed volume (2007), and released as audio podcasts (2008); we anticipate similar publication opportunities for future series. Please send a 300-500 word abstract to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by March 31st 2009. We shall announce the full programme in April. Best regards, Gabriel Bodard (CCH) Stuart Dunn (CeRch) Juan Garcés (BL) Simon Mahony (CCH) -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 6 06:26:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838072D2D3; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:26:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DBAC2D2CB; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090206062635.0DBAC2D2CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.505 Alexandria Archive Institute? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 505. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:11:01 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: Alexandria Archive Institute In-Reply-To: <96f3df640902051508g749cde6fm1d0a4862a9ff9326@mail.gmail.com> Hello! Has anyone on the list heard of the Alexandria Archive Institute? http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/index.php Any opinions? Thanks, Dot -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 7 08:12:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4445D2C2DC; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:12:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D00992C2CA; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:12:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090207081202.D00992C2CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:12:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.506 Alexandra Archive Institute X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 506. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jean-Claude Guédon (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.505 Alexandria Archive Institute? [2] From: "Bobley, Brett" (14) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.505 Alexandria Archive Institute? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:24:10 -0500 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.505 Alexandria Archive Institute? Peter Suber has mentioned it a number of times. It has recently obtained an NEH grant : Today the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced grant awards to four institutions through the Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership grant program, a funding opportunity that encourages digital innovation by bringing humanities scholars together with museum, library, archives, and IT professionals. ... The grants announced today are: * $250,609 to the Alexandria Archive Institute for its project, Enhancing Humanities Research Productivity in a Collaborative Data Sharing Environment. The Alexandria Archive Institute, in collaboration with the UC Berkeley School of Information, will create best-practice guidelines for the development of humanities data-sharing software to meet user needs, as well as continue to develop Open Context, a collaborative, free, open-access resource to facilitate online sharing of archaeological field research among excavators, scholars, and cultural heritage institutions. For the news offered on peter Suber's Open Access blog, see: http://www.google.com/cse?num=100&cx=014252173690352420777% 3Ajhwak-xjt_0&q=Alexandria+Archive+Institute&sa=Search&cof=FORID% 3A0&siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earlham.edu%2F~peters%2Ffos%2F2009%2F02% 2Fasturias-adopts-oa-mandate.html Best, Jean-Claude Guédon --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:29:42 -0500 From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.505 Alexandria Archive Institute? In-Reply-To: <20090206062635.0DBAC2D2CB@woodward.joyent.us> Dot Porter asked: > Has anyone on the list heard of the Alexandria Archive Institute? Yes, the NEH and IMLS jointly awarded them an Advancing Knowledge grant. See: http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=57 Brett ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/odh/ (202) 606-8401 bbobley@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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 7 08:13:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717652C362; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:13:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9B152C34E; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:12:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090207081257.B9B152C34E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:12:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.507 why digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 507. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:46:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why digital humanities "FOLKLORE STUDIES, like any other kind of studies, don't just happen. Fields of scholarship occur because specific technological and economic and institutional resources are available and because specific individuals utilize those resources in specific ways. Whatever measure of intellectual or academic freedom we enjoy takes place in a grid defined by pre-existent theoretical and social models which we accept or with which we must contend, with machines that help us deal in specific ways with the implications of those models, and with rewards available to those of us who use both models and machines in ways that seem valuable to the payers of salaries and the givers of grants." Bruce Jackson, “Things that from a long way off look like flies”, The Journal of American Folklore 98.388 (April-June 1985): 131. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 7 08:14:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4F92C452; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:14:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7517E2C445; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:14:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090207081405.7517E2C445@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:14:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.508 events: information studies; affective computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 508. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (19) Subject: Academy Discourse: "Child of Enlightenment and Orphan of theInternet: The Contexts and Challenges of Information Studies" [2] From: Paolo Petta (52) Subject: cfp: ACII 2009: affective computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:45:20 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: Academy Discourse: "Child of Enlightenment and Orphan of theInternet: The Contexts and Challenges of Information Studies" Dear List, The next Royal Irish Academy Discourse looks like it has relevance to the concerns of the digital humanities, although it is focused on Information Studies. A detailed abstract is here: http://shop.ria.ie/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=22&cat=Event%2BRegistration The event will be on Monday 9 February, 6-7pm at the Academy House, Dawson Street in Dublin. Dot. -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:56:47 +0000 From: Paolo Petta Subject: cfp: ACII 2009: affective computing Call for SPECIAL SESSIONS and MINI-TUTORIALS ACII 2009 HUMAINE International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction September 10-12, 2009 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands http://www.acii2009.nl Proposals due: March 15, 2009 ACII 2009 invites proposals for special sessions and focused mini-tutorials highlighting foundations and important and novel directions of activity in Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction research. SPECIAL SESSIONS of typically 90 minutes total time should comprise three to four invited presentations or consist of shorter contributions setting the floor for a concluding panel discussion. Organisers of a Special Session will be responsible for recruitment of contributions; the reviewing process; timely delivery of the selected papers; and the chairing of their special session. MINI-TUTORIALS of 35-40 minutes will provide focused introductions into fundamental theories; methods and procedures; technologies; or applications domains of emerging affective computing and intelligent interaction. It is desirable to reach out across boundaries of disciplines and to those new to the area. The content of Mini-Tutorials should be summarised in written form following the guidelines for regular papers and provided according to the schedule given below for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Proposal Submission When submitting a proposal, please provide the following information: * The kind (i.e.: Special Session or Mini-Tutorial) and title of the proposed contribution; * The name(s)/affiliation(s)/contact info of the organiser(s) and their relevant prior experience; * A one-page abstract explaining the importance and purpose of the session, including target audience and any plans for follow-up activities after the conference; * For Special Sessions: a tentative list of speakers and the topics of their contributions. Submit your proposal via email to: Nadia Berthouze, Yang Cai, and Paolo Petta: n.berthouze(AT)ucl.ac.uk, ycai(AT)cmu.edu, paolo.petta(AT)ofai.at Questions regarding Special Sessions and Mini-Tutorials may be directed to the same addresses. Important Dates: March 15, 2009: Proposals for Special Sessions and Mini-Tutorials due April 6, 2009: Notifications of acceptance July 1, 2009: Final camera-ready papers and Mini-Tutorial summaries due. -- Paolo Petta +43-1-5336112-12(Tel) Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence +43-1-5336112-77(Fax) Freyung 6/6, A 1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe Paolo.Petta <@> ofai.at _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 9 06:49:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B182C54D; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:49:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E76302C53C; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:49:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090209064910.E76302C53C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.509 making beautiful books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 509. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:10:03 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: making beautiful books In the Times Literary Supplement for 7 October 1983, an interesting juxtaposition. At the bottom of page 1102 are to be found two articles, one on word-processing (note the hyphen), the other on the design and production of books. "Processing authors' words", to the left, details what we should look out for as professional writers now that we can afford word-processing software, including (mirabile dictu) software that can be adjusted to the individual's requirements, such as Old English words in a spell-checker. It looks in hope to the possibility of new publishing arrangements so that technical problems in getting text from one microcomputer to another machine can be solved (at the time there were no standards for floppy disc size and format, at least not in the UK). It expresses considerable enthusiasm for generic markup so that text can be organized with codes "whose typographic meaning does not have to be fixed until just before the text is filmset". "Design for living books", to the right, discusses the poor excuses we were making then for our badly designed books, particularly our habit of attributing poor quality products to high tech methods and to economic hard times. The author, Tom Fenton, concludes: "Our technology is limited only by the demands we place on it. If standards of book production today are degenerate, and they are, the reason lies not with our technology but with us. It is not because we have lost the ability to do better, but because we do not want to.... And the traditions of good book production are not a matter of adherence to old methods and materials. Rather they are a matter of attitude, of using every means at our disposal to achieve excellence." Remarkably, all the technical improvements contemplated by the first article have come to pass, as you will have noticed -- with a number of consequences not contemplated then, at least not by the authors A. C. S. Bullock and R. V. Sabido. How well have we done by Tom Fenton's yardstick, I wonder? I keep thinking of F. R. Leavis' characteristically gloomy attack on the "professional subhumanities of computerial addiction" (in a TLS piece 1 January 1970), by which he means the power we give our technologies to obscure the human ends they should be serving. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 9 06:53:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672FA2C5F3; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:53:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8ADD02C5DE; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:53:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090209065327.8ADD02C5DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:53:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.510 events: semantic web, semantic search X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 510. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Todd Schneider (12) Subject: ISWC 2009: Call for Papers [2] From: Tran Thanh (44) Subject: SEMSEARCH09 2nd Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 18:53:19 +0000 From: Todd Schneider Subject: ISWC 2009: Call for Papers ISWC 2009 Call for Papers The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) will be held 25 - 29 October, 2009, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. Invited speakers include Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and Nova Spivack, Radar Networks. IS WC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. As the Semantic Web is rapidly entering the mainstream, IS WC 2009 will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in authentic application settings. The tracks for ISWC 2009 include Research, Semantic Web in Use, Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, Doctorial Consortium, Tutorials, and Workshops. Calls for each of these tracks is below. The International Semantic Web Conference (IS WC) series is organized and managed by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA ). See http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/ for full details. Research Track - Call for Papers The web continues to grow and increasing amounts of data are available for human and machine consumption, processing, and re-dissemination. As Semantic Web technologies (including linked data approaches) mature and become usable by end-users we can expect to encounter new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications that enable us to "surf" this web of data. These new approaches give rise to new challenges - both from a technical and human-computer interaction perspective. The goal of the research track at ISWC is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users from the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, soft computing, and human-computer interaction to discuss the biggest challenges and proposed solutions. It solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments and share with the community their data and test harnesses. General Information ISWC 2009 calls for papers for its research track. The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of Semantic Web research. Papers to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution and provide some well-principled means of evaluation. We especially encourage papers that ensure the repeatability of their experiments, and share with the community their data and test harnesses. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:46:00 +0000 From: Tran Thanh Subject: SEMSEARCH09 2nd Call for Papers 2nd Call for Papers SEMSEARCH'09 Semantic Search 2009 Workshop Located at the 18th Int. World Wide Web Conference WWW2009 April 21, 2009, Madrid, Spain http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/semsearch09 Submission deadline for full papers: March 1st, 2009 (12.00 AM, GMT) =================================== In recent years we have witnessed tremendous interest and substantial economic exploitation of search technologies, both at web and enterprise scale. However, the representation of user queries and resource content in existing search appliances is still almost exclusively achieved by simple syntax-based descriptions of the resource content and the information need such as in the predominant keyword-centric paradigm (i.e. keyword queries matched against bag of words document representation). On the other hand, recent advances in the field of semantic technologies have resulted in tools and standards that allow for the articulation of domain knowledge in a formal manner at a high level of expressivity. At the same time, semantic repositories and reasoning engines have only now advanced to a state where querying and processing of this knowledge can scale to realistic IR scenarios. In parallel to these developments, in the past years we have also seen the emergence of important results in adapting ideas from IR to the problem of search in RDF/OWL data, folksonomies, microformat collections or semantically tagged natural text. Common to these scenarios is that the search is focused not on a document collection, but on metadata (which may be possibly linked to or embedded in textual information). Search and ranking in metadata stores is another key topic addressed by the workshop. As such, semantic technologies are now in a state to provide significant contributions to IR problems. In this context, several challenges arise for Semantic Search systems. These include, among others: * How can semantic technologies be exploited to capture the information need of the user? * How can the information need of the user be translated to expressive formal queries without enforcing the user to be capable of handling the difficult query syntax? * How can expressive resource descriptions be extracted (acquired) from documents (users)? * How can expressive resource descriptions be stored and queried efficiently on a large scale? * How can vague information needs and incomplete resource descriptions be handled? * How can semantic search systems be evaluated and compared with standard IR systems? [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 9 10:50:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5232A6F9; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:50:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D70252A6E3; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:50:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090209105008.D70252A6E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:50:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 511. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:48:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: games meet computing? I would be very grateful for recommendations of sources for the history of game-playing in the early decades of computing. I am particularly interested in histories that look at the confluence of the two rather than implementation and development of computer games. This confluence is in a sense utterly obvious -- one form of rule-governed behaviour meeing a rule-governing machine. But what is *not* so obvious about this meeting? How did each affect the other? Thanks very much for any guidance. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 10 06:16:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 027522E3D9; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:16:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E37FB2E3CF; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:16:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090210061622.E37FB2E3CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:16:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.512 always at the edge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 512. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:31:24 -0600 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.507 why digital humanities > "FOLKLORE STUDIES, like any other kind of studies, don't just happen. > Fields of scholarship occur because specific technological and > economic > and institutional resources are available and because specific > individuals utilize those resources in specific ways. Whatever measure > of intellectual or academic freedom we enjoy takes place in a grid > defined by pre-existent theoretical and social models which we > accept or > with which we must contend, with machines that help us deal in > specific > ways with the implications of those models, and with rewards available > to those of us who use both models and machines in ways that seem > valuable to the payers of salaries and the givers of grants." > > Bruce Jackson, “Things that from a long way off look like flies”, The > Journal of American Folklore 98.388 (April-June 1985): 131. Well, yes. Folklore studies finds itself on the humanistic edge of the humanities - human sciences divide. Across the chasm lies cultural anthropology. Thus the practitioners of folklore studies are always having to assess the ideological and technological landscapes on which we find ourselves, always, as it were, having to discover anew how best to explain ourselves to others, to defend our place at the edge. (That folklore studies should continually have to explain the importance of studying the actual words, actions, and creations of ordinary human beings -- and that ordinary human beings are capable of great intelligence and beauty -- is something to be lamented elsewhere.) Bruce Jackson dedicated a good portion of his career to studying African American folklore, especially those forms to be found in prisons. -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: johnlaudun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 10 06:17:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A278D2E432; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:17:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C87422E42B; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:17:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090210061716.C87422E42B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.513 Beyond Analogue, at Alberta X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 513. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:02:41 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Beyond Analogue Dear all, The programme for the Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing conference at the University of Alberta is now up at: http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf/program.html Daniel O'Donnell will open with a Keynote on "Mind the Gap: Editing the spaces between objects in a post print world" Paul A. Youngman will close the day with a Keynote on "We are the Machine: The Case of Heinrich Hauser" I hope any of you in the vicinity will come for the day, Friday, February 13th. There will be a dinner following for those interested. 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 10 12:17:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33332E986; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:17:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E46162E974; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:17:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090210121744.E46162E974@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:17:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.514 London Seminar this Thursday X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 514. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:15:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship All within range of London are cordially invited to a Seminar this Thursday, 12 February, in the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, by Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb), "What shall we do with a text collection?". It will be held in Room 275, Stewart House (http://ies.sas.ac.uk/about/stewarthouse.htm), Russell Square, from 17:30 - 19:30. Refreshments are provided. Abstract. A good resource must enable us to do something we could not do without it. So what new things have resources like Google Book Search, the Perseus Project, and the German neo-Latin CAMENA collection enabled me --- a scholar trained as a classical philologist, working in a small country in Southern Europe --- to do? After considering some obvious responses, it is important to note that those digital, web-based experiments, both with their successes and their shortcomings, have made it possible, even necessary, to imagine an act of building a digital collection that is also an act of building a community around the collection. Imagine a collection or an archive designed in such a way to be able to support itself, enabling its users to contribute and persuading them to want to contribute, to enrich and personalize the collection and to share their own personalizations with others. Furthermore, imagine such a collection designed not around a very famous or popular subject but around something special, something relatively unknown, exotic, or esoteric. How to create such space? What tools, what services, what strategies are needed? Do we have them already, or do they have yet to be devised? I will try to propose answers using the example and the experience of the Croatiae auctores Latini, a digital collection in the making, intended to become both a "knowledge site" and "a village of scholars" (as envisioned by Peter L. Shillingsburg) around the so far unsufficiently researched phenomenon of Croatian Latin texts, written by people of Croatian origin from the ninth to the twentieth centuries. Neven Jovanović works in Zagreb, Croatia, at the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He acquired his PhD in 2005, with the thesis "Problems in Construing a Neo-Latin Stylistics on the Example of the Evangelistarium by Marko Marulic" (University of Zagreb). -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 11 06:12:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A232DF5E; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:12:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6EB302DF4D; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:12:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090211061240.6EB302DF4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.515 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 515. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dunstan Lowe (73) Subject: Fwd: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? [2] From: Elijah Meeks (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 09 Feb 2009 20:44:52 +0000 From: Dunstan Lowe Subject: Fwd: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? Dear WM, My colleague Amy Smith forwarded to me your recent appeal for sources on games and the early days of computing. I'm afraid I know nothing about computing, but in the course of reading about classically-themed video games I once came across David Myers, The Nature of Computer Games: Play as Semiosis (New York; Oxford 2003), which was quite difficult and abstract, but dealt more with the interface between hardware and software than most scholarship on computer games does. I think its examples were all relatively early. It may be worth a look. If you become interested in something a bit more in the vein of 'media studies', Stephen E. Jones' The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies (New York 2008) applies 'Theory' to some recent games and game-based art installations. One of the best places to find out about early computing and computer games is, mirabile/horribile dictu, Wikipedia - start with Spacewar! and Pong and go from there. I dare say the articles about the hardware will reveal how games altered the nature and priorities of the technology and its programming. I hope that didn't completely miss the point. Best, Dunstan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Amy C. Smith" To: Dunstan Lowe Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:55:03 +0000 Dunstan, You are on this list, aren't you? Amy Begin forwarded message: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Date: 9 February 2009 10:50:08 GMT > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? > Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 511. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:48:46 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: games meet computing? > > I would be very grateful for recommendations of sources for the > history > of game-playing in the early decades of computing. I am particularly > interested in histories that look at the confluence of the two rather > than implementation and development of computer games. This confluence > is in a sense utterly obvious -- one form of rule-governed behaviour > meeing a rule-governing machine. But what is *not* so obvious about > this > meeting? How did each affect the other? > > Thanks very much for any guidance. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:26:41 -0800 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? In-Reply-To: <20090209105008.D70252A6E3@woodward.joyent.us> Dr. McCarty, I've yet to find a good history of early gaming that deals with rules development and constraint as it applies to the game developer/game player dialectic. I think this has something to do with academics focusing on the more visceral games (Shooting games, arcade games) with rules based primarily on physics and biology and not the games that were already rooted in rules-based systems (Adventure games from pen-and-paper role-playing games, strategy games from board games and counter/chit-based tactical games). I did, however, find some interesting sources that dealt with this subject, especially designer interviews from the earliest implementations of these kind of games.... Take care, Elijah Meeks UC Merced _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 11 06:14:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164EA2DFE4; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:14:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 230AE2DFD9; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:14:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090211061424.230AE2DFD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:14:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.516 PhD studentships in games research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 516. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:15:18 +0000 From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" Subject: PhD Scholarships - Center for Computer GamesResearch, ITU Spring 2009 call for PhD scholarships at the Center for Computer Games Research (http://game.itu.dk/), IT University of Copenhagen. Further info: http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp and http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/TAP/Stillingsopslag%202009/PhDSpring%202009-2.pdf Areas of research interest include (but not limited to): - computational intelligence and games - player (user) modeling - human game interaction - affective modeling - ambient intelligence - game aesthetics - game ontology - game design theory -- Georgios N. Yannakakis Assistant Professor, IT-University of Copenhagen Tel. +45 7218 5078 Fax. +45 7218 5001 Email: yannakakis@itu.dk Web: http://www.itu.dk/~yannakakis/ Addr. Room 4B09, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, DK-2300 Copenhagen S _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 11 06:19:34 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757F42C11A; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:19:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C94F2C10F; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:19:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090211061932.4C94F2C10F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:19:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.520 new on WWW: E-publishing Bibliography; lecture on the online OE Hexateuch X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 520. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 519. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 518. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 517. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Edition [2] From: Shawn Day (22) English Illustrated Hexateuch' is Now Available Online --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:58:48 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. This edition is over 285 pages long. It presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Bibliography Sections The bibliography has the following sections: Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/briefresume.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:35:58 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Dot Porter's Lecture: 'Reading, Writing, Building: the Old EnglishIllustrated Hexateuch' is Now Available Online The text of Dot Porter's talk, "Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch," including accompanying slideshow and example videos, are now available on the DHO website. Ms Porter, Metadata Manager at the DHO, presented this paper at the Royal Irish Academy on 26 January, and it was simultaneously webcast as part of the Culture and Technology European Seminar Series sponsored by the Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow. Her talk focused on the expression of physicality in digital projects, proposing a new model for editions of text-based objects. http://www.dho.ie/node/74 --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- shawn@shawnday.com --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 11 06:21:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941FC2C1A4; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:21:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A64742C19D; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:20:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090211062058.A64742C19D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.521 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, UVic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 521. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:41:01 -0800 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Open for Registration [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Announcing the 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 8-12, 2009 http://www.dhsi.org We are now open for registration! Early registration rates are available until April 1, 2009. To register, or for more information, go to this URL: http://www.dhsi.org. See the Registration Fees section below for rates. * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies 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 student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures (to be confirmed): - Melissa Terras (University College London) - Dot Porter (Dublin, DHO) - Donald Bruce (Guelph) - Robert Blake (UC Davis) - Daniel O'Donnell (Lethbridge) Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Robin Davies [Vancouver Island U] and Michael Nixon [Vancouver Island U]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML (instructed by Matthew Driscoll [Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen]) [4] Expressing Physical Materiality in Digital Projects (instructed by Dot Porter [Dublin, DHO]) [5] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo]) [6] Teaching and Learning with Technology in Applied Linguistics (instructed by Catherine Caws [U Victoria] and Ulf Scheutze [U Victoria]) [7] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) (instructed by PKP Staff [Kevin Stranack and Alec Smecher]) Advanced consultations: [8] Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA.) [9] Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities (instructed by David Hoover [New York U]) [10] Digital Tools for Literary History (instructed by Susan Brown [U Alberta, Guelph] and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta]) * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 1st. Information about scholarships will be announced on this listserv as it becomes available.   * Accomodation On Campus The University of Victoria is currently holding space for Summer Institute participants in dormitory and cluster housing. Internet access is available in each bedroom and payphones are located in or near all buildings. To secure a room, we advise booking before April 8, 2009. A deposit for your first night's accommodation is required to guarantee all reservations. The remaining balance is due at check-in. Residence Rooms Bedrooms in Residence (dormitory) buildings come with either 1 or 2 single beds. Shared washroom facilities are located on each floor along with a central lounge to relax and watch TV with other guests. * Rates TBA Cluster Units Similar to an apartment or townhouse, Cluster Housing units come with 4 bedrooms, 2 washrooms and a shower. Each bedroom in the unit contains 1 single bed. The living room is furnished with a loveseat and coffee table. The kitchen has a fridge, stove, dishwasher and dining room table with chairs and is equipped with dishes, cutlery and utensils. Please note cable and phone lines are available however televisions and telephones are not provided in the units. * Rates TBA To make a reservation, please use the form provided on the DHSI website. For additional information and floor plans visit http://housing.uvic.ca/visitor/index.php Individual DHSI participants are responsible for making their own reservations with the University of Victoria Housing Office. To secure a room, please book by APRIL 8th, 2009. After this date, we cannot guarantee room availability. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and additional accommodation information – see the institute's website, at this URL: http://www.dhsi.org.   _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 12 08:13:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403A82D7B1; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:13:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5AC52D7A8; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:13:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090212081323.D5AC52D7A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:13:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.522 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 522. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Timothy Hill (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? [2] From: Kevin Kee (157) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.515 when games met computing [3] From: Elijah Meeks (146) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.515 when games met computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:47:17 +0000 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? In-Reply-To: <20090209105008.D70252A6E3@woodward.joyent.us> A good place to start might be Stephen Levy's book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984). As you may have guessed from the title, it's a dated and populist account, and the emphasis is more on anecdote than analysis. But because Levy is interested in broad sweep rather than fine detail, he's good on the considerable symbiosis between computing and gaming - everything from the Tech Model Railroad Club to Sierra Online is in there. At any rate it'll give you some keywords to begin searching with, if you're really starting ab initio. Timothy Hill University of Sussex > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:48:46 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > I would be very grateful for recommendations of sources for the history > of game-playing in the early decades of computing. I am particularly > interested in histories that look at the confluence of the two rather > than implementation and development of computer games. This confluence > is in a sense utterly obvious -- one form of rule-governed behaviour > meeing a rule-governing machine. But what is *not* so obvious about this > meeting? How did each affect the other? > > Thanks very much for any guidance. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/%7Ewmccarty/ > ; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:46:45 -0500 From: Kevin Kee Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.515 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090211061240.6EB302DF4D@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, In response to your question, I would recommend Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, which examines the meeting of hardware, software and games in the 1970s and early 1980s. All best, Kevin Kevin Kee Canada Research Chair of Humanities Computing and Associate Professor, Brock University kevin.kee@brocku.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:30:40 -0800 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.515 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090211061240.6EB302DF4D@woodward.joyent.us> Gamasutra has a wealth of technical and theoretical articles on game design and implementation. A few that stand out: "Persuasive Games: The Proceduralist Style" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3909/persuasive_games_the_.php "Design Language: Designer Derivations" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3781/design_language_designer_.php "The History of Civilization" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1523/the_history_of_civilization.php "Fewer Mechanics, Better Game" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3621/fewer_mechanics_better_game.php "Living Worlds: The Ecology of Game Design" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1458/living_worlds_the_ecology_of_game_.php While a mixed bag as far as analytical content, there are a number of articles on the early and middle periods of gaming. Hopefully that helps, Elijah Meeks _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 13 09:50:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41A52C1C4; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:50:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D06B52C1B0; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:50:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090213095024.D06B52C1B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:50:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.523 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 523. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:05:31 -0800 From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.522 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090212081323.D5AC52D7A8@woodward.joyent.us> Another starting place are the works of Martin Gardner. "Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements" (1983) is one of his titles. I should also think the work of Seymour Papert (Mindstorms, 1980), and the whole Constructionist school of thought would be applicable. Not so much in terms specific computer games, but more as playing with computers through programming. Lastly, "What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy" (2003), by James Gee. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:01:32 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: ACH election results I am very pleased to announce the results of the elections for the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. New Council members to serve 2009-2012 are: Matthew L Jockers Matthew Kirschenbaum Katherine L Walter Congratulations to Matt J, Matt K., and Katherine, and many thanks to outgoing council member Allen Renear for his years of service to the Association. Dot Porter ACH Executive Secretary -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 13 09:52:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2682C2E2; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:52:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E8A6C2C2CF; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:52:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090213095201.E8A6C2C2CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:52:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.525 scholarships for 2009 DHSI; call for open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 525. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (54) Subject: Call for Open Access to Digital Images [2] From: "Ray Siemens" (83) Subject: Tuition Scholarships,2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (U Victoria, June 8-12, 2009) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:47:59 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: Call for Open Access to Digital Images In-Reply-To: <96f3df640902110736u445c0feeoff064cbc870473cf@mail.gmail.com> I've seen this mentioned on several listservs, but not yet on Humanist. I think this will be of interest to many here. Dot ********************** From: Dr. Christine von Oertzen coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Date: 22 January 2009 Call for Open Access to Digital Images The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), a co-initiator of the OpenAccess movement, has drawn up a set of best-practice recommendations concerning the scholarly use of visual media. The recommendations aimed at facilitating the scholarly use and publication of historical digital images were drafted following consultations with scholars and representatives of leading museums, libraries, image archives and publishers. The aim of the document is to create a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media. The recommendations can be downloaded from the MIPWG website which currently features a detailed report on the initiative. The recommendations were prompted by the barriers encountered by those who wish to use and publish images of cultural heritage objects. High license fees and complicated access regulations make it increasingly difficult for scholars in the humanities to work with digital images. It is true that the digitization of image collections has acted as a catalyst for scholarly research. However, archives, collections and libraries differ greatly with respect to the question of how, where and on what basis images may be used for scholarly purposes. Moreover, their policies in this regard are becoming increasingly restrictive, especially when it comes to new forms of e-publishing. The MPIWG drew up its recommendations for facilitating the scholarly use of digital images following consultations with international experts which took place in January 2008. The recommendations call on curators and scholars to develop a mutually binding network of trust. The aim of the initiative is to encourage stakeholders jointly to address the current and future challenges raised by the digital age. The document urges curators to refrain from restricting the public domain arbitrarily and calls on them to accommodate the needs of scholars for reasonably-priced or freely-accessible high-resolution digital images - both for print publications and new Web-based forms of scholarly publishing. It exhorts scholars to recognise museums, libraries and collections as owners and custodians of physical objects of cultural heritage and to acknowledge their efforts in making digital images available. Moreover, it urges them to take their role as guarantors of authenticity and accurate attribution extremely seriously. Website: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature4/ -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:46:18 -0800 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Tuition Scholarships,2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (U Victoria, June 8-12, 2009) In-Reply-To: <96f3df640902110736u445c0feeoff064cbc870473cf@mail.gmail.com> [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Tuition Scholarships for the 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 8-12, 2009 http://www.dhsi.org We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes it possible for us to offer of a limited number of tuition scholarship spots in the 2009 Summer Institute. The scholarships are open to everyone and are awarded on the basis of need and merit; scholarships cover all tuition costs, with the exception of a small administration fee. The application form is available on line at http://www.dhsi.org/home/scholarships. The application deadline for this year is March 15th, with news of scholarships returned no later than the end of March. Please note that scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis, to expedite travel planning and other arrangements, and there are a limited number of scholarship spots in each course. Please apply early! * Additional ACH Travel Bursary The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is again offering several bursaries to assist graduate students in defraying travel and lodging costs. You may apply for this bursary at the same time as for DHSI scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary. * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies 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 student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures (to be confirmed): Melissa Terras (University College London) Dot Porter (Dublin, DHO) Donald Bruce (Guelph) Robert Blake (UC Davis) Daniel O’Donnell (Lethbridge) Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Robin Davies [Vancouver Island U] and Michael Nixon [Vancouver Island U]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML (instructed by Matthew Driscoll [Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen]) [4] Expressing Physical Materiality in Digital Projects (instructed by Dot Porter [Dublin, DHO]) [5] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo]) [6] Teaching and Learning with Technology in Applied Linguistics (instructed by Catherine Caws [U Victoria] and Ulf Scheutze [U Victoria]) [7] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) (instructed by PKP Staff [Alec Smecher and James MacGregor]) Advanced consultations: [8] Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA.) [9] Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities (instructed by David Hoover [New York U]) [10] Digital Tools for Literary History (instructed by Susan Brown [U Alberta, Guelph] and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta]) * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 1st. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information – see the institute's website, at this URL: http://www.dhsi.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 13 09:56:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD0B2C411; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:56:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12CA02C406; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:56:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090213095618.12CA02C406@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:56:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.526 cfp: Contemporary history in the digital age X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 526. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:47:40 +0100 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Contemporary history in the digital age Hi, I would like to submit the following CFP to Humanist: Call for contributions ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’ (Luxembourg / 15/16 October 2009) > Deadline for applications: 30 May 2009 The University of Luxembourg (Master’s in Contemporary European History) and the Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE) are organising a Symposium to be held in October 2009, whose theme will be ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’. The use of the computer and Internet in the methods, techniques and work of historians is coming under ever-wider examination. However, contemporary history as a subject has remained relatively detached from the use of digital applications for academic purposes — excepting word processing and electronic mail — and from those methodological studies linked to it. Nonetheless, information and communication technologies can offer a number of possibilities to contemporary history studies in terms of publication, the collection of primary and secondary sources, networking, data visualisation, etc., not to forget that the Web is itself becoming an archive. The application of digital technology to the study of contemporary history is therefore destined to increase, and our discipline certain to change drastically with it. This symposium will focus on a simple question, but one offering complex answers: ‘Will the Web provide us with a better understanding of history?’ The symposium will bring together contributions and workshop activities in three areas: 1. Contemporary history on the Web today: resources and tools; 2. Contemporary history on the Web today: methods and writing; 3. Contemporary history on the Web tomorrow: which digital environment for researchers in contemporary history? > Requirements for applications Candidates shall present a 500-word proposal for a contribution and a 200-word presentation on the main lines of their research. Texts may be submitted in French, English, Italian or German and should be sent to: symposium@cvce.lu before 30 May 2009 at the latest. Authors of contributions that have been accepted will be contacted by 30 June 2009 at the latest. Incomplete files shall not be considered. Proposals shall be examined by a committee of experts composed of - Marianne Backes (Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe), - René Leboutte (University of Luxembourg), - Serge Noiret (European University Institute, Florence), - Wolfgand Schmale (University of Vienna), - Seamus Ross (University of Toronto / University of Glasgow), - Yannick Maignien (TGE-Adonis). Working languages shall be English and French. Proposals from disciplines other than that of contemporary history cannot be accepted. Contributions that have been accepted shall be published. Travel, accommodation and meal expenses will be covered by the organising bodies. Follow us on http://symposium.cvce.lu/ -- > Docteur en Histoire contemporaine «Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate» mailto:frederic@clavert.net http://www.clavert.net/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 14 08:26:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CA42ED76; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 111392ED61; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:26:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090214082619.111392ED61@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.527 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 527. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:12:05 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.511 what happened when games met computing? In-Reply-To: <20090209105008.D70252A6E3@woodward.joyent.us> Oh, my. I will try to help. The responses you've gotten all seem to be from the "video game" era. I was there when we played computer games on teletypes. When the height of computer gaming was a visit to the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University where they played multi-person Asteroids on the computer consoles of the DEC-20. I'll try and track down some of the earlier material if I can. While I know first hand of the appearance of computer games in academia when interactive computing became possible (i.e., time-sharing) I don't know whether that was the beginning. I have a feeling people were trying to play chess with a computer during the punch-card era. OK. Let me say what I believe. I think computers and games converged because of the artificial intelligence community. That would tend to say that you should ask the pioneers of that field when they recall the first computer games being played on computers. Marvin Minsky would seem the person to ask. How did each affect the other... Well, getting a computer to play games was a primary target of AI. There was a famous challenge from Dreyfus that Computers could never play Chess well enough to defeat a Grand Master. Game playing by computer was seen as a fundamental test to prove human-level capabilities for machines. It was a primary topic in early AI, with each new game being seen as an interesting advance when a computer could be programmed to master it. Game-playing was also the origin of a famous argument between 'ability' and 'understanding' in the AI community. Samuels at MIT invented a Checker Playing program which learned how to improve its game of Checkers by adjusting statistical weights on different moves. Marvin Minsky berated the methodology used in the program because while the machine learned to play better checkers, the code of the program couldn't be examined to understand the strategy used by the program. Minsky wanted "rules" that would teach us something about the game of checkers, rules we could understand---not JUST a computer program that could play better checkers than a human being. This conflict persists in the game of Chess, where the computer's success is largely due to its ability to "look ahead" (i.e.. calculate entire chess board configurations and evaluate them) more moves than a human being can see; effectively performing a sheer computational feat rather than coming up with rules or even remembering prior games. Given that I believe your answer lies with the AI Community, you could try the earliest literature from that field as the sources. Books like "Computers and Thought" (Feigenbaum) and Pamela McCorduck's "Machines Who Think" would seem good starting places. Quoting Humanist Discussion Group : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 511. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:48:46 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > I would be very grateful for recommendations of sources for the history > of game-playing in the early decades of computing. I am particularly > interested in histories that look at the confluence of the two rather > than implementation and development of computer games. This confluence > is in a sense utterly obvious -- one form of rule-governed behaviour > meeing a rule-governing machine. But what is *not* so obvious about this > meeting? How did each affect the other? > > Thanks very much for any guidance. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 14 08:27:37 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98542EDE0; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:27:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ECAAF2EDCB; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:27:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090214082735.ECAAF2EDCB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:27:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.528 HASTAC forum: What's going on in digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 528. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:32:45 +0000 From: Erin Gentry Lamb Subject: "What's Going On in Digital Humanities?" - a HASTAC ScholarsDiscussion Forum launching 2/16/09 We hope you will join us for this upcoming discussion on www.hastac.org http://www.hastac.org ! We additionally thank you for helping to spread the word to any other persons or organizations who might be interested. ********************************************************************************* What’s Going On in Digital Humanities? A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, starting February 16, 2009 at www.hastac.org http://www.hastac.org In the recent HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on “The Future of the Digital Humanities” featuring Brett Bobley of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities, Willard McCarty weighed in from King's College London suggesting that instead of trying to categorize the digital humanities as a “discipline” or an “attitude,” we should instead “ask, ‘What's going on?’ and note how differently humanities computing is playing out across the various digital humanities. In other words, ask not what the practice is, rather where we're going and what sort of institutional arrangements suit that going best.” And so, as a follow up to our recent forum, and with nods to both Erving Goffman and Marvin Gaye, we raise the question: “What’s going on in the digital humanities today?” When the forum opens on Monday, February 16, we invite you to report on how the digital humanities are playing out in your institution, organization, or location. Tell us about the innovative projects you are launching, the groups you are forming, the support you are finding or lacking, the training you are receiving or offering and the courses you are teaching or taking. We hope you will join this forum facilitated by HASTAC Scholars Staci Shultz and Isabel Milan and help us see “what’s going on in the digital humanities” today! Staci Shultz is a PhD student in the Joint Program in English & Education at the University of Michigan. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in English from Boston College. Her dissertation focuses on college students’ participation in online fandoms and the ways in particular that fan fiction sites sponsor literacy practices. Research on emerging spaces and discourses, she argues, can lead to more innovative, relevant, and engaging composition pedagogy that taps into students’ experiences in the extracurriculum. Isabel A. Milan is a doctoral student in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her master’s degree in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and her bachelor’s degree in both Anthropology and Women’s Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include new media/digital technologies and globalization; children’s literature and multimedia; transnational feminist, queer and critical race theories. She is especially interested in the responsible development and usage of technology, and is also a strong advocate of technology’s role in education and community networking/mobilization. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 14 08:28:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25452EE24; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:28:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB5E72EE1C; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:28:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090214082811.AB5E72EE1C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:28:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.529 cfp: Nanoethics in Asia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 529. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:53:56 +0700 From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Nanoethics in Asia - call for abstracts In-Reply-To: <20090213095024.D06B52C1B0@woodward.joyent.us> An International Workshop Nanoethics Asia (NEA2009) August 26 - 28, 2009, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand The Nanoethics Research Group, the Center for Innovative Nanotechnology, and the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, will organize an international workshop on "Nanoethics Asia" (NEA2009). The purpose of the Workshop is to stimulate and gather ground breaking research in all areas related to the ethical, social, cultural, and legal implications of what is broadly construed as "nanotechnology," especially as these implications arise from within the contexts of Asia and other non-Western regions. Call for Abstracts Those who are interested in participating in the Workshop should submit an abstract of between 150 to 300 words to Mr Parkpume Vanichaka at parkpume@gmail. com. Abstracts are accepted for considerations which consider the ethical, legal, social, cultural aspects of nanotechnology as well as other related technologies. Abstracts dealing with these issues in relation to the context of the developing country (not only in Asia) are especially welcome. The following topics would be particularly suitable for the Workshop, though the list is not exhaustive: *Human enhancement through nanotechnology *Life extension *Nanomedicine *Safety issues arising from nanomaterial *Nanotechnology for development *Neuroethics *Nanotoxicity *Legal and regulatory issues Timeline Last date for submission of abstract: 28 March 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2009 Submission of full paper: 15 July 2009 Workshop date: 26 – 28 August 2009 Keynote Speaker Prof. John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia and Editor-in-Chief, Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale. Website: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/NEA2009/ -- Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66(0)2218 4756 Fax +66(0)2218 4755 Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 15 08:24:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762262E27C; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DE0282E26B; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:24:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090215082451.DE0282E26B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:24:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.530 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 530. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.527 when games met computing [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.527 when games met computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:17:18 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.527 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090214082619.111392ED61@woodward.joyent.us> I hope we remember the creation of a chess-playing machine dates back to at least the 19thC, I think the 18th. Jim R On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > How did each affect the other... Well, getting a computer to play > games was a primary target of AI. There was a famous challenge from > Dreyfus that Computers could never play Chess well enough to defeat a > Grand Master. Game playing by computer was seen as a fundamental test > to prove human-level capabilities for machines. It was a primary topic > in early AI, with each new game being seen as an interesting advance > when a computer could be programmed to master it. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:35:27 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.527 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090214082619.111392ED61@woodward.joyent.us> Here are a couple of pointers... Computer Chess was imagined by Norbert Wiener (Cybernetics, 1949) and Claude Shannon in "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess," Philosophical Magazine, Ser.7, Vol. 41, No. 314, March 1950. Available online as a text file at: (http://www.pi.infn.it/~carosi/chess/shannon.txt) "Los Alamos Chess" (1956) is cited as "the first program to play a chess-like game" This is all from the Wikipedia article on "computer Chess" at: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess). There is also a brief history of Computer Chess at: (http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php) On a slightly different track, the forerunner of most modern computer role-playing games was ADVENTURE developed by Will Crowther and what it looked like can be experienced online in a replica of the screen text at: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/adventure/index.html This is referred to as "interactive fiction" but I doubt anyone at the time thought of it in that light. It was just another type of computer game back in 1975. More background on this game is available at: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Adventure.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 16 06:41:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420962E084; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:41:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8E95A2E072; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:41:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090216064141.8E95A2E072@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:41:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.531 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 531. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:53:13 -0800 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.530 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090215082451.DE0282E26B@woodward.joyent.us> And of course there were randomly generated events and reactions represented by dice rolls in role-playing and war games, as well as Strat-O-Matic Baseball and others. Taking a look at how RPGs [role-playing games] became CRPGs [computerized role-playing games], for instance, is one way to see explicit, though simple, systems becoming computerized. Elijah Meeks _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 16 06:42:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457642E0C5; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:42:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 719BB2E0B4; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:42:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090216064210.719BB2E0B4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:42:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.532 cognition "thought and language" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 532. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:17:11 -0800 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: cognition "thought and language" In-Reply-To: <20090214082735.ECAAF2EDCB@woodward.joyent.us> *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1234626079_2009-02-14_flautabaja@hotmail.com_25108.2.pdf Willard, This is a communication for you. Also, I am attaching a one page proposal for a paper on cognition in rhetoric composition theory. This paper revisits the role of "thought and language." My long term work addresses re-write systems and the role of notational systems in knowledge systems. Currently, I am working build bridges between the 4C community (http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv) and the digital humanities community. NatRE: out of the forest or out of the paper woods (on digital humanities and play) When people are consumers of knowledge rather than practitioners of knowledge gathering all kinds of havoc are close at hand: Someone announces: "I want to get out of the forest!" "Another person counters...Do you mean out of the paper woods...of textuality?" A passerby approaches the two noting a degree of cross-talking going on, waits for the discussion to leave an opening. The passerby looking both ways or trying hard to balance eye contact between the two says "let me see, let me listen, let me contribute." The other two are waiting. What you bring are a pack of associations. Keep bringing more associations and we are even more in the fog...out of the fog stands the prospect of how to become knowledge gathers rather than consumers of short-cuts, abbreviations, easy packaging of ideas. Stop playing games the other two say. The third comes back with her own lines: Games and digital humanities? "On what ground" she says Poe's? Anagrams, his writings on codes? Stendahl's the Red and Black...need i say more... games are as much a literary commodity as games are a form of interactive media. Marllame played with chance...Hesse talked about chess and the magus. I hear there is guy at psu that talks about alternatives and substitutions as would a linguists, parsing/phrasing English grammar. Diagramming of structure he talks about. How to bring play-back...feedback...and play-back (by sam and bogey). Yes he has a formal look somewhere between Barthes, Saussure, Derrida, and Deleuze...all the time not forgetting Bruno,Vico, Joyce, or beckett...also with Pound. Gaming as a mark of variability (formally....structurally) and empirically the glance toward some other form of expressivity, intention, and why not intensity or attraction. What it is that leads us to the brink of communication...authenticity...correspondence...at levels that rival Simone Weil's essay on personality....opening with "you do not interest me" When there is a play on that phrase. But the play of light...the play of going down the slopes...the play of taking a walk with someone that wants to be, to investigate...to integrate...to be the culture ... oh yes What happened... one finally appears thick and true...but hidden relationships, the emergent relationships, the mining of a text or a conversation...all of these things await as did that dawn when Paradise Lost came to a close and the reading of readings started something that needed to make more out of a book or a text. What to do with authenticity? How does one respond or not? Where does one take their intellectual debt? Does one seek titles? Does one find a play in the form of community or civic action. Does one place a mirror in front of another and say yes back to that person. Speech and thought hangout Language and thought hangout. Speech blocks language and thought. frameworks to be found exchages written in sketches...the end of the book (de grammatology)...who said that...the issue of orality heard from creeley, charles bernstein, denis tedlock, and grads at the buffalo poetic program. with susan howe looking around the corner at paintings but with her own emily D. that guy at psu studies hard...maps use and analysis, linguistics, landscapes, urbran ag (a research group forming)...it is a matter of boundaries by his way of speaking to her or to anyone that listens. out there over the horizon what is gathered what is lost what is awaiting the forest. the forest in the forest...the mind and how fast it is and how slow writing is as a communication of the mind. the multi-directions as the agent of the speed of the mind could not see beyond her vanity that she had said the one thing that opens all the keys. she unlocked the something that stands fiction on its head...a pure visionary laughing with a cassandra smile. this guy in psu is left to take on that claim to make what is her dismay into something , borrowed by a classmate, as something worth taking on. how to keep up with the mind as fast as it explores associative space while writing is a slow thick syrup that draws one back...against time's arrow.... simone and sartre knew what to do with each other...as do the mirror numbers speak each others pattern as escher set looking at the divisions of a plane into symmetry patterns...or as blake stood by his visions unspeakable etched in colors.... oh here is something that came my way on digital humanities... myself I look at computational linguistics stephen bird http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/ kaplan and kaplan yes i am ready to work with you What’s Going On in Digital Humanities? A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, starting February 16, 2009 at www.hastac.orghttp://www.hastac.org In the recent HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on “The Future of the Digital Humanities featuring Brett Bobley of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities, Willard McCarty weighed in from King's College London suggesting that instead of trying to categorize the digital humanities as a “discipline” or an “attitude,” we should instead “ask, ‘What's going on?’ and note how differently humanities computing is playing out across the various digital humanities. In other words, ask not what the practice is, rather where we're going and what sort of institutional arrangements suit that going best.” And so, as a follow up to our recent forum, and with nods to both Erving Goffman and Marvin Gaye, we raise the question: “What’s going on in the digital humanities today?” When the forum opens on Monday, February 16, we invite you to report on how the digital humanities are playing out in your institution, organization, or location. Tell us about the innovative projects you are launching, the groups you are forming, the support you are finding or lacking, the training you are receiving or offering and the courses you are teaching or taking. We hope you will join this forum facilitated by HASTAC Scholars Staci Shultz and Isabel Milan and help us see “what’s going on in the digital humanities” today! Staci Shultz is a PhD student in the Joint Program in English & Education at the University of Michigan. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in English from Boston College. Her dissertation focuses on college students’ participation in online fandoms and the ways in particular that fan fiction sites sponsor literacy practices. Research on emerging spaces and discourses, she argues, can lead to more innovative, relevant, and engaging composition pedagogy that taps into students’ experiences in the extracurriculum. Isabel A. Milan is a doctoral student in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her master’s degree in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and her bachelor’s degree in both Anthropology and Women’s Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include new media/digital technologies and globalization; children’s literature and multimedia; transnational feminist, queer and critical race theories. She is especially interested in the responsible development and usage of technology, and is also a strong advocate of technology’s role in education and community networking/mobilization. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 16 06:44:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C882E179; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:44:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 639862E171; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:44:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090216064439.639862E171@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:44:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.533 events: temporal reasoning; printing and urban culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 533. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Judith Deitch (27) Subject: Printing and Urban Culture CFP [2] From: Carsten Lutz (93) Subject: TIME09 Second Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:12:09 +0000 From: Judith Deitch Subject: Printing and Urban Culture CFP CALL FOR PAPERS for a special session of the RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, VENICE, 8-10 APRIL 2010 Printing and Urban Culture in Early Modern Europe How did the establishment of printers' shops and the books they produced impact European urban centers socially, economically, intellectually? How did the presence of the new technology, new commodity, new identities contribute to a redefinition of cities and towns? Papers might investigate individual urban locales or individual printers; they might consider the impact of printing and printed books on civic or religious communities; or the role of the market in schoolbooks, university texts, humanist classics or ecclesiastical printed works. Additional approaches could include looking into the cross-border trade of printed books; the transmission or transfer of knowledge between different social groups or identities; or the routing of texts, people and ideas. The purpose of this session is to examine the premise that, in the 15th and 16th centuries, print redrew the map of Europe with regard to urban culture, both within towns and cities and across the continent. Please email a 150 word abstract and brief c.v. or personal statement to the organizer by May 1, 2009. Dr. Judith Deitch j_deitch@yorku.ca York University Department of English 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:35:11 +0000 From: Carsten Lutz Subject: TIME09 Second Call for Papers TIME 2009 - Second Call for Papers Sixteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning Brixen, Italy, July 23-25, 2009 http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/time-2009/ The TIME symposium series is a well-established annual event that brings together researchers from all areas of computer science that involve temporal representation and reasoning. This includes, but is not limited to, artificial intelligence, temporal databases, and the verification of software and hardware systems. In addition to fostering interdisciplinarity, the TIME symposia emphasize bridging the gap between theoretical and applied research. TIME 2009 encompasses three tracks, but has a single program committee. The conference will span three days, and will be organized as a combination of technical paper presentations, poster sessions, and keynote lectures. * IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 6 (strict) Paper Submission: April 9 (strict) Paper Notification: May 11 Camera Ready Copy Due: May 22 TIME 2009 Symposium: July 23-25 * INVITED SPEAKERS Logic - Mark Reynolds, The University of West Australia AI - Froduald Kabanza, Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada DB - Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France * TOPICS Track 1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI - temporal aspects of agent- and policy-based systems - spatial and temporal reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - planning and planning languages - ontologies of time and space-time - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling) - time in human-machine interaction - temporal information extraction - time in natural language processing - spatio-temporal knowledge representation systems - spatio-temporal ontologies for the semantic web Track 2: Temporal Database Management - temporal data models and query languages - temporal query processing and indexing - temporal data mining - time series data management - stream data management - spatio-temporal data management, including moving objects - data currency and expiration - indeterminate and imprecise temporal data - temporal constraints - temporal aspects of workflow and ECA systems - real-time databases - time-dependent security policies - privacy in temporal and spatio-temporal data - temporal aspects of multimedia databases - temporal aspects of e-services and web applications - temporal aspects of distributed systems - novel applications of temporal database management - experiences with real applications Track 3: Temporal Logic and Verification in Computer Science - specification and verification of systems - verification of web applications - synthesis and execution - model checking algorithms - verification of infinite-state systems - reasoning about transition systems - temporal architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems and real-time logics - tools and practical systems - temporal issues in security * PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going work are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance of a paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium. Submissions should be in PDF format (with the necessary fonts embedded). They must be formatted according to the IEEE guide- lines described at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/ proceedings/8.5x11 - Formatting files/ and must not exceed 8 pages; over-length submissions may be rejected without review. Papers are submitted electronically via Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=time2009 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 16 12:06:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E082DACB; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:06:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B32DA2DAC2; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:06:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090216120623.B32DA2DAC2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:06:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.534 cost and labour of doing good X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 534. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:49:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cost and labour of doing good? In the first decade of the 20th Century, Lane Cooper, a professor of English at Cornell, produced his Concordance to Wordsworth. With the help of a superbly organized editorial team of 46 people, 210,994 slips were prepared for the printer in less than 7 months -- quite remarkable given that, as he says, Mary Cowden Clark's concordance to Shakespeare cost her 16-18 years, Bonitz's Index Aristotelicus 25 years and so forth. The cost of compilation and printing was approximately $10,000 (1919 dollars, ca $120,000 in today's money). Cooper describes all this in "Making and Use of a Verbal Concordance", Swanee Review (1919). While it is true that much has to be adjusted before one can meaningfully compare an interactive concordance to Cooper's work, nevertheless his description does lead immediately to some ironic reflections on the difference between his day and ours. Preparation of the text aside, we can have such things, and in many respects better (without stop-words etc), at little or no cost to the individual. But some of our colleagues, and I dare say most of our students of literature, have never used a concordance, and many of those do not know what one is. In 1919 Cooper wrote that by compiling a concordance the lover of Wordsworth "could render a more vital service to English literature by the unambitious toil of indexing the works of that poet than by writing enthusiastic essays upon their merits. In reality, to form a concordance of Wordsworth is almost the same thing as making the poet write literary essays about himself -- an object well worth the zeal of any scholar or learned organization" (pp. 5-6). It's easy to be glib about the differences between then and now that render this statement so foreign to us. One can point for example to the movement away from scholar as harmless accumulator of knowledge to the scholar as cultural critic, and then as theoritician of everything. But surely a better story can be told of what happened, and why it is that having now the means cheaply and easily to do what Cooper regarded as so much good we no longer care to do it. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 16 12:07:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8DA2DB63; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:07:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40E3D2DB4B; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:07:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090216120717.40E3D2DB4B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:07:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.535 a control corpus of 19th century American intellectual writing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 535. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:57:55 +0000 From: "Bradley, John" Subject: A corpus of 19th century American Intellectual writing In-Reply-To: <20090216064439.639862E171@woodward.joyent.us> I am supervising a student at CCH/KCL who is working with the writings of several American scholars from the 19th century. At this point his work would benefit from having a control corpus of 19th century American intellectual writing that he could use for various kinds of statistical comparison. He would welcome both literary-oriented and non-literary (scientific?) texts, and even material that although written for an intellectual audience appeared in the non-scholarly press. He is checking out what is available in Project Gutenberg already. Is there a member of Humanist who could suggest other possible digital textual sources? Many thanks for your suggestions. ... john bradley _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 17 06:38:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257F32EF5F; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:38:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2455A2EF4B; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:38:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090217063857.2455A2EF4B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:38:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.536 when games met computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 536. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:42:59 -0500 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.523 when games met computing In-Reply-To: <20090213095024.D06B52C1B0@woodward.joyent.us> Dennis G. Jerz, "Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original Adventure in Code and in Kentucky." Digital Humanities Quarterly 1:2 (Summer 2007) [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html] DHQ published what might be the definitive history of Adventure, seeking its roots in physical space as well as in role playing games. The article has a good bibliography, as well. Also, Nick Montfort's Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. The first book-length history of interactive fiction of the text adventure sort, with literary and game-based criticism of important works and proposals for how to understand the form. MIT Press, 2003. --elli [Elli Mylonas Scholarly Technology Group Brown University www.stg.brown.edu] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 17 06:40:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA032E04A; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:40:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D18572E043; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:39:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090217063957.D18572E043@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:39:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.537 cost and labour of doing good X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 537. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:26:44 -0600 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.534 cost and labour of doing good In-Reply-To: <20090216120623.B32DA2DAC2@woodward.joyent.us> On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > In 1919 Cooper wrote that by compiling a concordance the > lover of Wordsworth "could render a more vital service to English > literature by the unambitious toil of indexing the works of that poet > than by writing enthusiastic essays upon their merits. In reality, to > form a concordance of Wordsworth is almost the same thing as making > the > poet write literary essays about himself -- an object well worth > the zeal of any scholar or learned organization" (pp. 5-6). I'll admit that I find such statements generally mystifying (a testament to my own belated state as a theoritician of everything), but I suspect the key lies in the comparison: "making the poet write literary essays about himself." It is the assumption of authorial intention as the normative principle of criticism, and the attendant belief that language is a kind of cipher for intentionality. There's an echo of this sentiment in the writings of our own Founding Father, Roberta Busa: "I realized first that a philological and lexicographical inquiry into the verbal system of an author has to precede and prepare for a doctrinal interpretation of his works. Each writer expresses his conceptual system in and through his verbal system, with the consequence that the reader who masters this verbal system, using his own conceptual system, has to get an insight into the writer's conceptual system. The reader should not simply attach to the words he reads the significance they have in his mind, but should try to find out what significance they had in the author's mind." ("The Annals of Humanities Computing: The *Index Thomisticus.*," CHUM 14 (1980): 83) Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 17 06:42:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3326D2E0D1; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:42:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23FCB2E0B9; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:42:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090217064238.23FCB2E0B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:42:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.538 it's not (just) the hardware X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 538. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:23:59 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: it's not (just) the hardware In Henry S. Tropp's paper on his experiences during the early days of computing, "The Smithsonian Computer History Project and Some Personal Recollections", in N. Metropolis, J. Howlett and Gian-Carlo Rota, eds., A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (Academic Press, 1980), he records an interview with George Stibitz, who was involved in devising the early Bell Laboratories Relay machines -- early computers. In the following, which relates an events that happened ca. 1937, he is talking about the Bell MOD K relay machine: > As Stibitz told me, it all began one night sitting around his > kitchen, which is where the K comes from: the Kitchen Computer. He > had been doing research on relays, and it suddenly struck him that > one ought to be able to do binary arithmetic with relays. So he took > some relays he had at home and went out to his shop in his garage. He > got a small, approximately 1-ft-square piece of plywood, put a few > relays on it, and discovered he could indeed represent one-digit > binary addition in this manner. The next morning, he took this to the > laboratory and showed it to a few people there, and they said, "You > know, that is really interesting." (pp. 118f) Tropp then asks Stibitz why he was thinking about binary addition, and Stibitz attributes this to studying with a man who was himself interested in the topic. But what I want to draw your attention to is Tropp's historiographical conclusion to this interview: > As is now realized, we had the technical capability to build relay, > electromechanical, and even electronic calculating devices into > being. I think one can conjecture when looking through Babbage's > papers, or even at the Jacquard loom, that we had the technical > capability to do calculation with some motive power like steam. The > realization of this capability was not dependent on technology as > much as it was on the existing pressures (or lack of them), and an > environment in which these needs could sympathetically be brought to > some level of realization. (p. 119) Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 17 06:44:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14362E2FC; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:44:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22FB22E2F1; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:44:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090217064447.22FB22E2F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.540 a control corpus of 19th century American intellectual writing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 540. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 539. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (61) Americanintellectual writing? [2] From: Mark Davies (23) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.535 a control corpus of 19th century Americanintellectual writing? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:44:35 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.535 a control corpus of 19th century Americanintellectual writing? In-Reply-To: <20090216120717.40E3D2DB4B@woodward.joyent.us> John, This is not a direct answer to your query but some of it may be relevant anyhow. In the Monk Project we have developed procedures for taking texts from various TEI archives and move them into a common TEI P5 environment that makes them more interoperable and supports easy linguistic annotation. We have used MorphAdorner, developed by Phil Burns at Northwestern University, to create texts that are lemmatized, have virtual orthographic standardization, and part-of-speech tagging. Brian Pytlik Zillig and Steve Ramsay at Nebraska have been responsible for the architecture and details of this process. Some 300 texts from the Wright Archive of American fiction are available in a linguistically format right now. There are another 700 Wright novels that can be done that way. Another 2,000 didn't go through the last editorial review when Perry Willet did the project, but if I understand him correctly, a needed text can be brought up to snuff within a couple of hours. We also have ~100 earlier American texts from the public archive of the University of Virginia Early American fiction project. The very large and diverse archive of 'Documenting the American South' at the University of North Carolina has practiced sparse but consistent annotation over the years. DocSouth texts would yield with little or no modification to linguistic annotation. Texts in these TEI archives all have much better bibliographical information than what is typically found in Project Gutenberg texts. MM On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 535. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:57:55 +0000 > From: "Bradley, John" > > In-Reply-To: <20090216064439.639862E171@woodward.joyent.us> > > I am supervising a student at CCH/KCL who is working with the > writings of several American scholars from the 19th century. At > this point his work would benefit from having a control corpus of > 19th century American intellectual writing that he could use for > various kinds of statistical comparison. He would welcome both > literary-oriented and non-literary (scientific?) texts, and even > material that although written for an intellectual audience appeared > in the non-scholarly press. > > He is checking out what is available in Project Gutenberg already. > Is there a member of Humanist who could suggest other possible > digital textual sources? > > Many thanks for your suggestions. > > ... john bradley > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:49:53 -0700 From: Mark Davies Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.535 a control corpus of 19th century Americanintellectual writing? In-Reply-To: <20090216120717.40E3D2DB4B@woodward.joyent.us> You might try the various "Making of America" collections: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ as well as some of the other collections from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Also, I know it's later than the 1800s, but you might look at the 100 million word TIME Corpus (1920s-present): http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ . Finally, I'm working on a 300 million word corpus of historical American English (early 1800s-present time), which will be balanced between fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, and popular magazines. It will complement the nearly 400 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English: http://www.americancorpus.org But this historical corpus is dependent on funding, and isn't available yet. Best, Mark Davies ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics Brigham Young University (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906 Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** ============================================ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 17 06:47:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F982E761; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:47:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E21312E758; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:47:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090217064745.E21312E758@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:47:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.541 events: Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 541. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:39:38 +0200 From: "Secretariat@isast.org" Subject: Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2009) You are kindly invited to participate in the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2009), Chania, Crete, Greece, 26-29 of May, 2009. The conference celebrates the 10th year after the successful IATUL 1999 conference organized in Chania under the leadership of Dr. Anthi Katsirikou then director of the library of Technical University of Crete. QQML2009 is organized under the umbrella of ASMDA International Society organising conferences on data analysis from 1981. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (QQM) are proved more and more popular tools for Librarians, because of their usefulness to the everyday professional life. 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The indoor and outdoor relationships of libraries are dependent of their communication and marketing capabilities, challenges, opportunities and implementation programmes. The Conference will attend library professionals: professors, administrators, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers. As the conference papers will be included in a Book titled: "Advances in Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries" please follow precisely the given Template following the format and instructions from World Scientific Publishing Co. If you propose a Special Session including 4-5 papers, the papers will be included into the book as a Specific Chapter under the title of the special session. Special Session proposals should have the session title, the name and affiliation of the organizer and a brief description (5-10 lines). You may upload the Abstract/Paper Template and formulate your paper according to the instructions: http://www.isast.org/presentations/abstractpapersubmission.html Please submit your paper in MS Word format as an email attachment to secretariat@isast.org You can also submit your Abstract electronically by using the facilities of the conference website at: www.isast.org For presentation regarding your Library or your Organisation please contact Dr. Anthi Katsirikou at anthi@asmda.com Kind regards On behalf of the Conference Committee Prof. Christos H. Skiadas Director, Data Analysis nad Forecasting Laboratory Technical University of Crete Email: skiadas@isast.org ; skiadas@asmda.net URL: www.isast.org Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Secretary University of Piraeus Library, Deputy Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com secretariat@isast.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 18 06:23:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D11A2CD39; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:23:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2C2F2CD2B; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:23:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090218062324.D2C2F2CD2B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:23:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.542 cost and labour of doing good X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 542. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:59:23 -0600 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.537 cost and labour of doing good In-Reply-To: <20090217063957.D18572E043@woodward.joyent.us> I wonder whether there is a way of rescuing Lane Cooper's 1919 statement about 'making the poet write literary literary essays about himself.' What if we replace it with 'letting the text tell different stories about itself'? That does of course beg the story of the 'text itself' and we all know that there is no such thing. Or we can be even more modest and think of concordances and their digital successors as an invaluable tool in tracing connections from the microstructure of textual detail to a larger weave of theoretical reflection. There may not always be a productive path from the verbal microstructure to the larger weave of reflection. But there often is. Literary Studies as a discipline has been slow to learn from corpus linguistics, bioinformatics, and other forms of digitally assisted 'text' analysis. One can point to the absence of good enough tools or data and even more to different styles of rhetoric that get in each other's way. 'Lost in translation' is the title of the movie that always comes to my mind when I ponder the relations of Literary Studies to various forms of informatics. On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 537. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:26:44 -0600 > From: Stephen Ramsay > > In-Reply-To: <20090216120623.B32DA2DAC2@woodward.joyent.us> > > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> In 1919 Cooper wrote that by compiling a concordance the >> lover of Wordsworth "could render a more vital service to English >> literature by the unambitious toil of indexing the works of that poet >> than by writing enthusiastic essays upon their merits. In reality, to >> form a concordance of Wordsworth is almost the same thing as making >> the >> poet write literary essays about himself -- an object well worth >> the zeal of any scholar or learned organization" (pp. 5-6). > > I'll admit that I find such statements generally mystifying (a > testament to my own belated state as a theoritician of everything), > but I suspect the key lies in the comparison: "making the poet write > literary essays about himself." It is the assumption of authorial > intention as the normative principle of criticism, and the attendant > belief that language is a kind of cipher for intentionality. There's > an echo of this sentiment in the writings of our own Founding Father, > Roberta Busa: > > "I realized first that a philological and lexicographical inquiry into > the verbal system of an author has to precede and prepare for a > doctrinal interpretation of his works. Each writer expresses his > conceptual system in and through his verbal system, with the > consequence that the reader who masters this verbal system, using his > own conceptual system, has to get an insight into the writer's > conceptual system. The reader should not simply attach to the words > he reads the significance they have in his mind, but should try to > find out what significance they had in the author's mind." ("The > Annals of Humanities Computing: The *Index Thomisticus.*," CHUM 14 > (1980): 83) > > Steve > > -- > Stephen Ramsay > Assistant Professor > Department of English > Center for Digital Research in the Humanities > University of Nebraska at Lincoln > PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 > http://lenz.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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 18 06:25:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE9D2CDE8; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:25:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E8F142CDD9; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:25:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090218062518.E8F142CDD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.543 new publications: word-lists; virtual worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 543. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: jeremy hunsinger (59) Subject: cfp: Special Issue on Learning in Virtual Worlds [2] From: "mlazenby@Ashgatepublishing.com" (30) Subject: Book Review Offer: What's in a Word-List? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:29:07 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: cfp: Special Issue on Learning in Virtual Worlds CALL FOR PAPERS special issue of Learning, Media and Technology issue theme: Learning in Virtual Worlds Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski Virtual worlds are learning worlds. There is substantial evidence that people learn in virtual worlds. While most learning in these spaces is informal, existing outside the school curriculum, formalised learning environments have also been developed in textual worlds, MOOs, MUSHes, MUDs and multi-media spaces like ActiveWorlds(R), Second Life(R), World of Warcraft (R) to support educational goals in primary, secondary, higher and lifelong learning contexts. The extensive writings on virtual reality and virtual worlds over the past four decades have covered the breadth of the phenomena and experiences of learning via CMC in these situated spaces; this call for papers seeks scholarship that builds upon and extends those accounts. We seek research that deals with learning and research in social networks or among friends, learning through play, learning through artistic creation and learning in unconventional virtual realities. We seek papers that examine learning or modes of learning that occurs in unexpected ways. For example, workshops have been transformed with the inclusion of new materials, like clay or other art equipment, encouraging participants to express themselves through different modes of communication. Such physical practices mirror the opportunities afforded in virtual environments, increasing potential outcomes by breaking down borders of expression, creating a place for play, and expanding discourse. We seek research that aims to capture similar alternative practices in learning within virtual worlds. While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded study in the social or behavioral sciences. We seek a special issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. Submission guidelines: This special issue is edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Please contact them at jhuns@vt.edu and akrotoski@yahoo.com to discuss your submissions. The editors welcome contributions from new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage papers of around 6000 words. Short discussion papers of 2000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed for the 'Viewpoints' section. Learning, Media and Technology submission guidelines and referencing styles will be followed [see: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17439884.asp] The guest editors will consider papers received by March 15, 2009. Fewer than 10 papers will be accepted. The special issue will be published in early 2010. Please send papers to jhuns@vt.edu, clearly indicating that your submission is for the Special Issue on learning in virtual worlds. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:59:42 +0000 From: "mlazenby@Ashgatepublishing.com" Subject: Book Review Offer: What's in a Word-List? Dear Editor Ashgate is about to publish a book which may be of interest to your readers: What's in a Word-list?, Edited by Dawn Archer, University of Central Lancashire, UK, ISBN 978-0-75467240-1 The frequency with which particular words are used in a text can tell us something meaningful both about that text and also about its author because their choice of words is seldom random. Focusing on the most frequent lexical items of a number of generated word frequency lists can help us to determine whether all the texts are written by the same author. Alternatively, they might wish to determine whether the most frequent words of a given text (captured by its word frequency list) are suggestive of potentially meaningful patterns that could have been overlooked had the text been read manually. This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research written by leading experts on the field on the construction of word-lists for the analysis of both frequency and keyword usage. Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the most exciting research being conducted in this subject. Further information and full contents listing can be found using this link: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754672401 Review copies are available. To obtain one, please reply giving details of your journal and the address to which the book should be sent. We would be pleased to receive a copy of any published review in due course. Yours sincerely Maureen Lazenby Mrs M I Lazenby Marketing Ashgate Publishing Ltd Wey Court East, Union Road, Farnham, GU9 7PT. www.ashgate.com http://www.ashgate.com/ e-mail:mlazenby@ashgatepublishing.com Ashgate Publishing Group New address from December 2008 Wey Court East, Union Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7PT, UK Telephone: +44 (0)1252 331551 Fax: +44(0)1252 736736 Consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email please notify the sender immediately. Any unauthorized access, disclosure, use or dissemination of this email, either in whole or in part, is prohibited. The statements and opinions expressed in this email do not necessarily reflect those of Ashgate. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 18 06:26:54 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268962CE78; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:26:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 363172CE71; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:26:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090218062652.363172CE71@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:26:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.544 events: scholarly editions; metadata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 544. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (38) Subject: DHO Workshop: Metadata - Working with Data about Data [2] From: Susan Schreibman (38) Subject: Scholarly Editions Spring School: Some Places Left --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:04:29 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: DHO Workshop: Metadata - Working with Data about Data Date: 10 March 2009, 9:30-17:00 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Presenter: Ms Dot Porter, Metadata Manager (DHO) Metadata - "data about data" - is the backbone of any successful digital humanities project. With metadata, we describe the pieces that make up our projects (encoded texts, images, audio and video recordings) as well as describe how those pieces fit together. Metadata opens up possibilities for tracing relationships amongst different types of data both within a single project and amongst different projects. "Metadata: working with data about data" is a workshop designed to familiarize researchers engaged with digital humanities projects with the concept of metadata and to give them the opportunity to put those concepts into practice. Led by the DHO's Metadata Manager, Dot Porter, the workshop will provide opportunities for learning through lecture, group discussion, and hands-on exercise. Specific topics covered will include the DHO's metadata requirement, DHO-recommended metadata standards, and methods for mapping from input formats (e.g., Excel spreadsheets, Filemaker Pro database) to standard formats, as well as converting from one format to another. This workshop is aimed at the absolute beginner, and there will be plenty of time scheduled for questions and discussion. To register for this workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UnYYo7zEL2HSPmekRBVkow_3d_3d Once you have registered, please download, complete, and bring with you to the workshop, the powerpoint template found on this page: http://www.dho.ie/node/57 -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:12:14 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Scholarly Editions Spring School: Some Places Left Colleagues There are still places on the Scholarly Editions Spring School to be held at the Moore Institute at National University of Ireland Galway (13-17 April), although workshop tracks are filling up. The Spring School features week-long workshops by experts in TEI/XML punctuated by lectures and master classes by North American and European experts in digital scholarly editing. The IRCHSS, which has generously funded this Spring School, has also sponsored 10 bursaries for postgraduate students interested in attending. Please visit our web site for further details http://dho.ie/dse2009/ Important Dates: 1 March: Registration will close for bursaries and early registration for the Spring School 1 April: Registration Ends The spring school caters to those with experience of scholarly text encoding as well as absolute newbies. We are looking forward to this exciting event and to your joining us. Susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 18 09:32:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB0C2CA81; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:32:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C20C32CA6F; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:32:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090218093246.C20C32CA6F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:32:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.545 the Digital Scriptorium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 545. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:29:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Digital Scriptorium Many here will know about the Digital Scriptorium (www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/), "an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research". DS is hosted by the Columbia University Libraries but involves as voting members 11 other American university libraries. Knowing it you will know of the fine work of Dr Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Executive Director of the DS. To get an idea of the intellectual qualities brought to bear through the DS see Dr Dutschke's "Digital Scriptorium: Ten Years Young, and Working on Survival" (www.storicamente.org/02_tecnostoria/filologia_digitale/dutschke.html). As my colleague David Ganz, Professor of Palaeography, King's College London, wrote to me, her essay is "at a level of discussion which few manuscript websites, and fewer palaeographers, are farsighted and hard headed enough to achieve". Note well the word "survival" in Dr Dutschke's title. Severe budget cuts that Columbia is now facing -- severe enough to threaten layoffs as well as cutbacks -- have hit the Scriptorium. Axes will fall, as a friend of mine said, putting me in mind of what that means in the Sagas. It's difficult to know exactly how serious the blow is, but it's clear that now is the time for support to be expressed tangibly if not just loudly. A number of prominent people and organizations have already been mobilized, but spreading the news will help. Note also, if notice is needed, that the DS is important to us here not just because it exemplifies a fine way to use the digital medium to assist the humanities. The further challenges that manuscripts pose to computing number among the most precious and beneficial we know. It is precisely when it is possible for someone in authority plausibly to declare a problem solved, more or less, that it becomes crucial for us to persuade the world that the challenges we discover, not the solutions we devise, are the real gold. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 19 08:25:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9DF2DB44; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:25:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A19A2DB39; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:25:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090219082549.0A19A2DB39@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.546 it's not just the hardware X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 546. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:39:35 +0000 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.538 it's not (just) the hardware Dear Willard, I couldn't agree more ... with Stibitz ... environment is so much more important than the technologies. Most of the really important stuff I have learned about computing and computation has come from a group of researchers whose environment (i.e. collaboration, dynamic and enquiring scientific culture, willingness to disseminate, etc.): I'm talking about Richard Feynman, John Hopfield and Carver Mead. In particular, their course “The Physics of Computation” jointly taught at Caltech in 1982, and subsequent publications on the limits of computation are inspiring (and not just because the material is wonderful). Of course, I was only starting my undergrad career in physics at that time and could only hear about what was happening there! Nevertheless, there is a great textbook which give some flavor :) of the environment and the impact on technology generation. I'm sure many of you already know the text: Feynman and computation: exploring the limits of computers, Anthony J. G. Hey (Ed.), Perseus Books Cambridge, MA, USA. I think it is a "must read" for anyone interested in computation, physics and the distinction between engineering, applied science (and, dare I say it, theory!). Best, John. On 17 Feb 2009, at 06:42, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 538. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:23:59 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > In Henry S. Tropp's paper on his experiences during the early days of > computing, "The Smithsonian Computer History Project and Some Personal > Recollections", in N. Metropolis, J. Howlett and Gian-Carlo Rota, > eds., > A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (Academic Press, > 1980), > he records an interview with George Stibitz, who was involved in > devising the early Bell Laboratories Relay machines -- early > computers. > In the following, which relates an events that happened ca. 1937, he > is > talking about the Bell MOD K relay machine: > >> As Stibitz told me, it all began one night sitting around his >> kitchen, which is where the K comes from: the Kitchen Computer. He >> had been doing research on relays, and it suddenly struck him that >> one ought to be able to do binary arithmetic with relays. So he took >> some relays he had at home and went out to his shop in his garage. He >> got a small, approximately 1-ft-square piece of plywood, put a few >> relays on it, and discovered he could indeed represent one-digit >> binary addition in this manner. The next morning, he took this to the >> laboratory and showed it to a few people there, and they said, "You >> know, that is really interesting." (pp. 118f) > > Tropp then asks Stibitz why he was thinking about binary addition, and > Stibitz attributes this to studying with a man who was himself > interested in the topic. But what I want to draw your attention to is > Tropp's historiographical conclusion to this interview: > >> As is now realized, we had the technical capability to build relay, >> electromechanical, and even electronic calculating devices into >> being. I think one can conjecture when looking through Babbage's >> papers, or even at the Jacquard loom, that we had the technical >> capability to do calculation with some motive power like steam. The >> realization of this capability was not dependent on technology as >> much as it was on the existing pressures (or lack of them), and an >> environment in which these needs could sympathetically be brought to >> some level of realization. (p. 119) > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 19 08:27:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFFE2DC10; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:27:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A5D52DBF8; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:27:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090219082741.8A5D52DBF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:27:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.547 survey for "information professionals" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 547. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:21:53 -0500 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: ASIS&T Survey Dear fellow Digital Humanists, As a member of the ASIS&T committee on chapter structure, I've been asked to send this out in the hope of reaching people who are not members. The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) wants to hear from you! The Society is conducting an online survey to learn more about the needs and interests of information professionals, both to strengthen its regional chapters and to make its services and programs more relevant and meaningful to those who are not currently members. The survey should take no longer than 5 minutes of your time. Your answers are very important to us and will help us to better serve the profession. Survey link: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/ajlouie/66574 Many thanks, in advance, for your responses to this important survey. Hugh Cayless _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 19 08:29:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749AD2DCC8; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:29:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5FDFE2DC99; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:29:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090219082928.5FDFE2DC99@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:29:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.548 what kind of good? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 548. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what kind of good? Thinking now in the wee moments left before sunrise about Martin Mueller's modified version of Lane Cooper's "making the poet write literary literary essays about himself", I wonder more about the cosmological difference between then (1919) and now, close to a century later. Cooper was writing just 3 years before the Vienna Circle was first convened, when "positive knowledge" about a real-world-out-there was a compelling project. We all still bump into things if not kick stones in our path and so are reminded that the positivists had a point. But our cosmology is very different, excitingly different. Do we not now consider the data-abstraction we make from the words on the physical page as only the beginning of possibilities for modelling textual communication? Now that computers are fast enough for interaction design to be possible, isn't it time that we were thinking more about modelling the process(es) by which literature arises from our interaction with words? Not at all to be theological, but the beginning of the Gospel according to John does come strongly to mind. How about modelling what happens when the word is read? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 19 08:30:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BC22DD1D; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:30:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D0D632DD07; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:30:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090219083011.D0D632DD07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:30:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.549 new on WWW: new Blake; library of medieval mss X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 549. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Donald Weinshank" (46) Subject: UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts [2] From: William S Shaw (49) Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:23:03 -0500 From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts Fellow Humanists: I want to call your attention to http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-team-create-virtual-library-80275. aspx?link_page_rss=80275 Excerpt: UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts Assistant professor of English Matthew Fisher is the architect of the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly inspired by laws enacted during his 24-year reign. But a completely digitized manuscript of the oldest surviving Anglo-Norman history of the king does not turn up - at least on the first 20 search pages - even though Cambridge University painstakingly scanned the sumptuously illustrated manuscript in 2003. ...snip... Fisher set out two years ago to remedy the situation. With the assistance of two graduate students in English, a computer developer from UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities and Christopher Baswell, a former UCLA professor of English, Fisher decided to collect links to every manuscript from the eighth to the 15th century that had been fully digitized by any library, archive, institute or private owner anywhere in the world. ...snip... Highlights of the virtual holdings include: * The largest surviving collection of the works of Christine de Pizan, one of the first women in Europe to earn a living as a writer. The manuscript was commissioned by Queen Isabeau of France in 1414 and is now held by the British Library. * An Irish copy of the Gospel of John, bound in ivory and presented to Charlemagne sometime around 800, now in the library of the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland. * The Junius manuscript, one of only four major manuscripts preserving poetry in Old English. Dated to around 1000, the book is now among the holdings of Oxford's Bodleian Library. ...snip... _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.1665 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:52:33 -0500 (EST) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of the electronic edition of _Milton a Poem_ copy B. There are only four copies of _Milton_, Blake's most personal epic. Copy B, from the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, joins copy A, from the British Museum, and copy C, from the New York Public Library, previously published in the Archive. Blake etched forty-five plates for _Milton_ in relief, with some full-page designs in white-line etching, between c. 1804 (the date on the title page) and c. 1810. Six additional plates (a-f) were probably etched in subsequent years up to 1818. No copy contains all fifty-one plates. The prose "Preface" (plate 2) appears only in copies A and B. Plates a-e appear only in copies C and D, plate f only in copy D. The first printing, late in 1810 or early in 1811, produced copies A-C, printed in black ink and finished in water colors. Blake retained copy C and added new plates and rearranged others at least twice; copy C was not finished until c. 1821. Copy D was printed in 1818 in orange ink and elaborately colored. The Archive will publish an electronic edition of copy D in the near future. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _Milton_ copy B are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in editors' notes, have been applied to all copies of _Milton_ in the Archive. With the publication of _Milton_ copy B, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of sixty-eight copies of Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, including Blake's illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and all nine of Blake's water color series illustrating the poetry of John Milton. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor The William Blake Archive _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 19 08:30:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9292DD87; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F01A2DD76; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:30:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090219083052.2F01A2DD76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:30:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.550 events: historical geography; language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 550. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: (38) Subject: Fwd: CFP: Historical Geography at the 2009Social Science History Assoc [2] From: Richard Moot (30) Subject: ESSLLI 2009 Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:14:15 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Fwd: CFP: Historical Geography at the 2009Social Science History Assoc *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1234988062_2009-02-18_saschmid@illinois.edu_10355.2.octet-stream ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:56:20 -0000 >From: "Gregory, Ian" >>To: > >Apologies for any cross posting... > > <> >Social Science History Association Annual Meeting >The Queen Mary >Long Beach, California >12-15th Nov , 2009 > >Deadline for submission: 1st March 2009 > >The Social Science History Association's Historical Geography Network is >looking for sessions or papers for the above meeting. The Network is >interested in papers on any aspect of Historical Geography. We >particularly welcome papers relating to Historical GIS, a subject at >which the meeting has established an international reputation. A call >for papers for the conference is attached. > >Submission of either complete sessions (three or four speakers plus a >chair/discussant) or individual papers is welcome. Only short abstracts >(around 200 words) are required. Other formats such as roundtables or >book sessions are encouraged. > >For more details or to submit see: http://www.ssha.org. For informal >queries please contact the network chairs, Ian Gregory >(I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk) or Alberto Giordano (a.giordano@txstate.edu) >. > >Best wishes, > >Ian Gregory > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:26:54 +0000 From: Richard Moot Subject: ESSLLI 2009 Call for Participation = = = CALL FOR PARTICIPATION = = = = 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION = = ESSLLI 2009 = = = = Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 = = = ============================================================ http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. * Course Program * ESSLLI offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 7 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php * Registration * Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php Richard Moot ESSLLI Organizing 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 20 07:41:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FD82C343; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2AEE22C334; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:41:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090220074148.2AEE22C334@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:41:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.551 what kind of good? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 551. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:11:48 -0500 From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.548 what kind of good? Willard, the project of "modelling the process(es) by which literature arises from our interaction with words" is a marvellous one in principle but I wonder how close we are to being able to do it in practice? So far as I know, there is no good account as yet of something as basic as how we (effortlessly and in an eye-blink) extract the same abstract object from 3, three, THREE, III, iii, 11 [binary], ***, and so on. Abstract object because there is no way to represent a number except in one of these encodings, in a numeral or a word or ... . Yet our brain clearly represents the number itself because it is aware that the same object spans all the encodings. Does any computer represent abstract objects such as numbers? (This is a variant of Searle's Chinese Room problem.) Last time I checked (a few years ago), I and a PhD student interested in the issue couldn't find much evidence that work has even been done on the issue. If anyone knows of anything written on the topic, I'd be grateful for the reference. Andrew Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 548. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:53 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > > Thinking now in the wee moments left before sunrise about Martin > Mueller's modified version of Lane Cooper's "making the poet write > literary literary essays about himself", I wonder more about the > cosmological difference between then (1919) and now, close to a century > later. Cooper was writing just 3 years before the Vienna Circle was > first convened, when "positive knowledge" about a real-world-out-there > was a compelling project. We all still bump into things if not kick > stones in our path and so are reminded that the positivists had a point. > But our cosmology is very different, excitingly different. Do we not now > consider the data-abstraction we make from the words on the physical > page as only the beginning of possibilities for modelling textual > communication? Now that computers are fast enough for interaction design > to be possible, isn't it time that we were thinking more about modelling > the process(es) by which literature arises from our interaction with > words? Not at all to be theological, but the beginning of the Gospel > according to John does come strongly to mind. How about modelling what > happens when the word is read? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- Andrew Brook Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy Director, Institute of Cognitive Science Member, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University Ottawa ON, Canada K1S 5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Fax: 613 520-3985 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 20 07:43:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980D22C3FD; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 191AC2C3E9; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090220074301.191AC2C3E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.552 Dr Axel Lapp at CRUMB X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 552. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:43:55 +0000 From: Beryl Graham Subject: International Curatorial Researcher at New Media Research Methods Event CRUMB Welcomes New International Curatorial Researcher Axel Lapp at New Media Research Methods Event CRUMB, the research centre for curating new media art, are very happy to announce the latest appointment in their three-year AHRC-funded research project — Axel Lapp will be Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher. Axel Lapp will be working with CRUMB on research projects which include new media as part of the contemporary arts. His first public appearance in his CRUMB role will be at 'Production Through Exhibition' 23rd-24th March 2009, an AHRC Collaborative Research Training project symposium by CRUMB in collaboration with CultureLab at Newcastle University: Further details and booking at: http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/events/ahrc-crt/ Axel Lapp will join the CRUMB team for one year from March 2009. He is a leading international curator, art critic, and publisher, with a particular interest in systems-based contemporary art. His recent book project, for example, explored the work of the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, whose artwork often involves public participation. The book documents her socially engaged artistic practice involving squatted buildings, bagel carts, and data mapping which makes explicit parallels between data technological networks and social networks. Dr. Lapp has a PhD in Art History from the University of Manchester, and has also studied at Phillips-Universität in Marburg and the University of Essex in Colchester. From 1998 to 2000, he was Henry Moore Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, working on monuments and their theory in the 20th century, and taught in Leeds and at the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle. Since 2000, he has been living in Berlin, and has curated the work of Nick Crowe, Sonia Boyce, Shezad Dawood, Tim Head, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Costa Vece, and Bertram Hasenauer, amongst many others, for a variety of institutions in Switzerland, Germany and the UK, as well as in his own space, Axel Lapp Projects. He has been coordinator of the Collectors' Program for Art Forum Berlin, Associate Curator of the International Curators Forum, London, and Curator of the Swiss Federal Government Residency, Berlin. He is currently Art Review’s Contributing Editor for Berlin, and has written on a regular basis for Art Monthly and Art in America. He is co-founder and editor of the art publishers The Green Box. Axel Lapp said: 'I’m looking forward to this opportunity to concentrate on curatorial research, and to network with CRUMB’s international experts on experimental ways of working with new media which have relevance across many kinds of current art.' Further information: http://www.crumbweb.org http://axellapp.de/index_en.html ------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132 Email: beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 20 07:43:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27DA2C47D; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:43:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 810B62C464; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:43:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090220074339.810B62C464@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:43:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.553 events: printing & urban culture; comparative cultural studies; mapping X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 553. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Steven Totosy (58) Subject: Comparative Cultural Studies; Mapping the World [2] From: Judith Deitch (26) Subject: Printing and Urban Culture CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:09:18 +0800 From: Steven Totosy Subject: Comparative Cultural Studies; Mapping the World Note the two separate calls that follow ------------------------------------------------- Call for papers: Abstracts of papers are invited for presentation at the 19th triennial congress of the International Association of Comparative literature / Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee http://icla2010.org held at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, 15-21 August 2010. Session II Locating Culture in the Hypertextual Age: "Comparative Cultural Studies and Interculturalism in the Age of the Digital Turn." Following the postulates of comparative cultural studies (Totosy de Zepetnek 1999-), acts and processes of production, distribution, reception, and transference of cultural objects form the symbolic structure(s) of cultural phenomena which, in turn, are with impact of social (and economic) relevance. As all communicative acts, productions of art are made-up of and between interrelations among processes and participants. In turn, concepts in scholarship such as intertextuality, dialogics, comparative literature, cultural studies, comparative cultural studies, etc., describe some of the said processes taking place. In the age of digital media, the focus of argumentation has shifted to the intermedial relations between various productions of art and media as to their location of distribution, knowledge transfer, and interactive modus operandi, and an important move has been the acknowledgement that cultural performances and processes have a material substratum dependent on their mediating formats. Within the discipline of comparative cultural studies, as well as in other theoretical and applied frameworks in the humanities and social sciences, intermediality and multimodality represent innovative concepts and practices. Papers in the panel are about the principal query as to what their differences would be and how they are related and focus on 1) the theoretical study of the nature(s) of the "medium"; "modes" of communication and their cultural significance and relevance; 2) case studies where art forms, production, and processes are analyzed as metacognitive tools, that is, as staging of interrelations we find in everyday life events; and 3) the relationship between the emergence of intermedial formats and a growing awareness of the importance and social relevance of interculturalism as a concept and application. Please send abstracts in 200 words with a brief bioprofile by 15 March 2009 to Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (University of Halle-Wittenberg and National Sun Yat-sen University) at clcweb@purdue.edu and Asuncion Lopez-Varela Azcarate (Complutense University Madrid) at alopezva@filol.ucm.es Call for papers: 2009 International Conference at the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, "Mapping the World: Migration and Border-crossing, 17-18 October 2009. Migration is one of the most relevant phenomena of contemporary times and thus a prominent topic of research in the humanities and the social sciences in recent years. Migration is a result among other reasons of political persecution, economical pressures, or the pursuit of opportunities. The inquiry into aspects of migration is to study the history of human experiences from a variety of perspectives such as ethnicity, race, nation, and society. Topics of interest for the conference include migration and cityscapes; border and border crossing; the politics of frontiers; cultural assimilation and the politics of language; transformations of languages and dialects; language and nationhood; representations of the (im)migrant in literature and media; (im)migration and diaspora; travel and exploration; maritime culture, literature, and the arts; and nationalism, post-nationalism, and the (im)migrant. Abstracts of 200 words in English or Chinese with the author's bioprofile are invited by 31 March 2009 to I-Chun Wang at chsc705@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:23:40 +0000 From: Judith Deitch Subject: Printing and Urban Culture CFP In-Reply-To: CALL FOR PAPERS for a special session of the RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, VENICE, 8-10 APRIL 2010 Printing and Urban Culture in Early Modern Europe How did the establishment of printers' shops and the books they produced impact European urban centers socially, economically, intellectually? How did the presence of the new technology, new commodity, new identities contribute to a redefinition of cities and towns? Papers might investigate individual urban locales or individual printers; they might consider the impact of printing and printed books on civic or religious communities; or the role of the market in schoolbooks, university texts, humanist classics or ecclesiastical printed works. Additional approaches could include looking into the cross-border trade of printed books; the transmission or transfer of knowledge between different social groups or identities; or the routing of texts, people and ideas. The purpose of this session is to examine the premise that, in the 15th and 16th centuries, print redrew the map of Europe with regard to urban culture, both within towns and cities and across the continent. Please email a 150 word abstract and brief c.v. or personal statement to the organizer by May 1, 2009. Dr. Judith Deitch j_deitch@yorku.ca York University Department of English 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 20 11:50:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232F52CCCE; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75C962CCC0; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:50:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090220115040.75C962CCC0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:50:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.554 getting closer? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 554. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:46:06 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting closer As far as I know Andrew Brook is quite right: we are nowhere close to modelling the processes of reading -- if by "modelling" we mean constructing some kind of device, then flipping the switch and watching it go as far as it will. But we are a bit closer than that if what we mean is a modelling that (to use Susan Sontag's language) is erotic rather than hermeneutic. (I refer to her essay, "Against Interpretation", which concludes with the sentence, "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." Gillian Beer extends and exemplifies these erotics marvellously in her book Open Fields.) Back to hardware and software. I think we need to wake up to the fact that as the technology of computing has progressed from batch processing to interaction design, what one might call an erotics of and with computing has finally become possible at the level of applications in the humanities. It was certainly a reality at the level of the machines in the very early days of computing, and I would guess still is at that level today for the very few who are involved with microcode and the like. In A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (1980), N. Metropolis, after listing those who had hands-on access to the MANIAC at Los Alamos (Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Stanislaw Ulam et al), remarks as follows: "It is perhaps worthwhile mentioning that the problem originators interacted directly with the computer. With the eventual achievement of interactive capabilities and high-level languages, there may be a return to what, in retrospect, seem like halcyon days" (p. 463). So, welcome to the halcyon days! The question is, what are we doing with them? How much of our thinking remains behind in the era when one gave a computer a job to do, went away for a time and returned to inspect the result? How *in touch* are we? In a review of books by Robert Oakman and Susan Hockey in 1980, Lou Burnard commented that very little of the discussion in the wider computing literature on information retrieval and database design had been noticed by literary scholars. He noted that according to the prevailing mentality, it was as if data were "being held and processed within a computer as it if were organized in large filing cabinets, through which efficient electronic nymphs riffle to retrieve punched cards one at a time." Computing, he declared, "has now moved beyond such a self-image. Literary computing will not come of age until it recognizes this fact and adapts the new tools of of data analysis and data modelling to its own ends" (Times Literary Supplement, 9 May 1980, p. 533). We've done that, more or less, I'd suppose. But has literary computing "come of age"? I must say that as I read books such as Rolf Herken, ed., The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey, 2nd edn (1995), it is hard not to conclude that all along there was a much deeper problem, that today as much as yesterday we are dozing away in rote exercises of implementation without questioning what needs to be questioned. In Herken's book, the intellectual excitement that we should be feeling, an excitement that comes out of asking such questions, is perhaps most clearly expressed by the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen. This is how his essay begins: > One of the most remarkable confluences of ideas in modern scientific > history occurred in the few short years between the publication of > Gödel's original papers on formal undecidability in 1931, and the > work of McCulloch and Pitts on neural networks, which appeared in > 1943. During these twelve years, fundamental interrelationships were > established between logic, mathematics, the theory of the brain, and > the possibilities of digital computation, which still literally takes > one's breath away to contemplate in their full scope. It was believed > at that time, and still is today, over half a century later, that > these ideas presage a revolution as fundamental as that achieved by > Newton three centuries earlier. (p. 485) Yes, of course, at our end of the street revolutions happen much more slowly. And yes, of course, I am being rather unfair -- but deliberately in order to provoke someone more knowledgeable into spelling out what exactly, in these halcyon days we now enjoy, even in the comfort of our own studies and offices, we are doing about this revolution happening all around us. For one thing, it seems to me that we could be taking Susan Sontag's call for an erotics of art (and literature, and everything else) much more seriously. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 21 09:49:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B4C2B9FD; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:49:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3FC92B9E9; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:49:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090221094915.A3FC92B9E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:49:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.555 good advice X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 555. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:40:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: good advice I pass along some very good advice given by Kenneth May, a man who taught the history of mathematics at Toronto and who thought a bit about writing the history of computing. His article, "Historiography: A Perspective for Computer Scientists", is the first piece in a fine collection, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, ed. N Metropolis, J Howlett and Gian-Carlo Rota (Academic Press, 1980), filled with treasures, from which I have quoted before. Here's what May says: > The most important thing here is that active people in the field have > enough sense of history to realize that they should leave traces.... So, > keep in mind that although a letter, a note, a diary, report, or a > preliminary draft of a publication may be of no further interest to you > and ready to be discarded, it might be very valuable in the future. So > keep records. After all, people can throw it out later. It's impossible > for an individual to assess the value of his own papers since they may > have relevance to matters unknown to him. > > The second thing that computer people can do is to talk and write about > what they have done and are doing. It isn't enough in any science to do > things; it's necessary to communicate what has been done. But I'm > suggesting something more than the usual communication. Not only > communicate your scientific results but also talk about how they arose > who was involved, all those things that are often unrecorded. We need > memoirs. Reminiscences and memoirs that we have from the past are few > and very valuable. So yield to any inclinations to reminisce. > > And, finally, I should comment on participants becoming historians. > There are pitfalls in this, of course, because people's memories are not > precise. But that does not matter. The essence of historical scholarship > is to use memoirs and other primary sources with discretion. And so a > person who has participated shouldn't worry about the bias that he has > because of his own participation. The historians will take care of that > in due time by comparing sources, checking dates, and so on. (p. 14) The first thing, keeping traces of work done, applies to all of us, I think -- and our students, who should be taught to write down what they are doing as they do it (see www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/teaching/av1000/howto/essay-report.doc for an attempt to describe the genre of work that results). The second thing, talking about what we're doing as we do it, is of course what's behind Humanist and now loads of other such modes of communication. The third thing, writing memoirs, seems an urgent responsibility for all of us graybeards hereabouts. Having just read through Metropolis, Howlett and Rota's collection of reminiscences from the likes of Bakus, Burks, Dijkstra, Eckert, Hamming, Knuth, Mauchly, Ulam, Zuse et al -- a treasure-house of raw material for the historian -- I'm really hoping for a good harvest from those who all too soon will (to use a British idiom) pop off and thereafter become rather uncommunicative. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 21 09:49:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB832BA49; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08F7A2BA42; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:49:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090221094948.08F7A2BA42@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:49:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.556 events: logic and simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 556. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:45:01 +0000 From: LSIR-2 Subject: 2nd CfP LSIR-2 "Logic and the Simulation of Interaction and Reasoning" SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: Second Workshop on Logic and the Simulation of Interaction and Reasoning (LSIR-2) held at IJCAI-09, Pasadena CA, U.S.A., 12 July 2009 http://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=8_2 INVITED SPEAKERS. Leora Morgenstern (Hawthorne NY, United States of America) Lenhart Schubert (Rochester NY, United States of America) R. Michael Young (Raleigh NC, United States of America) SUBMISSION DEADLINE. 6 March 2009. DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP. In the past years, logicians have become more and more interested in the phenomenon of interaction and the formal modelling of social procedures and phenomena. The area Logic & Games deals with the transition from the static logical paradigm of formal proof and derivation to the dynamic world of intelligent interaction and its logical models. Modelling intelligent interaction has been an aspect of the practical work of computer game designers for a long time. Pragmatic questions such as 'What makes a storyline interesting', 'What makes an reaction natural', and 'What role do emotions play in game decisions' have been tackled by practicing programmers. The practical aspects of computer gaming reach out to a wide interdisciplinary field including psychology and cognitive science. So far, there are only a few cross-links between these two communities. LSIR-2 focuses on the relation between techniques of modern logic (such as discourse representation theory or dynamic epistemic logic) and concrete modelling problems in computer games (either as part of the story or game design or as part of the design of the artificial agents). We aim combining communities of logic, multi-agent systems, computer game design, the story understanding community, and various parts of AI dealing with the formal modelling of emotions and intentions, as well as the empirical testing of these models; we invite all researchers in these and related field to submit their abstracts of papers, in particular those that build bridges between the communities. SUBMISSION. The emphasis of the workshop is the exchange of ideas and techniques between researchers in the various fields involved, rather than the most recent technical advances. We therefore strongly encourage the submission of announcements of survey, expository, and programmatic presentations, as well as work-in-progress and presentations based on published papers. We invite all researchers in the relevant fields to submit extended abstracts of one to four pages (in the AAAI style) via the EasyChair submission page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsir2. Please use the AAAI style files for your submissions. For this, consult http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php. Longer submissions (within reasonable bounds!) are acceptable, but will not be thoroughly refereed. Abstracts co-authored by members of the programme committee are allowed (and will be reviewed and discussed strictly without involvement of the relevant PC member). Abstracts reporting on submitted or published work are also acceptable as long as there is a clear relation to the workshop topic. In the latter case, the authors should notify the PC that the paper is under consideration or has been published elsewhere. Accepted paper will be printed in the Workshop informal "Working Notes". IMPORTANT DATES. Submission Deadline: 6 March 2009. Notification. 17 April 2009. Final version due. 8 May 2009. Workshop. 12 July 2009. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE. Jan Broersen (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Rome, Italy) Frank Dignum (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, chair) Erik T. Mueller (Hawthorne NY, United States of America) Amitabha Mukherjee (Kanpur, India) Mark Overmars (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Eric Pacuit (Stanford CA, United States of America) Rohit Parikh (New York NY, United States of America) Jos Uiterwijk (Maastricht, The Netherlands) Hans van Ditmarsch (Otago, New Zealand & Aberdeen, Scotland) The main financial sponsor of the workshop is the Marie Curie research training site GLoRiClass. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 22 08:34:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE772CBD6; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:34:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B76A32CBC8; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:34:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090222083448.B76A32CBC8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:34:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.557 getting closer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 557. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:45:02 +0100 (CET) From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.554 getting closer? In-Reply-To: <20090220115040.75C962CCC0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, are you familiar with the work by J. Ignacio Serrano on computational models of reading? I certainly am not, and I have not seen his name mentioned on Humanist. He and his team seem to be proposing the network as an alternative model of what is happening when we read --- not only vectors (going through the text, accumulating meaning) or scalars (taking a word as it comes). Here are some articles of possible interest (to someone with all necessary subscriptions); the entries can also be found via http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitalHumanities : J. Ignacio Serrano and M. Dolores del Castillo and A. Iglesias. Dealing with written language semantics by a connectionist model of cognitive reading. Neurocomput., (72)4-6:713--725, Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.,Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands,2009. J.I. Serrano and M.D. del Castillo and A. Iglesias and J. Oliva. Characterizing prior knowledge-attention relationship by a computational model of cognitive reading. Neural Networks, 2008. IJCNN 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE International Joint Conference on, 881-886, 2008. J. Ignacio Serrano and M. Dolores del Castillo and Ángel Iglesias. Characterizing Individual Interest by a Computational Model of Reading. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics ICCN 2007, 539--543, 2008. J. Serrano and M. del Castillo. Text Representation by a Computational Model of Reading. Neural Information Processing, 237--246, 2006. Yours, Neven Neven Jovanovic University of Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 22 10:55:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F722DF72; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BFCBA2DF63; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:55:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090222105529.BFCBA2DF63@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:55:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.558 an illustrious predecessor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 558. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:51:10 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an illustrious predecessor The following is from Bruce Metzger, "Three Learned Printers and Their Unsung Contributions to Biblical Scholarship", The Journal of Religion 32.4 (October 1952): 254-62. Some here will find an inspirational parallel to their own professional lives, I trust. > According to Allibone's famous and useful Dictionary, William Bowyer > the younger will "long be remembered as the most learned English > printer of whom we have any account." The third generation in a line > of printers, Bowyer attended Cambridge but does not appear to have > taken a degree. In 1722 he entered the printing business with his > father. From this time until his death he was engaged in > superintending his press and contributing to various scholarly works > in the way of corrections, prefaces, annotations, and the like. > Indeed, the learned men of the day found it a great advantage to have > in the person of their printer a scholar whose erudition and > classical taste could rectify their errors and improve their > publications. Among his own scholarly productions in the field of the > classics it will be sufficient to mention two. In 1774 he published a > new edition of Cornelius Schrevelius' Greek Lexicon, to which he > added words (distinguished by an asterisk) which he had himself > collected in the course of his own studies. At the close of his life > he produced a new edition of Bentley's famous Dissertation on the > Epistles of Phalaris, inserting various learned remarks and critical > comments. It is perhaps indicative of the general reputation for > trustworthiness and accuracy in printing which the Bowyer press > enjoyed that for nearly fifty years this house printed the votes of > the House of Commons and in 1776 was appointed to print the Journal > of the House of Lords and the rolls of Parliament. > > After publishing several editions of the Textus Receptus of the Greek > New Testament (in 1715, 1728, 1743, and 1760), Bowyer decided to > produce a critical edition worthy of the reputation of his printing > house. The time-honored ecclesiastical text of the New Testament, > which goes back to the edition that Erasmus prepared "at breakneck > speed" (as he himself confessed) from a small handful of late Greek > manuscripts, had secured an almost unbroken monopoly. Only a few > hardy souls had been brave enough to question the validity of such a > universally accepted text. It is to the credit of Bowyer that he not > only questioned the validity of the Textus Receptus but published a > critical edition which in many passages anticipated general critical > opinion which was to prevail after the time of Westcott and Hort. By > a system of square brackets Bowyer marked in his text not a few > familiar passages which lacked good manuscript support.... > > In addition to marking some readings with square brackets, Bowyer > departed in many other passages from the Textus Receptus by > introducing into his printed text the reading which the better > manuscripts support. Here also he was a precursor of much of > present-day scholarship.... > > In many of these alterations of the Textus Receptus, Bowyer depended > upon the critical judgment of Johann Jakob Wettstein, who had > published his magnificent edition of the Greek New Testament at > Amsterdam in 1751 and 1752. Whereas, however, Wettstein continued to > print the Textus Receptus at the top of the page and relegated his > judgments about the better readings to his footnotes, Bowyer must be > credited with the courage of introducing many of the earlier and > better attested readings into the text itself. > > The second volume of his critical edition contains a collection of > conjectural readings which he and various other scholars had > suggested for the text and punctuation of the New Testament. Although > some, as would be expected, boggled at what they considered the > unwarranted license of several of these conjectures, the work > received the highest commendation from many scholars. In 1767, in a > letter of thanks from the president and fellows of Harvard College to > Bowyer for several benefactions of his to that college, they express > themselves as follows: “....his work, though small in bulk, we esteem > as a rich treasure of sacred learning, and of more intrinsic value > than many large volumes of the commentators.” Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 24 06:35:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535EB2C246; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC6DD2C231; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:35:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090224063525.AC6DD2C231@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:35:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.559 what if no computing in the humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 559. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:09:20 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: What if there was no computing in the humanities? Dear Willard and colleagues, I am reminded every once and a while that many don't know what we do and are not sure why there needs to be a field like humanities computing (if there even is one.) That got me trying to articulate the consequences of our work and asking: 1. What if humanists didn't use computing? What would be different, if anything? What would we have lost? 2. What if there were no humanists interested in computing and its applications to the humanities? What would be different? Would anyone notice? It seems to me that we should have answers to such questions, even if we can't say for sure what the outcomes of our research will be over the long term. Does anyone care to reassure me with answers? 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 24 06:37:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FAF2C30C; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 21CDD2C2F8; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090224063722.21CDD2C2F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.560 new digital project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 560. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:17:42 -0000 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: New digital project at IHR Dear Colleague, [Please redistribute to relevant parties] A major new project entitled 'Early English Laws' has started at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London. The project aims to edit or re-edit, translate, introduce and comment on all 142 early legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215, and to make these materials available online.For more information, please visit www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ Thanks, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer EARLY ENGLISH LAWS Institute of Historical Research, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Direct line: 020 7862 8787 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 25 06:56:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21662CD34; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:56:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89CF12CD1E; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:56:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090225065644.89CF12CD1E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:56:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.561 what if none? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org 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. 22, No. 561. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:21:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.559 what if no computing in the humanities? In-Reply-To: <20090224063525.AC6DD2C231@woodward.joyent.us> To start with, there wouldn't be any eBooks. . . . Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 25 06:57:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B132CD88; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:57:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C84962CD78; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:57:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090225065719.C84962CD78@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:57:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.562 Laura Borras? Digital resources? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1655984449==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1655984449== Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 562. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: René Audet (23) Subject: More about Laura Borras? [2] From: Christine Madsen (17) Subject: How useful are digital resources? Last chance to share your thoughts! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:59:06 -0500 From: René Audet Subject: More about Laura Borras? Hi everyone, Someone just let know around that Laura Borras Castanyer would have been recently fired, for unclear reasons, from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Laura is one of the most prolific scholar in hispanic world on digital literature and culture (see her CV here : http://www.uoc.edu/in3/hermeneia/CV/lborras_cv/lborras_cv.htm) et and she is well-known around the world for its active involvement in this field. She created the Hermeneia group a few years ago, is on the Literary Advisory Board of the Electronic Literature Organization and was organizing the E-Poetry 2009 festival (which may be cancelled for that reason). Does anyone have more information on the case, or know how the academic world can react to change that situation? Regards, Rene Audet ______________________________________________________________ Rene Audet Professeur, Departement des litteratures Titulaire, Chaire de recherche du Canada en litterature contemporaine Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la litterature et la culture quebecoises (CRILCQ) Universite Laval, Quebec mail rene.audet@lit.ulaval.ca web http://contemporain.info --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:01:26 +0000 From: Christine Madsen Subject: How useful are digital resources? Last chance to share your thoughts! Dear all, The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford, and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are currently involved in a study of the impact of digital resources in the Humanities. We are collecting feedback on how these resources are being used. Many thanks to those of you who have already contributed to our survey. The survey will be running until Friday March 6th. If you haven't completed the survey, but would like to, please follow this link: http://survey.oii.ox.ac.uk/Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=Use_of_Digital_Resources This survey takes most participants under 20 minutes to complete. Your feedback will only reach us if you reach the end of the survey and click 'submit'. The statistical results will be publicly reported, but all information provided by individuals will be anonymized and not tied to any individual. If you would like the results of the survey e-mailed to you, there will be an opportunity at the end of the survey to provide an e-mail address for this purpose. For more on this project: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51 Many thanks! Christine _____________________ Christine McCarthy Madsen Oxford Internet Institute 1 St. Giles :: Oxford OX1 3JS christine.madsen@oii.ox.ac.uk --===============1655984449== 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 --===============1655984449==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 25 06:58:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4428C2CE3C; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:58:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5932C2CE20; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:58:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090225065811.5932C2CE20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:58:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.563 events: Shortness at the Tate; Metadata for medievalists X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 563. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gerhard Brey (53) Subject: Call_for_Submissions: Shortness at the Tate Modern [2] From: Dot Porter (47) Subject: Workshops at Kalamazoo: Metadata for Medievalists --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:30:09 +0000 From: Gerhard Brey Subject: Call_for_Submissions: Shortness at the Tate Modern > From: "Konstantinos Stefanis" > Date: 23 February 2009 13:14:20 GMT > > > Apologies for cross-posting > > > Call for Submissions – Shortness - Tate Modern - 20 June 2009 > > shortness – a very short conference and a very long dinner > > > Deadline Friday 20 March 2009 > > > This event will bring together practitioners and theoreticians of > the humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss, > explore and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal > manifestations. > > Topics that Shortness aims to cover include: aphorisms, txt msgs, > short attention spans, nanophilology, music samples, ephemeral > relationships, short narratives, punch lines, orgasms and other > short-lived entities and phenomena (insects and fashion). > > The conference itself will only last a few hours and will be > followed by a very long dinner. Guests will be entertained by short > dinner speeches and the whole event will be supplemented by short > films and various interventions. > > This call invites submissions for presentations or performances of > up to 7 minutes to take place during the long dinner. Please note > that we cannot cover any expenses incurred nor can we accommodate > installations. > > Speakers include DJ Spooky, Sadie Plant, Tom Shakespeare, Clare > Wigfall and Steven Connor amongst others. The Compère for the dinner > will be Nicholas Parsons. > > > Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to the organisers > and include a short bio of no more than 100 words. > > Contact: > > short.at.tate@googlemail.com > > > Shortness is organised by Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis, > Ricarda Vidal and Tate Modern Public Programmes in collaboration > with The London Consortium and the Institute of Germanic & Romance > Studies, School of Advanced Study (University of London). > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:24:24 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: Workshops at Kalamazoo: Metadata for Medievalists In-Reply-To: <96f3df640902230956l33c4dff5y3437f0235531abd7@mail.gmail.com> [apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely] The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). Workshop registration online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d 1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian. Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.). Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dot Porter is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics. Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required. The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65. To register, complete the online form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at jimb@uca.edu Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at dot.porter@gmail.com -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 25 08:44:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED862BC6B; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:44:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E93FE2BC57; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:44:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090225084406.E93FE2BC57@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:44:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.564 back to the 13th Century! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 564. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:37:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: back to the 13th Century! In "The Development of Research Tools in the Thirteenth Century", in their book, Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame, 1991), Mary A. and Richard H. Rouse describe the sudden appearance and character of a new genre, "works designed to be used, rather than read": the alphabetical collections of biblical distinctiones, verbal concordances, alphabetical subject indexes and location lists. What they say about these research tools will resonate with many here: > Even though, in the thirteenth century, the various reference tools > emerged in many milieus simultaneously, independently of one another > and among communities quite different superficially, they all bear a > certain family resemblance. These tools embody the concept of > utility, of plain practical usefulness. They are made to be used, as > the humble word "tool" implies and as these devices themselves repeat > time and again in their prologues: "ad utilitatem predicandi," "ad > utilitatem simplicium maxime, quosdam casus utiles," "valde utilis ad > predicandum," "utilem et salutarem scientiam apprehenderis," and so > on. But there is a further level, a second tier of utility, so to > speak: These tools are intended, as well, to help the reader use the > texts to which they are keys. The notion that the text of the Bible, > or the works of the Fathers of the Church, should be useful would > have been strange, and likely repugnant, to monastic thought. But a > preacher composing sermon after sermon, a teacher looking for the > authoritative quotation that would support his argument, a writer > seeking an appropriate phrase, would feel very much at home with the > utilitarian attitude inherent in reference tools. For example, Robert > Kilwardby explains that his index pertains not merely to the text of > Augustine's De Trinitate but to Augustine's chapter-prologues as > well, "because they contain many useful things" (quoniam utilia plura > continent). Tools were both conceived and used for practical > purposes. > > In order to render the tools both useful and usable, their creators > devised new techniques and applied old techniques in new ways, often > in quite individualistic and idiosyncratic fashion. For that reason, > in examining the techniques of tool-making we must remember that this > is less a question of technical evolution than an untidy mix of > adoption, adaptation, and innovation of techniques. (pp. 239-40) Rouse and Rouse ascribe three main reasons why these tools were created, "when Western religiosity and Western instruction had thus far been content with the minimum of technical apparatus, that the thirteenth century saw the creation of a multitude of reference tools and aids to searching": (1) the needs of preachers, stimulated by the church's renewed emphasis on preaching and inspired by "an evangelical return to the original sources and a faith-inspired search for appropriate tools"; (2) as a result, scholarly "attention on treating the text as an integral whole, even to the extent of valuing the integrity of an author's oeuvre"; (3) hence the growth of professionalism and professional training, in the universities, creating an audience for the new tools. "Much the most impressive scholarly tool of the thirteenth century was the verbal concordance to the Bible, created by the Order of Preachers at the University of Paris" (p. 251), as many here will know. Rouse and Rouse go on to point out that the concordance, like the other tools, was first produced by conservative traditionalists for traditional purposes, as "a means of penetrating as deeply as possible into the core of the Christian tradition". But then, one might say, the tools took on a life of their own in the hands of other scholars, who "quickly recognized both the value and the flexibility of the index-creating such tools, for example, to facilitate access to newly preached sermons of Fishacre, or to newly translated works of Aristotle. The schools of law and of medicine borrowed the theologians' invention to create indexes and other alphabetical reference tools adapted to the needs of their own professions" (p. 251). The effects? R&R quote one scholar who has argued that such tools caused preachers and writers to turn away from reading whole texts and so were "in large part responsible for what he saw as the declining vitality of expression that marked the late Middle Ages". They comment: > If a writer used such tools mechanically, the results were > predictably insipid. But if tools were used to find a sought-for item > of information, they instead represented a positive factor, in the > sense that they afforded a writer greater flexibility and freer > expression. They find a corollary for the modern historian of the period, who "must, in other words, study not only an author's thought but his working methods. Too often, it is the unsuspected reference tool that has, in fact, set the literary horizons of an author" (p. 254). Referring to the now standard argument for the sea-change brought about by printing, R&R conclude: > The entirety of these thirteenth-century scholarly tools comprises > the foundation of all later attempts to provide access to the written > heritage.... The fact remams that indexes and other finding tools > were invented because there was need for them-not because it was > easy, or practical, to make them at a certain time. In devising these > tools, medieval man pushed the manuscript book to the very limits of > precision; and in the final analysis the uniformity and much greater > precision of the printed book were essential before the reference > tool could advance further. It is certainly true, as well, that many > works were alphabetically indexed for the first time upon first > printing. Both the methods and the motives, however, were inherited > from the Middle Ages. (pp. 254-5) Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 06:48:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7F42E895; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 877D72E88C; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:47:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227064759.877D72E88C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.565 what if none? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 565. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (73) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.561 what if none? [2] From: "Goldfield, Joel" (38) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.559 what if no computing in the humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:39:14 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.561 what if none? In-Reply-To: <20090225065644.89CF12CD1E@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I'd like to add a large multiplier/efficiency effect. We're nearing the completion of the first stage of an electronic edition of a Dutch early print version of Bartholomeus Anglicus' *De proprietatibus rerum*. (You know the problems: one witness, non OCR-able, geographically dispersed researchers, trained researchers necessary for quality transcription/edition.) We were able to leverage the production power of about 20 transcribers (both professional scholars as well as formally trained scholars that are not employed in the field). The 1000 pages were transcribed, collated and annotated in under 1 year. A basic on line edition through our semi-automated publishing framework will become available in July this year. This was only possible through: - the Internet - digital facsimiles - collaborative on line scholarly editing - tools to do so which were specific to the work of and usable by humanities scholars - those tools being provided by humanities computing Traditional work flow (less transcribers, circulating transcriptions and photo's by mail, merging versions by hand, cooperating with publishers and printers) would have taken years and a rise of costs in order of magnitude; in effect the reasons why the project wasn't undertaken prior to the existence of the digital tools. So at least Humanities Computing has the ability to make scarce sources abundant, leverage the power of researchers to edit/publish/comment and analyse sources, to progress scholarly research into collaborative research, and to lower (production) costs on the side. y.s., Joris van Zundert -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert, MA Dept. of Software R & D Huygens Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information can be found at http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, for more information please refer to http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=126&lang=en --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:27:53 -0500 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.559 what if no computing in the humanities? In-Reply-To: <20090225065644.89CF12CD1E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Geoffrey, I hope that that experiment is never run in actuality. But to say what things would be like for humanists, many of us could force our memories of research way back to the early 1980's and before. The short answer might be: 1) physical library visits, notebooks and typewriters would be prevalent, and; 2) the length of time between collegial as well as mental connections would be far longer than now. The difference would certainly be noticeable if only non-humanists were indeed using computers. They'd be chuckling at our continual distribution of typewritten handouts, use of transparencies and paper banners at presentations or in the classroom, and our writing for most of the class on the board instead of using a data projector and computer. Regards, Joel Goldfield _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 06:50:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480D22E92D; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:50:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B789B2E925; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:50:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227065047.B789B2E925@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:50:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.566 no idle vision X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 566. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:04:13 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: no idle vision Consider the following vision of the world as it appeared to one anonymous American at the middle of the 19th Century, in "The Spirit of the Times; or, The Fast Age", United States Democratic Review 33.8 (1853): 259-63: > We can now do more in a day, than we could in a week twenty years > ago.... The present discoveries of science are thus bringing us back, > not the length of years, but what is far better--the ability to > accomplish as much in our seventy, as [once people] did in their five > hundred years; and as science progresses, we shall doubtless extend > our capacity of living even beyond the Methuselah limit.... In > machinery the improvements are equally rapid.... The human race very > soon need not toil, but merely direct: hard work will be done by > steam... Steam itself, with its seventy miles an hour, is voted too > slow; and electricity is fast superseding the iron horse....and as > all progression is geometrical, our answer is more likely to be > understated than exaggerated.... In less than fifty years, we shall > have electric communication with every place on earth.... Men and > women will then have no harassing cares, or laborious duties to > fulfil. Machinery will perform all work--automata will direct them. > The only task of the human race will be to make love, study, and be > happy.... Then we shall be present at all ends of the earth at > once--we shall have omniscience laid on... our newspapers must then > be issued every hour to keep up with the spread of knowledge--for we > shall all have the occurrences of the world brought before us as they > happen.... but the perfection of machinery will render newspapers > unnecessary-- every man will have a room specially dedicated to > science. There, upon a tablet on the wall, will a mechanical stylus > trace down the news flashing over the wires of that wonderful > machine, which may truly be called the nervous system of Nature.... > This is no idle vision; it is the result of a common rule in > arithmetic... Rushing back in thought a couple of centuries to the > spot where New York stands, and thinking of it then, and looking at > it now, who can doubt the sketch we have drawn of this day next fifty > years? One can, of course, rejoice in clarity of vision here, apocalyptic dreaming there, and so find what was going to be, one might think, amidst poppycock and balderdash. But it's more interesting to contemplate how that moment in 1853 looked to someone who was willing to imagine the possibilities. Where he (almost certainly not she) was being hopelessly edenic, it is also worthwhile, I think, to consider predictions of more immediate relevance to ourselves, much closer to our own time. Take, for example, his libidinal vision, in which we do nothing but what we still dream of doing exclusively. Consider its dark side -- "machinery will perform ALL work"! Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 06:52:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3CB2E9B1; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:52:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DE1E62E9AA; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:52:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227065206.DE1E62E9AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:52:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.567 Laura Borras X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 567. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.562 Laura Borras? Digital resources? [2] From: Dene Grigar (180) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.562 Laura Borras? Digital resources? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:18:05 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.562 Laura Borras? Digital resources? In-Reply-To: <20090225065719.C84962CD78@woodward.joyent.us> Regarding Laura Borras, there's a posting on the GrandTextAuto blog that details the situation: http://grandtextauto.org/2009/02/25/uoc-please-reconsider/ I met Laura when she came to Maryland in 2007 for our symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature. She is a dynamic and important scholar. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:25:01 -0800 From: Dene Grigar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.562 Laura Borras? Digital resources? In-Reply-To: <20090225065719.C84962CD78@woodward.joyent.us> Here is the letter that the Board of Directors sent in support for Laura Borras Castanyer. We encourage others to send letters as well: Dear Manuel Castells, I was given your contact information as the person currently directing research at the institution where until very recently Laura Borràs Castanyer was a researcher and teacher. As I am sure you and your colleagues appreciate, the dismissal of a tenured professor, and one so very active internationally, is cause for concern among the profession generally. I write in my capacity as President of the Electronic Literature Organization, a para-institutional group of writers and scholars producing literary works and standards for best practices in programmable media and electronic environments. The Executive Board of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) expresses deep regret and concern over the firing of Laura. It is our understanding that the dismissal of Professor Borràs from the university stems from a misconception of her lack of professional service. We would like to state for the record that Laura is a dynamic presence on the ELO’s Literary Advisory Board and a force in the area of electronic literature. You will find signatures from other members of the Board who like me are concerned about this issue. My own encounter with Professor Borràs, even before I attended her dynamic lectures at our two most recent international colloquia, was in an essay she published detailing her teaching practices developed in coordination with the European program of action eLearning 2001. That essay appeared in The Aesthetics of Net Literature, the landmark volume from the Media Upheavals group in Siegen, Germany. Above all, in this essay I value Professor Borràs’s insistence that technologies should not be bought off the shelf and implemented instrumentally but should be designed with literary and scholarly concerns foremost. Her demonstrated ability to fund these pedagogical activities so they are recognized and disseminated widely, is invaluable to the overall field development. Hermeneia, the digital media group Professor Borràs founded at the University of Catalunya, is one of a handful of organizations with academic ties that leads the world in the support for digital narratives and ePoetry. Its work in providing funding for digital art and ongoing research in electronic literature is recognized in the US and beyond. Additionally, her participation in The Future of Electronic Literature Conference and Visionary Landscapes: The Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference are evidence of her international reputation and the respect held for her vision and work. Laura’s firing would place the University of Catalunya in a negative light with researchers involved in electronic literature and digital media. We would like officials to reconsider their actions and reinstate her in her position. For the ELO Board of Directors, Dr. Joseph Tabbi Professor of Literature University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Dene Grigar Associate Professor of Digital Technology and Culture Washington State University Vancouver Dr. Mark Marino Writer, University of California Dr. Stuart Moulthrop Writer, University of Baltimore Stephanie Strickland Director, Electronic Literature Organization Dene Grigar, PhD Associate Professor and Program Director Digital Technology and Culture Washington State University Vancouver 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686 grigar@vancouver.wsu.edu Office Voice: 360-546-9487 MMC 102G Web: www.nouspace.net/dene _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 06:53:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EA32EA18; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:53:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1F3B2EA11; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:53:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227065308.A1F3B2EA11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:53:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.568 DHQ 3.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 568. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:21:08 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 3.1 now available We're very happy to announce the publication of the new issue of DHQ: DHQ 3.1 (Winter 2009) A special issue in honor of Ross Scaife: "Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure" Guest editors: Melissa Terras and Gregory Crane http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Table of Contents Acknowledgements and Dedications Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Brent Seales, University of Kentucky; Melissa Terras, University College London Ross Scaife (1960-2008) Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Philology Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Brent Seales, University of Kentucky; Melissa Terras, University College London Technology, Collaboration, and Undergraduate Research Christopher Blackwell, Furman University; Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross Tachypaedia Byzantina: The Suda On Line as Collaborative Encyclopedia Anne Mahoney, Tufts University Exploring Historical RDF with Heml Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison University Digitizing Latin Incunabula: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri-Kansas City Citation in Classical Studies Neel Smith, College of the Holy Cross Digital Criticism: Editorial Standards for the Homer Multitext Casey Dué, University of Houston, Texas; Mary Ebbott, College of the Holy Cross Epigraphy in 2017 Hugh Cayless, University of North Carolina; Charlotte Roueché, King's College London; Tom Elliott, New York University; Gabriel Bodard, King's College London Digital Geography and Classics Tom Elliott, New York University; Sean Gillies, New York University What Your Teacher Told You is True: Latin Verbs Have Four Principal Parts Raphael Finkel, University of Kentucky; Gregory Stump, University of Kentucky Computational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography Gregory Crane, Tufts University; David Bamman, Tufts University Classics in the Million Book Library Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Alison Babeu, Tufts University; David Bamman, Tufts University; Thomas Breuel, Technical University of Kaiserslautern; Lisa Cerrato, Tufts University; Daniel Deckers, Hamburg University; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt-University, Berlin; David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Rashmi Singhal, Tufts University; David A. Smith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Amir Zeldes, Humboldt-University, Berlin Conclusion: Cyberinfrastructure, the Scaife Digital Library and Classics in a Digital age Christopher Blackwell, Furman University; Gregory Crane, Tufts University Best wishes from the DHQ editorial team _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 06:54:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D3C2EA9E; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:54:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B94462EA8C; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:54:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227065436.B94462EA8C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:54:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.569 cfp: CATaC'10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 569. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:51:18 -0600 From: Charles Ess Subject: CATaC'10 - first CFP Colleagues, With the usual apologies for duplication and request for appropriate cross-posting - On behalf of the Local and Program Chairs, and the CATaC Executive Committee, I'm very pleased to pass on to you the first CFP for CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) '10: diffusion 2.0: computing, mobility, and the next generations. Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dates: 15-18 June, 2010. The CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values and practices) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: Mobile technologies in developing countries New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing "culture" Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought. See submissions for information about submitting papers and formatting guidelines. Please see the conference web site - http://www.catacconference.org - for further details regarding accommodations, submission procedures, etc. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Vancouver in 2010! Local Chair: Leah Macfadyen (UBC)Local Co-Chair: Kenneth Reeder (UBC) Program Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna) Executive Committee: Lorna Heaton (Université de Montréal, Canada) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway) Fay Sudweeks (co-chair, CATaC) Charles Ess (co-chair, 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 08:37:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BE32E815; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:37:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 934432E803; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:36:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227083658.934432E803@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.570 dissertation prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 570. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:30:35 +0000 From: Carlos Areces Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions This message was originally submitted by areces@PLUTON.LORIA.FR 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 (88 lines) ------------------ E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2009 call for submissions Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2008. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Inter-disciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2008 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2009). Respectively, nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in other language than English and defended in 2007 and 2008 will be accepted for consideration this year, too. Prize. ~~~~~~ The prize consists of: * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to bethaward2008@gmail.com. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to goranko@maths.wits.ac.za or policriti@dimi.uniud.it, with a cc to bethaward2008@gmail.com. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 16, 2009. Notification of Decision: July 1, 2009. Committee : * Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham) * Wojciech Buszkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) * Didier Caucal (IGM-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (chair) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alexander Koller (Saarland University) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (Università di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Colin Stirling (University of Edinburgh) ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 08:37:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36BD2E905; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:37:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 209B52E8DC; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:37:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227083735.209B52E8DC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:37:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.571 HASTAC forum: What's going on in digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 571. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:35:19 -0500 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: What's Going On in Digital Humanities? A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum An announcement from HASTAC.org What’s Going On in Digital Humanities? A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/02-16-09Whats-Going-On-in-Digital-Humanities In the recent HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on “The Future of the Digital Humanities” featuring Brett Bobley of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities, Willard McCarty weighed in from King's College London suggesting that instead of trying to categorize the digital humanities as a “discipline” or an “attitude,” we should instead “ask, ‘What's going on?’ and note how differently humanities computing is playing out across the various digital humanities. In other words, ask not what the practice is, rather where we're going and what sort of institutional arrangements suit that going best.” And so, as a follow up to our recent forum, and with nods to both Erving Goffman and Marvin Gaye, we raise the question: “What’s going on in the digital humanities today?” Since the forum opened on Monday, February 16, we have invited everyone to report on how the digital humanities are playing out in your institution, organization, or location, and the invitation continues. Tell us about the innovative projects you are launching, the groups you are forming, the support you are finding or lacking, the training you are receiving or offering and the courses you are teaching or taking. We hope you will join this forum facilitated by HASTAC Scholars Staci Shultz and Isabel Millan and help us see “what’s going on in the digital humanities” today! To access the forum, please visit: http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/02-16-09Whats-Going-On-in-Digital-Humanities Staci Shultz is a PhD student in the Joint Program in English & Education at the University of Michigan. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in English from Boston College. Her dissertation focuses on college students’ participation in online fandoms and the ways in particular that fan fiction sites sponsor literacy practices. Research on emerging spaces and discourses, she argues, can lead to more innovative, relevant, and engaging composition pedagogy that taps into students’ experiences in the extracurriculum. Isabel A. Millan is a doctoral student in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her master’s degree in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and her bachelor’s degree in both Anthropology and Women’s Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include new media/digital technologies and globalization; children’s literature and multimedia; transnational feminist, queer and critical race theories. She is especially interested in the responsible development and usage of technology, and is also a strong advocate of technology’s role in education and community networking/mobilization. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 27 08:39:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1C22EAE3; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:39:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EBA32EAB3; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:39:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090227083904.9EBA32EAB3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:39:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.572 events: digital reproduction; textual studies; logic; CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 572. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jan Staudek (46) Subject: MEMICS 2009, 1st CFP [2] From: Carlos Areces (31) Subject: Last Call for Papers HyLo09 [3] From: Barbara Bordalejo (22) Subject: cfp: MLA 2009, Research in the Age of Digital Reproduction [4] From: "Allison, Jonathan" (11) Subject: SAMLA 2009 Call for Papers, TEXTUAL STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:01:03 +0000 From: Jan Staudek Subject: MEMICS 2009, 1st CFP 5th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2009 http://www.memics.cz November 13--15, 2009, Hotel Prestige, Znojmo, Czech Republic Call for Papers The MEMICS 2009 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. The aim: To provide a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science with an emphasis on methods for developing reliable and secure computer systems. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following (though not exclusive) areas: software and hardware dependability, computer security, parallel and distributed computing, formal analysis and verification, simulation, testing and diagnostics, GRID computing, computer networks, modern hardware and its design, non-traditional computing architectures, quantum computing, and all related areas of theoretical computer science. Invited talks: Several invited talks by distinguished researchers from various areas of interest of the workshop will be a part of the programme. Involvement: Students are invited to submit a regular paper or a presentation. A regular paper is a previously unpublished original work, not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style. A presentation reflects recent outstanding work that has been published (or is accepted) at a leading computer science conference or in a recognized scientific journal, and shall be submitted in the form of a one-page abstract which will also appear in the proceedings. Detailed instructions are available at the web page http://www.memics.cz/. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Dates: The deadline for the submissions is September 14, 2009, but all regular papers also have to be registered one week before this deadline. The authors will be notified about review results by October 14, and the final camera-ready versions of all accepted submissions are expected by October 22. Venue: The workshop will be held in Znojmo, a beautiful town on the Austrian borders famous for a number of examples of medieval architecture and nearby vineyards. Tourist attractions here include the Gothic Church of St. Nicholas, the town hall's Gothic tower, and the Romanesque rotunda. There is also an ancient castle atop a nearby hill. General Chair Tomas Vojnar, Brno Programme Committee Co-Chairs Petr Hlineny, Brno Vaclav Matyas, Brno Tomas Vojnar, Brno Organizing Committee Chair Jan Staudek, Brno --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:45:38 +0000 From: Carlos Areces Subject: Last Call for Papers HyLo09 CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2009 (HyLo 2009) "Conmemorating the Ten Years of HyLo" http://hylo.loria.fr/content/Hylo09 15 - 17 July, 2009 Nancy, France *************************************************************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications, as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. But more generally, the topic of HyLo 2009 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery (like nominals, satisfaction operators, binders, etc) but also extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power in one way or other. HyLo 2009 will be an special event, conmemorating the ten years since the organization of the first HyLo workshop in 1999. HyLo 2009 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:47:17 +0000 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: cfp: MLA 2009, Research in the Age of Digital Reproduction > From: Robin Schulze > Date: 26 February 2009 20:32:52 GMT > To: rgs3@psu.edu > > > CALL FOR PAPERS: Making Research: Research in the Age of Digital > Reproduction (MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, 27-30 December > 2009, panel sponsored by the MLA’s Division on Methods of Literary > Research ): What role(s) do electronic resources play in > literary research; what role(s) should they play in the future? > Papers may treat any form of “digital reproduction”of primary or > secondary sources (electronic citation indexes; full text and > other databases; digital archives of documents, images, sound > files; texts made available via mass digitization) as well as born- > digital materials and digital communication (social networking, > blogs, etc).. Potential topics include: what we have vs. what > we need; digital possibilities (new questions, new paradigms and > methodologies, transformative interdisciplinarity) vs. digital > limits (of materials, of technology, of institutional structures); > how to integrate digitally focused research into teaching, graduate > training, faculty evaluation, tenure and promotion. 250 word > abstracts emailed to Maura Ives (m-ives at tamu dot edu) by March > 20, 2009. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:57:39 +0000 From: "Allison, Jonathan" Subject: SAMLA 2009 Call for Papers, TEXTUAL STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM CALL FOR PAPERS: Teaching Textual Studies: STS Affiliate Panel at SAMLA, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, Atlanta, 6-8 November 2009. This session welcomes proposals on approaches to teaching textual studies, broadly defined, including scholarly editing, electronic editing, editorial theory, editorial case studies, and use of archives and/or electronic archives. Proposals on teaching particular scholarly or critical editions would be welcome. Proposals that discuss particular class sequences on particular topics, or class sequences taught in the context of a course dealing with “Bibliography, Textuality and Research Methods” (or variants thereof) would be especially welcome. Please send 250-word abstract by 1st May 2009, to session chair, Jonathan Allison at jalliso@uky.edu or the Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. Alternatively, write to the session secretary, Catherine Paul at catpaul@bellsouth.net or the Department of English, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634. Jonathan Allison Associate Chair Department of English 1215 Patterson Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 email jalliso@uky.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 28 07:48:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B932E5B5; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:48:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A5682E5A2; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:48:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090228074814.5A5682E5A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:48:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.573 Laura Borras X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 573. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:41:57 -0600 From: joseph tabbi Subject: Laura Borras Dear Rene Audet, Your note to the Humanist group was forwarded to me by Matt Kirschenbaum. During the past few days, there has been active discussion among members of the e-poetries group and the board of the ELO. In response to this news, I drafted a letter that you are welcome to post to your list. (In the meantime, ELO board members Kirschenbaum and Rita Rayley have signed on, and I understand that several individuals from the e-poetries group have also written supporting letters): ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: joseph tabbi Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM To: mcastellso@uoc.edu Cc: "Tabbi, Joseph" , rectora@uoc.edu, jpujolar@uoc.edu, eaibar@uoc.edu, aros@uoc.edu, comite_empresa@uoc.edu Dear Manuel Castells, I was given your contact information as the person currently directing research at the institution where until very recently Laura Borràs Castanyer was a researcher and teacher. As I am sure you and your colleagues appreciate, the dismissal of a tenured professor, and one so very active internationally, is cause for concern among the profession generally. I write in my capacity as President of the Electronic Literature Organization, a para-institutional group of writers and scholars producing literary works and standards for best practices in programmable media and electronic environments. The Executive Board of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) expresses deep regret and concern over the firing of Laura. It is our understanding that the dismissal of Professor Borràs from the university stems from a misconception of her lack of professional service. We would like to state for the record that Laura is a dynamic presence on the ELO’s Literary Advisory Board and a force in the area of electronic literature. You will find signatures from other members of the Board who like me are concerned about this issue. My own encounter with Professor Borràs, even before I attended her dynamic lectures at our two most recent international colloquia, was in an essay she published detailing her teaching practices developed in coordination with the European program of action eLearning 2001. That essay appeared in The Aesthetics of Net Literature, the landmark volume from the Media Upheavals group in Siegen, Germany. Above all, in this essay I value Professor Borràs’s insistence that technologies should not be bought off the shelf and implemented instrumentally but should be designed with literary and scholarly concerns foremost. Her demonstrated ability to fund these pedagogical activities so they are recognized and disseminated widely, is invaluable to the overall field development. Hermeneia, the digital media group Professor Borràs founded at the University of Catalunya, is one of a handful of organizations with academic ties that leads the world in the support for digital narratives and ePoetry. Its work in providing funding for digital art and ongoing research in electronic literature is recognized in the US and beyond. Additionally, her participation in The Future of Electronic Literature Conference and Visionary Landscapes: The Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference are evidence of her international reputation and the respect held for her vision and work. Laura’s firing would place the University of Catalunya in a negative light with researchers involved in electronic literature and digital media. We would like officials to reconsider their actions and reinstate her in her position. For the ELO Board of Directors, Dr. Joseph Tabbi Professor of Literature University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Dene Grigar Associate Professor of Digital Technology and Culture Washington State University Vancouver Dr. Mark Marino Writer, University of California Dr. Stuart Moulthrop Writer, University of Baltimore Stephanie Strickland Director, Electronic Literature Organization _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 28 07:49:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014F42E640; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D617E2E62E; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:49:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090228074907.D617E2E62E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:49:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.574 postdoc opportunity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 574. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:10:51 +0000 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: Postdoc position on Description Logics and Rules in Bozen-Bolzano(Italy) Job: Postdoc position at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Duration: 3 years, renewable (by mutual consent) for another 3 years Topics: Knowledge Representation, Description Logics, Rules Language requirement: English Application deadline: 25 March 2009 ============================================================ The KRDB research centre at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/) seeks applicant for a postdoctoral position. The bulk of the research to be carried out is in the context of the ONTORULE project (http://ontorule-project.eu/), and is concerned with the application of Description Logics to business rules and the combination of production rule and Description Logic formalisms. Both representational adequacy and computational complexity play important roles in such combinations. Candidates must have a strong research record and a solid background in description and/or modal logics. Experience with first-order modal and fixed-point logics, and to a lesser extent experience with active rule languages such as production rules, is considered desirable, but by no means mandatory. ============================================================ How to apply ============================================================ Please fill in the forms A, B and C that may be found at the following locations, and submit them to the address indicated on the forms: http://www.unibz.it/it/organisation/vacancies/research/nonpermanent/default.html?call=614 http://www.unibz.it/de/organisation/vacancies/research/nonpermanent/default.html?call=614 Unfortunately, the forms are only available in Italian and in German. Note that *neither* Italian *nor* German is required for this position. If you intend to apply but do not understand Italian or German (or do not understand the complicated forms), please let Jos de Bruijn know, so that he can help you fill in the forms. If you have any further questions related to the position, please don't hesitate to contact Jos at the address above. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 28 07:52:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941E52E6D7; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:52:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E26E2E6C2; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:52:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090228075208.0E26E2E6C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:52:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.575 disciplinary standards in the digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 575. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Brent Nelson (25) Subject: disciplinary standards in digital humanities [2] From: Allison Muri (37) Subject: Re: disciplinary standards in digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:48:10 +0000 From: Brent Nelson Subject: disciplinary standards in digital humanities I am drafting language for our departmental standards document that will explain the nature of digital humanities projects, describe their particular nature and value, and establish some guidelines for evaluating and establishing merit, all of this over against the more standard forms of publication in our discipline. I know this comes up again and again in discussions at digital humanities conference, and I know the MLA has tried to tackle this issue in their 2006 report. But does anyone know of any particular documentation that has been put together for departmental, college, or university standards documents? Or is there a forum where these sort of standards have been discussed? Sincerely hoping for answers, Brent Nelson -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ======================= my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson@arts.usask.ca ======================= --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:49:20 +0000 From: Allison Muri Subject: Re: disciplinary standards in digital humanities In-Reply-To: <49A87B90.6070302@usask.ca> Hi Brent, There are some pretty good guidelines approved by UVic "Report On Academic Computing Recognition" http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/CompRecog.html See also: "Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project" at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/4806/. The University of Virginia Office of the Dean document on "Evaluating Digital Scholarship, Promotion & Tenure Cases" http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/dean/facultyemployment/evaluating_digital_scholarship.html This site provides a link to Mount Holyoke College's "Guidelines for Evaluating Faculty Research, Teaching and Community Service in the Digital Age" http://www.mtholyoke.edu/committees/facappoint/guidelines.shtml Also, University of Nebraska, Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities has a great page with helpful links, "Promotion & Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities" http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/promotion_and_tenure.php The American Associaton for History and Computing has done some work in this area. See: "Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review, and Promotion Introduction" posting http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Albion&month=0012&week=b&msg=wWhZMfxG/YvT3mmZCRbnuQ&user=&pw= ...and the book Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process, Edited by Deborah Lines Andersen, State University of New York, Albany (2004) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/utis/2004/00000020/00000005/art00011 It can also be previewed on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=KpxeB42RjeEC&dq=Digital+Scholarship+in+the+Tenure,+Promotion,+and+Review+Process&source=bn&ei=-4KoSbGaJIKOsQPW_YzZDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=book-thumbnail The bibliography in this book is pretty helpful. The report 'Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences" notes that "policies for tenure and promotion that recognize and reward digital scholarship and scholarly communication; recognition should be given not only to scholarship that uses the humanities and social science cyberinfrastructure but also to scholarship that contributes to its design, construction, and growth." I think this is a very important point to include in language re. tenure and promotion: design, construction, and maintenance of digital projects is rarely considered -- at least in my experience -- as part of the academic merit of a digital humanities project, especially by those who do not do this kind of work. It's invisible. See also: "Tenure, Promotion and Digital Publication" by Joseph Raben in Digital Humanities Quarterly (2007) http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/1/000006.html Cheers, Allison .................................................... Allison Muri Department of English University of Saskatchewan 9 Campus Drive Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A5 http://headlesschicken.ca 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 28 08:01:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9609C2E9F3; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:01:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4C412E9E0; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:00:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090228080057.B4C412E9E0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:00:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.576 culpae nostrae! Fr Busa in the news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 576. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:35:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fr Busa in the news From The Sunday Times February 22, 2009 Lust and pride: the vices dividing the sexes India Knight Men and women sin in very different ways, according to Monsignor Wojciech Giertych, personal theologian to Pope Benedict XVI and the papal household. There is “no sexual equality when it comes to sin”, Giertych wrote last week in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. His views were formed by his own experience of the confessional and were supported by an analysis of confessional data carried out by 95-year-old Roberto Busa, an impressively tech-savvy Jesuit priest who has also carried out a computerised study of the works of St Thomas Aquinas. The seven deadly sins are: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride (as opposed to chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility). Last year, however, the Vatican suggested these might be supplemented with some new sins particularly relevant to the modern age – namely genetic modification, human experimentation, polluting the environment, social injustice, causing poverty, financial gluttony and the taking or selling of drugs (I’m not really seeing how smoking a doobie offends the Lord in a way comparable to deliberately causing poverty, but anyway . . . ). According to Busa and Giertych’s Vatican-endorsed findings, if you’re a man, then your number one sin is lust, followed by gluttony – and then sloth, since by that point you’re probably too sated, in both senses, to move. If you’re a woman, the prime sin is pride, followed by envy and then anger, which, I must say, doesn’t paint a very attractive picture. No wonder men sit around eating a lot and watching porn. Dorothy L Sayers once cleverly observed that the sins ought to be subdivided into the disreputable-but-warm-hearted (lust, anger, gluttony) and the respectable-but-cold-hearted (envy, sloth, avarice, pride) – cold-hearted because they are sins of the spirit rather than the flesh and respectable because they can masquerade as virtues. I expect the list ranking our sins would have looked very different 30 or 40 years ago. Would lust have topped the men’s list when advertising still tended to feature fully-clothed “housewives” trying to put together simple and nutritious meals and access to porn involved an embarrassing, furtive trip to the newsagent? In 2009 it’s hardly surprising that lust should occupy the number one slot in the male mind: sex seems to saturate every aspect of their lives. If a man had been asked 40 years ago in the confessional to list every single time the old sap had risen during the course of a day, he might have mentioned two or three instances. Today, to catalogue every twinge properly, he’d probably be in there for hours. Still, at least men do tend to confess to lust, which means they presumably feel bad about getting the horn at random things, such as advertisements for chocolate. I am interested in the fact that avarice comes second to bottom in the list of sins that women confess to and bottom in the list of men’s. Like lust, avarice is practically a universal: everyone walks around wanting stuff they don’t have and not properly appreciating what they do have. Unlike lust, this isn’t generally felt to be a bad or particularly reprehensible thing, unless it applies to bankers and bonuses. The cracked.com website last week published a widely circulated article entitled “Five things you think will make you happy (but won’t)”, the five things being, in reverse order: fame (the website links teenagers’ hunger for fame to being starved of attention by absent or “emotionally distant” parents); wealth (“Nigerians are happier with their lives than the people of any other country. The average Nigerian makes $300 a year”); beauty (too much “counterfeit flattery” just because you’re hot, same self-esteem problems as the plain); genius (which makes you lonely and possibly mentally ill); and power (which turns you “into an asshole” and possibly a sociopath). The thoughts of this funny and irreverent website on the subject of human delusion echo the Vatican’s confessional findings almost to the letter, which you must admit is rather interesting. As Giertych said: “Diverse cultural contexts generate diverse habits – but human nature remains the same.” In a gripping essay published a couple of weeks ago (available online), Mary Eberstadt, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, ponders on the significance of the fact that, for the first time in history, westerners have access to practically all the food and sex they want. She describes the “chasm in attitude” that separates us from our ancestors when it comes to these two fundamentals, which “have historically been subject in all civilisations to rules both formal and informal” in order to avoid things such as sexual aggression, disease, “what used to be called home-wrecking” and so on. Those rules are gone. You don’t have to fear getting pregnant; you don’t have to expose yourself to disease; there is little stigma attached to multiple partners; and mechanised farming, pesticides and genetically modified foods have ensured that almost everyone in the West can eat until they’re stuffed. To paraphrase and simplify wildly: Eberstadt concludes that food is the new sex – the place where taboos, obsessions, rules, quirks and fetishes now go to roost. Anyone who has eyes in their head, or who’s had awkward dinner guests with wheat “issues”, can see that this is true. And the male side of the Vatican’s sin list rather suggests that men are, as per Eberstadt, completely beached by their own appetites. In fact, the list provides a useful insight into the fundamental differences between the sexes today: men eat and shag and then worry about it; women preen and resent, with a little envy and crossness chucked in, and don’t especially like themselves for it either. The “vice divide” identified by the Vatican echoes the societal changes of the past few decades in an unexpectedly modern way – and what initially seems like an entertaining little titbit provides a perfect snapshot of male and female unease. + A preliminary clinical trial at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge suggests it may be possible to modify an allergy by desensitising the sufferer. Researchers gave a group of children with severe peanut allergies a small daily amount of peanut flour over a six-month period. By the end of the trial, the children could eat up to 12 nuts a day without suffering anaphylaxis. This is great, obviously, but I wish somebody could explain where peanut allergy has come from and why. In my childhood it was unheard of; today you have to check that a cake doesn’t contain even a whisper of nut before allowing your child to bring it to school. I am slightly obsessive in my belief that allergies must surely be related to people’s increasingly demented diets. I believe that everybody should eat everything, particularly in pregnancy (when mothers-to-be should also drink red wine or stout, in my view). My theory – that eating a bit of everything makes you healthy and resilient and living off brown rice and spinach makes you feeble – may sound rather unsympathetic and reductive. Ditto my belief that germs are good and there’s nothing wrong with eating something that’s just landed on the floor (provided you don’t live in a sty). I may be wrong. But, in the absence of a rational explanation about where all these mysterious and new childhood allergies originate, I’m sticking to my guns. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 28 08:04:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D3A2EAF7; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:04:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56BFF2EAE1; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:04:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090228080419.56BFF2EAE1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:04:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.577 events: Greg; ESF; Summer Institute; DHSI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 577. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kevin Trainor (91) Subject: Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation -- Application Deadline [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (15) Subject: Walter Wilson Greg Conference: 14 March 2009 [3] From: Humanities (12) Subject: ESF Exploratory workshops - 2009 Call launched [4] From: Ray Siemens (30) Subject: DHSI: Graduate Student Colloquium - Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:03:54 -0600 From: Kevin Trainor Subject: Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation -- Application Deadline Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation May 18-22, 2009 Data Curation Education Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science will hold a Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from May 18 through 22. The Institute will be directed by Allen H. Renear, Associate Dean for Research at GSLIS, and sessions will be conducted by leading specialists in the various fields that are involved in the curation of humanities data. Data curation is the active and on-going management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, GSLIS has been a pioneer in the development of data curation education within library and information science. Last year's institute focused on data curation for science data. This year's workshop focuses on data services and curation activities for humanities data, particularly in academic libraries. Topics to be covered include: metadata, text encoding, format and encoding management, technical aspects of data repository systems, day-to-day digital preservation, support for tools and applications, and resource requirements for a data curation program that includes humanities data. Participants will learn: -- what skill sets, resources, and collaborations are necessary to develop and implement a data curation program in an academic library or research project. -- the principles and best practices for implementing and doing humanities data curation. -- the components of a repository development plan (goals, institutional commitment, responsibility, collection development policy, preservation plan, data management plan). A particular focus of this year's institute will be managing textual data. Specific topics to be covered include: metadata, XML/TEI text encoding, format and encoding management, institutional repository systems, digital preservation, and management of versions and provenance. Our session leaders include leading figures in humanities data curation, digital repositories, and humanities computing. Among them: Syd Bauman (North American Editor, Text Encoding Initiative), Melissa Cragin (Project Coordinator, Data Curation Education Program, GSLIS/UIUC), Julia Flanders (Director of the Brown University Women Writers Project, Brown University Library.) Carole Palmer (Director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarhip, GSLIS/UIUC), Dorothea Salo (Digital Repository Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies), John Unsworth (Dean, GSLIS/UIUC), John MacMullen (GSLIS/UIUC), and other faculty from the University of Illinois. An opening keynote will be presented by Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist of OCLC. The institute will run from Monday morning, May 18, through noon Friday, May 22. Rooms have been reserved at the Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites in Champaign for Sunday, May 18, through Thursday (night), May 21, 2009, ($119/night). There will be shuttle service to and from campus. Thanks to support from IMLS, no tuition will be charged for the institute. In addition, a small number of lodging bursaries are available and will be awarded based upon need. We are accepting applications from practicing academic librarians and other information professionals who want to learn more about data curation services in academic libraries. Up to three people from a single institution may apply. The Institute will be limited to 24 participants. DEADLINE: We will begin evaluating applications on March 9 and will continue until all spaces are filled. Please apply by that date in order to be sure to receive full consideration. Application Requirements: Please complete the form, which is available at: https://illinois.edu/formBuilder/Secure?id=1017281 Questions? Contact Institute Coordinator Kevin Trainor at trainor1@illinois.edu or 217-333-5881. More information about the Data Curation Education Program at the University of Illinois can be found here: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/data_curation.html -- Kevin Trainor Assistant Director Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 309 Library and Information Science Building 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 217-333-5881 email: trainor1@illinois.edu http://cirss.lis.uiuc.edu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:56:33 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Walter Wilson Greg Conference: 14 March 2009 Registration is open for Walter Wilson Greg: Aspects of a Life, a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, held at Trinity College, Cambridge on Saturday 14 March 2009; supported by Trinity College and the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University. Speakers include: David McKitterick (Trinity), Michael Caines (Times Literary Supplement), Adam Green (Trinity), Arnold Hunt (British Library), A. S. G. Edwards (De Montfort), Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College Oxford), Gary Taylor (Florida State University), Trevor Howard-Hill (University of South Carolina), H. R. Woudhuysen (University College London), Grace Ioppolo (University of Reading), Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University). Full details are available online at: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2009/Greg/index.htm Wim Van Mierlo Institute of English Studies --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:05:39 +0000 From: Humanities Subject: ESF Exploratory workshops - 2009 Call launched Dear Subscribers, We are pleased to inform you that the 2009 Call for Exploratory Workshops proposals - aimed at events to be held in 2010 - is now available on the ESF website at http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops.html. The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 April 2009. With best regards, Humanities Unit ****************** European Science Foundation- ESF Humanities Unit 1, quai Lezay-Marnésia 67080 Strasbourg Cedex France http://www.esf.org --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:08:44 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: DHSI: Graduate Student Colloquium - Call for Papers Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2009 Graduate Student Colloquium "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future of the Digital Humanities" June 9-12, 2009. This year, a new graduate student element is being added to the DHSI. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in a colloquium entitled "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future of the Digital Humanities". Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research attendant to the digital humanities, including but not limited to issues involving the electronic elements in the dissertation, the graduate student's role in established research projects, tool application and development, etc. The Colloquium will take place over four days (Tuesday through Friday) during morning sessions prior to the start of classes. Each session will be comprised of four graduate student presentations demonstrating the incorporation of some aspect of the digital humanities into their research. Each presentation will be informal, 5-10 minutes in length, with time for Q&A at session's end. We invite 200 word proposals for these presentations. Successful abstracts will focus on the individual student's role in digital humanities research and application, as opposed to general issues pertaining to the value of digital humanities to research. Presenters must currently be enrolled as MA or PhD students in an accredited graduate program. All Institute attendees will be invited to attend the colloquium sessions. For more information and to submit abstracts, please contact Diane Jakacki [dkjakack@uwaterloo.ca] or Cara Leitch [cmleitch@uvic.ca]. Abstracts will be blind vetted. Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2009. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 1 07:16:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D222E950; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:16:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A94F2E91A; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:16:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090301071614.6A94F2E91A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:16:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.578 disciplinary standards in the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 578. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:07:12 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Re: [SDH/SEMI Members] disciplinary standards in digital humanities Hi Brent, You might consider some of the materials we put together for a workshop at the most recent MLA. The URL for those materials is http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/dig_eval. I'll attach a description of the workshop below. All best, Ray --- Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates This page provides resources for the 2008 MLA convention session "Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates," sponsored by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention in conjunction with the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: Robert James Blake, Univ. of California, Davis; Raymond G. Siemens, Univ. of Victoria Description: Do you know how to assess effectively digital work for promotion and tenure? Do you know how to prepare your dossier so that your digital work can be effectively assessed? This three-hour workshop will offer discussion of case studies (including CVs, digital projects, and supporting materials) and identification of effective evaluation strategies and guidelines. The workshop will be limited to thirty participants so that there will be ample time for facilitated discussion. Our facilitators have extensive experience in the evaluation of digital literary scholarship and of work in computer-assisted language learning. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 1 07:17:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12492E9A8; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:17:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5EC72E9A0; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:17:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090301071730.D5EC72E9A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:17:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.579 logical thought and the historical record X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 579. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:41 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: logical thought & the historical record Two things for you to consider. First, from a revered article, is a quotation to which insufficient attention has been paid; second is an observation on how the text of that article has been contextualized. (1) > Whenever logical processes of thought are employed—-that is, whenever > thought for a time runs along an accepted groove—-there is an > opportunity for the machine. Formal logic used to be a keen > instrument in the hands of the teacher in his trying of students' > souls. It is readily possible to construct a machine which will > manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the > clever use of relay circuits. Put a set of premises into such a > device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion > after conclusion, all in accordance with logical law, and with no > more slips than would be expected of a keyboard adding machine. Here Vannevar Bush, in "As We May Think", amidst much that now seems quaint (e.g. his reference to "relay circuits"), brilliantly gets to the heart of Mr Turing's design. A fine statement to put alongside others that envision computers like us. (2) When I attempted to record where this statement occurs, I discovered something I had not noticed before. Bush's article is easy to get one's digital hands on; even the original publisher now features it, at www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush. But, with all the book-learning to which I have been subjected, I reached for a solid codex, namely James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn, eds., From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine (Boston: Academic Press, 1991). I found the quotation on page 98. Nyce and Kahn did an interesting thing, however. They reprinted not simply the Atlantic Monthly original but a composite form of the text indicating, by means of italics and bold, words that, respectively, were deleted from and added to the original text when it was republished in Life Magazine later the same year (1945). Nyce and Kahn also give the editors' notes from both, Life's prefatory list of "What Dr. Bush Foresees", and include the subheadings added by Life's editor (though they do not indicate the original numbered sections from the Atlantic Monthly version, which occur at different places. What Life's editor has done is what caught my attention. This editor in effect translated Bush's article for the benefit of a public evidently more interested in predictions of the future than possibilities rooted in the historical moment. (Bush was, of course, looking to how clever people might use then present devices to build a better future, but the distinction is, I think, important.) Comparison of the two versions gives something like a snapshot in the development of a triumphalist chronicle. This is the Life's editor's list of what Dr Bush foresees: -- A "Cyclops Camera", worn on the forehead, so that you can record whatever you see for future reference, with photographs developed at once by dry photography. -- Microfilm so that the Encyclopaedia Britannica can be reduced to the size of a matchbox costing 5 cents. "Thus a whole library could be kept in a desk." -- A machine that would type out whatever you spoke into it. "But you might have to talk a special phonetic language to this mechanical supersecretary." -- A "thinking machine" or mathmatical calculator. "Give it premises and it would pass out conclusions, all in accordance with logic." -- The Memex, an aid to memory. "Like the brain, Memex would file material by association. Press a key and it would run through a 'trail' of facts." It would be an interesting exercise, I think, to make a list, compare it to the above, and account for the differences -- what we discard, what we keep, what we change. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 2 06:47:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E311E2EE72; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:47:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 483652EE60; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:47:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090302064721.483652EE60@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:47:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.580 logical thought and the historical record X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1313507856==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1313507856== Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 580. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:05:37 +0100 From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.579 logical thought and the historical record In-Reply-To: <20090301071730.D5EC72E9A0@woodward.joyent.us> Not wanting to overload Humanist with a lengthy reaction to Willard's post about Vannevar Bush's visionary ideas on technology, I published some results from my current research on my blog The Mind Tool: http://edwardvanhoutte.blogspot.com/2009/03/paul-otlet-1868-1944-and-vannevar-bush.html A full study is part of my forthcoming PhD dissertation which is awaited this year. Edward Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 579. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:41 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > > Two things for you to consider. First, from a revered article, is a > quotation to which insufficient attention has been paid; second is an > observation on how the text of that article has been contextualized. > > (1) > >> Whenever logical processes of thought are employed—-that is, whenever >> thought for a time runs along an accepted groove—-there is an >> opportunity for the machine. Formal logic used to be a keen >> instrument in the hands of the teacher in his trying of students' >> souls. It is readily possible to construct a machine which will >> manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the >> clever use of relay circuits. Put a set of premises into such a >> device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion >> after conclusion, all in accordance with logical law, and with no >> more slips than would be expected of a keyboard adding machine. >> > > Here Vannevar Bush, in "As We May Think", amidst much that now seems > quaint (e.g. his reference to "relay circuits"), brilliantly gets to the > heart of Mr Turing's design. A fine statement to put alongside others > that envision computers like us. > > (2) > When I attempted to record where this statement occurs, I discovered > something I had not noticed before. Bush's article is easy to get one's > digital hands on; even the original publisher now features it, at > www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush. But, with all the book-learning to > which I have been subjected, I reached for a solid codex, namely James > M. Nyce and Paul Kahn, eds., From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and > the Mind's Machine (Boston: Academic Press, 1991). I found the quotation > on page 98. Nyce and Kahn did an interesting thing, however. They > reprinted not simply the Atlantic Monthly original but a composite form > of the text indicating, by means of italics and bold, words that, > respectively, were deleted from and added to the original text when it > was republished in Life Magazine later the same year (1945). Nyce and > Kahn also give the editors' notes from both, Life's prefatory list of > "What Dr. Bush Foresees", and include the subheadings added by Life's > editor (though they do not indicate the original numbered sections from > the Atlantic Monthly version, which occur at different places. What > Life's editor has done is what caught my attention. > > This editor in effect translated Bush's article for the benefit of a > public evidently more interested in predictions of the future than possibilities > rooted in the historical moment. (Bush was, of course, looking to how > clever people might use then present devices to build a better future, > but the distinction is, I think, important.) Comparison of the two > versions gives something like a snapshot in the development of a > triumphalist chronicle. > > This is the Life's editor's list of what Dr Bush foresees: > > -- A "Cyclops Camera", worn on the forehead, so that you can record whatever you see for future reference, with photographs developed at once by dry photography. > > -- Microfilm so that the Encyclopaedia Britannica can be reduced to the size of a matchbox costing 5 cents. "Thus a whole library could be kept in a desk." > > -- A machine that would type out whatever you spoke into it. "But you might have to talk a special phonetic language to this mechanical supersecretary." > > -- A "thinking machine" or mathmatical calculator. "Give it premises and it would pass out conclusions, all in accordance with logic." > > -- The Memex, an aid to memory. "Like the brain, Memex would file material by association. Press a key and it would run through a 'trail' of facts." > > It would be an interesting exercise, I think, to make a list, compare it to the above, and account for the differences -- what we discard, what we keep, what we change. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Associate Editor LLC. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:07:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: wonder In the third week of September 1949, as reported in Time Magazine for 26 September of that year, a large group of mathematicians, physical and social scientists gathered at Harvard at the invitation of Howard Aiken "to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton." The reporter notes that most of them were "down-to-earth men who flinch from sensationalism". Fortunately for us the reporter was not so down-to-earth, and so gives us a hint of the wonder such machines could then evoke -- comparable, I suppose, to some of the wonder felt by the early Russian revolutionaries for the machinery of industrial production, of which to that time they had seen very little. (ReR Megacorp, www.rermegacorp.com/, has just released "Baku: Symphony of Sirens. Sound experiments in the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942)", which brilliantly documents musical and poetic expressions of the apocalyptic excitement of that time.) But back to Harvard in 1949. Here is how the Time reporter describes the great machine (significantly compared to a whale): > Some of the speakers won applause, but the real hero of the > conference, holding court in the Computation Laboratory up the > street, was a machine: the Mark III Computer, built by Harvard for > the Navy at a cost of $500,000. From the front, the Mark III looks > like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind > the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing > complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like > costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and > chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the > filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, > 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is > so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk > authoritatively about all of it. > > Inner Memory. What can the Mark III do? For one thing, it can > multiply two 16-digit numbers in a little more than twelve > one-thousandths of a second. But this prodigious speed gives little > idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner > memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders > revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black > magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little > brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse > flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the > spinning cylinder's surface. The dot stands for part of a coded > number for the machine to store in its memory." > > The nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and > 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either > remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" > electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical > pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a > telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial. With > the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the > machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving > thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick > tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in > the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell > at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as > electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable > job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians. The learned observers were no doubt somewhat more sober in their assessments, but from the article one can infer a barely contained intellectual explosion. The reporter notes, > Problems for All. The conference proved that hardly a science or > branch of technology lacks problems for the computers. Physicists, > chemists, aircraft designers had plenty of them to offer. So did > psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the > machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the > scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage > them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by > computation difficulties. > > A promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of > Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the > innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, > they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that > the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give > nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced. Problems put aside because the calculations were too difficult or simply tiresome to carry out, others not even noticed because they were not within the bounds of practical possibility suddenly seem doable, are visible. The hope for keeping economies balanced was, however, perhaps a bit optimistic. Putting together remarks by Herman Goldstine (Computers from Pascal to von Neumann, 1972) and Doron Swade (on Babbage's engines) together, one can say that until the materials, engineering and mathematics came together to make computers in our sense possible -- thanks in part to World War II -- there were only visions and arrested experiments. Then, rather suddenly, there were computers. Today we take the edge off the experience chronicled above, and so partially falsify it, by finding (or is it in some sense creating?) precedents in ideas, plans and devices selected from the swarm. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 2 06:48:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370472EF17; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D4932EF09; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:48:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090302064829.4D4932EF09@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:48:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.582 RSS feed of Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 582. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:49:44 +0000 From: John Unsworth Subject: RSS feed of humanist >From Twitter, via Dan Cohen: Thanks to @scott_bot, there is now an RSS feed for Humanist: http://is.gd/lkPp - new msgs will appear as posts starting today. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 2 10:24:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1E22E2A6; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:24:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B8C92E28D; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:24:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090302102420.9B8C92E28D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:24:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.583 new issues of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 583. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:23:05 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Forthcoming issues of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: 34.1, "'To-day and To-Morrow': Science and technology in the early 20th century, ed. Brian Hurwitz, Max Saunders and Neil Vickers (King's College London), March 2009 -- forthcoming very soon; 34.2, "Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage: Multidisciplinary collaborative research between computer science and heritage studies, ed. Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg), June 2009 Tables of contents for these issues are to be found at www.isr-journal.org/forthcoming.html. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 3 06:21:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7D32E263; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:21:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B66D82E250; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:20:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090303062059.B66D82E250@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:20:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.584 wonder X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 584. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:06:04 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.581 wonder In-Reply-To: <20090302064743.230242EE8D@woodward.joyent.us> I just hope we can hang on to that sense of wonder, in all aspects of our studies. It's a great read for a rainy Monday morning to get the brain going. Thanks for posting it. Bradley Bleck English Department Spokane Falls CC http://bleckblog.org http://biketoworkspokane.org -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:48 PM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 581. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:07:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: wonder In the third week of September 1949, as reported in Time Magazine for 26 September of that year, a large group of mathematicians, physical and social scientists gathered at Harvard at the invitation of Howard Aiken "to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton." The reporter notes that most of them were "down-to-earth men who flinch from sensationalism". Fortunately for us the reporter was not so down-to-earth, and so gives us a hint of the wonder such machines could then evoke -- comparable, I suppose, to some of the wonder felt by the early Russian revolutionaries for the machinery of industrial production, of which to that time they had seen very little. (ReR Megacorp, www.rermegacorp.com/, has just released "Baku: Symphony of Sirens. Sound experiments in the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942)", which brilliantly documents musical and poetic expressions of the apocalyptic excitement of that time.) But back to Harvard in 1949. Here is how the Time reporter describes the great machine (significantly compared to a whale): > Some of the speakers won applause, but the real hero of the > conference, holding court in the Computation Laboratory up the > street, was a machine: the Mark III Computer, built by Harvard for > the Navy at a cost of $500,000. From the front, the Mark III looks > like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind > the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing > complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like > costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and > chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the > filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, > 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is > so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk > authoritatively about all of it. > > Inner Memory. What can the Mark III do? For one thing, it can > multiply two 16-digit numbers in a little more than twelve > one-thousandths of a second. But this prodigious speed gives little > idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner > memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders > revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black > magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little > brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse > flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the > spinning cylinder's surface. The dot stands for part of a coded > number for the machine to store in its memory." > > The nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and > 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either > remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" > electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical > pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a > telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial. With > the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the > machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving > thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick > tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in > the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell > at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as > electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable > job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians. The learned observers were no doubt somewhat more sober in their assessments, but from the article one can infer a barely contained intellectual explosion. The reporter notes, > Problems for All. The conference proved that hardly a science or > branch of technology lacks problems for the computers. Physicists, > chemists, aircraft designers had plenty of them to offer. So did > psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the > machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the > scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage > them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by > computation difficulties. > > A promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of > Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the > innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, > they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that > the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give > nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced. Problems put aside because the calculations were too difficult or simply tiresome to carry out, others not even noticed because they were not within the bounds of practical possibility suddenly seem doable, are visible. The hope for keeping economies balanced was, however, perhaps a bit optimistic. Putting together remarks by Herman Goldstine (Computers from Pascal to von Neumann, 1972) and Doron Swade (on Babbage's engines) together, one can say that until the materials, engineering and mathematics came together to make computers in our sense possible -- thanks in part to World War II -- there were only visions and arrested experiments. Then, rather suddenly, there were computers. Today we take the edge off the experience chronicled above, and so partially falsify it, by finding (or is it in some sense creating?) precedents in ideas, plans and devices selected from the swarm. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 3 06:21:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C147D2E29E; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:21:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D2902E290; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:21:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090303062129.6D2902E290@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:21:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.585 personal introduction & some questions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 585. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:43:31 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Personal Intro & Some Questions In-Reply-To: <20090302064721.483652EE60@woodward.joyent.us> Greetings! I subscribed recently, thinking that this was a listserv on the human sciences, but the moderator has advised that the focus of the listserv is on how to use digital technologies for research in the humanities. After a PhD in systems engineering (Georgia Tech, 1974) and 30 years with IBM + 10 years as a consultant in computer modeling/simulation of social systems, I should fit right in. But I have been so close to ICT for so many years that sometimes I take it for granted. My retirement project is to edit a web site and e-journal (links under my signature below). The "mission" is to collect and analyze knowledge on patriarchal obstacles and non-patriarchal incentives to sustainable development, and to publish the monthly, free subscription, open access "E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence" (JSSNV). The JSSNV provides a digest and commentary on current research pursuant to human solidarity, ecological sustainability, and both secular and religious non-violence. The U.N. "Millennium Development Goals" (MDGs) are used as a point of reference. I use a wide range of computer-based methods to do the analysis and commentary on the issues. For instance, I use matrix methods for analysis of interdependencies (the supporting software is PSM 32, problematics.com), simulation methods for analysis of dynamic behavior (the supporting software is POWERSIM, powersim.com), and relational knowledge maps based on the work of Chaim Zins (success.co.il). Is anyone here interested in this kind of computer data/information analysis and simulation methods? In particular, is anyone using "system dynamics" models (based on Jay Forrester's simulation method) for researching global issues? What about web-based simulations/games for analysis of sustainable development scenarios and the current economic crisis? Sincerely, Luis _________________________ Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web http://pelicanweb.org Editor, "Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence" http://pelicanweb.org/solisust.html A monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal solidarity-sustainability-subscribe@googlegroups.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 3 06:27:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716BD2E5B4; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:27:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D1D6C2E59C; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:27:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090303062750.D1D6C2E59C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:27:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.586 new journal: Writing Systems Research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 586. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:12:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new journal: Writing Systems Research (WSR) *************************ANNOUNCEMENT**************************** Call for papers: Writing Systems Research (WSR) WSR is an innovative new title from Oxford Journals launching in 2009. It is concerned with empirical approaches to writing systems based on the analysis of written data and on experiments. The editors invite research-based contributions from relevant fields such as applied linguistics, psychology, computing and education. To read the full call for papers go to http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3366/1 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 3 06:28:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45312E610; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E4CE2E609; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:28:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090303062849.1E4CE2E609@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:28:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.587 events: London Seminar; Culture & Tech @ Maynooth; Rare Books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 587. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Gants (26) Subject: Rare Book School 2009 - Digital humanities related courses [2] From: Dot Porter (40) Subject: Culture and Technology Lectures: Mondays @ Maynooth [3] From: Willard McCarty (73) Subject: Kenneth Price at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:16:13 -0500 From: David Gants Subject: Rare Book School 2009 - Digital humanities related courses The following announcement may be of interest to readers of this list. Rare Book School (RBS) is pleased to announce its 2009 course offerings.  Each year, RBS offers from 20 to 30  five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning book history, old and rare books, manuscripts, and special  collections.  Courses are almost always limited to 12 or fewer students, who make a full-time commitment to any course they attend, from 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Classes are held annually at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA); The Morgan Library &  Museum (NYC); and The Johns Hopkins University and the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD). In 2009, these five-day, intensive offerings include the following courses: 1. Electronic Texts & Images, taught by David Seaman, 8-12 June 2009 http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/libraries/l70/ 2. Designing Archival Description Systems, taught by Daniel Pitti, 20-24 July 2009 http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/libraries/l90/ The educational and professional prerequisites for RBS courses vary. Some courses are broadly directed toward antiquarian booksellers, book collectors, bookbinders, conservators, teachers, and professional and avocational students of the history of books and printing. Others are primarily intended for archivists and for research and rare book librarians and curators. The tuition for each RBS 2009 course is $895. For information about related expenses, including dormitory and hotel accommodations, see our recently updated Travel & Accommodations page http://www.rarebookschool.org/transportation/ . --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:10:48 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: Culture and Technology Lectures: Mondays @ Maynooth In-Reply-To: <96f3df640902140349j5ef687a2m48117d44934f2e6f@mail.gmail.com> Everyone on the list is most welcome to attend the Spring 2009 Culture and Technology Lecture Series webcast, to be presented on the NUI Maynooth campus, in the computer science building, training room 1.39b. Lectures will be held on most Mondays from 3-4:30 pm. Today's lecture will be delivered by Laszlo Hunyadi of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. The title is "Forensic Linguistics in relation to Digital Humanities" Forensic linguistics is a branch of linguistics in which theoretical and applied approaches equally and jointly contribute to issues such as author attribution, speaker identification and verification, and authenticity of digital material. Whereas the first of these issues has its own old tradition within forensic science, the last two have gained their importance with the emergence of new computational techniques. The talk will demonstrate how such techniques, supported by linguistic theory, can contribute to the development of forensic science. The session, hosted by An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth and the DHO, will also be attended by parties from the University of Oulu, Finland, King's College, London, and the University of Glasgow. The An Foras Feasa/DHO node can be found in Room 1.39b in the Computer Science Building, on the North Campus at NUI, Maynooth. The session commences at 3 p.m. -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:18:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Kenneth Price at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship In-Reply-To: <96f3df640902140349j5ef687a2m48117d44934f2e6f@mail.gmail.com> You are cordially invited to a seminar by Kenneth M Price (Nebraska-Lincoln), “Editing Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings in Context”, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 19 March 2009 (Thursday), 17:30 - 19:30, room 273 Stewart House, University of London (ies.sas.ac.uk/about/stewarthouse.htm). This paper will analyze the particular challenges and opportunities of an online edition treating Whitman's Civil War writings. The War profoundly shaped Leaves of Grass, and Whitman extensively depicted and analyzed the War in journals, notebooks, letters, essays, journalism, memoirs, and manuscript drafts. At the Walt Whitman Archive we are electronically editing, arranging, and publishing--often for the first time--the hundreds of documents that give voice to Whitman's experience of the war. In addition to making these documents freely available, our work strives to model best practices in creating, publishing, and sustaining electronic editions. The theoretical possibilities of digital scholarship oblige us to boldness—it is possible to see the present moment, in which electronic scholarship is still nascent and the boundaries are still capable of being moved, as a mandate to innovate or push the boundaries. Ideally, a digital thematic research collection would allow not only for the creation of an electronic scholarly edition but for the study of cultural contexts. In addition to ongoing work on the Whitman Archive, I have recently begun a companion undertaking, "Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation," that draws on the methods of many fields—literary studies, history, geography, computer-aided mapping—to create an experimental digital resource. We believe the site will ultimately provide insights into the large and complex forces that transformed Washington from a sleepy Southern town to the symbolic center of the Union and nation. If the nature of an "edition" is being profoundly reshaped by the digital turn, we can expect the accompanying "commentary" to be just as profoundly reenvisioned and expanded. We are situating Whitman and his writings in the midst of a rich field of geo-spatial and temporal data. We believe that by providing a backdrop of census, health, and hospital records; theater schedules; horsecar routes; and other factual data, we will make possible a better understanding of Whitman's Civil War writings. Whitman had an ordinary man's vantage point on the War and an extraordinary artist's sensibility. He focused on what often escaped attention: the War experiences of the common soldier, the stoicism and heroism of otherwise average individuals, and-above all-the suffering, dignity, and enormous courage he saw in his hospital visits to approximately 100,000 wounded men, Northerners and Southerners alike. Our work strives to provide the texts that record his experience of the war and also tools for understanding how those texts emerged out of a very particular place and time. ----- Kenneth Price is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of Nineteenth-Century American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he also serves as co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Price is the author of over forty articles and author or editor of nine books. His most recent book is co-edited with Ed Folsom and Susan Belasco, Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). His other recent books include Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work, co-authored with Folsom (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) and To Walt Whitman, America (University of North Carolina Press 2004), a main selection of The Readers Subscription, a national book club. Since 1995 Price has served as co-director of The Walt Whitman Archive, an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. The Whitman Archive has been awarded federal grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U. S. Department of Education, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The Whitman Archive has received many honors, including the C. F. W. Coker award from the Society of American Archivists and a "We the People" grant from the NEH to build a $2 million permanent endowment to support ongoing editorial work. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 3 11:27:36 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604862E0C9; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5F6FB2E094; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:27:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090303112734.5F6FB2E094@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.588 continuities and discontinuities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 588. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:13:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: continuities and discontinuities of computing In his awakening book, The Counterfeiters, An Historical Comedy (Indiana University Press, 1968; rpt Dalkey Archive Press, 2005) -- thanks to John Lavagnino for pointing me to this -- Hugh Kenner leaps over the who-done-it-first quagmire in which attempts at technological history often get mired to an historical thesis I find compelling. "The computer simulates thought when thought has been defined in a computer's way", he observes, "the automaton simulates man when man has been defined in an automaton's way." Kenner continues, with reference to Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782), maker of the mechanical duck, whose work inspired another maker of automata, whose 12-inch Silver Lady, with "eyes... full of imagination, and irresistible", Charles Babbage saw demonstrated as a boy. Babbage later purchased the ruined simulacrum, repaired and exhibited her in his drawing room. Kenner goes on to comment: > There were automata long before Vaucanson -- histories of the subject > commence with Hero of Alexandria (first century A.D.). There were > mechanical aids to computation before Babbage -- Pascal designed a > digital adding machine. But Hero and Pascal would not have called > their artifacts simulators, but rather toys or tools, utilized by men > who were metaphysically something other. The eighteenth and > nineteenth centuries were less sure that man was other. To trace, in > their automata, an advanced technology derived from looms and > watches, enlightens us less than does consideration of their novel > uncertainties about where, if indeed it existed, the boundary between > man and simulacrum lay. If a man does nothing with his life but spin > threads, then just how is a thread-spinning machine not a purified > man? And indeed it can replace him.... > Not the automaton, but the concept of counterfeitable man, was the > age's characterizing achievement. (pp. 40-1) The continuities of invention are surely important, down to our own day, but the more I peer into our rich and complex inheritance, the more they multiply, and intermix, and the more the discontinuities become urgent to consider. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 4 06:34:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB182F521; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:34:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 48D422F519; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:34:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090304063417.48D422F519@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:34:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.589 new publication: JEP 12.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 589. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:03:30 +0000 From: Shana M Kimball Subject: Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) Volume 12.1 now online Dear JEP readers: We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing . Below the signature I've included our Editor's Note, which highlights some of what you'll find in our latest issue. As always, thank you for reading JEP. Best regards, Shana Kimball Managing Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing Help us make JEP better! Send your comments and questions to jep-info@umich.edu. Editor’s Note --Judith Axler Turner With the advent of digital communication, scholarly publishing can be faster, less expensive, and more ubiquitous. That means that it is easier to keep up with the latest developments in our fields. And that, in turn, means we are expected to keep up with more information. So how do we do that well? We rely on those we trust (librarians, colleagues, journals, maybe even Google) to point out the things we should know. This issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing is not going to make your reading burden lighter, because it’s full of must-read articles about publishing must-read articles. We think you will find all of them worthwhile. Bo-Christer Björk and Turid Hedlund think that university presses, society publishers, and even commercial publishers can open access to their journals if they convert from a buyer-pays model to an author-pays model—and they detail how it could be done in “Two Scenarios for How Scholarly Publishers Could Change Their Business Models to Open Access.” Read this article and ponder how you might do it. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0012.102 Philip M. Davis gives us a completely different understanding of open access. He is interested in “How the Media Frames ‘Open Access’,” and he writes that which side prevails is not a question of right or wrong, but of marketing: one side tells its story better. Read it and see if you agree. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0012.101 In “Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press,” John Willinsky argues that open access is a viable model for monographs as well as for journals. The secret, he writes, is software that can turn the monograph into a business-based social networking phenomenon by supporting not just the publishing part of the monograph business, but the entire enterprise. Read this article and see how everything you know about the business of publishing is addressed. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0012.103 Again this year we are republishing Peter Suber’s look at the previous 12 months in “Open Access in 2008.” Peter’s roundup gives us a holistic picture of the issues, advances, and problems scholarly publishers faced, and we’re delighted he let JEP bring it to you. If you haven’t already read this article, here is your chance. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0012.104 Some 18 months ago we republished the Ithaka report “University Publishing in a Digital Age.” In this issue we are republishing the second in the series from Ithaka Strategic Services, this one sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and written by Nancy Maron and K. Kirby Smith. Their report, “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication,” looks at the variety of digital scholarly communication efforts around the world. If you missed one or both reports the first time, you can read them here in JEP. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0012.105 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 4 06:34:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B162F55B; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:34:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F050B2F552; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:34:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090304063441.F050B2F552@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.590 events: textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 590. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:59:42 +0000 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: CFP ESTS 2009, Brussels (deadline May 31st) Call for Papers The European Society for Textual Scholarship Sixth International Conference ‘Texts beyond Borders: Multilingualism and Textual Scholarship’ Academy for Science and the Arts (KVAB), Brussels, Belgium November 19-21, 2009 Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2009 Contacts between languages, especially translations, have always played a crucial role in the making of European culture, from Antiquity until today. Bilingual or multilingual documents, literary works created in another language than their creators’ mother tongue, translations and translated texts are special textual objects which require appropriate editorial treatment. The conference will explore how textual scholarship responds to multilingualism in its various forms, such as: 1) Scholarly editing and annotating: Using translations as witnesses to an “original” text How do we edit ancient or medieval texts (or parts of texts) that are preserved only in translations? How can we handle those cases where translations do not appear to be based on direct witnesses to the text?... 2) Scholarly editing and annotating: Translations as literary objects Is the original text the only source used by a translator? How did he use earlier translations? How can we trace the sources and tools used by a translator? ... 3) Book history, the history of reading and translations Dissemination of translations; bilingual editions; the role of Bible translations in the history of philology; translations which become more popular than the original; texts which circulate first or more widely in translation than in their original form (e.g. Flemish performances of Michel de Ghelderode’s theatre prior to the French original); annotations and marginalia in languages other than the reader’s native tongue: how do readers respond to works not written in their own language? … 4) Authorship and translations Revisions of translations by the author himself may contain precious interpretative information. Translations may seem less authoritative than other texts and editors might therefore be tempted to emend translations on a larger scale than in the case of “original” texts. ... 5) Multilingualism and scholarly editing Do multilingual works of literature need other methods of editing than monolingual writings? It might also be necessary to make a distinction between different types of multilingual works (self- translations, ‘hybrid’ writings, …). Do these different types require different editorial treatments? Is it necessary to find adequate methods to edit works by authors writing in languages not their own? Or works not written in any “natural” language, such as nonsense poetry? … The programme chairs invite the submission of proposals for full panels or individual papers devoted to the discussion of current research into different aspects of textual work, preferably focusing on the topics mentioned above. A selection of papers will be published in Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Proposals and abstracts (250 words) should be submitted electronically to: Caroline Macé, University of Leuven : Caroline.Mace@arts.kuleuven.be and Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp: dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be Deadline: 31 May 2009 All participants in the ESTS 2009 conference must be members of ESTS. For information about membership, please visit the ESTS website http://www.textualscholarship.eu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 4 06:41:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531F02F754; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D42A02F74C; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:41:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090304064130.D42A02F74C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:41:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.591 apologies for the automated nagging X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 591. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:40:06 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: existential declarations Dear colleagues, Presumably for some good reason, which I cannot now recall, I asked for a reminder mechanism to be enabled within Humanist so that once a month each member would be nagged to signify their continued existence to the software. I find this apparent request of mine to Malgosia, the programmer, utterly out of character, since I myself get annoyed at such automated nags. Anyhow, I have now asked her to disable this mechanism and hereby apologise to everyone for having caused such a thing to be done. That everyone here once signified their existence should be enough! All the best. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 5 06:03:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D632F4E5; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:03:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0AEFC2F4D6; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:03:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090305060306.0AEFC2F4D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:03:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.592 monthly reminders X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 592. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stan Ruecker (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.591 apologies for the automated nagging [2] From: Shroyer (6) Subject: monthly reminder --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:12:14 -0700 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.591 apologies for the automated nagging In-Reply-To: <20090304064130.D42A02F74C@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks, Willard. I appreciate your kindness in this matter. - Stan Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 591. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:40:06 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Dear colleagues, > > Presumably for some good reason, which I cannot now recall, I asked for > a reminder mechanism to be enabled within Humanist so that once a month > each member would be nagged to signify their continued existence to the > software. I find this apparent request of mine to Malgosia, the > programmer, utterly out of character, since I myself get annoyed at such > automated nags. Anyhow, I have now asked her to disable this mechanism > and hereby apologise to everyone for having caused such a thing to be > done. That everyone here once signified their existence should be enough! > > All the best. > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:20:42 -0500 From: Shroyer Subject: monthly reminder In-Reply-To: <20090304064130.D42A02F74C@woodward.joyent.us> Still, in the event that one is no longer alive to receive these vital newsletters, an annual reminder that must be acknowledged would probably serve. I can imagine in a few years being bounced back from several subscribed sites. Regards, RJS _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 5 06:03:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888122F528; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:03:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45DCE2F51C; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:03:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090305060334.45DCE2F51C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:03:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.593 lectureship in digital anthropology at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 593. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:56:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: lectureship in digital anthropology at UCL UCL Department of Anthropology Lecturer in Digital Anthropology Applications are invited for a permanent lectureship in Digital Anthropology. The successful applicant will be responsible for, and will teach within, our new MA programme in Digital Anthropology and contribute to general teaching in Material and Visual Culture. They will carry out research in Digital Anthropology and contribute to normal administrative duties within the UCL Department of Anthropology. Applicants should have a PhD and begun researching in the field of Digital Anthropology. Applications from qualified candidates specialised in any area of the world are welcome. Further particulars are available on http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/main/index.htm . This appointment is available from 1st August 2009 and the salary will be on the UCL scale Grade 7 in the range: £32,458 - £35,469 pa plus £2,781 pa London Allowance. A UCL application form may be downloaded from the following link http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc . Applications consisting of the application form, a CV, the names and contact details (certainly email) of three referees and a cover letter describing the candidate’s research interests and teaching expertise should all be sent electronically to the Departmental Administrator, Mrs Alena Kocourek, email: a.kocourek@ucl.ac.uk . Closing date: 1st April 2009. UCL Taking Action for Equality. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 5 06:07:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64482F662; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:07:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9239D2F650; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:07:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090305060705.9239D2F650@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:07:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.594 two questions from the dustbin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 594. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (46) Subject: KWIC before Luhn [2] From: Willard McCarty (58) Subject: psychotic computers? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:47:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: KWIC before Luhn At the risk of committing the same historiographical sin I identified a couple of days ago, namely walking into the who-got-there-first quagmire as if it were firm ground for history, allow me to ask about an instance in the pre-history of KWIC (keyword-in-context) concording. Many here will know that KWIC was invented by H. P. Luhn ca 1959, for which see "Keyword-in-context index for technical literature (KWIC index)", in Readings in Automatic Language Processing, ed David G Hays (American Elsevier, 1966). As these same many will know, KWIC is fundamental to corpus linguistics and the text-analysis which preceded and has followed it. My question begins with the fact that the central idea of KWIC, or more accurately an idea of which KWIC is a somewhat less ambitious expression, was let out into the world by Warren Weaver ten years earlier in a memorandum of 15 July 1949, later published in William N Locke and A Donald Booth, Machine translation of languages: fourteen essays (MIT Press, 1955). Weaver's idea begins as follows: > If one examines the words in a book, one at a time as through an opaque > mask with a hole in it one word wide, then it is obviously impossible to > determine, one at a time, the meaning of the words. "Fast" may mean > "rapid"; or it may mean "motionless"; and there is no way of telling > which. > > But, if one lengthens the slit in the opaque mask, until one can see not > only the central word in question but also say N words on either side, > then, if N is large enough one can unambiguously decide the meaning of > the central word. The formal truth of this statement becomes clear when > one mentions that the middle word of a whole article or a whole book is > unambiguous if one has read the whole article or book, providing of > course that the article or book is sufficiently well written to > communicate at all. > > The practical question is: "What minimum value of N will, at least in a > tolerable fraction of cases, lead to the correct choice of meaning for > the central word? His scheme is greater than specified by the notion of "span" because he moves from looking at so many words on either side of the target to the idea of discarding all but the nouns, for example, or nouns and adjectives, or nouns, adjectives and verbs, and so forth. My question is, was Weaver blazing a new trail here? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:51:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: psychotic computers? Users of Windows Vista will take particular enjoyment in the following snippet from "The Thinking Machine", in Time Magazine for Monday, 23 January 1950 -- the issue with the Harvard Mark III ("Can man build a superman?") on the cover: > Nearly all the computermen are worried about the effect the machines > will have on society. But most of them are not so pessimistic as > [Norbert] Wiener.... > > Psychotic Robots. In the larger, "biological" sense, there is room > for nervous speculation. Some philosophical worriers suggest that the > computers, growing superhumanly intelligent in more & more ways, will > develop wills, desires and unpleasant foibles' of their own, as did > the famous robots in Capek's R.U.R. > > Professor Wiener says that some computers are already "human" enough > to suffer from typical psychiatric troubles. Unruly memories, he > says, sometimes spread through a machine as fears and fixations > spread through a psychotic human brain. Such psychoses may be cured, > says Wiener, by rest (shutting down the machine), by electric shock > treatment (increasing the voltage in the tubes), or by lobotomy > (disconnecting part of the machine). > > Some practical computermen scoff at such picturesque talk, but others > recall odd behavior in their own machines. Robert Seeber of I.B.M. > says that his big computer has a very human foible: it hates to wake > up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and > reach a proper temperature, but the machine is not really awake. A > problem sent through its sleepy wits does not get far. Red lights > flash, indicating that the machine has made an error. The patient > operators try the problem again. This time the machine thinks a > little more clearly. At last, after several tries, it is fully awake > and willing to think straight. > > Neurotic Exchange. Bell Laboratories' Dr. Shannon has a similar > story. During World War II, he says, one of the Manhattan dial > exchanges (very similar to computers) was overloaded with work. It > began to behave queerly, acting with an irrationality that disturbed > the company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could > find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load > decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. > Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war > workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown. It is interesting that already in 1950 either computers were behaving oddly in a human-like sense (unlikely, I think) or that people, even such as Norbert Wiener, were interpreting their malfunctioning as such. Engineers and other scientists are certainly not immune to fanciful imaginings. But, would it not be reasonable to think that if one takes the idea of emergent phenomena seriously, then there's no reason not to believe that something analogous to psychotic behaviour in computers is possible? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 5 06:08:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3782F720; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E71FA2F6EE; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:08:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090305060835.E71FA2F6EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.595 cfp: Doctoral Consortium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 595. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:37:13 -0600 From: Megan Winget Subject: JCDL 2009 - Doctoral Consortium - CFP http://www.jcdl2009.org/node/24 Doctoral Consortium CFP The Doctoral Consortium of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Call for Participation June 15 - 19, 2009 - Austin, TX What is the 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 (i.e., the consortium is not intended for those who are finished or nearly finished with their dissertation). The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on using the research environment in a constructive and international atmosphere. Students will present and discuss their thesis in the context of a well-known and established international conference outside of their usual university atmosphere. The workshop will take place on a single full day. Up to 15 students will have the opportunity to participate. Limited funding may be available to partially offset travel and registration costs for those students with severe financial need. Several prominent professors and experienced practitioners in the field of digital library research in organizations from different countries and continents will conduct the workshop. They will review all the submissions and comment on the content of the thesis as well as on the presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research, focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes is reserved for discussion and feedback from both the professors and other participants. In the course of the workshop students will also get advice on more general questions, e.g. the differences of Ph.D. studies in different countries. Call for Papers and Topics Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit an extended abstract (see details below) describing their Digital Library research. Submissions relating to any aspect of Digital Library research, development, and evaluation are welcomed, including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative in the sciences, humanities, and education. To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please provide an extended abstract of your doctoral work and upload it at www.jcdl2009.org. The extended abstract is restricted to 4000 words (approx. 8 pages). Submissions should be submitted electronically in pdf format. The abstracts should * Clearly formulate the research question, * Identify the significant problems in the field of research, * Summarize the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of the art for solutions, * Clearly present any preliminary research plans and ideas, and the results achieved so far, * Sketch the research methodology that is to be applied, * Describe the expected contributions of the applicant to the research area, and * (For technical research) describes how the research is innovative, novel or extends existing approaches to a problem. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Workshop participation is limited to 15 Ph.D. students. Proceedings Accepted abstracts will be distributed to participants as the workshop proceedings and made available to participants via the JCDL Doctoral Consortium digitally. Participants will be invited to include their abstracts in a special issue of the TCDL Bulletin, the publication of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. Important Dates March 23, 2009 Deadline for submission of abstracts April 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009 Doctoral Consortium June 15 - 19, 2009 JCDL Contact Address Requests for information should be e-mailed to megan@ischool.utexas.edu and mln@cs.odu.edu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Megan A. Winget, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin Sanchez Building, 562L 1 University Station, D7000 Austin, TX 78712-0390 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: 512.471.3969 Fax: 512.471.3971 web: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~megan/ email: megan@ischool.utexas.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 6 06:16:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15C82EEA2; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:16:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BE0252EE96; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:16:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090306061624.BE0252EE96@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.596 reliability of digitized texts? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 596. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:03:50 -0300 From: alckmar@cce.ufsc.br Subject: reliability of digitalized texts I am interested in reliability of digitalized literary texts. Do you know people who would be working on it? Best regards, Prof. Alckmar Luiz dos Santos Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - CNPq/Brazil Invited researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 6 06:17:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38902EEF1; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:17:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A00E42EEE8; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:17:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090306061700.A00E42EEE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:17:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.597 how have we acted on revolutionary suggestions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 597. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:23:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: revolutionary suggestions Serious proposals were put forth by musicians of the Russian Avantgardes, for example by Arsenii Avraamov (composer of the wonderful Symphony of Sirens), to destroy all traditional musical instruments, since the world had utterly changed. Similarly with the technological revolution of which the computer was part, at the end of another great defeat of sinister forces. In his review of Fremont Rider's The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library (1944) -- a book for which the reviewer claims epochal status -- William Jerome Wilson thus describes Rider's revolutionary proposal regarding books: > In brief the new proposal is to print by micro-photography on the > back of the usual 3 x 5 catalogue card the text of the work that is > described on the front. The device is almost childishly simple, but > its possibilities are revolutionary to contemplate. Unless for > sentimental or other reasons the library wanted to keep it, the > original printed book could now be thrown away. Gone at a stroke is > any need for binding, labeling, shelving, and storing the original > book. Gone is the whole complicated system of call numbers by which a > book is found - or all too often not found - on demand. Now, as soon > as one locates a wanted item in the catalogue, there also is the text > on the back of the card. For all practical purposes the catalogue > becomes the library, and every person who consults it has the > equivalent of a "stack permit" - that most cherished and valuable of > all library privileges. (Isis 36.1, 1945, p. 84) In both cases we can be very glad the suggestions were not acted on, but also in both cases we can glimpse in the fervour of revolutionary passion excitement at something new, or perhaps more accurately, something old renewed and transformed by technical invention. And we can ask ourselves this: to what degree, and with what sort of materials, under what conditions, has digitization encouraged us to do what Rider had envisioned? Who here has switched what sort of materials from paper to bits, then put the paper into the recycling bin? Under what circumstances do we keep both, or "print off" something once digitized for some temporary purpose, then toss the printed version once more? In my own case, I've digitized the entire shelf of photocopies I had transported long distances since my doctoral studies and disposed of it all. Two large flat-screens, without the flicker that used to bedevil my perceptual equipment in the days of CRTs, allow me to read long articles on screen. I'll print off articles I really want to read but need by the physical presence of paper to be reminded of them, positioning these printouts around the house to make the encounter with them unavoidable. At the same time my rate of book-buying has increased, since books really are a different matter. Sorry for the jumble of anecdotal experiences. But please do compare and contrast. Have we been doing this sort of thing long enough to generalise? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 7 08:43:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A835B2EB00; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:43:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33C7D2EAAD; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090307084303.33C7D2EAAD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.598 revolutionary suggestions; reliability of digital text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 598. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Steven Totosy (40) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.596 reliability of digitized texts? [2] From: Joris van Zundert (153) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.597 how have we acted on revolutionary suggestions? [3] From: Wesley Raabe (14) Subject: Reliability of Digitized Text --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:32:26 +0800 From: Steven Totosy Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.596 reliability of digitized texts? In-Reply-To: <20090306061624.BE0252EE96@woodward.joyent.us> greetings alckmar: what do you mean by "reliability"? if you mean their preservation, libraries in virtually all countries -- in addition to national and international agencies -- are working on software to preserve electronic texts. the first country to establish a national repository of electronic material was canada in 1998, in its national library (later renamed library and archives canada) and today most countries have such, either via a centralized agency or in private institutional structures/ventures such as the US although the library of congress has started to do some of it. if you mean the stability of URLs to access electronic material, that issue is evolving, too, although by now there are several methods to maintain the stability of the URL. hope this helps, best, steven totosy (editor, clcweb) On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 596. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:03:50 -0300 > From: alckmar@cce.ufsc.br > > > > I am interested in reliability of digitalized literary texts. Do you > know people who would be working on it? > > Best regards, > > Prof. Alckmar Luiz dos Santos > Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - CNPq/Brazil > Invited researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:50:39 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.597 how have we acted on revolutionary suggestions? Dear Willard, I moved June '08. I had a choice to make about the printers. They didn't make it. I hadn't printed anything in two years. (Except for one letter that obligatory needed to be physically delivered - cause of the signature. The letter by the way, was sent to town hall. There - I know this because my wife is working there - all 'snail mail' is scanned and electronically distributed.) I read all articles and policy stuff from screen. My inbox and desktop icons remind me of what I think I should read. The breakthrough of ebooks has been proclaimed several times in vain in he past, so I should be careful. But nevertheless I'd say the pending arrival of coloured, non back-lit electronic paper will increase the use of electronic texts. Not for novels of course, as publishers seem to think, but for all other paperwork. Novels, that's another thing, another setting, another sensation altogether. There's a kind of pleasurable physicalness to novels I as a reader value - the physicalness is part of the engagement with the novel. But that's from me: one who's first encounter with electronics was Pong and who has used cassette recorders and dial phones; but only has four vinyl records because the CD-player had arrived. People younger than me are far heavier users of Twitter and Chat than me. So it seems media-use is shifting with generations. So, are people < 30 yrs. in general book users? Any surveys known? But Willard, what strikes me most in your elaborated question is the tone of casual obviousness in "In both cases we can be very glad the suggestions were not acted on [...]". Why's that? Except for the fact that it might not have been a very practical medium these days, there seems to me nothing wrong with the intended transformation of the texts. Do we need all the books as books? I'd bet the majority of text does not need fancy covers, high grade paper and eye candy typefacing. That which serves it's intended practical purpose within a few years of writing, might even be better off not appearing in print, but just in digital form so it can be circulated quite a lot more efficient. Evolution of digital texts will select what appears to be valuable and might even be put in print - cause in the end print is more durable than any form of bits and bytes. I think this. Where a text has a practical purpose, a direct and concrete application for a short term (short term as in 1 to 10 years), it will eventually only arrive and be used in digital form. Where text has an aesthetic function (as well), it will be put and used in both digital and physical form. More and more, making a text physical will be a statement for it being more than just any text, something worth for prosperity. Effectively this will turn libraries into musea (if they are not already). The physical book can thus be compared to the painting. For all practical purposes I can do with the facsimile, either in print or digital form - probably digital. For some purposes you'd have to go the museum, or buy the thing yourself. So sorry to answer your 'jumble of anecdotes' with a 'jumble of thoughts', but you had me going there... And the printer? Well actually it's back with a vengeance. As long as electronic full color paper of 600+ dpi does not exist, I need some other way to appreciate my lucky shot photo's in all their splendor. And my daughter needs a coloring picture once in a while. y.s., Joris van Zundert PS Just struck by a counter example. Although its publisher does all he can to get me to read the virtual one, I still only read the paper because I'm remembered of its existence by it lying on the doormat every morning. But this also seems to be a dying off tradition of 30+ people. -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert, MA Dept. of Software R & D Huygens Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information can be found at http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:14:01 -0800 (PST) From: Wesley Raabe Subject: Reliability of Digitized Text In-Reply-To: <20090306061700.A00E42EEE8@woodward.joyent.us> Although it is common to ask whether digital texts are reliable, I believe that most general answers obscure more than they clarify. Some digital texts can be relied on for certain purposes. For example, when I am seeking a passage in a work that I've read, so long as I have a few words in memory it's much faster to search digital texts than thumb through books on my shelf or run down to the library. But if I wanted to quote for a scholarly submission, it would depend whether my interest is the text as printed in a particular print copy or as published on an electronic archive. Either may be interesting. Just as early editions are more likely to be authoritative than later reprints and reprints published by university presses under the editorship of a scholar are more likely to be authoritative than cheap paperbacks, works published in scholarly digital archives are more likely to be authoritative than mass digitization projects. Even then, general rules may always be wrong in particular instances. But I find that the interaction between print and digital forms can be quite entertaining. Kenneth Lynn's Harvard edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1962) was recently digitized by Google. One of the characteristics of optical character recognition software, that the character sequence "rm" may become "nu," is this humorous misquote (accessed 6 March 2009): "O, there V Mammy!" said Eva, as she flew across the room; and, throwing herself into her anus, she kissed her ipeutedly. The line, while obviously faulty, does have a certain resonance if one is familiar with almost any copy of the book. At this chapter's conclusion, another character follows the path Eva takes in the digital version (again, from Google Books). " I put this lady under your care; she is tired, and wants rest; take her to her chamber, and be sure she is made comfortable;" and Miss Ophelia disappeared in the rear of Mammy. It is my hope that some well-meaning editor will reprint the standard edition of UTC in a new paperback and borrow the Google Books version as the base text. May a critic, who trusts the reprint text, cite it. And then I have a title for a brief article: "The Anal Aesthetics of Uncle Tom's Cabin: Into Mammy's Rear." I recommend for most general purposes Lisa Spiro's blog post on the same topic: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/ I have also prepared a more serious statement about the "Reliability of Electronic Texts" on my blog. http://wraabe.wordpress.com/reliability-of-electronic-texts/ Any serious answer must grapple with the fact that print and digital textuality are thoroughly intermingled in our own time, not only in the mind of the readers but also in the constitution of new printed texts. But, if a general rule is sought, texts are prepared, read, and processed by humans or human agents, and humans have different uses for texts. Reliability is proportional to the distance between the purpose for which the text was prepared and the purpose to which you would put it. Wesley Raabe Assistant Professor Kent 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 7 08:44:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290F72EB7A; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:44:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF55E2EB68; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:43:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090307084359.CF55E2EB68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.599 new book: Narrative Information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 599. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:27:50 +0000 From: Gian Piero ZARRI Subject: New Book " Narrative Information" NEW BOOK: Apologies for multiple postings. Gian Piero ZARRI Representation and Management of Narrative Information, Theoretical Principles and Implementation Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing 2009, X, 302 p. 55 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-077-3 Springer-Verlag London http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-1-84800-077-3 A big amount of important, economically relevant information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of 'narrative' description. Due to the ubiquity of these narrative resources, representing in a general, accurate, and effective way their semantic content - i.e., their key 'meaning' - is then both conceptually relevant and economically important. In this book, we present the main properties of NKRL ('Narrative Knowledge Representation Language'), a language expressly designed for representing and managing, in a standardised way, the 'meaning' of complex multimedia narrative documents. NKRL is also a fully implemented environment that exists in two versions: a relational database-supported version and a file-oriented one. It constitutes probably the most complete and realistic effort realised so far to deal with the huge industrial potentialities of the narrative domain. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book not only supplies an exhaustive description of NKRL and of the associated knowledge representation principles, it also constitutes a source of reference for practitioners, researchers and graduates in domains that range over narrative theories, linguistics and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, knowledge bases, information retrieval, and languages for the ontologies and the semantic web. Contents: - Narratology and NKRL. - The notion of 'event' in an NKRL context. - Knowledge representation and NKRL. - Architecture of NKRL, the four 'components'. - Second order structures. - The semantic and ontological contents. - Ontology of 'concepts' and ontology of 'events'. - The query and inference procedures. - Temporal information and indexing. - High-level inference procedures. - Technological enhancements and theoretical enhancements. - Appendix A: NKRL software. - Appendix B: Plural entities in NKRL. Professional address of the author from February 1st, 2009: Gian Piero Zarri University Paris-Est - LISSI Laboratory 120-122, rue Paul Armangot 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine France Phone: 33-1-41807383 Fax: 33-1-41807369 Email: zarri@noos.fr, gian-piero.zarri@univ-paris12.fr _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 7 08:45:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042162EC3C; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:45:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74BEF2EC33; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:45:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090307084506.74BEF2EC33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:45:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.600 new on WWW: TL Infobits for February X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 600. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:43:36 +0000 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- February 2009 TL INFOBITS February 2009 No. 32 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue and all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits ...................................................................... The Current Economy and Education New E-Learning Predictions Made, Old Predictions Graded Assessment and E-Portfolios New Educational Research Journal Federal Resource for Teaching Materials Recommended Reading ...................................................................... THE CURRENT ECONOMY AND EDUCATION The effects of the current economic and demographic situations on education are profound and troubling. Here are some recent articles that may be of interest. In "Open Education: A New Paradigm" (UNIVERSITY BUSINESS, vol. 12, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 13-14), Michael King writes, "Between 2010 and 2025, nearly 80 million 'baby boomers' will leave the workforce . . . . When this exodus occurs, only 20 percent of workers remaining will possess the skills required for most of the jobs being created today." This will create demands on educational institutions not only to replace vacated faculty positions, but also to help improve the skills of the workforce. He thinks that open technologies that foster services sharing and innovation can lower the costs of delivering education and improve quality. The article is online at http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1192 ----- Although not specifically mentioning e-learning, one of the recommendations in "Postsecondary Education Spending Priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Policy Advisory to State Fiscal Policymakers" has implications for online delivery of instruction: "Make investments in course redesign and other curricula changes that will make for a more cost-effective curriculum, to be in place no later than 2011. This includes redesigning large undergraduate courses, creating cost-effective developmental education modules that can be delivered statewide; and redesigning the general education curriculum to enhance community college transfer." The paper, published by the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability; The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education; and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), is available at http://nchems.org/news/documents/ARRAStatementFebruary.2009.pdf ----- Also of interest: "What Will Happen to State Budgets When the Money Runs Out?" By Donald J. Boyd February 19, 2009 The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/2009-02-19-What_Will_Happen_to.pdf "States should use the breathing room provided by the stimulus package to mute and spread out baseline spending cuts and/or tax increases they will need to make, to restructure programs, and to allow for orderly decisionmaking. But they cannot count on it to substitute for these difficult decisions." ...................................................................... NEW E-LEARNING PREDICTIONS MADE, OLD PREDICTIONS GRADED Each year ELEARN MAGAZINE invites e-learning experts to provide predictions for the coming year. This year thirty people from educational institutions and businesses in several countries weighed in with their forecasts. Not surprisingly, most addressed the challenges resulting from the current global economy crisis. "Predictions for 2009" by Lisa Neal Gualtier is available at http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=72-1 In "Reviewing Last Year's E-Learning Predictions," Stephen Downes examines the predictions made for 2008 and gives each expert a grade for his or her prediction. Downes awarded "A" grades for such predictions as "we will see universities begin to provide institutional support for Facebook and other Web 2.0 tools, not as replacements for the LMS but as adjuncts to them" (eLiterate blogger Michael Feldstein) and "2008 will be the year that serious games get serious attention from corporate training departments" (Red Hot Learning vice-president Philip Lambert). He gave an "F" to MIT's Richard Larson's prediction, "The year 2008 will be the year in which open source educational materials will be co-invented by educators from around the world and will be as easily uploaded onto a searchable website as are the videos on YouTube." Read all the 2008 predictions and Downes' comments at http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=73-1 eLearn magazine is published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.), a not-for-profit educational association serving those who work, teach, and learn in the various computing-related fields. For more information, contact: eLearn magazine, eLearn Magazine ACM, 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121-07016 USA; Web: http://www.elearnmag.com/ ...................................................................... ASSESSMENT AND E-PORTFOLIOS "Several trends in higher education shape the context in which an e-portfolio implementation may be advantageous. First, e-portfolios can help address the call to facilitate and document authentic learning experiences. . . . Second, e-portfolios can help respond to the new era of accountability . . . . Third, e-portfolios can help universities and colleges connect to today's undergraduates . . ." In "Assessing the Future: E-Portfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education" (ECAR Research Bulletin, Issue 4), Michael Reese and Ron Levy analyze the benefits and obstacles to adopting and using e-portfolios. They base their conclusions on interviews with faculty and staff and on six pilot programs at The Johns Hopkins University. The report is available online to members of ECAR subscribing institutions at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/erb/ERB0904.pdf To find out if your institution is a subscriber, go to http://www.educause.edu/ECARSubscribingOrganizations/957 ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) "provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues of critical importance to higher education, many of which carry increasingly complicated and consequential implications." For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4 ...................................................................... NEW EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL The JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION, which began publication in January 2009, is an online peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the University of Glamorgan in Cardiff, Wales. Formed to "promote improved practice by encouraging informed debate into pedagogic and related matters in higher education," the journal welcomes papers "from all disciplines and subject areas covering higher education policy and management, learning and teaching (including technology-enhanced learning and work-based learning), assessment, curriculum development and quality enhancement." Papers are available at no cost at http://jarhe.research.glam.ac.uk/ For more information, contact: Dr Elaine Huntley, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK; tel: +44 (0)1443 482316; email: jarhe@glam.ac.uk; Web: http://jarhe.research.glam.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... FEDERAL RESOURCE FOR TEACHING MATERIALS FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) is a collection of teaching and learning resources from U.S. government agencies. The website provides links to over 1,500 resources in several categories: arts & music, health & physical education, history & social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. Resource formats include primary documents, photographs, videos, and animations. While the audiences for much of the material are the K-12 grades, educators at any level can find materials to illustrate their instruction. Works by the U.S. government are not eligible for U.S. copyright protection so using these materials does not require seeking permission from the creating agency. You can access FREE's materials at http://www.free.ed.gov/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "What's Wrong with Copyright: Educator Strategies for Dealing with Analog Copyright Law in a Digital World" By J. Patrick McGrail and Ewa McGrail INNOVATE vol. 5, no. 3, February/March 2009 http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=630 Registration is required to access the paper; registration is free. "In this article, we explore how the technological, social, cultural, and legal developments of the digital age challenge educators and students who seek to make use of copyrighted material for educational purposes and offer educators strategies for dealing with today’s copyright challenges. We conclude with a call to revise the copyright law and suggest the direction that a revised copyright law should take to support responsible, creative use of both traditional and new media content, both within and beyond the physical walls of the classroom." ...................................................................... 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: DH2009 (25) Subject: DH2009 Registration Is Open [2] From: Leif Isaksen (96) Subject: InterFace 2009: First Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:26:37 +0000 From: DH2009 Subject: DH2009 Registration Is Open For those interested in attending the Digital Humanities Conference 2009 (June 22-25 at the University of Maryland, College Park), registration is officially open. To register, please sign on to the ConfTool website with your login and password, then click on the “Register as a Participant” menu option. Early registration extends from March 1st through April 15th, and registration closes altogether on June 14th. The fees are as follows: Early Member: $325, Late Member: $425, Non-member: $475, Student Member: $100, Student Non-member: $200. Members will need to have their OUP subscriber numbers to be eligible for member prices. Those who wish to become a member now, please see the ADHO website, or the website of any if its subsidiary organizations: SDH-SEMI, ACH, or ALLC. Participants will also have the chance to sign up for our social events: the banquet ($76) and the excursion to the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport ($33). More information about the conference is available through the DH09 website: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/. If there are any questions or problems, please use the "reply to" email address to contact the local organizers. -- Digital Humanities 2009 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org// --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:07:34 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: InterFace 2009: First Call for Papers Hi all As a few of you may already know, I'm involved in setting up a new annual UK symposium for postgraduate and early career researchers in Technology & the Humanities called InterFace. We've got a fantastic lineup of guest speakers already, but of course the main attraction will be innovative contributions from delegates so please would you be kind enough to put the word out via blog/tweet/any appropriate institutional lists you may know of? Please also consider attending yourself! Best wishes Leif PS Although it's a UK event, submissions from applicants abroad are of course very welcome. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Papers InterFace 2009: 1st National Symposium for Humanities and Technology 9-10 July, University of Southampton, UK. http://www.interface09.org.uk A number of travel bursaries may be available to successful applicants - if you would like to be considered for one, please email bursaries@interface09.org.uk and provide grounds for consideration. Papers should focus on potential (and realistic) areas for collaboration between the Technology and Humanities Sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments, or both. Prior work may be presented where relevant but the nature of the paper must be forward-looking. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include: Technology * 3D immersive environments * Pervasive technologies * Online collaboration * Natural language processing * Sensor networks * The Semantic Web * Agent based modelling * Web Science Humanities * Spatial cognition * Text editing and analysis * New Media * Linguistics * Applied sociodynamics & social network analysis * Archaeological reconstruction * Information Ethics * Dynamic logics * Electronic corpora Due to the limited number of places, papers will be subject to review by committee in order to maintain quality and a balanced programme. Applicants will be notified by email as to their acceptance. Accepted papers will be published online one week in advance of the conference. Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: 1 May 2009 * Acceptances Announced: 18 May 2009 * Conference: 9th-10th July 2009 Confirmed Speakers Keynote: * Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, President of the Association of Computing Machinery Insider's Guides: * Stephen Brown, De Montfort University President of the Association for Learning Technology * Ed Parsons Geospatial Technologist, Google * Sarah Porter Head of Innovation, JISC Project Showcase: * Mary Orr & Mark Weal, University of Southampton Digital Flaubert * Adrian Bell The Soldier in Later Medieval England Workshops: 1) Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Arianna Ciula, European Science Foundation & Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University 2) Visualisation Facilitator TBC 3) Data Management Facilitator TBC 4) New Media Facilitator TBC For further information, please visit the conference website (http://www.interface09.org.uk) or e-mail info@interface09.org.uk. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 9 06:07:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F312E91F; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:07:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09B122E90C; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:07:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090309060715.09B122E90C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:07:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.602 lower-case man X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 602. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:28:33 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 598 to steven totosy i wish i had the guts to do what you do, namely use only lower case, altho you make the perhaps worthy exception of items like US and URL. do you do this all the time? i have long believed that when computers came in, we should have dumped the upper case entirely. when i started using computers around 1975, we used a character set as the default called FIELDATA (of military origin) which was all caps. it was unfortunate that they chose the upper case letters, rather than the lower case letters, because upper case letters look as if you are screaming at your interlocutor, and ascii, pardon me, ASCII, soon came in and averted a revolution. let's consider some aspects of this situation. the existence of upper and lower cases in roman script is a pure fluke. originally they used all one or all the other, the lower case probably coming into existence because it was easier when using a quill rather than a chisel, or, to put it another way, lower case in a cursive in disguise. the horrendous mixing of cases is the bane of schoolchildren, yet it has minimal value. at one time most languages capitalized nouns; english did until the end of the eighteenth century, danish did in the twentieth century. the rules of capitalisation vary enormously from one language to another, and the "usually caps" comment one sees in dictionaries is enough to tell us that the matter is still fluid. and why begin a sentence with upper case? it merely duplicates the function of the preceding period, or full stop as the british call it. this kind of duplication occurred in the russian script until the revolution. letters were followed by a hard sign or a soft sign; the revolution abolished the hard sign in most places with the claimed result that the works of tolstoy became one third shorter. and nothing was lost. hebrew gets along very nicely with only a single case, altho it retains a superfluous shape of five letters at the end of words, a feature which persists in english in the pharmacist's "Px" which is really is just a decorative form of R to abbreviate the latin word "recipe!" (Take!) an instruction to the pharmacist, and in the dutch ending ij to represent a long i. and then there is the question whether the second person pronoun should begin with an upper case letter out of respect to the recipient. story has it that some russian schoolkids wrote a nice letter to putin and failed to capitalize the russian word Vj. putin ordered the school authorities to punish the children for being impolite. thank god, our president would not do that, in fact, he always colloquially finishes his press conferences "thank-youguise" (which is not the same as thank-you, guys by the way.) what stands in the way of my conversion to the lowercasism which I am advocating? mainly, I think, the ongoing pernicious influence of my dominies. when the dutch intelligently abolished the accusative case which persisted in dutch only orthographically, and had long been abandoned in standard speech, good queen wilhemina announced that she had written "den" rather than "de" for the article when grammar required it all her life, and she didn't plan to change. i bet she got a vision of disapproving schoolmarms. change...can I? Don't bet on it. alan d. 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 9 06:08:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DC42EA03; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E60C02E9CA; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:08:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090309060812.E60C02E9CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:08:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.603 events: resources; social robotics; language & logic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 603. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (127) Subject: final cfp: DRHA 2009 6-9/9- Queens University, Belfast [2] From: retore (27) Subject: 21st ESSLLI Bordeaux July 20-31 [3] From: Ryohei Nakatsu (55) Subject: cfp: ICSR2009 CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:00:31 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: final cfp: DRHA 2009 6-9/9- Queens University, Belfast Please think of submitting to this conference. It's a great opportunity to show off the fabulous work going on in DH in Ireland / Irish Studies. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, the Erasmus Smith's Chair of Modern History at TCD, will be giving one of the keynotes. It is being co-hosted by the DHO, Queens U. Belfast, and Swansea University (and will be held at QUB 7-9 Sept 2009) ******** Apologies for cross posting **CALL FOR PROPOSALS** REMINDER (Date for submission of abstracts 31 March 2009) Forthcoming Conference DRHA 2009: DYNAMIC NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE: CONTEXTS, CRISES, FUTURES http://www.dho.ie/drha2009 The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage. The conference is hosted by Queen's University, Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy and Swansea University in partnership with the National Library of Wales. It will take place from Sunday 6th September to Wednesday 9th September 2009. It will be held at QUB with its innovative spaces, fantastic architecture and state-of-the-art Sonic Laboratory. The conference will: * Establish new digital communities of knowledge exchange * Promote discussion around the impact of data on scholarship and wider society * Enquire into how innovations become mainstream through mutation, imitation, and the 're-invention of the wheel' * Advance discussion around digitisation of scholarly editions and cultural heritage * Evolve new approaches to the digital representation of time, space and locality * Debate burning issues in digital preservation and sustainability * Investigate user engagement and social participation * Explore the impact of narrative and design in the Arts and Humanities on ICT and vice versa * Promote discussion around education and the digital humanities and arts * Share the theory and practice of creating and documenting digital arts Keynote speakers will include: * Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham * Andrew Green, Librarian of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales * Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, round-tables, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference themes, with attention to 'contexts, crises, futures'. We particularly encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats such as 'town hall' discussions and hands-on workshops that will help to foster 'dynamic networks of knowledge and practice'. DHRA 2009 will also include a round-table event with facilities for enabling international participants to present papers via Second Life, and a further session dedicated to the discussion of Multi-user Virtual Environments such as Second Life. Short presentations, for example of work-in-progress, are also invited for an informal, rapid (Quickfire) slideshow and discussion event (please see DRHA website for further details). Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/main.php?page=soniclab and http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/AboutUs/Facilities/PerformanceSpaces/ for further information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available. Spaces include the Sonic Arts Laboratory, the Harty Room and the McMordie Hall. All proposals, whether papers, performance or other, should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA. The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2009. Abstracts should be between 600 - 1000 words. A selection of submissions will be published in The Edinburgh University Press International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September, QUB with the Digital Humanities Observatory and King's College London, will offer a series of short, pre-conference, hands-on courses in TEI, GIS and Visualisation. Further details and prices will appear on the DHRA 2009 website. Please see http://www.dho.ie/drha2009 for more information and a link for online submission. Sue Broadhurst DRHA Programme Chair Professor Sue Broadhurst, School of Arts, Brunel University, West London, UB8 3PH, UK Direct Line:+44(0)1895 266588 Extension: 66588 Fax: +44(0)1895 269768 Email: susan.broadhurst@brunel.ac.uk . -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:47:41 +0000 From: retore Subject: 21st ESSLLI Bordeaux July 20-31 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. * Course Program * ESSLLI gathers about 500 people and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 7 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php * Registration * Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php -- Christian Retoré http://www.labri.fr/perso/retore/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 04:02:30 +0000 From: Ryohei Nakatsu Subject: cfp: ICSR2009 CFP International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) Incheon, Korea, 16-18 August 2009 www.fira2009.org 'Where Theory and Practice Meet' Call for Papers Welcome to ICSR Social Robotics is the study of robots that are able to interact and communicate among themselves, with humans, and with the environment, within the social and cultural structure attached to their roles. The very nature of social robotics demands expertise from diverse disciplines. The conference aims to bring together the international community of researchers and practitioners to share their forefront research and the latest advancements in social robotics, as well as interactions with human beings and integration into our society. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag. Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Social Robotics. IMPORTANT DATES * Invited Session Proposal Submission : 14 March 2009 * Conference / Invited Paper Submission : 14 March 2009 * Notification of Paper Acceptance : 30 April 2009 * Final Manuscript Submission : 30 May 2009 TOPICS OF INTEREST * Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots * Context awareness, expectation and intention understanding * Design philosophies and socially appealing design methodologies * Biomechatronics, neuro-robotics, and biomedical robotics * Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interactions * Intelligent control and artificial intelligence for social robotics * Knowledge representation, information acquisition, and decision making * Learning, adaptation and evolution of intelligence * Interaction and collaboration between robots, humans and environments * Multimodal sensor fusion and communication * Robot-ethics in human society; Interactive robotic arts * Social acceptance and impact in the society * Compliance, safety and compatibility in the design of social robots ''living'' with humans * Software architecture and development tools * Human-robot interaction and robot-robot interaction * Models of human and animal social behavior as applied to robots * Applications in education, entertainment and gaming * Applications in health care and aged care Further detailed information, please visit the website, www.fira2009.org. General Chair Ryohei Nakatsu National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Program Chair Thomas Braunl Univ. of Western Australia, Australia FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 Secretariat Seoul 121-040, KOREA Phone: +82 2 717 3280 Fax: +82 2 706 4879 Email: conference@fira2009.org Website: www.fira2009.org If you no longer wih this information, please contact the FIRA Conference 2009 Secretariat. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 10 07:26:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AA72F2A3; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:26:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 731C22F28E; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:26:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090310072622.731C22F28E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.604 reliability of digital texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 604. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:08:41 -0300 From: alckmar@cce.ufsc.br Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.598 revolutionary suggestions; reliability ofdigital text In-Reply-To: <20090307084303.33C7D2EAAD@woodward.joyent.us> Steven, In fact, some countries, governments, and national libraries have developed or financed projects on digital preservation of literary texts, in image format. However, I am concerned about reliability of literary texts when they are in text format, I mean, when they have passed through an OCR mechanism. In internet, we have a great amount of text-formatted literary works, provided by particulars, libraries, research groups, etc. All of them play an important role in preserving literary heritage, but we must find some guidelines that will be able to indicate the quality, the accuracy, the reliability of the digitalized texts they make available. It will be important to them, of course, but mostly to the e-readers. Best regards, alckmar Humanist Discussion Group ha escrito: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 598. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Steven Totosy > (40) > > > [2] From: Joris van Zundert > (153) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.597 how have we acted on revolutionary > suggestions? > > [3] From: Wesley Raabe > (14) > Subject: Reliability of Digitized Text > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:32:26 +0800 > From: Steven Totosy > Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.596 reliability of digitized texts? > In-Reply-To: <20090306061624.BE0252EE96@woodward.joyent.us> > > greetings alckmar: what do you mean by "reliability"? if you mean > their preservation, libraries in virtually all countries -- in > addition to national and international agencies -- are working on > software to preserve electronic texts. the first country to establish > a national repository of electronic material was canada in 1998, in > its national library (later renamed library and archives canada) and > today most countries have such, either via a centralized agency or in > private institutional structures/ventures such as the US although the > library of congress has started to do some of it. if you mean the > stability of URLs to access electronic material, that issue is > evolving, too, although by now there are several methods to maintain > the stability of the URL. hope this helps, best, steven totosy > (editor, clcweb) > > On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 596. >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:03:50 -0300 >> From: alckmar@cce.ufsc.br >> > >> >> I am interested in reliability of digitalized literary texts. Do you >> know people who would be working on it? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Prof. Alckmar Luiz dos Santos >> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - CNPq/Brazil >> Invited researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:50:39 +0100 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.597 how have we acted on > revolutionary suggestions? > > > Dear Willard, > > I moved June '08. I had a choice to make about the printers. > > They didn't make it. I hadn't printed anything in two years. > > (Except for one letter that obligatory needed to be physically delivered - > cause of the signature. The letter by the way, was sent to town hall. There > - I know this because my wife is working there - all 'snail mail' is scanned > and electronically distributed.) > > I read all articles and policy stuff from screen. My inbox and desktop icons > remind me of what I think I should read. The breakthrough of ebooks has been > proclaimed several times in vain in he past, so I should be careful. But > nevertheless I'd say the pending arrival of coloured, non back-lit > electronic paper will increase the use of electronic texts. Not for novels > of course, as publishers seem to think, but for all other paperwork. > > Novels, that's another thing, another setting, another sensation altogether. > There's a kind of pleasurable physicalness to novels I as a reader value - > the physicalness is part of the engagement with the novel. But that's from > me: one who's first encounter with electronics was Pong and who has used > cassette recorders and dial phones; but only has four vinyl records because > the CD-player had arrived. People younger than me are far heavier users of > Twitter and Chat than me. So it seems media-use is shifting with > generations. So, are people < 30 yrs. in general book users? Any surveys > known? > > But Willard, what strikes me most in your elaborated question is the tone of > casual obviousness in "In both cases we can be very glad the suggestions > were not acted on [...]". > > Why's that? Except for the fact that it might not have been a very practical > medium these days, there seems to me nothing wrong with the intended > transformation of the texts. Do we need all the books as books? I'd bet the > majority of text does not need fancy covers, high grade paper and eye candy > typefacing. That which serves it's intended practical purpose within a few > years of writing, might even be better off not appearing in print, but just > in digital form so it can be circulated quite a lot more efficient. > Evolution of digital texts will select what appears to be valuable and might > even be put in print - cause in the end print is more durable than any form > of bits and bytes. > > I think this. Where a text has a practical purpose, a direct and concrete > application for a short term (short term as in 1 to 10 years), it will > eventually only arrive and be used in digital form. Where text has an > aesthetic function (as well), it will be put and used in both digital and > physical form. More and more, making a text physical will be a statement for > it being more than just any text, something worth for prosperity. > Effectively this will turn libraries into musea (if they are not already). > The physical book can thus be compared to the painting. For all practical > purposes I can do with the facsimile, either in print or digital form - > probably digital. For some purposes you'd have to go the museum, or buy the > thing yourself. > > So sorry to answer your 'jumble of anecdotes' with a 'jumble of thoughts', > but you had me going there... > > And the printer? Well actually it's back with a vengeance. As long as > electronic full color paper of 600+ dpi does not exist, I need some other > way to appreciate my lucky shot photo's in all their splendor. And my > daughter needs a coloring picture once in a while. > > y.s., > Joris van Zundert > > PS Just struck by a counter example. Although its publisher does all he can > to get me to read the virtual one, I still only read the paper because I'm > remembered of its existence by it lying on the doormat every morning. But > this also seems to be a dying off tradition of 30+ people. > > > -- > Mr. Joris J. van Zundert, MA > Dept. of Software R & D > Huygens Institute > Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences > > Contact information can be found at > http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:14:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Wesley Raabe > Subject: Reliability of Digitized Text > In-Reply-To: <20090306061700.A00E42EEE8@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Although it is common to ask whether digital texts are reliable, I > believe that most general answers obscure more than they clarify. > Some digital texts can be relied on for certain purposes. For > example, when I am seeking a passage in a work that I've read, so > long as I have a few words in memory it's much faster to search > digital texts than thumb through books on my shelf or run down to > the library. But if I wanted to quote for a scholarly submission, it > would depend whether my interest is the text as printed in a > particular print copy or as published on an electronic archive. > Either may be interesting. > > Just as early editions are more likely to be authoritative than > later reprints and reprints published by university presses under > the editorship of a scholar are more likely to be authoritative than > cheap paperbacks, works published in scholarly digital archives are > more likely to be authoritative than mass digitization projects. > Even then, general rules may always be wrong in particular instances. > > But I find that the interaction between print and digital forms can > be quite entertaining. Kenneth Lynn's Harvard edition of Uncle Tom's > Cabin (1962) was recently digitized by Google. One of the > characteristics of optical character recognition software, that the > character sequence "rm" may become "nu," is this humorous misquote > (accessed 6 March 2009): > > "O, there V Mammy!" said Eva, as she flew across the > room; and, throwing herself into her anus, she kissed her ipeutedly. > > The line, while obviously faulty, does have a certain resonance if > one is familiar with almost any copy of the book. At this chapter's > conclusion, another character follows the path Eva takes in the > digital version (again, from Google Books). > > " I put this lady under your care; she is tired, and wants rest; > take her to her chamber, and be sure she is made comfortable;" and > Miss Ophelia disappeared in the rear of Mammy. > > It is my hope that some well-meaning editor will reprint the > standard edition of UTC in a new paperback and borrow the Google > Books version as the base text. May a critic, who trusts the reprint > text, cite it. And then I have a title for a brief article: "The > Anal Aesthetics of Uncle Tom's Cabin: Into Mammy's Rear." > > I recommend for most general purposes Lisa Spiro's blog post on the > same topic: > http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/evaluating-the-quality-of-electronic-texts/ I have also prepared a more serious statement about the "Reliability of Electronic Texts" on my blog. http://wraabe.wordpress.com/reliability-of-electronic-texts/ Any serious answer must grapple with the fact that print and digital textuality are thoroughly intermingled in our own time, not only in the mind of the readers but also in the constitution of new printed > texts. > > But, if a general rule is sought, texts are prepared, read, and > processed by humans or human agents, and humans have different uses > for texts. Reliability is proportional to the distance between the > purpose for which the text was prepared and the purpose to which you > would put it. > > Wesley Raabe > Assistant Professor > Kent 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 10 07:27:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D4D2F2FF; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 515F62F2EA; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:27:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090310072706.515F62F2EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.605 discussion on "Digital Textuality and Tools" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 605. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 04:18:32 -0500 From: "ana boa-ventura" Subject: Digital Textuality and Tools - the discussion just launched In-Reply-To: <20090309060715.09B122E90C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, Join the discussion on "Digital Textuality and Tools", which launched today on the HASTAC forum - a debate launched by Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) who spearheads the Global Middle Ages project with Susan Noakes (University of Minnesota). http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/03-09-09Digital-Textuality-and-Tools Full announcement follows. This forum is part of the series by the HASTAC Scholars group (HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Erin Gentry Lamb, Director of the HASTAC Scholars group, hosts this excellent series of forums. Michael Widner and Angela Kinney co-facilitate this specific forum. Please join the discussion by reacting to the initial post by Geraldine Heng and/or by telling the HASTAC community about work that your institution may be doing in the field. Historians may feel particularly drawn to participate but all are welcome! Thank you, Ana Boa-Ventura Global Middle Ages Project Doctoral Candidate - College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin **************************************************************************** ******************* Digital Textuality and Tools A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/03-09-09Digital-Textuality-and-Tools The Global Middle Ages Project (GMAP), spearheaded by Geraldine Heng and Susan Noakes, is an effort to bring together scholars from many disciplines to see what insights and visions of the medieval world appear when collaboration and interconnection become key. One important facet of GMAP is the search to develop revolutionary tools to provide scholars, teachers, and students better access to artifacts such as digitized manuscripts. In this respect, it is one of many current efforts to make classical, medieval and other rare manuscripts available to a wider audience. These efforts confront multiple challenges, such as securing funding, finding effective and helpful ways to deploy new technologies, and publicizing their work widely, among others. Given that scholars of all levels regularly must deal with texts of all sorts, the next generation of database interfaces--tools that enable advanced cross-referencing, collaborative research, and sophisticated visualizations of data--can apply to digital manuscripts as well as less insistently physical works like contemporary academic journals. Further, the questions raised by GMAP are relevant to any similarly interdisciplinary, interconnected work in other periods. This HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, hosted by Angela Kinney and Michael Widner, will focus on the questions raised by the efforts of GMAP and similar projects: How can we handle the sheer amount of data produced by digitization projects? How can we advocate for the continual upkeep of (now stagnated) digital resources, which are in danger of becoming so obsolete as to be useless? How can we stimulate funding for high-quality digitization of manuscripts and digital scholarly editions in an environment where palaeography and textual criticism is not esteemed as "original" scholarly work? Is it worth investigating the implications of digitization on a sociological level? To what extent are we ignoring the significant gap between a digital image of a manuscript and the manuscript itself? Will widespread digitization efforts change the way we do research? How? What sorts of tools and initiatives do we need to improve the ways we research and learn? Come join the discussion! Angela Kinney is a PhD student in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Department of the Classics and the Program in Medieval Studies. She holds an MA in Classics from the University of Illinois. She is spending the academic year 2008-2009 at the University of Bristol (UK) to work with Professor Gillian Clark on Augustine's use of satirical techniques in his De Civitate Dei (City of God). Her current research projects include arguing for 6th-century authorship of the Vita Apollinaris Valentiniensis and a comparison of the physical description of the Greco-Roman goddess Fama (Rumor) with descriptions and iconography of angels in Judeo-Christian texts. Her digital interests include the digitization and accessability of pre-modern manuscripts, as well as website/graphic design and online instruction. Her favorite ways of procrastinating include message boards, UNIX scrabble, and Google Books. Michael Widner is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his MA from Southern Methodist University. His dissertation focuses on the relationships between genre, identity, and bodies in medieval English and French literature. Though his research leads him to read about knights, saints, and hot pokers, he also closely follows technology news and current pedagogical practices and theories that attempt to deploy technology in relevant and effective ways. He currently teaches "The Rhetoric of Cartoons", a class in which he attempts to suck all the joy out of reading graphic novels like Alan Moore's Watchmen and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. Many years ago, he was a UNIX Systems Administrator for SBC; he doesn't regret quitting that career, but is grateful for the technological expertise with which it left him. He is currently struggling with Facebook addiction. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 10 09:45:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BEE2F2A4; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:45:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 706A32F28F; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:45:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090310094529.706A32F28F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:45:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.606 is this a liberation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 606. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:40:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: is this a liberation? In 1951 two Canadian physicists, E. W. Leaver and J. J. Brown, wrote as follows in "Electronics and Human Beings" (Harper's Magazine, August): > The time is at hand for the electronic management not only of > industrial production but of business and governmental communication, > of financial movement, and of commercial distribution. This > development can, if we chose to direct it so, eliminate the letters, > memoranda, and other paper methods of communication--all filing cases, > file clerks, libraries, all other equipment for the storage of > information, and all the hordes of little clerks who scratch marks on > paper to communicate with each other and with the outside world. And, > if we so decide, it may carry off the sweepers and oilers, the > diggers, the wipers, and all of the dogged human components of our > present social machine. For the moment please ignore the paperless-office vision and the like, and the arrogance of someone who can speak of office-workers as "little clerks". Indeed, as the authors go on to say, at that historical moment the machines did not yet exist to accomplish the automation of drudgery that they had in mind. But they could see that these machines were imminent and were asking bigger questions, > Whether these machines and those which will follow them and improve > upon them are to robotize or humanize mankind is already an urgent > question and one which the scientists who make them are not equipped > to solve.... When the human element is removed entirely [from > industrial mass-production], and replaced by electronic machines that > control and collate, then we have the essential device around which > the new social organization will be built. As I read it, the essential argument here is that computers have the potential of allowing us truly to humanize ourselves by allowing us to subtract everything mechanical from ourselves and invest it in machines. The utopia envisioned, then, is the opposite of the cybernetic. It is closely related to (though significantly does not use the language of) visions one finds articulated then, of computers as perfect slaves. Typically for arguments of this sort, what human beings will do in the state of leisure thus created gets little attention. All this is quite relevant to the digital humanities then in formation, since scholars at the time were asking themselves what computers were for, and a large number of them who have left their opinions in the historical record argued for or obviously favoured the computer as obedient servant, carrier of scholarly water and sawer of scholarly wood, which reasurringly would leave the creative and socially prestigious work to scholar. Such remains what many now would say. But what say you? What dangers, if any, lurk in conceiving of computing as in essence *for* drudgery? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 11 06:21:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81E22E537; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6FB382E527; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:21:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090311062150.6FB382E527@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:21:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.607 reliability of digital texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 607. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Siobhan King (264) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.604 reliability of digital texts [2] From: DrWender@aol.com (159) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.604 reliability of digital texts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:05:08 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.604 reliability of digital texts In-Reply-To: <20090310072622.731C22F28E@woodward.joyent.us> If you are interested in standards for digital repositories you might want to look over the DRAMBORA(Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment) toolkit http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/ The toolkit aims to address issues around risks involved with long-term preservation in digital repositories. However I'm not sure how much it goes into process analysis to ensure quality of digitisation of texts. I'm only assuming so as their tutorials cover workflows (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/drambora-london-2007/) Hope this is useful. Siobhan King --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:22:16 EDT From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.604 reliability of digital texts In-Reply-To: Alckmar, Before I was retired I worked as computer man in the team of an edition of Goethes Complete Works, and in this context I was often confronted with questions of reliability; but also as teacher I was discussing in classroom the reliability of internet ressources. Perhaps you may appreciate a bibliographical indication for case studies, now 10 years old: Herbert Wender und Robert Peter: Probleme der Wiederverwendung elektronisch gespeicherter Texte. Zwei Fallstudien. In: Computergestützte Text-Edition. Hrsg. von Roland Kamzalek (Beihefte zu editio 12). Tübingen 1999, S. 47-60. (cf. the short mention of this article: "Herbert Wender und Robert Peter diskutierten unter der Leitfrage »Wie verlässlich sind eigentlich die Texte, die auf dem Computer zur Verfügung stehen?« die auch im Titel ihres Beitrags so benannten Probleme der Wiederverwendung elektronisch gespeicherter Texte. Ein Kafka-Text (Das Urteil) und ein Goethe-Brieftext (aus den Briefen aus der Schweiz) boten ihre Fälle. Von Interessen der Unterrichtssituation ebenso wie der re-editorischen Integration geleitet, boten sie Einblicke in eigene Programmierungen, die Schwachstellen und Fehler der bezogenen Datenspeicherungen aufdeckten und auszumerzen suchten und verlässliche elektronische Weiterverwendungen anstrebten." [http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jg01/gabler.html] ) Important for the diff-based procedure of quality testing - in my time we used the "diff" tool in Unix context or, in cases of slightly different versions, WORD's 'version control'; nowadays one would probably prefer some XML/XSLT stuff, but the results will be the same - most important is the existence of at least 2 versions of the same literary text where the one is *independent* from the other. (What happens when both ressources are OCR-based must show the experience...) In our case study we had tested Kafkas story "Das Urteil" in versions from the E-Lib in Virginia and from the German Gutenberg Project: While in the german textbase the name of the protagonist was 'americanized' ("Bendeman" instead of "Bendemann") and some typing errors occur, the american encoder resp. OCR checker or corrector had obviously problems with german diphtongs ("im ubrigen" instead of "im (ue)brigen"). BTW: The situation is now the same as before 10 years. Download the 2 versions from http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=12&xid=1353&kapitel=26&cHash=60edaf8b082 and from http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=KafUrte&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/german-parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div Put this stuff in 2 WORD files and set back both to "Standard" paragraph format, compare the texts (under menu EXTRAS) and behind some minor garbage indicating different coding conventions you will see the substantial differences between the versions, showing that both are without corrections not to use for citation in scientific contexts. In the USA for printed editions was established - when I see it right - acheck by the Bibliographical Society (ironically in Virginia too), and the reader can find an indication of the so-checked 'reliability' in the book. Couldn't they build in the same way a list of checked electronic text ressources? Or better, why are the public funded scientific editions of literary texts, since many years produced with electronic aid, not freely accessible in digital representations? Greetings,Herbert _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 11 06:24:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91CA2E656; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08BFB2E645; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090311062443.08BFB2E645@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.608 open position; internship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 608. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Catherine Pelachaud Subject: Open position at CNRS - TELECOM ParisTech [2] From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." (18) Subject: ENJMIN Internship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:48:42 +0000 From: Catherine Pelachaud Subject: Open position at CNRS - TELECOM ParisTech *Opening:* 1 post-doctoral research fellow * We are looking for a candidate with experience in 3D computer graphics. *Topic:* The project takes place within the ECA system Greta. This ECA system accepts as input a text to be said by the agent. The text has been enriched with information on the manner the text ought to be said (i.e. with which communicative acts it should be said). The behavioral engine computes the synchronized verbal and nonverbal behaviors of the agent. The animation module follows the MPEG-4 and the H-Anim standards. This work is part of the EU project CALLAS (http://www.callas-newmedia.eu/). CALLAS aims to provide a new paradigm for investigating a more comprehensive set of emotions in multimodal interfaces tailored to New Media environments, changing the way we perceive contemporary and future media applications. The animation module designed so far has implemented arm movements only. It needs to be extended to the full upper body, in particular to the torso and shoulder. The body animation needs also to produce expressive animations. We are seeking for one candidate with knowledge in 3D computer graphics. Having experience on 3D human body animation is a plus. The candidate will participate in the project's research activities, and will assist with the development of demonstration prototypes. *Project Length*: 12 months *Place*: TELECOM ParisTech *Stipend*: around 2000 euros depending on applicant’s qualification *Contact*: Catherine Pelachaud catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~pelachau ---------------------------------------------------------- NEW EMAIL: catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr (catherine.pelachaud@inria.fr and pelachaud@iut.univ-paris8.fr are obsolete) CNRS - LTCI UMR 5141 Institut TELECOM - TELECOM ParisTech 46 rue Barrault 75013 Paris FRANCE tel: +33 (0)1 45 81 83 04 http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~pelachau catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:20:29 +0000 From: "Rauterberg, G.W.M." Subject: ENJMIN Internship In-Reply-To: <00a701c9a1a5$b6144fb0$223cef10$@natkin@cnam.fr> The Graduate School of Games and Interactive Media (ENJMIN, www.enjmin.fr http://www.enjmin.fr/ ) is looking for Internships for students finishing the Master degree in one of the following specialties: Producers Game Design Graphic Design Sound Design Programmers Ergonomics and man machine interface After a bachelor in their fields they have been trained during two years from a theoretical and practical point of view to design and develop computer games. Before the Internship, the second year ends by the pre production of a game developed by a tem of 9 to 10 students coming from each field. The Internship may begin in April and end in September with a whole duration of at least four months. Pr. Stephane Natkin Directeur ENJMIN/CNAM http://www.enjmin.fr http://www.enjmin.fr/ Responsable de l'équipe MIM CEDRIC/CNAM http://cedric.cnam.fr mobile 33 6 84 10 29 42 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 11 06:26:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0DD2E71C; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF1E82E701; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:26:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090311062620.CF1E82E701@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:26:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.609 digital resources for sustainable development? the past? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 609. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Luis Gutierrez (16) Subject: Digital Resources for Education in Sustainable Human Development [2] From: renata lemos (16) Subject: why looking back? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:13:55 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Digital Resources for Education in Sustainable Human Development Hello, Can anyone suggest good examples of digital resources used for developing and deploying educational programs in sustainable development? My plan is to focus on human development, so I need to show all the human dimensions of sustainable human development, including both physical and psychological factors. Any suggestions? Sincerely, Luis ________________________ Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. The Pelican Web http://pelicanweb.org/ Editor, Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence http://pelicanweb.org/solisust.html SSNV is a monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:37:37 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: why looking back? cher willard, from your recent posts on humanist, I have been wondering why is it that you are looking to the past when you search for answers concerning the future. do you really believe that such answers could be found there? it seems to me that it would be a much more interesting and fruitful endeavor to look for answers in what is happening in the present, namely the very interesting developments in nanotechnologies, namely nanocommunication and quantum information processing... things that you insist on calling "hype". I truly do not understand what is so important about the past, when our present is so much more exciting and so much more relevant. comments? yours, -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 11 06:27:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2986F2E7FD; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0AADE2E7E7; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:27:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090311062711.0AADE2E7E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:27:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.610 an exemplary approach to a difficult job X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 610. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:47:59 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a recommendation Allow me to recommend to your attention two small portions of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, 3rd edn (Princeton, 1953), available in toto from the Internet Archive's fine collection of texts. Many here will know that this is not a book for the mathematically timid, but the portions of it I'm recommending have no maths at all. These are the prefatory Technical Note (pp. ix-x) and section 1, "The Mathematical Method in Economics", esp on the "Difficulties of the application of the mathematical method" and "Necessary limitations of the objectives" (pp. 3-6, mostly). The first, technical note, is a model of how to address an audience a significant part of which you anticipate will be ignorant of your subject or some aspect of it but at the same time highly intelligent and eager to learn. The authors target a reader "moderately versed in mathematics" and with that person in mind describe the level of knowledge involved and provide throughout the progress of their argument a way of acquiring the necessary practice. Emphasis is given to purely verbal discussions and analyses. For the reader not interested in the maths, they mark those sections that the non-mathematical reader is most likely to want to skip. The second portion is notable for the judicious choice of modest objectives and for the strongly articulated belief that in time more will be possible. The following will illustrate: > The great progress in every science came when, in the study of > problems which were modest as compared with ultimate aims, methods > were developed which could be extended further and further.... > It seems to us that the same standard of modesty > should be applied in economics. It is futile to try to explain - and > systematically at that - everything economic. The sound procedure is > to obtain first utmost precision and mastery in a limited field, and > then to proceed to another, somewhat wider one, and so on. This would > also do away with the unhealthy practice of applying so-called > theories to economic or social reform where they are in no way > useful. > > We believe that it is necessary to know as much as possible about the > behavior of the individual and about the simplest forms of exchange. > Economists frequently point to much larger, more > "burning" questions, and brush everything aside which prevents them > from making statements about these. The experience of more advanced > sciences, for example physics, indicates that this impatience merely > delays progress, including that of the treatment of the "burning" > questions. There is no reason to assume the existence of shortcuts. > ... > A fortiori it is unlikely that a mere repetition of the tricks which > served us so well in physics will do for the social phenomena too. > The probability is very slim indeed, since it will be shown that we > encounter in our discussions some mathematical problems which are > quite different from those which occur in physical science. (pp.3-6) I find the mention of need for a different kind of mathematics to be intriguing, esp since at the very end of von Neumann's last work, the Silliman Lecture published as The Computer and the Brain (1955), he wrote, > Thus the outward forms of our mathematics are not absolutely relevant > from the point of view of evaluating what the mathematical or logical > language truly used by the central nervous system is. However, the > above remarks about reliability and logical and arithmetical depth > prove that whatever the system is, it cannot fail to differ > considerably from what we consciously and explicitly consider as > mathematics. (p. 82) Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 11 06:30:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6654C2E961; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:30:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3EC8A2E950; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:30:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090311063037.3EC8A2E950@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:30:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.611 cfp: virtual worlds for research in the arts & humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 611. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:42:20 -0400 From: Michelle Roper Subject: Call for Participation: Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research Grant Opportunity: Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research *******Letter of Intent Submission Deadline: Friday, 3 April 2009********* With Mellon Foundation funding, the non-profit research institutions the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and SRI International have been working with leading scholars and technologists to learn how virtual world technologies can transform arts and humanities research. After an initial Summit that was held in Menlo Park, CA last year, the project leaders, Michelle Lucey-Roper and Edward Dieterle, have been conducting interviews, participating in conferences and listening to the community as part of a process that will generate a white paper and a collaborative proposal for an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project-proposal on virtual worlds for arts and humanities research. All potential applicants wishing to participate in this collaborative proposal are requested to submit a Letter of Intent to project leaders by *Friday, 3 April 2009*. A panel of distinguished senior humanists, technologists, and researchers in 3-D visualization environments will meet to review the Letters of Intent and invite some groups to submit full proposals. Accompanying each invitation will be a one-time award to develop the proposal. A capstone Integration Workshop will be held in Washington, DC for applicants in August 2009. Funds for travel and accommodations will be provided. Details for submitting the Letter of Intent follow: http://www.fas.org/programs/ltp/emerging_technologies/humanities/_Media/proposal-harnessing-virtual.pdf Between now and April 3, the project leads are happy to field questions pertaining to the Letter of Intent, the collaborative proposal, or both. Their contact information is as follows: Edward Dieterle | Michelle Lucey-RoperSRI International | Federation of American Scientists edward.dieterle@sri.com | mroper@fas.org 703.247.8536 | 202.454.4683 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 12 06:20:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C372FD5B; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:20:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E72202FD48; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:20:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090312062039.E72202FD48@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:20:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.612 reliability of digital texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 612. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:40:39 +1300 From: Edmund King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.607 reliability of digital texts In-Reply-To: <20090311062150.6FB382E527@woodward.joyent.us> There is a lengthy bibliography (current to the end of 2008) on information integrity issues in digital archives here: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/lbinteg.htm Edmund King _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 12 06:22:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0B52FE1B; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 337EB2FE0C; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:22:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090312062204.337EB2FE0C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:22:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.613 events: Tokyo Workshop on Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 613. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:35:01 +0900 From: "Tabata, Tomoji" Subject: 2009 Tokyo Workshop on Digital Humanities Apologies for cross-postings ============================ 2009 TOKYO WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL HUMANITIES 27--29 March 2009 The Center for Evolving Humanities, the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo (Access map: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/map01_02_e.html) This workshop is sponsored by the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and co-sponsored by The Center for Evolving Humanities, the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo Flyer http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~dhw2009/Tokyo_Workshop_poster.pdf ============================ Target Audience and the Aim of the Workshop Computers are coming to play a steadily more prominent role in the various fields of modern scholarship, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, and religious studies. The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of how we can apply digital technologies in humanities studies. Lectures by invited speakers will provide a general introduction to the state of the art in digital humanities as well as excellent examples of computer- assisted text analysis and creation and management of humanities digital resources. Hands-on workshop exercises will provide an opportunity for participants to acquire practical skills by trying out some of the resources and techniques demonstrated in the lectures. Discussion sessions will be held to complement the lectures and workshops, through which participants will have a chance to receive expert advice on how to initiate and develop their own projects. Invited speakers include: A. Charles Muller (University of Tokyo) Kiyonori Nagasaki (Yamaguchi Prefectural University) Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (University of Oulu, Finland) Espen Ore (National Library of Norway) Tomoji Tabata (University of Osaka) ============================ Registering for the Workshop To sign-up, send e-mail to dhw2009 (AT) lang.osaka-u.ac.jp with the following information by Sunday, 22 March 2009. *Please substitute (AT) with @. Please be sure to put dhw2009signup as the subject of the message. 1) Name 2) Affiliation 3) Contact: E-mail address 4) The course to sign-up: A) Text analysis or B) Digitization of scholarly humanities resources. NOTE: All participants are advised to bring their own laptops. WIFI internet connection will be available in the venue. Unfortunately, we cannot offer accommodation for participants. But, here are useful links for those who wish to find accommodation in Tokyo: http://www.moveandstay.jp/tokyo/guide_links.asp ============================ Provisional Timetable Fri. 27 March Core programme (common to Rooms 1 & 2) Plenary introduction to ditigal humanities: Two lectures on digitization of humanities/cultual resources delivered by A. Charles Muller (Tokyo) and Espen Ore (National Library of Norway) Two lectures on computational text analysis deliverd by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (Oulu) and Tomoji Tabata (Osaka) Time Contents 12:00-- Registration 13:00--13:10 Opening Tomoji Tabata 13:10--13:20 Welcome Masahiro Shimoda (Tokyo) 13:20--13:30 Opening address Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (ALLC; Oulu, Finland) 13:40--14:50 Lecture 1 14:50--15:20 Coffee Break 15:20--16:05 Lecture 2 16:15--17:00 Lecture 3 17:15--18:00 Lecture 4 Sat. 28 March Parallel sessions Room 1: Text analysis Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, Tomoji Tabata Room 2: Digital database/Digitization of cultural heritage Espen Ore, A. Charles Muller, Kiyonori Nagasaki Time Contents 10:00--12:00 Session 1 Lecture and hands-on exercises 12:00--14:00 Lunch 14:00--15:30 Session 2 Lecture and hands-on exercises 16:00--18:00 Session 3 Lecture and hands-on exercises Sun. 29 March Parallel sessions & Common programme Room 1: Text analysis Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, Tomoji Tabata Room 2: Digital database/Digitization of cultural heritage Espen Ore, A. Charles Muller, Kiyonori Nagasaki Time Contents 09:30--11:00 Session 5 Advanced exercises 11:20--12:30 Session 6 Advanced exercises 12:30--14:30 Lunch 14:30--15:30 Discussion/Round-up (common to Rooms 1 & 2) 15:30 Closing remarks If you have any queries, send e-mail to dhw2009 (AT) lang.osaka-u.ac.jp. 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 12 09:24:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751802E08A; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:24:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 527C22E078; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:24:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090312092425.527C22E078@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:24:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 614. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:16:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: why looking back? In Humanist 22.609, Renata Lemos asked me directly about the purpose behind several recent postings of mine, specifically > why is it that you are looking to the past when you search for answers > concerning the future. do you really believe that such answers could be > found there? it seems to me that it would be a much more interesting and > fruitful endeavor to look for answers in what is happening in the > present, namely the very interesting developments in nanotechnologies, > namely nanocommunication and quantum information processing... things > that you insist on calling "hype". > > I truly do not understand what is so important about the past, when our > present is so much more exciting and so much more relevant. I can think of two kinds of responses to this, one having to do with us all, the other specific to practice in the digital humanities. The first is a question not just for historians, though I suppose they do what they do based on a very old understanding of why the past is always relevant to us humans. I imagine that it's the sort of question an historian might expect to get in a taxi on the way to the airport, say, or at the hairdresser's. I guess if I were an historian I'd ask the questioner to imagine the circumstances under which knowledge of the past would be totally, completely, utterly unnecessary. I'd guess that if you kept at it relentlessly (that's the key to this reductio ad absurdum) you'd end up imagining an edenic state of total bliss and complete enlightenment -- not only for yourself but for everyone else (since Eden cannot be a gated community). No need to understand what happened yesterday, or indeed 5 minutes ago, because the present is only good -- indeed the present is eternal. No need to remember how to string a bow, plant a crop etc etc. Anything less than Eden, such as the state we're in, and there have to be questions from perplexity, questions of the where-from-here kind, since here is for most of us most of the time, if not all of us all the time, not exactly where we want to be if we have any imagination at all. Such questions would lead the clever person to look to the past for better knowledge of the present and so guidance for what we have at hand to build a better future. And assuming that not everything is under one's own control, as it isn't in the sub-edenic state, these questions would include the where-are-we-going kind too, i.e. what trajectory all of us are on whatever the individual may decide to do, which requires knowledge of where we've been, at what speed and rate of change, and so by something analogous to intertia, where we're likely to end. It's against that inertia that we steer our course. One can imagine situations (for example, the situation many people found themselves in after the Second World War, or others later who managed to survive whatever killing fields) in which the past is so horrible that learning from it seems impossible even if it were psychologically supportable to make the attempt. Or, to take another example, revolutionaries right after a great revolution, such as the Russian one, for whom the past is meaningless, a nightmare from which one is awakening. Or, to modulate into the techno-scientific, one can cite a Kuhnian scientific revolution, such as the Einsteinian one. But what do we think now, e.g. about proposals to destroy all musical instruments? Once the pain or fervour abates, don't we turn to the past for understanding of the past? Even in the case of the profound changes in physics because of Einstein, we now understand not just that Newtonian physics is of the good-enough kind but also the principle of emergent order that marks the boundaries of its relevance. Where would we be if we had tossed out Newton entirely? Is this the sort of argument that an historian would give to the taxi driver or hairdresser -- if that historian had a long enough ride? I suppose for an academic or technician in the digital humanities, one takes that broad situation and applies it. Take text-analysis, for example. As a whole text-analysis isn't terribly successful or satisfying, as many others in the field keep saying, and have said year after year since the early 1960s. Indeed, the postgraduate course in text-analysis that I teach is based on the question of why it is we (firmly in the present, with eyes fixed on the then present moment) run unto a metaphorical brick wall so soon after getting started; or less metaphorically, how we can get beyond the level of the individual word and individual words nearby, lemmatized or otherwise, to whatever it is that could be considered "context"; or, more philosophically, how we can possibly justify what we consider "context" to mean in any given textual situation. Most other activities in the digital humanities seem to be cooking with gas -- though I would argue that they're cooking the low-hanging fruit-- but digital literary studies not -- because, I would argue, we cooked all the low-hanging stuff quite a long time ago and are now trying to figure out how to build a ladder to reach the higher-hanging stuff. We also speak at length these days about "digital editions" but, according to those in the midst of the editing trade, don't really know what one of these creatures should be like. So the literary critic or textual editor, focused on interpretation of texts, doesn't find him- or herself in a particularly good situation with respect to computing. Yet at the same time, let us say, he or she has this nagging feeling that the computer really could be useful, somehow. And, let us say, this critic, firmly in the present moment, has ideas about what went wrong and might be done about it. Isn't it important at such a moment to know what's been tried already? Isn't it equally or more important to be able to extrapolate from the trajectory that text-analysis, say, has taken all these years to where now it makes sense to go? If we're going to blame Chomskyan linguistics or Theory or whatever for the ineffectuality of text-analytic approaches to literature, we may be able to make a plausible case, but based essentially on a causal argument, it is a naive one, as awareness of the last 60+ years of text-analysis clearly demonstrates. As Anthony Kenny suggested rather obliquely in his 1991 British Library lecture, we should be thinking in terms of coeval developments rather than causal chains. Nanotechnology or any other technology isn't itself hype, but there is much hype surrounding it that takes possibilities as inevitabilities if not present reality and asks us to suspend judgement. As awareness of those last 60+ years will show again and again, this sort of promotional blather has come in waves repeatedly, always casting up on the shore much more modest achievements than have been predicted. I say, let's think now about what we have now (in the light of the past, of course). Comments? renata lemos wrote: > cher willard, > from your recent posts on humanist, I have been wondering why is it that you > are looking to the past when you search for answers concerning the future. > do you really believe that such answers could be found there? it seems to me > that it would be a much more interesting and fruitful endeavor to look for > answers in what is happening in the present, namely the very interesting > developments in nanotechnologies, namely nanocommunication and quantum > information processing... things that you insist on calling "hype". > > I truly do not understand what is so important about the past, when our > present is so much more exciting and so much more relevant. > > comments? > > yours, -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 13 06:22:38 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B80C30FCC; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:22:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F0F230FBC; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:22:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090313062237.0F0F230FBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:22:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.615 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 615. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back [2] From: Neven Jovanovic (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back [3] From: renata lemos (174) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:25:20 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090312092425.527C22E078@woodward.joyent.us> I honestly cannot believe an educated person would make a statement like the one below. If the future is determined (in part) by our actions in the present, then the present has been determined (at least in part) by the actions of others in the past. This means the past is not discontinuous with either the present or the future. For that reason, thinking about the past enables us to think intelligently about the present and the future. Otherwise we're just naive children staring googly-eyed at all the neat little toys and terms contemporary science throws at us without considering the implications of these technologies, their social costs, and to what use they are being put -- or the fact that most of it really isn't necessary for us to lead good or meaningful or productive lives. It really is possible to say no to the next new thing. Except the next iPod. You need to draw the line somewhere. Forgive me for succumbing to the hegemony of upper case in this post. Jim R >> why is it that you are looking to the past when you search for answers >> concerning the future. do you really believe that such answers could be >> found there? it seems to me that it would be a much more interesting and >> fruitful endeavor to look for answers in what is happening in the >> present, namely the very interesting developments in nanotechnologies, >> namely nanocommunication and quantum information processing... things >> that you insist on calling "hype". --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:52:47 +0100 (CET) From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090312092425.527C22E078@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, to the question of "why history of literary computing" I would add that the past is a lot more complex than our memories -- even collective memories -- present it; a lot of things get filtered out. So there is a lot of ways which have not been taken, a lot of wheels that we are just in the process of reinventing. Maybe. We would not know, unless somebody from the present looks back, and reports it. Yours, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:19:40 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.614 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090312092425.527C22E078@woodward.joyent.us> my reverences, noble willard. this is truly a beautiful reply, one that has fully answered my taxi driver / hairdresser humble questions. with all due respect for the past, full attention to the present and looking forward for the future, -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 614. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:16:21 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > > > In Humanist 22.609, Renata Lemos asked me directly about the purpose > behind several recent postings of mine, specifically > > > why is it that you are looking to the past when you search for answers > > concerning the future. do you really believe that such answers could be > > found there? it seems to me that it would be a much more interesting and > > fruitful endeavor to look for answers in what is happening in the > > present, namely the very interesting developments in nanotechnologies, > > namely nanocommunication and quantum information processing... things > > that you insist on calling "hype". > > > > I truly do not understand what is so important about the past, when our > > present is so much more exciting and so much more relevant. > > I can think of two kinds of responses to this, one having to do with us > all, the other specific to practice in the digital humanities. The > first is a question not just for historians, though I suppose they do > what they do based on a very old understanding of why the past is > always relevant to us humans. I imagine that it's the sort of question > an historian might expect to get in a taxi on the way to the airport, > say, or at the hairdresser's. > > I guess if I were an historian I'd ask the questioner to imagine the > circumstances under which knowledge of the past would be totally, > completely, utterly unnecessary. I'd guess that if you kept at it > relentlessly (that's the key to this reductio ad absurdum) you'd end up > imagining an edenic state of total bliss and complete enlightenment -- > not only for yourself but for everyone else (since Eden cannot be a > gated community). No need to understand what happened yesterday, or > indeed 5 minutes ago, because the present is only good -- indeed the > present is eternal. No need to remember how to string a bow, plant a > crop etc etc. Anything less than Eden, such as the state we're in, and > there have to be questions from perplexity, questions of the > where-from-here kind, since here is for most of us most of the time, if > not all of us all the time, not exactly where we want to be if we have > any imagination at all. Such questions would lead the clever person to > look to the past for better knowledge of the present and so guidance > for what we have at hand to build a better future. And assuming that > not everything is under one's own control, as it isn't in the > sub-edenic state, these questions would include the where-are-we-going > kind too, i.e. what trajectory all of us are on whatever the individual > may decide to do, which requires knowledge of where we've been, at what > speed and rate of change, and so by something analogous to intertia, > where we're likely to end. It's against that inertia that we steer our > course. > > One can imagine situations (for example, the situation many people found > themselves in after the Second World War, or others later who managed > to survive whatever killing fields) in which the past is so horrible > that learning from it seems impossible even if it were psychologically > supportable to make the attempt. Or, to take another example, > revolutionaries right after a great revolution, such as the Russian one, > for whom the past is meaningless, a nightmare from which one is > awakening. Or, to modulate into the techno-scientific, one can cite a > Kuhnian scientific revolution, such as the Einsteinian one. But what do > we think now, e.g. about proposals to destroy all musical instruments? > Once the pain or fervour abates, don't we turn to the past for > understanding of the past? Even in the case of the profound changes in > physics because of Einstein, we now understand not just that Newtonian > physics is of the good-enough kind but also the principle of emergent > order that marks the boundaries of its relevance. Where would we be if > we had tossed out Newton entirely? > > Is this the sort of argument that an historian would give to the taxi > driver or hairdresser -- if that historian had a long enough ride? > > I suppose for an academic or technician in the digital humanities, one > takes that broad situation and applies it. Take text-analysis, for > example. As a whole text-analysis isn't terribly successful or > satisfying, as many others in the field keep saying, and have said year > after year since the early 1960s. Indeed, the postgraduate course in > text-analysis that I teach is based on the question of why it is we > (firmly in the present, with eyes fixed on the then present moment) run > unto a metaphorical brick wall so soon after getting started; or less > metaphorically, how we can get beyond the level of the individual word > and individual words nearby, lemmatized or otherwise, to whatever it is > that could be considered "context"; or, more philosophically, how we > can possibly justify what we consider "context" to mean in any given > textual situation. Most other activities in the digital humanities seem > to be cooking with gas -- though I would argue that they're cooking the > low-hanging fruit-- but digital literary studies not -- because, I would > argue, we cooked all the low-hanging stuff quite a long time ago and > are now trying to figure out how to build a ladder to reach the > higher-hanging stuff. We also speak at length these days about "digital > editions" but, according to those in the midst of the editing trade, > don't really know what one of these creatures should be like. > > So the literary critic or textual editor, focused on interpretation of > texts, doesn't find him- or herself in a particularly good situation > with respect to computing. Yet at the same time, let us say, he or she > has this nagging feeling that the computer really could be useful, > somehow. And, let us say, this critic, firmly in the present moment, > has ideas about what went wrong and might be done about it. Isn't it > important at such a moment to know what's been tried already? Isn't it > equally or more important to be able to extrapolate from the trajectory > that text-analysis, say, has taken all these years to where now it > makes sense to go? If we're going to blame Chomskyan linguistics or > Theory or whatever for the ineffectuality of text-analytic approaches to > literature, we may be able to make a plausible case, but based > essentially on a causal argument, it is a naive one, as awareness of the > last 60+ years of text-analysis clearly demonstrates. As Anthony Kenny > suggested rather obliquely in his 1991 British Library lecture, we > should be thinking in terms of coeval developments rather than causal > chains. > > Nanotechnology or any other technology isn't itself hype, but there is > much hype surrounding it that takes possibilities as inevitabilities if > not present reality and asks us to suspend judgement. As awareness of > those last 60+ years will show again and again, this sort of promotional > blather has come in waves repeatedly, always casting up on the shore > much more modest achievements than have been predicted. I say, let's > think now about what we have now (in the light of the past, of course). > > Comments? > > renata lemos wrote: > > cher willard, > > from your recent posts on humanist, I have been wondering why is it that > you > > are looking to the past when you search for answers concerning the > future. > > do you really believe that such answers could be found there? it seems to > me > > that it would be a much more interesting and fruitful endeavor to look > for > > answers in what is happening in the present, namely the very interesting > > developments in nanotechnologies, namely nanocommunication and quantum > > information processing... things that you insist on calling "hype". > > > > I truly do not understand what is so important about the past, when our > > present is so much more exciting and so much more relevant. > > > > comments? > > > > yours, > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 15 07:05:28 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51B02EA4F; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:05:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ABFE42EA45; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:05:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090315070527.ABFE42EA45@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:05:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.616 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 616. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:26:16 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.615 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090313062237.0F0F230FBC@woodward.joyent.us> dear james, neven and willard. thanks for your comments, but I do not think you truly understood the deeper meaning of my questions. when I asked willard if he believed that the answers, or guidelines, to our future could be found in the past, I meant to provoke reflection on the real nature and depth of the technological changes that are happening in the present. of course knowing about the past is important. but sometimes, looking back searching for references could actually be misleading. picture this: someone who is walking searching for a new river and all of a sudden finds the sea. this person has never seen the sea and does not know what it is like. the river and the sea are water, but if this person looks back to his/her previous knowledge or experience of rivers trying to get insights into the nature of the sea, and the possibilities of the sea, these insights would only be limited to say the least; and would most probably be misleading. what I am trying to say is that present emerging technologies are the sea. they are still technology, but trying to compare them with previous technologies is like comparing a river to the sea. maybe, just maybe, one could learn much more about the brand new possibilities of the sea of present technological achievements by actually going into the sea and trying to swim, and actually experiencing the sea, than to look back to previous accounts and theories of rivers trying to find a way to navigate in the sea - which is entirely different... I hope I am getting my point across better this time. in order to illustrate the magnitude of this sea, here is a little account of present possibilities, available online: Cognitive Expansion Technologies William Sims Bainbridge http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/ *Journal of Evolution and Technology * - Vol. 19 Issue 1 – September 2008 - pgs 8-16 http://jetpress.org/v19/bainbridge.htm Abstract In ancient times, at great effort over the span of many years, people learned to do arithmetic, to read, to write, and to measure reality with rulers and eventually clocks. A person who cannot handle any of these cognitive tools is a very different creature from somebody who can. The changes happening now will be at least as significant, and will occur much faster, probably within a single human lifetime. This article will consider cutting-edge research being done today, and extrapolate its implications some distance into the future. One theme of this survey is that very humble information technology applications could have a cumulative effect that is extremely dramatic, all the more stunning because we ourselves will be involved every step of the way. that being said, I cease and desist of talking about these issues in this forum. I apologize for the fuzz. -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 15 07:05:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2882EB10; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:05:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F359C2EAFA; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:05:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090315070554.F359C2EAFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:05:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.617 another map of knowledge? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 617. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:23:20 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Another map of knowledge Based on chains of clicks on web pages, another map of relationships between all domains of human knowledge has been published: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090309/full/458135a/box/1.html For more information .... Web usage data outline map of knowledge http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090309/full/458135a.html The mathematics are trivial .... Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004803 Very interesting, but I wonder if this can be used for anything other than tracking how the map changes over time as researchers seek answers to new questions and problems. Luis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 15 07:06:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E622EB8F; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:06:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FD412EB59; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:06:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090315070628.9FD412EB59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:06:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.618 HASTAC discussion on textuality & tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 618. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:37:06 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC: Digital Textuality and Tools An announcement from HASTAC.org Digital Textuality and Tools A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/ forum/03-09-09Digital-Textuality-and-Tools The Global Middle Ages Project (GMAP), spearheaded by Geraldine Heng and Susan Noakes, is an effort to bring together scholars from many disciplines to see what insights and visions of the medieval world appear when collaboration and interconnection become key. One important facet of GMAP is the search to develop revolutionary tools to provide scholars, teachers, and students better access to artifacts such as digitized manuscripts. In this respect, it is one of many current efforts to make classical, medieval and other rare manuscripts available to a wider audience. These efforts confront multiple challenges, such as securing funding, finding effective and helpful ways to deploy new technologies, and publicizing their work widely, among others. Given that scholars of all levels regularly must deal with texts of all sorts, the next generation of database interfaces--tools that enable advanced cross- referencing, collaborative research, and sophisticated visualizations of data-- can apply to digital manuscripts as well as less insistently physical works like contemporary academic journals. Further, the questions raised by GMAP are relevant to any similarly interdisciplinary, interconnected work in other periods. This HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, hosted by Angela Kinney and Michael Widner, will focus on the questions raised by the efforts of GMAP and similar projects: -How can we handle the sheer amount of data produced by digitization projects? -How can we advocate for the continual upkeep of (now stagnated) digital resources, which are in danger of becoming so obsolete as to be useless? -How can we stimulate funding for high-quality digitization of manuscripts and digital scholarly editions in an environment where palaeography and textual criticism is not esteemed as “original” scholarly work? -Is it worth investigating the implications of digitization on a sociological level? -To what extent are we ignoring the significant gap between a digital image of a manuscript and the manuscript itself? -Will widespread digitization efforts change the way we do research? How? -What sorts of tools and initiatives do we need to improve the ways we research and learn? About the discussion leaders: Angela Kinney is a PhD student in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Department of the Classics and the Program in Medieval Studies. She holds an MA in Classics from the University of Illinois. She is spending the academic year 2008-2009 at the University of Bristol (UK) to work with Professor Gillian Clark on Augustine's use of satirical techniques in his De Civitate Dei (City of God). Her current research projects include arguing for 6th-century authorship of the Vita Apollinaris Valentiniensis and a comparison of the physical description of the Greco-Roman goddess Fama (Rumor) with descriptions and iconography of angels in Judeo-Christian texts. Her digital interests include the digitization and accessability of pre-modern manuscripts, as well as website/graphic design and online instruction. Her favorite ways of procrastinating include message boards, UNIX scrabble, and Google Books. Michael Widner is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his MA from Southern Methodist University. His dissertation focuses on the relationships between genre, identity, and bodies in medieval English and French literature. Though his research leads him to read about knights, saints, and hot pokers, he also closely follows technology news and current pedagogical practices and theories that attempt to deploy technology in relevant and effective ways. He currently teaches "The Rhetoric of Cartoons", a class in which he attempts to suck all the joy out of reading graphic novels like Alan Moore's Watchmen and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. Many years ago, he was a UNIX Systems Administrator for SBC; he doesn't regret quitting that career, but is grateful for the technological expertise with which it left him. He is currently struggling with Facebook addiction. Join the discussion today at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/03-09- 09Digital-Textuality-and-Tools _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 15 07:07:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15672EC4C; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF9DB2EC36; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090315070727.CF9DB2EC36@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.619 events: linguistics; publishing; web-research; library conferences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 619. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ingbert Floyd (68) Subject: CFP: Research 2.0: Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds as Research Environments, HICSS 2010 [2] From: Marian Dworaczek (4) Subject: Library Related Conferences - updated to March 13, 2009 [3] From: Shawn Day (40) Subject: DHO Seminar: The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint [4] From: "[IMCSIT] News Service" (36) Subject: [CFP] Computational Linguistics - Applications, Poland, October 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:45:32 -0500 From: Ingbert Floyd Subject: CFP: Research 2.0: Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds as Research Environments, HICSS 2010 In-Reply-To: <58b9f8580903130243v4372feees4fa9cc66064c42c6@mail.gmail.com> We invite you to submit papers for a new "minitrack" event at the 43rd HICSS conference in Hawaii, January 2010. We look forward to seeing your submission! Please forward to your colleagues and friends. Cheers, Lisa Given & Dinesh Rathi (co-chairs) *Call for Papers* *Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_43/apahome43.htm * * Research 2.0: Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds as Research Environments * * * * Please visit the minitrack website for more details: * http://www.ualberta.ca/~drathi/hicss-43/research2.0.html *Part of the Track:** Internet and Digital Economy* *Paper Submission Deadline:June 15, 2009* The Web 2.0 environment offers many new opportunities for researchers undertaking both qualitative and quantitative research (e.g., increased potential for collecting data from online communities and social networks around the globe). However, these technologies can also be used by researchers to enhance the research process (e.g., facilitating research collaboration between project team members to develop tools and technologies to analyze data and write papers). Understanding the privacy and legal implications in both contexts – i.e., the implementation of the study, as well as the research process – is an area that warrants further exploration in a minitrack environment. *This minitrack invites papers on topics including (but not limited to):* - Changing landscape for qualitative and quantitative research due to emergence of Web 2.0 and virtual worlds; - Development of online research communities; - Online collaborative techniques in Web 2.0 environments for advancing research methodologies; - Use of Web 2.0 tools and technologies in data collection and analyses; - Use of Web 2.0 platforms and virtual worlds (e.g., Second Life) such as avatars, online communities, for conducting qualitative and quantitative research; - Effectiveness of Web 2.0 for increasing participating rates in research (e.g., questionnaire response rates; online focus groups); - Using user-generated content as a data source in research; - Ethical and legal issues (e.g., privacy; copyright) in conducting qualitative and quantitative research in virtual environments; - Use of social computing in building research communities; - Role of social computing in the advancement of data collection techniques; - New data collection approaches in Web 2.0 environments. *Minitrack Co-Chairs:* *Lisa M. Given http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Elgiven/ * (Primary Contact) School of Library and Information Studies International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) University of Alberta Email: lisa.given@ualberta.ca *Dinesh Rathi http://www.drathi.com/ * School of Library and Information Studies University of Alberta Email: drathi@ualberta.ca -- ========================================== Ingbert Floyd PhD Student Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign http://ingbert.org/ || skype/twitter/etc.: spacesoon Check out the unofficial GSLIS Wiki: http://www.gslis.org/ "Dream in a pragmatic way." -Aldous Huxley --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:30:33 +0000 From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Library Related Conferences - updated to March 13, 2009 In-Reply-To: <58b9f8580903130243v4372feees4fa9cc66064c42c6@mail.gmail.com> Available at: http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/CONF.HTM Please note different URL Marian Dworaczek University of Saskatchewan Library --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:50:27 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Seminar: The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint In-Reply-To: <58b9f8580903130243v4372feees4fa9cc66064c42c6@mail.gmail.com> Announcing a DHO Seminar: The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint 10:00 - 16:00 - 31 March 2009 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin http://dho.ie/irishimprint Registration for the Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint Seminar is now open at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=vbGYC9mHpCMS6OX82185Kw_3d_3d This one-day seminar will bring together participants from the academic, publishing, and library communities to explore synergies, economies of scale, and opportunities in the development of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint. The rise in subscription rates of many journals particularly in the fields of sciences, technology, and medicine since the mid-90s, has made institutions aware of the hidden costs of scholarly publishing in which public monies pays for much of the scholarly communication lifecycle. Although digital publication is often cited as a low-cost alternative, the long-term costs of digital publication are not yet well understood and as yet we have no real model for preserving and sustaining digital scholarship. Yet digital publication offers clear advantages over print publication in many areas: it can make works more widely available; it can, for example, offer a low-cost alternative to republishing out of print titles; and can provide scholarly societies with a venue to make available conference proceedings. In order for digital publication to flourish, new models, economic, social, and scholarly, need to be developed. This seminar is the first in a series of dialogues encourage this process. Speakers include: The View From the Library (or /In the Middle of Nowhere/) John Fitzgerald (University College Cork) The Opportunity for an Irish Digital Imprint Ruth Hegarty (Royal Irish Academy) Collaboration, Publicity, Maintenance John Lavagnino (Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway) Options for Online Publishing Brad Scott (Digital Publishing Consultant, Brambletye Publishing) Attendance at this seminar is free, although places are limited and registration is recommended. For more information or to register, please visit http://www.dho.ie/irishimprint. Please direct any questions regarding this event to either Susan Schreibman (s.schreibman@dho.ie) or to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie). --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:59:01 +0000 From: "[IMCSIT] News Service" Subject: [CFP] Computational Linguistics - Applications, Poland, October 2009 In-Reply-To: <58b9f8580903130243v4372feees4fa9cc66064c42c6@mail.gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop (CLA'09) http://cla.imcsit.org/ event of International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT 2009) 12-14 October 2009, Mragowo, Poland The CLA Workshop is located within the framework of the IMCSIT conference to create a dialog between researchers and practitioners involved in Computational Linguistics and related areas of Information Technology. IMSCIT is a multi-disciplinary conference gathering scientists form the different fields of IT & Computer Science together with representatives of industry and end-users. IMSCIT with its motto: "new ideas are born not inside peoples' heads but in the space between them", quickly became a unique place to share thoughts and ideas. This year's gathering is held in October 2009 in a beautiful town of Mragowo in the midst of Mazury Lake Country. Workshop Goals The Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop was created in 2008 in response to the fast-paced progress in the area. Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers. Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a number of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems using sophisticated heuristics. Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of the Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle unstructured text to allow search for information on the web. According to the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the key research areas for the upcoming years. The priority aim of the research in this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their native language. CLA'09 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views and ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on practical outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to improve human-machine interaction. Paper Topics This call is for papers that present research and developments on all aspects of Natural Language Processing used in real-life applications, such as (this list is not exhaustive): * information retrieval * extraction of linguistic knowledge from text corpora * semantic ontologies in computer linguistics * lexical resources * machine translation and translation aids * ambiguity resolution * text classification * corpus-based language modeling * POS-tagging * parsing issues * proofing tools * dialogue systems * machine learning methods applied to language processing * ontology and taxonomy evaluation * opinion mining * question answering * sentiment analysis * speech and audio processing * text summarization * use of NLP techniques in practical applications [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 16 06:08:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895CB303FD; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:08:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC096303F4; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:08:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090316060825.DC096303F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:08:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 620. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.616 looking back [2] From: "Miran Hladnik, Siol" (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.615 looking back [3] From: Siobhan King (45) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.616 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:01:59 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.616 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090315070527.ABFE42EA45@woodward.joyent.us> I agree, Renata, that new technologies are significantly different from previous ones. Our ambitions for, and attitude toward, these technologies is not significantly different from the past. I'm assuming, of course, that those discussing technology on this forum are not engaged in the development of these technologies themselves but are primarily concerned with technology from a humanities standpoint. I would agree that knowledge of past technology is only marginally significant for the development of future technology. That does not tell us anything, however, about whether or not these technologies are useful or desirable or what our attitude toward them should be. The fact that we can do something does not mean that we should. Study of the past gives us tools to think about these issues. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:00:34 +0100 From: "Miran Hladnik, Siol" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.615 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090315070527.ABFE42EA45@woodward.joyent.us> dear renata, i agree with you. however, be aware that you are opposing the very conservative essence of the humanities. humanists are people who professionally cultivate the historical awareness and try to conserve it. you recognize the humanist by saying that there is nothing new in the world and that all the human knowledge has been already written down millenia ago in the sumerian tablets. what seems so new -- no, this is once again only old experience in a fashionable new dress. humanists dedicate major attention to the past. equipped with the historical models of behaviour they were able to easilly manage the present and predict the future. till now. though there is less and less instruction in the past, it still makes fun looking back. why shouldn't we have a little fun? and it is still instructive: it is good to know the past and its mistakes to find an alternative path for the future. -- miran --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:05:29 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.616 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090315070527.ABFE42EA45@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, I think you make a good point here. One example of this kind of thinking is the comparison scholars make between the advent of the internet and the advent of the printing press. The analogy is interesting. There is some benefit in comparing the types of impacts each event has had on society. However using the analogy of the printing press to understand the internet is not always particularly helpful especially if you are interested in the social phenomena associated with each. We often fail to get beyond Eisenstein when trying to explain the internet because we constantly make the comparison between the internet and the printing press. I think over-emphasising the similarities hobbles us when trying to understand the internet on its own terms. The language and concepts we apply to the virtual world that are from the print world don't always match. Copyright for example is problematic online. This relies on persistent identity of authors that is easier to manage in real life. Not so online. Another analogy is the word "publishing" which in local legislation (New Zealand National Library Act 2003) is interpreted as uploading anything online. So something as small as making a comment on a friend's wall at facebook may be interpreted in law as publishing. (Indeed creating a facebook page has been interpreted as publishing, as someone has been charged with libel last year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7523128.stm) That's not to say the old concepts are consistently mismatched but our commitment to the old views prevents us from constructing new concepts for the new environment. Siobhan King -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2009 8:05 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 616. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:26:16 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.615 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090313062237.0F0F230FBC@woodward.joyent.us> dear james, neven and willard. thanks for your comments, but I do not think you truly understood the deeper meaning of my questions. when I asked willard if he believed that the answers, or guidelines, to our future could be found in the past, I meant to provoke reflection on the real nature and depth of the technological changes that are happening in the present. of course knowing about the past is important. but sometimes, looking back searching for references could actually be misleading. picture this: someone who is walking searching for a new river and all of a sudden finds the sea. this person has never seen the sea and does not know what it is like. the river and the sea are water, but if this person looks back to his/her previous knowledge or experience of rivers trying to get insights into the nature of the sea, and the possibilities of the sea, these insights would only be limited to say the least; and would most probably be misleading. what I am trying to say is that present emerging technologies are the sea. they are still technology, but trying to compare them with previous technologies is like comparing a river to the sea. maybe, just maybe, one could learn much more about the brand new possibilities of the sea of present technological achievements by actually going into the sea and trying to swim, and actually experiencing the sea, than to look back to previous accounts and theories of rivers trying to find a way to navigate in the sea - which is entirely different... I hope I am getting my point across better this time. in order to illustrate the magnitude of this sea, here is a little account of present possibilities, available online: Cognitive Expansion Technologies William Sims Bainbridge http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 16 06:10:13 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67063047E; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8FBE3046F; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:10:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090316061010.A8FBE3046F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:10:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.621 job at Oslo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0882736204==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0882736204== Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 621. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:52:05 +0100 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Vacancy at the University of Oslo, Norway [Sent on behalf of Christian-Emil Ore, c.e.s.ore@iln.uio.no] Unit for Digital Documentation (EDD), Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, is seeking full time senior research programmer/analyst for a 12 month appointment with a possible extension up to a total of 3 years. Qualifications: - Minimum Bachelor in C.Sc with strong interests in humanities and cultural heritage or minimum Bachelor of Arts with documented skills in development of computer applications - Strong technical background in relevant areas: XML, databases, Java, web technologies, metadata standards, computational lexicography. - Strong analytical and problem solving skills; can formulate options, develop and recommend solutions Among other activities, EDD develops and maintain s solutions for major Norwegian dictionary projects and projects with background material in the different varieties of Old and Modern Norwegian, eg. place name studies. Knowledge of some of the Scandinavian languages; Danish, Swedish or Norwegian is necessary, although fluency is not needed. More information (in Norwegian) at http://www.admin.uio.no/opa/ledige-stillinger/2009/teknadmin/overingILN-2009-3901.html Regards, Christian-Emil Ore --===============0882736204== 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 --===============0882736204==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 17 06:29:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654BB2E831; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC8202E818; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090317062918.AC8202E818@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.622 a digital manifesto X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 622. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:18:11 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: digital manifesto dear all, one of our resident young artists at eletrocooperativa (brazilian digital inclusion NGO), fabricio jabar, has created a video-art piece about the challenges of our times. it is on you tube, and has english subtitles, however you must activate the subtitles by clicking on the arrow located on the right side of the screen. translation of the script is also found below. enjoy. A DIGITAL MANIFESTO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psdBKP9lPPc&feature=channel_page A digital manifesto image through image / tapeless / filmless / cinefull Is this your recorder? It´s recording me already, it´s modulating right? Image through image / and Who is making it? Me? Or the computer? These images / this life / and Who is editing it? Me? Or the machine? Created with no brush / only pixels / pixelated paintings / pixelized here goes my manifesto pandora´s box the past is a myth // a system that lives from the past / this is na echo - system Love / oh Love / why isn´t the planet moved by love it should / true love *“another proof: music that comes from new times. It is the civilization of leisure not business / it is a new man / a new time a new era…”* that´s it / after Love / water a lot of water // the holy drink / not this dead drink *“radioart / water* *Lord forgive them they do not know what they´re doing…* Listen / hear / hear us The muse// the primitive future is being lapidated by digital craftsmen / those that through self-sustainability / deconstruct shapes / in order to find meaning the past is a myth // human salvation lives in the internet TRIBES television never more /// gone is the industrial age // long gone industrial age technology has not been completely understood yet // it´s messianic function in this planet we are the 1 and technology is the 0 maybe everything seems exact / extract /maybe Society / liquid society // why not? *Liquids, differently from solids, do not maintain their form with ease / they´re fluid / don´t fixate space and don´t tie time // it´s time to liquefy patterns of dependency and interaction / they are now malleable / to the point in which past generations did not experience and could not conceive of* *there´s a new tribe in town and that´s the hybrid tribe* *this is the post-concept* *a cool insight in the Word post / doesn´t mean necessarily posterior but re-evaluated / self-aware / from a psychoanalytical perspective * *we all come from the same echo echo-system* *digital being* *why not share life is all live the same life* *at the same time at the same age* *the future is now* the digital being liquid celebrates digital being do it yourself by fabricio jabar, from eletrocooperativa -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 17 06:29:43 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4857B2E8A6; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27BBE2E86A; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090317062941.27BBE2E86A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.623 lowercase man X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 623. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:28:09 -0700 From: "W. Keith Percival" Subject: Online seminar for digital humanities; Humanist Discussion Group,Vol. 22, No. 598 Alan, Thanks for your interesting message. I never ran into FIELDDATA although I got started in word-processing at about the same time as you did. As far as I’m able to judge, things seem to be going the other way, namely away from the exclusive use of lower-case letters: nowadays capitals are more popular in e-mail messages, particularly in usernames and e-addresses. However, you say that you might make an exception in the case of US and URL, but I’ve just got the following cryptic message from the University server here in which to my astonishment url appears entirely in lower case: ‘If you fall out of the offcampus proxy space, and no longer see the special url or the "Off-Campus Access Granted" message, then ...’ When I first used electronic mail, which was about 1990, all the material in the headings had to be put in lower case. Now with the advent of desktop email programs proper names are usually capitalized, and so is the “Subject” and so forth. I’m not quite sure why that is. Perhaps it’s just part of the process of switching from digital UNIX programs to other e-mail programs, such as Outlook Express and Thunderbird. Here at the University of Washington, we all used to use a wonderful digital UNIX email program called the Pine Mailer. However, I’ve just noticed that the University server has just introduced a new digital e-mail program called Alpine, but to this user at least there’s no visible difference between Pine and Alpine: the headings are still entirely in lower case. It doesn’t bother me personally either way. Of course, whether you use capitalization in messages themselves has always been entirely up to you. Actually, I generally find I use capitalization in more or less the traditional way, although I don’t think I’m terribly consistent. One problem I have in that whole area is that I still vacillate between British and American usage, which given my life history is understandable. Also, as you well know, there have been gradual changes in both British and American usage over the past few decades, also understandable. I once in a while look at old articles I published in journals years ago and am quite amazed at what I see. But to me even more dramatic is the contrast between the orthography I followed in an old diary I kept in long hand in 1947 and my present habits. One of the strangest spellings I spot in that diary is “havnt.” I’m not sure where I got that one from; possibly Bernard Shaw, who was my idol when I was in school. I’m amused by the way the Germans have been agonizing over their recent spelling reform. I still get letters from German friends and colleagues, and what I notice is they don’t follow the revised orthography at all consistently. In particular, they fail to follow it when it seems to me that its innovations are quite sensible. In the new system, for instance, you’re supposed to write ß or ss strictly according to the length of the preceding vowel. So you write bloß because the vowel is long, but Schloss because the vowel is short. Before the present system came in you wrote ß or ss in word-final position regardless of the length of the preceding vowel, so there was no way a foreigner knew that the vowel in Fluß was short while the vowel of Fuß was long. Now you’re supposed to write Fuß but Fluss. I think that’s rather a good rule, very neat and logical, but in spite of that even now (after an entire decade!) not all Germans follow it. (And we persist in thinking of the Germans as typically rather docile people!) On top of that, of course, there were other logically possible innovations that the people in charge of the new spelling system didn’t have the courage to require, like ending the obligatory capitalization of nouns, which I think most people agree is a dispensable convention. But perhaps that’s a hopeless cause anyway! But the most puzzling thing to me is that German isn’t even a world language like English. You would think they would have no trouble whatever getting just a few million people living in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland to go along with the changes, but nevertheless people didn’t just fall in line like slaves or indentured servants. With English, on the other hand, any sweeping changes would stand even less chance of being adopted, because there are too many people in too many different countries involved. English is not our language anymore; it now belongs to the entire world. Perhaps this is a pity, but there it is! Here’s a funny example of the world we live in. On a recent visit to China, a sister-in-law of mine saw the following sign: YOU ARE IN DISTRICT OF FORBIDEN SMOKING. PLEASE S- MOKE AT THE POINTED AREA This admittedly involves nothing more serious than hyphenation, but isn’t hyphenation just another completely arbitrary graphic feature of English and of all languages that use the Roman alphabet? More than once I have, for example, had to submit articles written in English to Italian publishers, and they would send back galley-proofs in which it was obvious that they had redone all my hyphenation following the Italian hyphenation rules, with hilarious results at times. Actually, the Italian hyphenation rules are perfectly logical (any self-respecting logician would approve of them whole-heartedly); the only problem is that they don’t happen to apply to English. As you may recall, I worked for many years on an Indonesian language, and nowadays all Indonesian languages are written in the Roman alphabet. Some of them, including my own language, Batak, used to use their own scripts, but these have been abandoned. In those earlier native scripts it was customary to use the number 2 to indicate doubling. So if you had a word like tulangtulang you would write tulang2. This use of the number 2 in writing, you may recall, is a feature of Devanagari, the script in which Sanskrit and many other languages spoken in India are normally written. Centuries ago the whole of Southeast Asia was a giant Indic empire or to be more precise a set of Hinduized kingdoms, a fact that I think very few people in the West are aware of. Even the Batak, who lived in the inaccessible highlands of northern Sumatra and were regarded as uncivilized by the other tribes of Sumatra, not to speak of Java, and they are still regarded with suspicion by many present-day Indonesians!) developed a perfectly decent writing system, one feature of which was the use of the number 2 to indicate doubling, which is an absolutely fundamental feature of Batak morphology, as it is of most Austronesian languages as far away from Sumatra as Madagascar, Fiji and Hawaii. To this day, when Indonesians write, whether it’s Bahasa Indonesia or one of their native languages, they still use that number 2 wherever necessary. I’ve been reflecting on how successful we would be in persuading Indonesians to abandon that practical feature, on the grounds that it is not used in English or Dutch. Conversely, could English-speakers be successfully persuaded to adopt what is after all a perfectly logical graphic device? (Morphological doubling does occur in English and other languages, though to a limited extent, of course.) But I think you’ll agree that in all likelihood such reforms wouldn’t be very feasible. People would just not fall in line. This is maybe unfortunate, but such is life! I’m reminded of a fellow student of mine at Yale who used his own completely phonetic spelling system for English; for years he would religiously use that spelling system in all his letters and e-messages to us all. I can assure you that it really was a splendid system from a purely phonetic point of view, although I must say he made the mistake of basing it on his own pronunciation of English. That was back in the fifties, and he continued to use that system for decades, but half a millennium later I see no signs at all that the system is gaining popularity. How do you feel about that sort of project in general? Keith -- W. Keith Percival Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3815 N.E. 89th Street Seattle, WA 98115-3742 Ph: (206) 522-4347 E-address: Website: http://people.ku.edu/~percival/ --------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 17 06:31:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645352E9EE; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:31:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B0B262E99D; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:31:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090317063133.B0B262E99D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:31:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.624 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 624. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back [2] From: renata lemos (207) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:16:54 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090316060825.DC096303F4@woodward.joyent.us> Study of the past is not supposed to be bondage to the past -- it's as ridiculous to mechanically impose past paradigms as it is to completely ignore the past, and most ridiculous of all to think these are our only two options. The point is having a -starting point- for our reflections rather than fostering the illusion that we're starting from scratch (when we are not). So, for example, comparing changes fostered by the internet to changes fostered by the printing press provides a useful -starting point- which actually makes differences between the two more visible and manageable. We should also note that the internet first appeared within a culture of print and has been guided by print conventions in many ways. Very few major websites have really gotten away from either a magazine cover look or a front page newspaper look. I don't know anyone who has studied history who believes the study of history is irrelevant. Those who believe history is irrelevant usually have not read much, or thought much about what they have read. This isn't so much a matter of professional bias as it is a matter of fact. However, I am certainly open to the opinion of anyone who can demonstrate significant knowledge of history and who also claims we really are facing something completely new here. We should note that similarities and differences between the printing press and the internet obtain across a range of points of comparison, each of which should be dealt with individually. Most people believe they are reading a stable, fixed text when reading, say, an online CNN news article in much the same way these same people believe they are reading a stable, fixed text when they purchase a copy of the New York Times -- fixed and stable in ways no person reading manuscripts ever believed their texts were -- so readers' attitudes are transferable from print to the internet on at least some points. The reality of the print vs. internet production is another thing entirely. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:46:35 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090316060825.DC096303F4@woodward.joyent.us> dear james, miran and siobhan. thank you and namaste. first, responding to james. this forum is concerned about the digital humanities. now, we all know what the term "humanities" stand for. but let us take a closer look at what the term "digital" stands for. digital means: free, flow, borderless, and most importantly: open... so the digital humanities should add to the humanities all of the characteristics of the digital. shoudn´t it? second, responding to miran. you know, my adviser, dr. lucia santaella, told me that maybe the reason why I am so interested in the future is because I am from brazil. here we do not have very good memories from the past, basically our past is about colonialism and exploitation; the present is still very very messy, and so the future is really where all of our hopes can be found. here we have no other options but to think of the future, you see? : ) third, responding to siobhan. you´re totally right! think about the historical moment we are living right now! transition, crisis, challenges all around us. global financial markets collapsing, the environment collapsing, everything seems to be collapsing. maybe we should stop contemplating history, and instead begin to MAKE HISTORY. let us make history instead. I would like to thank monsieur willard for this forum, and this opportunity for debating and exchanging ideas. this is true digital intellectual life. long life to the digital humanities! -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 17 06:32:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50462EA3E; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:32:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D7A42EA2F; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:32:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090317063214.3D7A42EA2F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:32:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.625 a beautiful sentence on programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 625. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:24:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a beautiful sentence From Herman H. Goldstine and John von Neumann, "Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument", Part II, Vol. I (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1947): > Since coding is not a static process of translation, but rather the > technique of providing a dynamic background to control the automatic > evolution of a meaning, it has to be viewed as a logical problem and > one that represents a new brarch of fomal logics. (p. 2) I must admit, that sentence stopped me in my tracks, so I thought I'd pass it on, especially to those whose lives are spent in designing and building that "dynamic background". The report, along with Part II, Vol. II, and the preceeding "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument" written the previous year in conjunction with Arthur Burks, is downloadable from The Institute digital archives of the Electronic Computer Project, at library.ias.edu/hs/digiarchives.php. Part 2, Vol. III is listed but not yet up. I am told that the remainder of the Institute papers on the Project are being digitized now. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 17 06:32:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7EE2EB0E; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:32:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 927BE2EAF7; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:32:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090317063249.927BE2EAF7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:32:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.626 new on WWW: D-Lib for March/April X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 626. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:16:45 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The March/April 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The March/April 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, an opinion piece, two conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the Washington College of Law Historical Collection, courtesy of Susan McElrath, American University and Allison B. Zhang, Washington Research Library Consortium. The opinion piece is: What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Jose H. Canos Cerda and Manuel Llavador Campos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain; and Eduardo Mena Nieto, University of Zaragoza, Spain The articles include: Going Grey? Comparing the OCR Accuracy Levels of Bitonal and Greyscale Images Tracy Powell and Gordon Paynter, National Library of New Zealand How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitisation Programs Rose Holley, National Library of Australia Profiling Social Networks: A Social Tagging Perspective Ying Ding and Elin K Jacob, Indiana University; James Caverlee, Texas A&M University; Michael Fried, University of Innsbruck, Austria; and Zhixiong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned Mats Dahlstrom and Alen Doracic, Swedish School of Library and Information Science Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation George V. Landon, Eastern Kentucky University The Conference Reports include: International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group: A Report from the Second Workshop of the IDEA Carolyn Hank, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Joy Davidson, University of Glasgow Report on the 2nd Ibero-American Conference on Electronic Publishing in the Context of Scholarly Communication (CIPECC 2008) Ana Alice Baptista, University of Minho, Portugal D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar 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 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 18 06:08:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9302EFB7; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:08:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B248D2EFA8; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:08:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090318060819.B248D2EFA8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.627 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 627. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Siobhan King (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.624 looking back [2] From: Siobhan King (92) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.624 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:11:56 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.624 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090317063133.B0B262E99D@woodward.joyent.us> It may be a useful starting point. In fact it's certainly one that is comfortable. I'm not disparaging "Printing Press as an Agent of Change" nor those who first looked to her as a starting point (such as those who contributed to "Agent of Change" edited by Baron, Lindquist and Shelvin). Perhaps I'm getting a little impatient in wanting to move past this though. I think, and I may be premature here, that this is a text culture as opposed to a print culture. There are numerous elements to text that make it very different to print. It is easily and quickly generated, copied, re-formatted, reiterated, disseminated. It is often conversational in tone. It is often impermanent, unreliable, at times non-human readable etc. Print and publishing has always been bundled with the implication (fair or not) of trust, authority, reliability, permanence etc. This convention cannot always be applied to text. People trust the New York Times regardless of format, sure. Some bodies of authority (such as newspapers and journals) have been quite successful at importing their traditional authority into the online world, but their traditional authority springs from their experience in the print world. But how does someone acquire authority online where identity is unclear, cloud computing means information is generated by many people, or even by machines, traditions of peer review are not available, anyone with access to a computer may contribute to a website (e.g. newspaper blogs, wikis, social network sites)? I'm saying traditional modes associated with print will not help us in this type of environment and forcing it won't work either, not when the society holds a completely different ethos. Print culture has had strong elements of centralised control. Yes it may be useful to see how that control became centralised, but it doesn't help us come to grips with decentralised and chaotic text production. Siobhan King --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:18:43 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.624 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090317063133.B0B262E99D@woodward.joyent.us> Terrible sorry, in my last post I meant to say: I'm not disparaging "Printing Press as an Agent of Change" nor those who first looked to "Eisenstein" as a starting point not "her" as I said in the text. Siobhan King -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Tuesday, 17 March 2009 7:32 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 624. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back [2] From: renata lemos (207) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:16:54 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090316060825.DC096303F4@woodward.joyent.us> Study of the past is not supposed to be bondage to the past -- it's as ridiculous to mechanically impose past paradigms as it is to completely ignore the past, and most ridiculous of all to think these are our only two options. The point is having a -starting point- for our reflections rather than fostering the illusion that we're starting from scratch (when we are not). So, for example, comparing changes fostered by the internet to changes fostered by the printing press provides a useful -starting point- which actually makes differences between the two more visible and manageable. We should also note that the internet first appeared within a culture of print and has been guided by print conventions in many ways. Very few major websites have really gotten away from either a magazine cover look or a front page newspaper look. I don't know anyone who has studied history who believes the study of history is irrelevant. Those who believe history is irrelevant usually have not read much, or thought much about what they have read. This isn't so much a matter of professional bias as it is a matter of fact. However, I am certainly open to the opinion of anyone who can demonstrate significant knowledge of history and who also claims we really are facing something completely new here. We should note that similarities and differences between the printing press and the internet obtain across a range of points of comparison, each of which should be dealt with individually. Most people believe they are reading a stable, fixed text when reading, say, an online CNN news article in much the same way these same people believe they are reading a stable, fixed text when they purchase a copy of the New York Times -- fixed and stable in ways no person reading manuscripts ever believed their texts were -- so readers' attitudes are transferable from print to the internet on at least some points. The reality of the print vs. internet production is another thing entirely. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:46:35 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.620 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090316060825.DC096303F4@woodward.joyent.us> dear james, miran and siobhan. thank you and namaste. first, responding to james. this forum is concerned about the digital humanities. now, we all know what the term "humanities" stand for. but let us take a closer look at what the term "digital" stands for. digital means: free, flow, borderless, and most importantly: open... so the digital humanities should add to the humanities all of the characteristics of the digital. shoudn´t it? second, responding to miran. you know, my adviser, dr. lucia santaella, told me that maybe the reason why I am so interested in the future is because I am from brazil. here we do not have very good memories from the past, basically our past is about colonialism and exploitation; the present is still very very messy, and so the future is really where all of our hopes can be found. here we have no other options but to think of the future, you see? : ) third, responding to siobhan. you´re totally right! think about the historical moment we are living right now! transition, crisis, challenges all around us. global financial markets collapsing, the environment collapsing, everything seems to be collapsing. maybe we should stop contemplating history, and instead begin to MAKE HISTORY. let us make history instead. I would like to thank monsieur willard for this forum, and this opportunity for debating and exchanging ideas. this is true digital intellectual life. long life to the digital humanities! -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 18 06:09:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3962F038; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:09:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B473A2F026; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:09:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090318060931.B473A2F026@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:09:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.628 lowercase man (learning Indonesian) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 628. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:24:35 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.623 lowercase man In-Reply-To: <20090317062941.27BBE2E86A@woodward.joyent.us> HI Willard, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > As you may recall, I worked for many years on an Indonesian language, > and nowadays all Indonesian languages are written in the Roman alphabet. > Some of them, including my own language, Batak, used to use their own > scripts, but these have been abandoned. In those earlier native scripts > it was customary to use the number 2 to indicate doubling. So if you had > a word like tulangtulang you would write tulang2. When I was first learning Indonesian, I was instinctively suspicious of this use of "2", and figured it must be a rather lazy habit that I should avoid in the interests of formal correctness. One day I found myself writing: pertanggungjawaban-pertanggungjawaban (the plural of "responsibility), and I finally realized how silly this was, and went for pertanggungjawaban2 instead. When your language has such rampant affixation and compounding, and doubling is your pluralizing strategy, you'd better come up with something like this or you'll be wasting a lot of ink and time. But you can still find "pertanggungjawaban-pertanggungjawaban" in the wild on the Web: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:JyxxgWo61tEJ:www.laohamutuk.org/Oil/PetFund/Act/GW%2520PFActIndo.pdf+%22pertanggungjawaban-pertanggungjawaban%22&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a mostly in PDFs and DOC files, interestingly, and rarely in actual HTML pages. I seem to remember the 2 was often superscripted when I was in Indonesia (in the late 80s), but on the Web it doesn't seem to be so. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) Half-Baked Software, Inc. (mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com) martin@mholmes.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 18 06:11:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E192F0BB; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:11:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8D68B2F0AF; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:11:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090318061146.8D68B2F0AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:11:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.629 digital humanities postdoc 2009-10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 629. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:32:34 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2009-10 DIGITAL HUMANITIES POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP 2009-10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Illinois Informatics Institute (I3), Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), and Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seek to fill a one-year post-doctoral position in informatics (with an emphasis on humanities and history-based research) for the 2009-10 academic year. The jointly-appointed I3 Post-Doctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor will undertake, publish, and present research; teach one course in the Department of History on a relevant topic to be negotiated; and collaborate with others on the University of Illinois campus to strengthen informatics engagement with the IPRH and the Department of History. Qualifications and Requirements: • A Ph.D., completed between August 16, 2006 and August 16, 2009 • Demonstrated engagement with informatics in the research and teachingof history • Willingness to participate in informatics-related programming at I3, IPRH, and the Department of History during the fellowship year • Residence within the Champaign-Urbana area during the term of the post-doctoral appointment is required The fellowship comes with a stipend of $45,000 for the year, a $2,500 research account, relocation reimbursement up to $1,500, and a generous benefits package. Application Procedures: The following materials must be received on or before April 10, 2009. • A curriculum vitae • A one-page (250-300 words) abstract, accompanied by a detailed narrative statement (2,000 words) describing the research project the applicant plans to undertake during the term of the fellowship. The narrative statement should explain how the proposed project would make a contribution to the applicant’s research and advance the larger field of study; the anticipated outcomes of the proposed research (including names of journals or conferences at which results would be presented); the feasibility of completing the proposed project during the term of the fellowship; and the expected pedagogic benefits of the research. • Three (3) letters of recommendation from senior colleagues who are familiar with the applicant’s work and the proposal being made for this fellowship. Letters of recommendation should include evaluation of the applicant’s proposed research as well as the overall quality of the applicant’s work. Letters should be submitted directly to the IPRH. Deadline extensions will not be granted. The review committee will consider only complete application files; it is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters before the closing date. Send application materials and letters of recommendation to:Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 Or, send materials as Word attachments to: iprh@illinois.edu. Questions about this fellowship should be addressed to: Dr. Christine Catanzarite, Senior Associate Director, IPRH catanzar@illinois.edu or (217) 244-7913 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 18 06:13:03 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C892F135; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:13:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 507F72F11C; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:13:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090318061302.507F72F11C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:13:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.630 A Day in The Life of Digital Humanities begins! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 630. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:18:32 -0600 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: A Day in The Life of Digital Humanities begins Dear all, The Day of DH has begun! As March 18th arrives around the world, scholars are waking up and documenting a day of their life. Whether it is through tasks done or ideas reflected upon, this project will provide a glimpse into the state of the field and those who inhabit it. We encourage everyone else to follow along; who knows what will result? You can follow the main feed of events, go to the pages of individual participants, read biographies, follow and contribute comments, and more. All these and a deeper description of the project are available at http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 18 06:17:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD232F24D; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B43822F23D; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:17:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090318061714.B43822F23D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.631 new on WWW: Ubiquity, on how to speak well X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 631. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:06:02 +0000 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: March 17 - 23, 2009 UBIQUITY CLASSICS How to Rapidly Improve Speaking Skills Even as written communication is important, spoken communication has been assuming an increasing role. We are called on to speak in such media as videos, teleconferences, and podcasts. Our ability to speak clearly is as important as our ability to formulate our arguments concisely and clearly.

Phil Yaffe, who has provided advice to Ubiquity readers on how to write clearly and concisely, offers advice on how to speak clearly. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2009 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 18 06:18:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BE22F2B4; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 887672F2AC; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090318061808.887672F2AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.632 events: CS & the humanities; reasoning web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 632. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shlomo Argamon (24) Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Nov14-16, 2009 [2] From: Enrico Franconi (54) Subject: 5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:21:48 +0000 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Nov14-16, 2009 In-Reply-To: Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, November 14-16, 2009, cosponsored by IIT, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. The goal of the 2009 DHCS Colloquium, as in previous years, is to bring together scholars and researchers in both the Humanities and Computer Science to collaborate on deepening the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. Call for Papers: A formal call for papers will be issued shortly; please watch the DHCS blog (http://lingcog.iit.edu/~dhcs2009). Important Dates & Deadlines: * DHCS Colloquium: November 14-16. * Deadline for Submissions: August 30 * Notification of Acceptance: September 15 * Full Program Announcement: September 24 Contact: For further information, please email dhcs2009@iit.edu. -- Shlomo Argamon, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616, USA --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:08:44 +0000 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: 5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation In-Reply-To: 5th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2009) "Semantic technologies for information systems" http://www.reasoningweb.org/2009/ Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 30 August - 4 September 2008 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10 May 2009 The "Reasoning Web" series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the Network of Excellence REWERSE. This edition will focus on the use of semantic technologies to enhance data access on the web. Courses will present a range of techniques an formalisms which bridge semantic based and data intensive systems. COURSES: 1. Description Logics. by Franz Baader 2. Ontologies and databases. by Diego Calvanese 3. Database theory for RDF. by Claudio Gutierrez 4. Database technology for RDF. by Souripriya Das 5. Answers-set semantics based tools. by Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni 6. The Semantic Desktop. by Siegfried Handschuh, Michael Sintek 7. Logical foundations of XML and XQuery. by Maarten Marx REGISTRATION FEE: €400 (including all lunches and social events). APPLICATION: The applications have to be submitted by the *** 10th of May 2009 *** according to the instruction in the web site: http://reasoningweb.org/2009/ Details on the registration procedure will be available after the notification of acceptance of the application; details on the accommodation are already available in the web site. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Thomas Eiter, Vienna Technical University, Austria. Enrico Franconi (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland. Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Sergio Tessaris (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. REASONING WEB SCHOOL STEERING COMMITTEE: Uwe Assmann. Cristina Baroglio (chair). François Bry. Norbert Eisinger. Nicola Henze. Massimo Marchiori. Axel Polleres (deputy chair). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Stefano David, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 19 06:45:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DE230689; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:45:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B524830651; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:45:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090319064526.B524830651@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.633 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 633. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:42:31 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.627 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090318060819.B248D2EFA8@woodward.joyent.us> Siobhan -- Thanks for this response. I want to make clear, though, that I'm not saying that what we can learn from a study of pint culture is directly, and without complication, transferable to "text" culture as you describe it. What I am saying is that a detailed awareness of print culture makes differences from "text" culture -that much more visible-. It's only possible to move past something when you've come to grips with it to begin with. But your summary of print culture lacks nuance. There are and almost always have been "underground" presses, those which weren't associated with the production of authoritative texts, and since the advent of moveable type it is possible to change text relatively rapidly (compared to manuscript). I just listened to a conference paper a week ago about how print was used for propaganda purposes in 17thC Spanish wars. Broadsides released one day could be substantially different from those released the next under the same anonymous or pseudonymous author. The only real difference here between print and internet production is speed of production. Anyone who could gain access to a printing press could print. Authorities feared the production of these presses and sought to suppress them. Furthermore, your distinction between "print" and "text" was first developed exclusively within a culture of print -- you are still thinking in terms of print culture, but because you're not properly considering history you're not aware of it. Jim R On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I'm saying traditional modes associated with print will not help us in this type of environment and forcing it won't work either, not when the society holds a completely different ethos. Print culture has had strong elements of centralised control. Yes it may be useful to see how that control became centralised, but it doesn't help us come to grips with decentralised and chaotic text production. > > Siobhan King _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 19 06:46:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DBB306CF; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:46:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C31F306C8; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:46:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090319064623.5C31F306C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:46:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.634 events: traversing boundaries; DH summer school X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 634. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (45) Subject: Announcing the 2009 Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School [2] From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu (237) Subject: Register now for HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries, April 19-21, 2009; full agenda enclosed --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:43:48 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Announcing the 2009 Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School Please excuse any cross-posting. Announcing the 2009 DHO Summer School In conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect 13 -17 July 2009 http://dho.ie/ss2009 To register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TIhP7y31Wm_2fvjsIL5B3uSw_3d_3d Following the success of the 2008 DHO Summer School, the 2009 Summer School will be held from 13-17 July 2009 at Academy House in Dublin, Ireland. This year's event will be larger and it is being held in conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect, two prominent virtual communities in digital literary studies. Registration for the Summer School is now open. Early-bird registration is available until May 15, 2009. Early-bird registration for the week-long summer school is € 375. After 15 May standard registration cost of €450 will apply. To register or for more information, go to: http://dho.ie/ss2009 If you are at an HSIS institution please contact your HSIS representative. A list of a list of representatives is available at http://www.dho.ie/committee * Programme Master Classes will be led by two of the leading textual scholars in the world: Jerome McGann, founder of NINES and co-founder of SPECLAB, will be speaking on ' Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture.' Hans Walter Gabler, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University, is presenting: 'From Conception to Design and Vice Versa: Ways to make your mark-up do what you want it to do at the interface.' In addition, Paul Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University, Belfast will lecture on 'Humanities Digital Deluge: Serendipity, Scholarship, Sustainability.' There are also four week-long workshop strands: • Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative: Theory and Practice led by James Cummings (University of Oxford) and Dot Porter (DHO); • Data Modelling and Databases for Humanities Research led by Aja Teehan (An Foras Feasa, NUI, Maynooth) and Don Gourley (DHO); • Data Visualisation for the Humanities led by Paolo Battino (DHO), Shawn Day (DHO), and Faith Lawrence (DHO); • Text Transformations with XSLT led by Laura Mandell (Miami University) and Kirstyn Leuner (Miami University). For more details, consult the Summer School website at: http://dho.ie/ss2009 Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) regarding the summer school. We look forward to seeing you in Dublin. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:36:38 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: Register now for HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries, April 19-21, 2009; full agenda enclosed An announcement from HASTAC.org HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries April 19-21, 2009 HASTAC III Extended Workshops April 22-23, 2009 For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/ Events/Entries/2009/4/19_HASTAC_III.html *Please note that the program is subject to change. Continuous Installations: Guy Garnett, Illinois - Untitled John Toenjes, Illinois - Leonardo’s Chimes interactive environment Sharon Daniel, UC Santa Cruz - New Media Documentary: Technology for Social Inclusion JJ Higgins, Kansas - Untitled Voyeurism Installation With Tent Sunday April 19th IMCFest 2009 - Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 South Broadway, #100, Urbana, IL 61801 6:30 PM Vox Pop Event - Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, UC Santa Cruz “Synaptic Crowd: Vox Pop Experiments” 6:45-8 PM Community Broadband Access Event - Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center 8-9 PM Community Reception - Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center Monday April 20th Registration takes place in room 1005 Beckman 8:30-8:45 AM Welcome - 1025 Beckman Danny Powell, NCSA 8:45-10 AM Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy: The HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition - 1025 Beckman Craig Wacker, Program Officer, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Tim Lenoir, Virtual Peace Suzanne Seggerman, Games 4 Change Jan Reiff, Hypercities Ed Bender, Follow the Money Session Chairs and Moderators: Cathy Davidson, Duke University, and David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine 10:15-11:30 AM Social Media Panel - 1025 Beckman Svitlana Matviyenko, University of Missouri, Columbia “Identity in the Age of Cybercitizenship: Teaching Intermediate Composition in Second Life” Christian Spielvogel, Hope College; Laura Ginsberg Spielvogel, Western Michigan University “Traversing the Boundaries of Pedagogy through Curriculum-Based RPGs: The Valley Sim and Marriage of Cultures Prototypes” Sharon Tettegah, Illinois; Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University; Danielle Holt, Chicago State University, “Identity, Learning and Support in Virtual Environments” Christine Greenhow, University of Minnesota, “Engaging Youth in Networked News: Connecting the Social, Civic, and Educational through Action-oriented Facebook “Publications” Session Chair and Moderator: Brendesha Tynes, University of Illinois 12:30-1:45 PM Born Digital Scholarship: New Strategies, Projects and Possibilities - 1122 NCSA Sharon Daniel, University of California, Santa Cruz Wendy Chun, Brown University Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Session Chair and Moderator: Craig Dietrich, University of Maine 1:45-2:30 PM NCSA Fellows in the Humanities - 1122 NCSA Radha Nandkumar, NCSA 2:45-3:45 PM Google Developments - 1122 NCSA Mano Marks, Google 4-5:15 PM Andromeda2 Poetry Opening - Krannert Art Museum Caitlin Fisher, York University, Canada, “Andromeda2: augmented reality poetry” “Trees You Can’t Climb” CANVAS Exhibit, John Jennings and Damian Duffy Grand Text Auto Exhibit Tour, Damon Baker, University of Illinois 5:30-7 PM eDream Launch Reception - Krannert Center for Performing Arts Linda Katehi, Provost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Michael Ross, Krannert Center for Performing Arts Donna Cox, eDream 7-10:30 PM "Bluelights" in the Basement Late Night - Krannert Center for Performing Arts Guy Garnett, Illinois John Jennings, Illinois, and Hershini Bhana Young, SUNY-Buffalo, “AUCTION BLOCK PARTY” Richard Holeton, Stanford, “Custom Orthotics Changed My Life, and other slideshow fiction” Allison de Fren, Connecticut College, “Disarticulations of Artificial Women” Ruth Nicole Brown and Claudine Candy Taaffe, Illinois, “I Am Not The Problem! An Embodied Black Girl Photo-Essay-Performance-Poem in Cacophony” Edward Moses, DJ Tuesday April 21st 8-9 AM NCSA Lobby - Open Display and Poster Sessions Donna Cox, Visualization Labs IACAT Labs Peter Bajcsy, spectral and tele-immersive labs, Image Spatial Data Analysis (ISDA) group, NCSA Julie Klein, Wayne State University; Nardina Mein, Wayne State University; Dr. Anne-Marie Armstrong, Wayne State University; Ian Chapp, Wayne State University Paul Gallagher, Wayne State University, “Performance Archive Search Tool: a new means to access Detroit’s cultural history” Patrick Murray-John, University of Mary Washington, “A Giant Edu-Graph: Removing Boundaries From Courses, Blogs, And Information About Them” Jason Price, University of California, Berkeley, “Notes and Reflections from The Global Lives Project” Nalin Abeysekera, Open University of Sri Lanka, “Promoting online learning vs. traditional learning in Sri Lanka” Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina, “ScholarsPoint: An Online Collection of Scholarly Software, Virtual Computer Laboratory, and Community of Practice” Elizabeth Dorland, Washington University, “Social Media for Information Filtering, Boundary Crossings, and Promoting Educational Change" Staci Shultz, University of Michigan, “Access, Agency, and Agenda: How Online Fan Fiction Communities Sponsor Participants in Emerging Spaces"Ian Benjamin Chapp, Wayne State University Juli Grigsby, University of Texas, Austin Ramsey Tesdell, University of Washington 9-10:15 AM Rapid Fire/Lightning Talks - 1030 NCSA Max Edelson, Illinois; Robert E. McGrath, NCSA; Alan Craig, NCSA, “How to Create a Universal Digital Cartobibliography: Crossing the Boundary From a Sea of Images to a Cartographic Record of American History” Nick Montfort, MIT, “Expanding the Literary Potential of Interactive Fiction" W. Michelle Harris, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Tangible Experience Design: An educational bridge between Industrial Design and Computing” Abdul Alkalimat, Illinois, “African Diaspora” Patrick Jagoda, Duke University, “Network Aesthetics: American Fictions in the Era of Interconnection” Letizia Bollini and Valentina Cerletti, Bicocca University, Milan, Italy, “Logical and visual georeferenced search: merging user centered interaction models” Peter Leonard, University of Washington, “Marking Up Stone: TEI, GIS and Medieval Runology” John Johnston, Emory, “Computer Fictions as Cognitive Models: Layering, Virtualization, and Intra-system Interface” Jeffrey McClurken, University of Mary Washington, “Uncomfortable, but Not Paralyzed”: Challenging Traditional Classroom Boundaries with Undergraduates and Digital History” Session Chair and Moderator: Mary Stuart 9-10:15 AM Technology Demos - 1040 NCSA Julie Klein, Wayne State University; Nardina Mein, Wayne State University; Dr. Anne-Marie Armstrong, Wayne State University; Ian Chapp, Wayne State University, “Lessons for Teaching with Technology in Humanities and Social Sciences” Michael Twidale, Illinois, “Patchwork Prototyping an IMLS DCC Collection Dashboard” Jentry Sayers, University of Washington; Matt Wilson, University of Washington, “Mapping the Digital Humanities” Alan Craig, Illinois; Robert E. McGrath, NCSA, “Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality” Session Chair and Moderator: Deanna Raineri, University of Illinois 10:30-noon What’s the Matter with New Arts Media? A Forum on The Ubiquitous Arts - 1122 NCSA Anne Balsalmo, University of Southern California Mikel Rouse Thecla Shiphorst Session Chair, Moderator, and Participant: Donna Cox, University of Illinois/ NCSA 1-2:30 PM Foundations Funding Panel - 1122 NCSA Jennifer Serventi, National Endowment for the Humanities Camilo Acosta, Costa Rica USA Foundation Steve Griffin, National Science Foundation Judith Cone, Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation Session Chair and Moderator: Melanie Loots, University of Illinois 2:30-3:45 PM Community Informatics - 1040 NCSA Will Patterson, Illinois, “I POWERED-Hip Hop as Information Science” Bertram (Chip) Bruce, Illinois, “YOUTH, DIGITAL MEDIA AND INFORMATICS” Lucy Haagen, Duke University, “ReMobilizEd: Recycled Mobile Phones for Education” Angel David Nieves, Hamilton College, “Virtual Heritage in the New South Africa: The Soweto ’76 Archive and Digital Cultural Heritage” Session Chair and Moderator: Tom Maccalla, National University 2:30-3:45 PM Disciplinary Practices Panel - 1040 NCSA Katherine Mezur, University of Washington, “New Medium: Ditching the Disciplinary Rules and Founding Tech/Performance” Aden Evens, Dartmouth College, “Desire and the Mouse” Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego Session Chair and Moderator: Ann Bishop, University of Illinois 4-5 PM Ubiquitous Learning Panel - 1122 NCSA Nick Burbules, Illinois, “Ubiquitous learning: Crossing the formal/informal education divide” Caroline Haythornthwaite, Illinois, “Ubiquitous Learning” Lisa Nakamura, Illinois; Rayvon Fouche, Illinois Session Chair and Moderator: Dianne Harris, University of Illinois 5-6:30 PM Grand Text Auto Panel - 1122 NCSA Mary Flanagan Michael Mateas, University of California, Santa Cruz Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scott Rettberg, University of Bergen, Norway Andrew Stern Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California, Santa Cruz Session Chair and Moderator: Damon Baker, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign 6:30-6:45 PM Closing - 1122 NCSA 6:45 PM HASTAC Scholars Dinner and Meeting - 2100 NCSA 7 PM (optional) The Mechanical Bride: Full Screening Sponsored by Gender and Women's Studies Allison de Fren, Connecticut College - 106 Lincoln Hall 7:30 PM (optional) Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company Performance (advance tickets required) - Krannert Center for Performing Arts Wednesday April 22nd HASTAC III Extended Workshops 8:30-noon Software Environment for Advancement of Scholarly Research Data Analytics Workshop - 1030 NCSA Michael Welge, NCSA Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop - 1040 NCSA Peter Bajcsy, NCSA Virtual Worlds Visualization Workshop - 3100 NCSA Donna Cox, NCSA and Guy Garnett, IACAT 1-5 PM Software Environment for Advancement of Scholarly Research Data Analytics Workshop - 1030 NCSA Michael Welge, NCSA Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop - 1040 NCSA Peter Bajcsy, NCSA Virtual Worlds Visualization Workshop - 3100 NCSA Donna Cox, NCSA and Guy Garnett, IACAT Thursday April 23rd 8:30-noon Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop - 1040 NCSA Peter Bajcsy, NCSA Virtual Worlds Visualization Workshop - 3100 NCSA Donna Cox, NCSA and Guy Garnett, IACAT 1-5 PM Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop - 1040 NCSA Peter Bajcsy, NCSA Virtual Worlds Visualization Workshop - 3100 NCSA Donna Cox, NCSA and Guy Garnett, IACAT For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/ Events/Entries/2009/4/19_HASTAC_III.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 20 06:29:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57AA2FB9E; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:29:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1EE72FB57; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:29:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090320062947.F1EE72FB57@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:29:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 635. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Siobhan King (52) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.633 looking back [2] From: Willard McCarty (41) Subject: being reminded of origins --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:38:29 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.633 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090319064526.B524830651@woodward.joyent.us> "The only real difference here between print and internet production is speed of production." Funny you should say that, now I think of it, it is odd that I never came across an early modern print version of Google, I couldn't pick out metadata generated by the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in a tag cloud to save my life and I never did find a copy of "The Fable of the Bees" that allowed me to simply poke the page with my finger and automatically produce before my eyes contemporaneous pamphlets on charity schools but that's probably just my lack of appreciation of history. Hypertextuality is a fundamental difference between internet production and text production. I may have glossed over the nuances of print history for the purpose of brevity, but at least I didn't overlook a quintessential characteristic of the internet because I was too focussed making an analogy with the past. Siobhan King -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 7:45 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 633. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:42:31 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.627 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090318060819.B248D2EFA8@woodward.joyent.us> Siobhan -- Thanks for this response. I want to make clear, though, that I'm not saying that what we can learn from a study of pint culture is directly, and without complication, transferable to "text" culture as you describe it. What I am saying is that a detailed awareness of print culture makes differences from "text" culture -that much more visible-. It's only possible to move past something when you've come to grips with it to begin with. But your summary of print culture lacks nuance. There are and almost always have been "underground" presses, those which weren't associated with the production of authoritative texts, and since the advent of moveable type it is possible to change text relatively rapidly (compared to manuscript). I just listened to a conference paper a week ago about how print was used for propaganda purposes in 17thC Spanish wars. Broadsides released one day could be substantially different from those released the next under the same anonymous or pseudonymous author. The only real difference here between print and internet production is speed of production. Anyone who could gain access to a printing press could print. Authorities feared the production of these presses and sought to suppress them. Furthermore, your distinction between "print" and "text" was first developed exclusively within a culture of print -- you are still thinking in terms of print culture, but because you're not properly considering history you're not aware of it. Jim R On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I'm saying traditional modes associated with print will not help us in this type of environment and forcing it won't work either, not when the society holds a completely different ethos. Print culture has had strong elements of centralised control. Yes it may be useful to see how that control became centralised, but it doesn't help us come to grips with decentralised and chaotic text production. > > Siobhan King --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:26:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: being reminded of origins In-Reply-To: <20090319064526.B524830651@woodward.joyent.us> The following is from the Preface to the English-language edition of Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (Princeton, 2000), p. x: > Although the history of science and ideas is not my field, I could > not imagine adopting Alfred North Whitehead's opinion that every > science, in order to avoid stagnation, must forget its founders. To > the contrary, it seems to me that the ignorance displayed by most > scientists with regard to the history of their discipline, far from > being a source of dynamism, acts as a brake on their creativity. To > assign the history of science a role separate from that of research > itself therefore seems to me mistaken. Science, like philosophy, > needs to look back over its past from time to time, to inquire into > its origins and to take a fresh look at models, ideas, and paths of > investigation that had previously been explored but then for one > reason or another were abandoned, great though the promise was. Many > examples could be cited that confirm the usefulness of consulting > history and, conversely, the wasted opportunities to which a neglect > of history often leads. Thus we have witnessed in recent years, in > the form of the theory of deterministic chaos, the rediscovery of > Poincare's dazzling intuitions and early results concerning nonlinear > dynamics; the retum to macroscopic physics, and the study of fluid > dynamics and disordered systems, when previously only the infinitely > small and the infinitely large had seemed worthy of the attention of > physicists; the revival of interest in embryology, ethology, and > ecology, casting off the leaden cloak that molecular biology had > placed over the study of living things; the renewed appreciation of > Keynes's profound insights into the role of individual and collective > expectations in market regulation, buried for almost fifty years by > the tide of vidgar Keynesianism; and, last but not least, since it is > one of the main themes of this book, the rediscovery by cognitive > science of the cybernetic model devised by McCulloch and Pitts, known > now by the name of "neoconnectionism" or "neural networks," after > several decades of domination by the cognitivist model. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 20 06:30:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45ED32FBD3; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:30:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 697162FBC5; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:30:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090320063015.697162FBC5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:30:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.636 job at HASTAC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 636. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:25:30 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC seeking new media strategist; apply by March 27, 2009 An announcement from HASTAC.org Please forward this job opportunity to any interested candidates. Questions should be directed to jonathan.tarr@duke.edu HASTAC is looking for a New Media Strategist. Please forward to anyone who might be interested or apply yourself via the Requisition Number below. Position Title: New Media Strategist Requisition Number: 400284567 (to apply, visit hr.duke.edu and search by Requisition #) Location: Duke University, Durham, NC 30 hours a week (includes full benefits) Term appointment, lasting until June 30, 2011, with possible renewal beyond depending on future funding possibilities. APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2009 Description: 1. Webmaster: Act as webmaster for all Drupal-based websites, for HASTAC and the Digital Media and Learning Competition, providing routine technical support and site maintenance, moderating content posted on the (about to be released in April 2009) new HASTAC website, maintaining security and functionalities according the best practices of web 2.0, assessing the current and future needs of the website and network; collaborate with Director of Social Networking and coordinate with external vendors to develop an online "Winner's Hub" that interfaces with both HASTAC's and Digital Media and Learning Competition's websites as well as conceptualizing and then implementing the visionary, exciting interactive functions that a social networking site can have in a 2.0 learning, research, and educational environment. 2. Technical leadership and support. Evaluate and implement technical needs of various programs, including the HASTAC Scholars Program; stay abreast of the latest web 2.0 developments, research, technologies, tools, trends etc. to provide recommendations as to ways in which the website can serve as the virtual hub of a dynamic and ever-changing virtual organization; provide standard and next-generation AV support, including planning for technology needs and designing technology plans for HASTAC and Digital Media and Learning Competition events, working with external vendors to determine, procure, and implement needed technologies (both standard and digital), and to ensure technology needs for events are met and are within budget. 3. Digital Media and Learning Competition co-webmaster: Working with colleagues at UCHRI, assist in the future development and ongoing maintenance of the Competition's website (http://www.dmlcompetition.net) 4. Competition technical support: Working with colleagues at UCHRI, coordinate the Digital Media and Learning Competition electronic application process (centralized at UCHRI) and participate in beta-testing all upgrades to the Competition's "FastApps" online application system. 5. Team member: Participate in regular meetings with the HASTAC team and with program officers at sponsor organizations, actively contribute to the HASTAC blogosphere and social network, and assist in the development of Duke-centric activities to establish a Duke identity within the multi-institutional virtual network that constitutes HASTAC. 6. Electronic communications, web 2.0 social networking, online publicity: Maintain HASTAC's and the Digital Media and Learning Competition's various list-servs and conceptualize new audiences, new modes of outreach, and new forms of participation; work with other HASTAC team members to coordinate electronic publicity efforts (including list-serv announcements, forums postings, blog postings, etc.) to insure maximum visibility. 7.Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein. Experience: • Significant expertise and experience with PHP, MySQL, XHTML, and CSS required. Production experience in a Drupal-based website highly desirable. • Experience with web-based multimedia. • Solid graphic design skills and experience. • Significant experience in higher education and in New Media directions and applications for higher education and other learning environments to bring technology expertise to visionary new modes of research and learning. Job Skill Requirements: • Must have a commitment to the educational vision of the grants and appreciation for the reputation of the granting institutions and must be able to communicate and enforce the highest standards of prestige and accountability to the grantees. • Requires diplomacy, excellent communication skills, management skills, and technology skills and vision. • Requires an ability to create an assessment tool (handle quantitative data) and write detailed reports (qualitative assessment). • Must be able to work in a collaborative team and, at the same time, must be able to create an agenda for oneself, work individually, be a team leader. • Must be able to multitask, and to be able to meet deadlines and prioritize as crises emerge. • Must be able to maintain top professional standards in all situations. • Must be able to envision "what comes next" and make it happen. To apply, visit hr.duke.edu and search by Requisition #400284567. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 21 07:51:44 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBAD2E2FC; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:51:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A592A2E2EC; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:51:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090321075142.A592A2E2EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.637 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 637. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back [3] From: renata lemos (172) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:31:43 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090320062947.F1EE72FB57@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, Siobhan I should have been more careful. And I think we should more carefully distinguish between content provider differences and user differences -- just because content is produced very differently that doesn't mean it's received that differently by users. Tag clouds perform the functions of catalogs and indexes, and all the differences you mention, really, are still just differences in speed of access. It's the difference between walking over to a shelf and thumbing through a book vs. clicking on a link and getting almost the right content some of the time -- and this difference is primarily time and availability of content. Now this doesn't mean there isn't a serious phenomenological difference between internet vs. print providers, but I have yet to see anyone provide a coherent explanation of these differences that seriously accounts for print user attitudes across time. Jim R On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > > "The only real difference here between print and internet production is speed of production." > > Funny you should say that, now I think of it, it is odd that I never came across an early modern print version of Google, I couldn't pick out metadata generated by the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in a tag cloud to save my life and I never did find a copy of "The Fable of the Bees" that allowed me to simply poke the page with my finger and automatically produce before my eyes contemporaneous pamphlets on charity schools but that's probably just my lack of appreciation of history. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:36:41 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090320062947.F1EE72FB57@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Looking back upon this thread about the persistence/break of/with the past, I am struck by use of the metaphor of sight and wonder if "looking back" implies not only a direction but also a distance. One could substitute an auditive metaphor and consider the relationship with what has gone on before by way of a listening for echoes. Another way of approaching the discursive traces of predecessors would be to suggest that "looking" is as much about schematic traces perceived by the eyes and then filled out into forms by the mind's eye. A convenient explanation of such operations that blends art history and cognitive science is to be found in the Cezanne chapter of Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer. BTW a search of the Humanist archive using the keyword "looking" yields the very telling pattern ... "looking for". Using the regular expression "looking back" one enters other territories where one finds words such as these from Humanist 11.0238 The value one assigns such experiences relates not only to what stories one has been told, what one has preserved but also what one wants to tell. The telological is never far away from the archeological in such matters. Time bends. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:36:11 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.635 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090320062947.F1EE72FB57@woodward.joyent.us> "The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it." - E. B. White On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 635. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Siobhan King > (52) > > > [2] From: Willard McCarty > (41) > Subject: being reminded of origins > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:38:29 +1300 > From: Siobhan King > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.633 looking back > In-Reply-To: <20090319064526.B524830651@woodward.joyent.us> > > "The only real difference here between print and internet production is > speed of production." > > Funny you should say that, now I think of it, it is odd that I never came > across an early modern print version of Google, I couldn't pick out metadata > generated by the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in a tag cloud to save my life and > I never did find a copy of "The Fable of the Bees" that allowed me to simply > poke the page with my finger and automatically produce before my eyes > contemporaneous pamphlets on charity schools but that's probably just my > lack of appreciation of history. > > Hypertextuality is a fundamental difference between internet production and > text production. I may have glossed over the nuances of print history for > the purpose of brevity, but at least I didn't overlook a quintessential > characteristic of the internet because I was too focussed making an analogy > with the past. > > > Siobhan King > > -----Original Message----- > From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto: > humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist > Discussion Group > Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 7:45 p.m. > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 633. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:42:31 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.627 looking back > In-Reply-To: <20090318060819.B248D2EFA8@woodward.joyent.us> > > Siobhan -- > > Thanks for this response. I want to make clear, though, that I'm not > saying that what we can learn from a study of pint culture is > directly, and without complication, transferable to "text" culture as > you describe it. What I am saying is that a detailed awareness of > print culture makes differences from "text" culture -that much more > visible-. It's only possible to move past something when you've come > to grips with it to begin with. > > But your summary of print culture lacks nuance. There are and almost > always have been "underground" presses, those which weren't associated > with the production of authoritative texts, and since the advent of > moveable type it is possible to change text relatively rapidly > (compared to manuscript). I just listened to a conference paper a > week ago about how print was used for propaganda purposes in 17thC > Spanish wars. Broadsides released one day could be substantially > different from those released the next under the same anonymous or > pseudonymous author. The only real difference here between print and > internet production is speed of production. Anyone who could gain > access to a printing press could print. Authorities feared the > production of these presses and sought to suppress them. > > Furthermore, your distinction between "print" and "text" was first > developed exclusively within a culture of print -- you are still > thinking in terms of print culture, but because you're not properly > considering history you're not aware of it. > > Jim R > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > wrote: > > > I'm saying traditional modes associated with print will not help us in > this type of environment and forcing it won't work either, not when the > society holds a completely different ethos. Print culture has had strong > elements of centralised control. Yes it may be useful to see how that > control became centralised, but it doesn't help us come to grips with > decentralised and chaotic text production. > > > > Siobhan King > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:26:25 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: being reminded of origins > In-Reply-To: <20090319064526.B524830651@woodward.joyent.us> > > The following is from the Preface to the English-language edition of > Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of > Cognitive Science, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (Princeton, 2000), p. x: > > > Although the history of science and ideas is not my field, I could > > not imagine adopting Alfred North Whitehead's opinion that every > > science, in order to avoid stagnation, must forget its founders. To > > the contrary, it seems to me that the ignorance displayed by most > > scientists with regard to the history of their discipline, far from > > being a source of dynamism, acts as a brake on their creativity. To > > assign the history of science a role separate from that of research > > itself therefore seems to me mistaken. Science, like philosophy, > > needs to look back over its past from time to time, to inquire into > > its origins and to take a fresh look at models, ideas, and paths of > > investigation that had previously been explored but then for one > > reason or another were abandoned, great though the promise was. Many > > examples could be cited that confirm the usefulness of consulting > > history and, conversely, the wasted opportunities to which a neglect > > of history often leads. Thus we have witnessed in recent years, in > > the form of the theory of deterministic chaos, the rediscovery of > > Poincare's dazzling intuitions and early results concerning nonlinear > > dynamics; the retum to macroscopic physics, and the study of fluid > > dynamics and disordered systems, when previously only the infinitely > > small and the infinitely large had seemed worthy of the attention of > > physicists; the revival of interest in embryology, ethology, and > > ecology, casting off the leaden cloak that molecular biology had > > placed over the study of living things; the renewed appreciation of > > Keynes's profound insights into the role of individual and collective > > expectations in market regulation, buried for almost fifty years by > > the tide of vidgar Keynesianism; and, last but not least, since it is > > one of the main themes of this book, the rediscovery by cognitive > > science of the cybernetic model devised by McCulloch and Pitts, known > > now by the name of "neoconnectionism" or "neural networks," after > > several decades of domination by the cognitivist model. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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 > -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 21 07:52:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993C02E372; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:52:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15B172E363; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:52:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090321075207.15B172E363@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:52:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.638 events: e-learning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 638. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:20:59 -0400 From: "Henry C. Alphin Jr." Subject: Event: 7th Annual E-Learning 2.0 Conference - Drexel University (NextWeek) The Drexel IRT annual e-Learning 2.0 conference, to be held on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Behrakis Grand Hall at the Creese Student Center, draws more than 180 participants from over 40 institutions all around the Greater Philadelphia region and beyond. To register, visit the conference Web site at http://www.drexel.edu/irt/eLearningConf2009/index.html. Past conferences have included presentations on leveraging existing and emerging technologies to enhance instruction in face-to-face classes, hybrid Web-enhanced classes, and completely online, Web-delivered classes. This year’s featured keynote speaker will be John Fritz, Assistant Vice President for Instructional Technology & New Media at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Fritz will discuss "How and Why to Shine Light on Effective Technology Usage" during the lunchtime session. Don’t miss out on what promises to be a fantastic learning and networking opportunity! Email el2n@drexel.edu with any questions. Online Learning Team Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 Forwarded by: Henry C. Alphin Jr. Drexel University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 22 08:41:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4292F33B; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D0242F327; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:41:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090322084148.4D0242F327@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:41:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.639 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 639. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:19:46 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.637 looking back About James Rovira's > Tag clouds > perform the functions of catalogs and indexes, and all the differences > you mention, really, are still just differences in speed of access. > It's the difference between walking over to a shelf and thumbing > through a book vs. clicking on a link and getting almost the right > content some of the time -- and this difference is primarily time and > availability of content. Ranganathan's fourth law of library science usefully states "Save the time of the reader." When the time cost of an activity rises or falls by orders of magnitude, the calculus of the possible changes. You do things you previously couldn't do or you no longer do things you once did becase it is quite literally not 'worthwhile.' We are in the world of changes in degree turning into changes of kind. The transformational changes brought about by digital technology are for the most part 'just' a matter of speeding up conceptually very simple operations, such as sorting lists, moving stuff from here to there, etc. Doug Engelbart's famous essay on Augmenting the Human Intellect is very clear on this. It's just a lot of little stuff, but it adds up. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 22 08:42:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE9D2F3A5; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:42:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A08662F390; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:42:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090322084247.A08662F390@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.640 events: archiving; information and language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 640. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: saggion (51) Subject: Brazil: STIL 2009 - First Call for Papers [2] From: Willard McCarty (12) Subject: Archiving 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:15:10 +0000 From: saggion Subject: Brazil: STIL 2009 - First Call for Papers 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology STIL 2009 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09 September 7-11, 2009 São Carlos, Brazil First Call for Papers STIL 2009 (formerly known as TIL - Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology) is the annual Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (http://www.sbc.org.br/) (SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/). The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, and Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industry participants that work on those areas. STIL-2009 welcomes research work in human language technology in general (and not only Portuguese) in various fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computer science: text mining, semantic web, informationextraction,information retrieval, natural language interfaces, written and spokenlanguage processing, tagging, parsing, summarization, machine translation, writing tools, anaphora resolution, statistical language processing, NLP resources, applications and evaluation. * Linguistics: terminology, lexicology and lexicography, grammar formalisms,discourse analysis, ontologies, translation, corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics. * Information science: information filtering and retrieval, digital libraries,document and knowledge management, knowledge modelling. * Natural language understanding and generation. * Others: work on Philosophy or Human sciences in general, related to language processing. Call for Submissions: Papers can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is not allowed. Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only through the JEMS SBC system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). Authors should chose between full papers for oral presentation or short papers to be presented as posters, and should also indicate whether they accept their full paper to be reallocated as a poster should the reviewers recommend so. Full papers should describe complete work with significant results and cannot exceed 8 pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Short papers (posters) may describe ongoing research with partial results, software demos etc. and should not exceed 4 pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Paper formatting must follow the SBC guidelines available at http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads As papers will be blind-reviewed, they should not display any information regarding their authorship in the header or body of the text. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:37:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Archiving 2009 Archiving 2009 4-7 May Arlington, Virginia An international group of experts from industry, academia, government, archives, libraries, and museums will share the latest information about digital stewardship and preservation imaging. For more information, see www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2009/. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 22 09:19:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EC12E2C5; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:19:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx193.postini.com [64.18.2.85]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2ACE2E2BB for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:19:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([81.187.30.51]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx193.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:19:21 GMT Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.4]) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LlJps-0008CJ-Hq for humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:19:16 +0000 Message-ID: <49C60291.4030308@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:19:13 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Organization: King's College London User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Online seminar for digital humanities References: <20090322084148.4D0242F327@woodward.joyent.us> In-Reply-To: <20090322084148.4D0242F327@woodward.joyent.us> X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:25.24523/99.90000 CV: 6.2478 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.9308 C:98.6951 ) X-pstn-settings: 1 (0.1500:0.1500) CV gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses: from forward (user good) [69/3] Subject: [Humanist] Re: 22.639 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk, Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org About Martin Mueller's comment on James Rovira's "just differences in speed of access", > Ranganathan's fourth law of library science usefully states "Save the > time of the reader." When the time cost of an activity rises or falls > by orders of magnitude, the calculus of the possible changes. You do > things you previously couldn't do or you no longer do things you once > did becase it is quite literally not 'worthwhile.' We are in the world > of changes in degree turning into changes of kind. > > The transformational changes brought about by digital technology are > for the most part 'just' a matter of speeding up conceptually very > simple operations, such as sorting lists, moving stuff from here to > there, etc. Doug Engelbart's famous essay on Augmenting the Human > Intellect is very clear on this. It's just a lot of little stuff, but > it adds up. a highly significant point comes back again to remind us that we are beings in time and space, for whom scale matters. The world is quantized, yes, though not in any simple sense. We now know (and have known before) that at certain levels of complexity, new things are manifested, new processes start happening. Since people like us first started agonizing about what we might do with computers, we have looked for definitive criteria of value, we have looked for work that "could clearly not have been done without a computer" (Kennny, "Computers and the humanities", British Library Research Lecture, 1992, p. 4). We have faced audiences, colleagues and ourselves in moments of self-doubt objecting that whatever it is we exhibit as evidence of value clearly *could* have been done without a computer. The point is, as Martin Mueller says, we in fact do what is worthwhile, what we can, what is practical, what is convenient. Increasing the convenience of access to scholarly resources doesn't sound terribly grand, but in fact JSTOR, Project Muse, the Internet Archive and their kind have changed the world in which scholars operate -- now a world in which an article in a journal of theoretical biology pops up beside an article in a journal of literary criticism and tempts the curious scholar to ask about the possible relations of one to the other. Size matters, speed matters. When in 1945 Frank Aydelotte, then Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, put the case to his Board of Trustees for supporting John von Neumann's proposal to build a computer there -- in an Institute that was founded for theoretical rather than practical work -- he described "an electronic computer which could operate roughly one thousand times as fast as the best devices now in existence and which could consequently undertake problems which are at the present moment entirely out of the reach of any scholar" (Minutes for 19 October 1945, pp. 9-10). The Board voted in favour of Aydelotte's proposal, to give the project $100,000, and the rest, as we say, is history. In the fields of computing, knowing what will make a difference and seeing what has and is making a difference are normally matters of attending to the small things, as Martin says. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 23 06:21:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C3230E49; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:21:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D605E30E41; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:21:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090323062130.D605E30E41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:21:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.641 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 641. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (51) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 22.639 looking back [2] From: "Michael S. Hart" (106) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.639 looking back --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:44:09 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 22.639 looking back In-Reply-To: <49C60291.4030308@mccarty.org.uk> Much appreciation for Martin Mueller's comment and for Willard's follow up. Of course speed matters. Of course it's a good thing. And this might be a meaningful response to my recent posts if, at any time, I complained about the internet or current technologies as a bad thing. Unfortunately, I didn't. If it helps, yes, I'm grateful for speed of access, do believe it "makes a difference," but would like to know just what that difference is, socially, phenomenologically, etc. Furthermore, whenever we posit a "difference" we have to identify a "difference from" something else, which for the sake of this discussion can only be found in past eras prior to the advent of digital technology. In other words, we can only know how present technologies make a difference today by understanding the past. I find the reactions to my posts here quite curious: I advocate the importance of a study of the past for the sake of -understanding the present-, and people assume I am critical of present technology, want only to study the past, assume at the outset that I do not believe the present could be substantially different from the past, etc. This constitutes a functional illiteracy in my opinion -- toward certain ideas, which cannot be even clearly read, much less clearly understood. Yes, I do appreciate current technology I have worked in web development in the past. I am not a Luddite. But no, I am not enamored of all technologies, and neither am I ignorant enough to think we can learn nothing about the present from the past. Let me restate my question: The last major revolution in "text" technology, the shift from manuscript to print culture, has been well documented to have contributed to significant social and phenomenological changes, such as the spread of literacy, increased production of printed texts (presses in 1800 could print 250 sheets an hour; presses in 1848 could print 12,0000 sheets an hour, and often needed to), the democratization of learning, etc. In these terms, I see the internet as an extension or continuation of the changes begun by the advent of print technology, but not nearly as substantially different -socially and phenomenologically from the user end- as the change from manuscript to print culture. Can anyone coherently describe social and phenomenological changes in the user experience of internet texts analogous to changes from print to manuscript culture? Yes, increased speed of access to printed material and speed of searching it is a difference, but to me this is part of the same trajectory -- we've been increasing speed of access dramatically for two hundred years now, and the point is that we're still -performing the same tasks-, just performing them more quickly. What's really -new-? I don't see a spread of visual literacy either. If anything, people are less visually literate now than they were in the Medieval era, when fewer people could read. But, I'm open to correction by anyone who has studied these subjects and can write coherently and intelligently about them. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.639 looking back In-Reply-To: <20090322084148.4D0242F327@woodward.joyent.us> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 639. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:19:46 -0500 > From: Martin Mueller > > > > About James Rovira's > >> Tag clouds >> perform the functions of catalogs and indexes, and all the differences >> you mention, really, are still just differences in speed of access. >> It's the difference between walking over to a shelf and thumbing >> through a book vs. clicking on a link and getting almost the right >> content some of the time -- and this difference is primarily time and >> availability of content. > > Ranganathan's fourth law of library science usefully states "Save the > time of the reader." When the time cost of an activity rises or falls > by orders of magnitude, the calculus of the possible changes. You do > things you previously couldn't do or you no longer do things you once > did becase it is quite literally not 'worthwhile.' We are in the world > of changes in degree turning into changes of kind. > > The transformational changes brought about by digital technology are > for the most part 'just' a matter of speeding up conceptually very > simple operations, such as sorting lists, moving stuff from here to > there, etc. Doug Engelbart's famous essay on Augmenting the Human > Intellect is very clear on this. It's just a lot of little stuff, but > it adds up. > While I certainly agree with "save the time of the reader," I cannot agree with "just" a matter of speeding things up, sorting, etc. It seems obvious to me that the biggest changes are and will be what also happened at the dawn of The Gutenberg Press. The ubiquity of eBooks compared to paper books will change literacy, much in the same way as Gutenberg books did over hand-written. This "Literacy Revolution" will cause an "Education Revolution" will in turn cause another "Scientific Revolution" which will, no doubts, cause a "Neo-Industrial Revolution" that will change the future with as much gusto as The Industrial Revolution changed the past. More and more things with be digitized until virtually everything in the world will be available on the Internet. This will not be limited to two-dimensional objects as we have had a system of what are referred to as "Replicators" or three-dimensional computer printers for a couple decades now, and current models vary, but many are affordable and fit on a desktop. Keep an eye on the "RepRap" people for a replicator than can really, literalliy, make copies of itself, with just a few off the shelf old fashioned input materials. Of couse, in my own career, it seems obvious that the fact that very literally anyone with a computer can afford to by a terabyte drive-- even outboard versions are under $100--and put on ONE MILLION BOOKS! 2.5 million, if you use file compression, a million letters a book. Thus, for barely doubling the price of the average new computer, you can add a handful of such terabyes and collect 10+ million books. OWN YOUR OWN LIBRARY OF TEN MILLION BOOKS!!! Now THAT, my friends and colleagues, is a REAL CHANGE that will very likely change the world more than anything else in the long run. If that is not enough to impress you, try this on for size. . . . Premise #1 There are about 25 million books in the public domain. There are already about 10 million available on the Internet. That's only 40% of what is available. 8.x million from Google 1.3 million from Internet Archive .5 million from World Public Library .1 million from Project Gutenberg not to mention thousands of other sites containing eBooks including some very prestigious national eBook archives such as Gallica. We are rapdily approaching the half-way mark on the "S" curve, then it will slow down somewhat as the books get harder to find, but the technology will speed up, and the accuracy will improve. Premise #2 There are 250 languages on Earth with over a million speakers. Let's suppose the average eBook gets translated, in any manner, to just 40% of those 250 languages. . .thats' 100 languages per book. Conclusion 10 million books translated to 100 languages. . .??????? That's a library of ONE BILLION BOOKS!!! Now THAT should impress even the most jaded. . . . And it WILL happen, and starting sooner rather than later. One last thought. . . . By the time the "S" curve starts to peter out around 2020, we will be talking about petabyte drives, not terabytes. The result will be that anyone will be able to. . . OWN THEIR OWN LIBRARY OF A BILLION BOOKS!!! Some will cast doubts and muddy the waters, but it is all to clear that there weren't 10,000 eBooks 10 years ago. Now there are 10,000,000. The growth curve can actually slow down and we still will have our billion eBooks by 2020. . . . Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 23 06:23:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDDA30EE6; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:23:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A298E30EDD; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:23:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090323062342.A298E30EDD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:23:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.642 events: culture & technology; digital imprint; emerging tech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 642. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (85) Subject: event - emergingtechnologies [2] From: Dot Porter (85) Subject: Culture and Technology Lecture: Monday @ Maynooth [3] From: Susan Schreibman (27) Subject: Idea of a Digital Scholarly Imprint Event --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:16:47 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: event - emergingtechnologies Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 5:29 am From: Nigel Cameron Colleagues - There are a few places available at this invitational event on in downtown DC on 3/26 (11.45-2.30). Details below. If you would like to attend, please respond asap to conferences@c-pet.org. . Thanks! Nigel Cameron FUTURE OF THE INTERNET: a consultation on technology, policy, and society Washington, DC March 26 2009: 11.45 (lunch) - 3.00 Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET) co-sponsored by TechAmerica and Tech Policy Central Opening keynote: Michael R. Nelson: The Cloud, the Crowd, and the Internet of Things: Policy Implications of the Next Phase of Computing Respondent: Christopher T. Hill Mike DiBenedetto: Hometown Baghdad and Beyond: a Case Study in Global Conversation Michael R. Nelson is Visiting Professor of Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Nelson was Director of Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM, where he managed a team helping define and implement IBM's Next Generation Internet strategy. Until recently, he served as the Internet Society's Vice President for Public Policy. Nelson is Chairman-Elect of the Technology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Trustee of the Institute for International Communications, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. Prior to joining IBM in July, 1998, he was Director for Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped craft policies to foster electronic commerce, spur development and deployment of new technologies, and improve the reliability and security of the nation's telecommunications networks. Before joining the FCC in January, 1997, Nelson was Special Assistant for Information Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked with Vice President Gore and the President's Science Advisor on issues relating to the Global Information Infrastructure, including telecommunications policy, information technology, encryption, electronic commerce, and information policy. From 1988 to 1993, he served as a professional staff member for the Senate's Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, chaired by then-Senator Gore. He was the lead Senate staffer for the High-Performance Computing Act. Nelson has a B.S. in geology from Caltech, and a Ph.D. in geophysics from MIT. Christopher T. Hill has been Professor of Public Policy and Technology at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University since 1994. After formal education and experience in engineering, he spent more than three decades in practice, research, teaching, and consulting in science and technology policy, focusing on the history, design, evaluation, and politics of federal policies to stimulate commercial technological innovation. From 1997 to 2005, he was Vice Provost for Research at Mason. He was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2005-2006. Earlier, he worked with RAND, the National Academies, the Congressional Research Service, MIT, the Office of Technology Assessment, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Uniroyal Corporation. As a principal in Technology Policy International, he has consulted extensively with Japanese government agencies regarding industrial competitiveness and reform of R&D funding and higher education systems. Hill has a B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, all in chemical engineering. Michael DiBenedetto is the Manager of Product Development for Qwidget, a company he co-founded to enhance the experience of web conversations. In 2007, Michael managed the online distribution and marketing of the online documentary series Hometown Baghdad. The videos attracted millions of viewers, received dozens of press features around the world, won three Webby Awards and were licensed to the Sundance Channel and National Geographic International for television distribution. Michael received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University. -- Nigel M. de S. Cameron Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology President Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies 10 G Street NE, Suite 710 Washington, DC 20002 office: 202.248.5027 cell: 847.452.8144 nigel.cameron@c-pet.org The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET) is a nonpartisan think tank registered in the District of Columbia and operating under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. www.c-pet.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:11:08 +0000 From: Dot Porter Subject: Culture and Technology Lecture: Monday @ Maynooth Culture and Technology Webcast for 23 March 2009 Lecture will be held at Room 1.39b, Computer Science Building, North Campus, NUI, Maynooth. Instructions for accessing the live webcast follow the lecture description. Presenters: Dr. John Keating (Associate Director of An Foras Feasa, NUI, Maynooth) and Dr. Jennifer Kelly (Post-Doctoral Fellow with Department of History, NUI, Maynooth) will co-present this talk. Title: Constructing Social Networks in Modern Ireland using ACQL Description: The objective of the Associational Culture in Ireland project is to explore the culture of Irish associational life from 1750 to 1940, not only from the point of view of who, what, where and when, but also the ‘hidden’ culture of social networking which operated behind many different clubs and societies throughout the period. Using specifically designed computer programming, the database will be fully searchable so as to provide answers to a multiplicity of question types, e.g.: How central was Kiely’s public house on the Quay’s in Waterford to eighteenth-century club life in that city? Or, what were the associations between the Mecklenburgh Musical Society and the debtors of the marshalseas in 1760s Dublin? Overall, the scope of the project will enable historians to identify and trace changing patterns of sociability in Ireland in regional, national and trans-national contexts. In order to extract information from the relational database SQL queries are normally required. However, the complexity of the information is mirrored in the complexity of the database, and eventually, in the complexity of the queries. The speakers will present a domain specific language that has been developed in order to aid historians in querying this database. ACQL (Associational Culture Query Language) has been developed and deployed in this project, with great success. The guide to downloading, installing and participating is as follows: To Get the Software: 1. Go to www.marratech.com. 2. Select ‘downloads’ 3. Select ‘do it now’ 4. Select the appropriate version for your computer. 5. Once the download is complete, double click on the ‘marratech’ file and follow the instructions to install the application. If you are using a Microsoft computer it may just prompt you to continue with the installation once it finishes downloading. By default it should install in your ‘programs’ folder if you are using a Microsoft computer, Mac users should find it automatically creates its own directory. Do not worry about specifying details of your connection – use the default and you can change it from inside the application, once it is installed. To Participate: 1. Select Start> Programs > Marratech 6.1 2. In the address bar across the top of the program enter "http://dvc.unideb.hu:8000". 3. Log in as follows: username is "Cultech", password is"Seminar2008". 4. Under "Private Rooms" click on the "Culture and Technology" link. You should now see yourself in one of the small images (you may have to scroll down if there are a few participants). 5. Participate! - You can enter public comments by typing in the text box at the bottom right of your screen and pressing the 'return/enter' key - You can talk by clicking on and holding the microphone icon - it is an exclusive microphone; only one person can speak at a time. - You can select which image you want to enlarge (will be displayed top right) by clicking on the desired one from the smaller images just below it. - You can view the whiteboard by clicking on the tab, located in the bottom left of your screen. We hope to see you there. Kind Regards, Aja Teehan TechnologyOfficer An Foras Feasa The Institute forResearch in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions NUI, Maynooth Co. Kildare -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:31:48 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Idea of a Digital Scholarly Imprint Event We are delighted to announce that this DHO event on the 31st March is now full. If you would like to be placed on a wait list, please fill up the registration survey and we will let you know if places become available. It is our intention to stream this event into Second Life. An announcement about this will be forthcoming. with all best wishes susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman@ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 23 10:19:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F3C30D7E; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:19:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx231.postini.com [64.18.2.184]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B341130D76 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:19:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([81.187.30.52]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx231.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:19:46 PDT Received: from 205.81.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.81.205] helo=[192.168.0.4]) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LlhFu-0001bi-U6 for humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:19:43 +0000 Message-ID: <49C76238.5070903@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:19:36 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Organization: King's College London User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Online seminar for digital humanities References: In-Reply-To: X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S:19.49196/99.90000 CV: 6.2478 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:94.9308 C:98.6951 ) X-pstn-settings: 1 (0.1500:0.1500) CV gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses: from forward (user good) [69/3] Subject: [Humanist] Re: 22.641 looking back X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk, Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Let me respond to James Rovira's restated question with an assertion I hope someone challenges. He asks, > The last major revolution in "text" technology, the shift from > manuscript to print culture, has been well documented to have > contributed to significant social and phenomenological changes, such > as the spread of literacy, increased production of printed texts > (presses in 1800 could print 250 sheets an hour; presses in 1848 could > print 12,0000 sheets an hour, and often needed to), the > democratization of learning, etc. > > In these terms, I see the internet as an extension or continuation of > the changes begun by the advent of print technology, but not nearly as > substantially different -socially and phenomenologically from the user > end- as the change from manuscript to print culture. Can anyone > coherently describe social and phenomenological changes in the user > experience of internet texts analogous to changes from print to > manuscript culture? One real difference from the world of printed books that I have witnessed in the last 30 years has to do with the simple matter of finding secondary literature in the course of investigating a topic. In the late 1970s through the mid 1980s I researched and wrote a dissertation which involved mostly, but not exclusively, the fields of Milton studies, biblical studies and classics -- or, in terms of locations in the library I worked in, chiefly but not exclusively PR (13th floor), PA (12th floor) and BS (9th floor), my study carrel being on the 13th. I also regularly made the circuit of other campus libraries at Toronto, the most distant being 15 minutes' walk away, and including the Engineering library. (Milton was a polymath who did not confine himself to any one of our disciplines, so following in his footsteps took a bit of mind- and leg-stretching work.) I had a system of accumulating references to books in other libraries in order to minimize the amount of walking between libraries, an important consideration given the climate, but I essentially treated Robarts as a random-access repository and so was going up and down stairs with considerable frequency every day, nearly, over the 8 years of the PhD. (Those were the days!) When I finished my dissertation, I had, alas, a non-academic job, but fortunately for me still in Robarts Library, where I continued my work furtively but constantly for another 12 years until I landed a proper academic job. In other words, I have had intimate physical experience of intensively and extensively interdisciplinary work for many years. That's the background against which I consider the impact (yes, the right metaphor) of JSTOR et sim -- the world that allows me to construct what seems a profound difference from my physically peripatetic past. I now observe myself at work, gathering materials or references to them almost exclusively online, directly or indirectly. I see what happens when I go to JSTOR and look across all the journals in the online collections for hits to queries, sometimes unconstrained, sometimes not. I note where topics surface, in what disciplinary areas where I would never thought to have looked. I become a sometimes frantic manager of wildly forking paths, sometimes just a bemused observer. It's true that I was in some respects in the same position with Milton back in the 1980s, inclined to wander, though paying then more dearly in the currency of my own time than I could possibly afford to do now. But the difference is that now I discover where to look by where those paths fork to rather than decide a priori where in which libraries I will go. Now because time is limited the net result is that I tend to go wide rather than deep. My implicit commitment, then, is not to a truth obtained on some deep level of a subject but to one that is fragmented and refracted across the surfaces of things. Recently in a course on research methods the students told me that they begin their research papers by going to JSTOR first. I imagine that they do not go as widely and wildly as I do, but they do deliberately put themselves in a situation in which there are no physical impediments to encounter across disciplines. This seems a very different situation from the one I was in all those years ago. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 23 10:31:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620AA30F7D; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:31:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A2BF730F73; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:31:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090323103127.A2BF730F73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.643 looking back & finding a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 643. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:21:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.641 looking back Let me respond to James Rovira's restated question with an assertion I hope someone challenges. He asks, > The last major revolution in "text" technology, the shift from > manuscript to print culture, has been well documented to have > contributed to significant social and phenomenological changes, such > as the spread of literacy, increased production of printed texts > (presses in 1800 could print 250 sheets an hour; presses in 1848 could > print 12,0000 sheets an hour, and often needed to), the > democratization of learning, etc. > > In these terms, I see the internet as an extension or continuation of > the changes begun by the advent of print technology, but not nearly as > substantially different -socially and phenomenologically from the user > end- as the change from manuscript to print culture. Can anyone > coherently describe social and phenomenological changes in the user > experience of internet texts analogous to changes from print to > manuscript culture? One real difference from the world of printed books that I have witnessed in the last 30 years has to do with the simple matter of finding secondary literature in the course of investigating a topic. In the late 1970s through the mid 1980s I researched and wrote a dissertation which involved mostly, but not exclusively, the fields of Milton studies, biblical studies and classics -- or, in terms of locations in the library I worked in, chiefly but not exclusively PR (13th floor), PA (12th floor) and BS (9th floor), my study carrel being on the 13th. I also regularly made the circuit of other campus libraries at Toronto, the most distant being 15 minutes' walk away, and including the Engineering library. (Milton was a polymath who did not confine himself to any one of our disciplines, so following in his footsteps took a bit of mind- and leg-stretching work.) I had a system of accumulating references to books in other libraries in order to minimize the amount of walking between libraries, an important consideration given the climate, but I essentially treated Robarts as a random-access repository and so was going up and down stairs with considerable frequency every day, nearly, over the 8 years of the PhD. (Those were the days!) When I finished my dissertation, I had, alas, a non-academic job, but fortunately for me still in Robarts Library, where I continued my work furtively but constantly for another 12 years until I landed a proper academic job. In other words, I have had intimate physical experience of intensively and extensively interdisciplinary work for many years under the old dispensation. That's the background against which I consider the impact (yes, the right metaphor) of JSTOR et sim. -- the world that allows me to construct what seems a profound difference from my physically peripatetic past. I now observe myself at work, gathering materials or references to them almost exclusively online, directly or indirectly. I see what happens when I go to JSTOR and look across all the journals in the online collections for hits to queries, sometimes unconstrained, sometimes not. I note where topics surface, in what disciplinary areas where I would never thought to have looked. I become a sometimes frantic manager of wildly forking paths, sometimes just a bemused observer. It's true that I was in some respects in the same position with Milton back in the 1980s, inclined to wander, though paying then more dearly in the currency of my own time than I could possibly afford to do now. But the difference is that now I discover where to look by where those paths fork to rather than decide a priori where in which libraries I will go. Now because time is limited the net result is that I tend to go wide rather than deep. My implicit commitment, then, is not to a truth obtained on some deep level of a subject but to one that is fragmented and refracted across the surfaces of many disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Recently in a course on research methods the students told me that they begin their research papers by going to JSTOR first. I imagine that they do not go as widely and wildly as I do, but they deliberately put themselves in situations in which there are no physical impediments to encounter across disciplines. This seems a very different situation from the one I was in all those years ago. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 24 05:59:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078BE2E8CB; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:59:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 81BEF2E8B4; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:59:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090324055916.81BEF2E8B4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:59:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.644 SDH/SEMI Award to Michael Best! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 644. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:39:38 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: 2009 SDH/SEMI Award Dear colleagues, I would like to congratulate Dr. Michael Best of the University of Victoria on being awarded the 2009 SDH/SEMI Award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell ============================== University of Victoria scholar to receive award for outstanding achievement in digital humanities Victoria, British Columbia – March 18th, 2009 - The leading academic society in Canada in the field of digital humanities has awarded its 2009 Award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities to Michael Best and the Internet Shakespeare Editions of the Department of English at the University of Victoria. The Society for Digital Humanities has presented the award annually since 2003 to acknowledge those who have made a significant contribution to computing in the arts and humanities whether theoretical, applied or in the area of community building. Best was selected unanimously for his exceptional contributions to the field. Michael Best is internationally recognized for his achievements at the intersection of Shakespearean studies and digital humanities, specifically as manifest in the world-renowned Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE). Building on a career of focused innovation in disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, the ISE is a pinnacle of such achievement and considered an academic resource of the highest order, with outstanding utility and application both within and outside of academic research fields. The ISE stands as a testament both to the clear benefits of open access publication and of high-level academic collaboration with sound leadership and direction. Best is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, University of Victoria. In print media, he has published scholarly editions on Renaissance magic and the English housewife in the Renaissance, and he is the author of the chapter in Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide on Internet resources. His most recent book is Shakespeare on the Art of Love (2008). In electronic media, he has published two CD ROMs, Shakespeare's Life and Times (1995) and A Shakespeare Suite (2003); he has also published scholarly electronic articles on the Internet Shakespeare Editions, on the design of Web pages, on the use of electronic resources in scholarship and teaching, and on the credibility of electronic publishing. The Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs was established in 1986. Previous recipients of this award include Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude Guédon, Ian Lancashire, Paul Fortier, Elaine Nardocchio, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy of the Orlando Project, Jean-Guy Meunier and, most recently Christian Vandendorpe. Geoffrey Rockwell (chair), Christian Vandendorpe, Aimee Morrison, Ron Tetreault, and Ray Siemens of the Award Committee of SDH/SEMI. ============================== Un professeur de l’Université de Victoria récompensé pour réalisation exceptionnelle en informatique appliquée aux lettres et sciences humaines Victoria, Colombie Britannique – Mars 18, 2009 – Une association canadienne qui joue un rôle de premier plan dans le domaine de l’informatique appliquée aux lettres et sciences humaines a décerné son Prix 2009 pour réalisations exceptionnelles dans le domaine à Michael Best du département d’anglais de l’Université de Victoria et auteur du Internet Shakespeare Editions. La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SEMI/SDH) a remis ce prix annuel depuis 2003 afin de reconnaître ceux et celles qui ont fait une contribution significative à l’informatique appliquée au domaine des arts, lettres et sciences humaines, que ce soit sur le plan théorique ou appliqué, ou encore par leur impact sur la création de réseaux associatifs. Michael Best a été choisi à l’unanimité pour sa contribution exceptionnelle. Michael Best est reconnu internationalement pour ses réalisations qui se situent à l’intersection des études shakespeariennes et de l’informatique appliquée aux lettres et qui sont particulièrement manifestes dans la réalisation de renommée mondiale qu’est Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE). S’appuyant sur une série d’innovations très ciblées tant au plan disciplinaire qu’interdisciplinaire, ISE est un modèle du genre et constitue une ressource de la plus haute importance et d’une grande utilité tant à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur de la recherche universitaire. ISE témoigne des bénéfices que donnent à la fois la publication en libre accès et la collaboration d’universitaires de haut niveau travaillant en équipe. Michael Best est professeur émérite du département d’anglais de l’Université de Victoria. Il a publié sous format imprimé des éditions critiques de textes de magie de la Renaissance et il est l’auteur du chapitre sur les ressources Internet dans l’ouvrage Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Son livre le plus récent s’intitule Shakespeare on the Art of Love (2008). Sous format électronique, il a publié deux CD- ROM : Shakespeare's Life and Times (1995) et A Shakespeare Suite (2003). Il a aussi publié des articles critiques sur les éditions de Shakespeare disponibles sur Internet, ainsi que sur la conception de pages web, sur l’utilisation de ressources électroniques dans la recherche et l’enseignement, et sur la crédibilité des publications électroniques. La Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs/ Society for Digital Humanities a été créée en 1986. Figurent parmi les récipiendaires précédents Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude Guédon, Ian Lancashire, Paul Fortier, Elaine Nardocchio, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, et Isobel Grundy du Orlando Project, Jean-Guy Meunier et, tout récemment, Christian Vandendorpe. Geoffrey Rockwell (président), Christian Vandendorpe, Aimee Morrison, Ron Tetreault, et Ray Siemens, de le Comité des prix de la SDH/SEMI. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 24 06:02:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC24C2E994; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:02:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 513392E982; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:02:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090324060201.513392E982@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:02:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.645 looking back & speeding along X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 645. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: where humans have never gone before [2] From: James Rovira (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 22.641 looking back [3] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: ease and speed of access, and a gazillion books [4] From: "Michael S. Hart" (202) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.643 looking back & finding a difference [5] From: Siobhan King (93) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.643 looking back & finding a difference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:04:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: where humans have never gone before From Herman Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (Princeton, 1972), pp. 145-7: > Let us start the discussion by stating categorically that without the > speed made possible only by electronics our modern computerized > society would have been impossible: machines that can do as much as > ten or twenty or thirty or even a hundred humans are very important > but do not revolutionize modern society. They are extremely valuable > and help greatly to ease the burden on humans, but they do not make > possible an entirely new way of life.... > > This is then the whole point of the modern machines. It is not simply > that they expedite highly tedious, burdensome, and lengthy > calculations being done by humans or electromechanical machines. It > is that they make possible what could never be done before! The > electronic principle did much more than free men from the loss of > hours like slaves in the labor of calculating; it also enabled them > to conceive and execute what could not ever be done by men alone. It > is what made possible putting men on the moon -- and bringing others > back safely from an abortive trip there. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:33:31 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 22.641 looking back In-Reply-To: <49C76238.5070903@mccarty.org.uk> I really appreciate these comments. I go to JSTOR first too, or at least used to when I worked at institutions who subscribed to JSTOR (I want to hang myself now. My local facking library in Casselberry, FL had JSTOR access). I haven't read a word that translates into anything other than ease and speed of access. People with 1 billion books on their computer will actually read how many of them? Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:09:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ease and speed of access, and a gazillion books In-Reply-To: <49C76238.5070903@mccarty.org.uk> James Rovira just commented, > I haven't read a word that translates into anything other than ease > and speed of access. > > People with 1 billion books on their computer will actually read how > many of them? Ok, one at a time. Ease and speed of access. I go back to Turing's 1936 paper, "On computable numbers", where on p. 231 he proposes that we think as follows: > We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a > machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions.... In other words he begins with what a human being does and models a class of automata on him that does what we do, i.e. counts in discrete steps. Fast forward a bit and you have people writing software that does what we could do if only we had enough time. So, only speed, but within the framework of an isolated Turing Machine. In other words, we can speak of "only speed" (i.e. not new) if we ignore the reality of the world we live in, which for us is defined by human temporal scale and a computing that interacts with the world, including with other computers. You could say (to speak in terms of an analogous argument) that the world is merely atoms and the void, but if you start there, with only atoms and the void, what can you say about anything significantly more complex, such as life? A billion books. Isn't "reading" as we idealize it (one line at a time, first page to last page) the wrong word for how one then interacts with and learns from a mass of text? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:24:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.643 looking back & finding a difference In-Reply-To: <20090323103127.A2BF730F73@woodward.joyent.us> In response to several comments about how eBooks may or may not change the world more or less than The Gutenberg Press. My own opinion, as the inventor of eBooks, has always been that eBooks will change the world as much as The Gutenberg Press and I personally think The Gutenberg Press is actually underrated-- that it changed the world even more than most people think. I will list the steps of each below, along with a few comments. Giving Full Credit to Gutenberg's Printing Press First of all, though, let me start by giving credit where it is due in terms of The Gutenberg Press' role in our civilization. One of the most obvious impacts was the creation of more books, literally, in the first 50 years or so of The Gutenberg Presses than had ever existed in all previous world history. There is certainly no honest way to underestimate that effect. In turn, the literacy rate, which had hovered around 1% for era after era after era, suddenly got out of the hands of elitist's provenance and into the hands of commoners. This provided the basis for educational revolution that went on to create "The Scientific Revolution" that in turn created "The Industrial Revolution" which in turn created our civilization. However, The Gutenberg Press had a more direct role in creating The Industrial Revolution in that it was the very first example of "Mass Production," and of "assembly line work," and, perhaps most importantly to the world of technology, it heralded starts of what are called "interchangeable parts." I should be remiss if I didn't also mention that The Gutenberg Press incorporated, in its own way, compound leverage to operate the press. It was also a major contribution of Herr Gutenberg to make advances in metallurgy that also contributed greatly to later inventions. Each of these concepts: Mass Production Assembly Line Work Interchangeable Part Compound Leverage Metallurgy Advances are literally a key element in creating Industrial Revolutions, literally for centuries to come. After all, Henry Ford usually gets assembly line credit. Winchester, et. al. get credit for interchangeable parts. And no major historians think far enough ahead, or behind, from any perspective, to give Gutenberg any credit at all in the new Industrial Revolution 300 years later. However, as soon as you look at that short list above it should become more than obvious that Gutenberg deserves more credit in a handful of major categories. Back to the Future How "big" ARE eBooks. . .really??? Now, to answer the questions raised earlier more directly. First, please let me throw out a few Google search results: 157,000,000 for ebook OR ebooks. 111,000,000 for bomb OR bombs. Not bad for something that didn't even exist 40 years ago. This is merely to point out that while the media pooh poohs the whole eBook thing on a regular basis, the fact is in the worlds more open media eBooks are mentioned more than bombs. This is really something considering the recent bombing sprees, literally over the past decade or more. Now, having mentioned that to get your attention back, I should now like to give my own answer to the recent questions posted. No, not everyone is going to agree with me about the order I am putting them in, I am much more partial to local storage than I am to "cloud computing." Thus, I consider the advent of the $99 outboard USB terabytes a monumental event in the history of eBooks. After all, the average computer today costs $500, then doubling the price by adding 5 terabyte drives, allows anyone to own the entire available collections of eBooks on the Internet. 10+ million eBooks!!! Huh? 8.x Million from Google 1.3 Million from Internet Archive .5 Million from World Public Library[Costs $8.95 to subscribe] .1 Million from Project Gutenberg =========== 10 Million Total and that's not even counting any of the national efforts from a number of countries, The Library of Congress, Gallica, etc. Not to mention that thousands are being added every day. And using .zip files, you can put 12.5 million eBooks on drives totalling 5 terabytes, at one million characters per book. Now I realize that not everyone feels the same way about OWNING YOUR OWN LIBRARY that literally has more books than any but the dozen or two largest libraries in the world. However, I grew up in a family where the most important things, besides us, were books, music and art. The average U.S. public library has about 32,000 books. You can buy a 32 megabyte USB thumbdrive/pendrive for $50, then WEAR an entire library of books on a lanyard or a keychain. If you do not value such things, there is no reason to go on... and if you do, then you are already likely convinced. The Modern Day Effect of eBooks My goal, and that of Project Gutenberg, is to get the most book files to the most people. . .period. Here is how we plan to do it, and the desired effects: So many people as why Project Gutenberg like "plain text" along with all the fancier markup formats. The reason is that plain text eBooks can be read by any program on any hardware with very very few exceptions. Example: The iPod was only out a week before programs circulated to read plain text Project Gutenberg eBooks. The iPhone reads them, too. Even MP3 players can read them on their tiny little screens and they do, I should add, we just put a script to reformat for MP3 players in yesterday's Project Gutenberg Newsletter. However, when people talk about these, they are missing things. There are over 4.2 billion active cellphones in the world, says the United Nations, vastly more than the 1+ billion computers. Compare this to the one million total Kindle and Sony readers-- and you might start to realize where the future lies. Therefore Project Gutenberg eBooks have been available for some cellphones for years, and more kinds every few months. Next month we will be unveiling an automated cellphone services conversion program at pglaf.org. Just log in, ask for the eBook you want, and you get it seconds later, depending on your connection, etc. This is the wave of the future. . .The Digital Divide conquered by the lowly cellphone, as twice as many people already have an active cellphone as do not, and the number without is shrinking at a truly amazing rate. By 2020 just about anyone who wants a cellphone will have one. And, they will be able to read books out loud to you with ease, just as they play their ringtones, MP3's and everything else. People will be able to learn to read without anyone teaching. Their phone will teach them by reading out loud to them as they read along on the screen. In fact, next week Project Gutenberg is releasing a program for just that purpose, though it doesn't run on phones yet. It is called "The Lincoln Reader," after President Lincoln, who learned to read in his log cabin from Shakespeare and a Bible. This will be much easier, of course, with pictures to describe, and definitions to accentuate, the words in the texts as voices read the text out loud. It's not perfect, but it could take a person up to a 5th grade, perhaps 6th grade, reading level in a very short time. This version uses "Microsoft Anna" thus requiring Vista, but it is also available with a professional human voice for $9.95. What Will the Effects Be??? Obviously the first effect will be an increase in literacy just as it was with The Gutenberg Press, followed by more education. People who lived outside the realm of decent schools systems in many parts of the world will simply show up out of the blue and be well read. . .it will change everything. No longer will they be dependent on others to teach them. No longer will others be able to make them stay dependent quite so forcefully by NOT teaching them. Literacy and education will escape the boundaries of centuries, just as they did in the days of The Gutenberg Press. The results will be a new revolution in education, then science and technology, just as it was after The Gutenberg Press. Then will come "The Neo-Industrial Revolution" when everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, will be digitized for reproduction every time anyone wants a copy. Just as today there are 10 million eBooks out there that we can copy in unlimited quantities [based on local copyrights], there will be any number of physical object that can be "printed out" on three-dimensional printers, replicators, etc. Again, the media don't talk about it, but such things have been around for decades now, and are now affordable desktop systems. Also watch out for the "RepRap" project to build machines quite literally capable building copies of themselves, with only some very common materials that you can easily provide., Conclusion eBooks were the very first example of "Unlimited Distribution," just as The Gutenberg Press was the first of "Mass Production." Unlimited Distribution means "anyone can have as many copies as they want to have." Example: The first title from Project Gutenberg was about 5 kilobytes. Those 5 terabytes mentioned above will hold a BILLION COPIES! Certainly "unlimited" enough for the likes of me. or Just carrying the average U.S. public library books with you, all the time, and you OWN YOUR OWN LIBRARY. I haven't even delved into how much more can be done with the eBooks than with the paper books. My father, a Shakespeare professor, gave this example: Suppose you wanted to do a research paper on Shakespeare on a topic ofweddings, marriage, etc. Just THINK how long it would take you with paper books to get the first list together of every time The Bard mentioned: Wed Wedding Wedded Husband Wife Bride Groom Betroth Betrothal etc, etc., etc. The fact is that it would be just about impossible to do, and that would be just the starting point. Today you could create such a list in minutes if not seconds, if you were good enough at writing the instructions. The time is coming, perhaps already here, when you can search millions of books in the same manner, looking up concepts not words, with the various new search engine technologies. The possibilities are truly just about endless. The doors are just opening. As witnessed by the fact the questions needed to be asked via such an erudite forum as this one. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:58:56 +1300 From: Siobhan King Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.643 looking back & finding a difference In-Reply-To: <20090323103127.A2BF730F73@woodward.joyent.us> Jim - yes, I needn't have been quite so facetious. I'm glad this has stimulated some lively debate despite that. Willard - thank you. I'm going to be boring and agree with you. I think the impact of the speed with which things disappear online potentially has a great impact on historical practice. As digital documents deteriorate and disappear at a faster rate, preservation becomes more urgent and presses upon us the need to evaluate history today. Historians used to spend much time in libraries and archives evaluating monographs and primary documents and coming to conclusions about events years after they happened. There seems a growing awareness now among historians that the place to look for primary documents is on the internet and that these objects must be preserved them in to retain substantiating documentation for one's historical arguments. Cohen and Rosenzweig's handbook for historians (Digital History: A guide to gathering preserving and presenting the past on the web) is indicative of this awareness and I can now see historians moving into a new role where they become their own electronic archivists. The speed of things has the affect of changing roles for historians and other humanists. I see historians of the future needing a new suite of technical skills, not only the ability to evaluate electronic documents but also the ability to find, capture and preserve them. Having said that, practice is one thing. What theories will underpin these activities? Siobhan King -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Monday, 23 March 2009 11:31 p.m. To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 643. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:21:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.641 looking back Let me respond to James Rovira's restated question with an assertion I hope someone challenges. He asks, > The last major revolution in "text" technology, the shift from > manuscript to print culture, has been well documented to have > contributed to significant social and phenomenological changes, such > as the spread of literacy, increased production of printed texts > (presses in 1800 could print 250 sheets an hour; presses in 1848 could > print 12,0000 sheets an hour, and often needed to), the > democratization of learning, etc. > > In these terms, I see the internet as an extension or continuation of > the changes begun by the advent of print technology, but not nearly as > substantially different -socially and phenomenologically from the user > end- as the change from manuscript to print culture. Can anyone > coherently describe social and phenomenological changes in the user > experience of internet texts analogous to changes from print to > manuscript culture? One real difference from the world of printed books that I have witnessed in the last 30 years has to do with the simple matter of finding secondary literature in the course of investigating a topic. In the late 1970s through the mid 1980s I researched and wrote a dissertation which involved mostly, but not exclusively, the fields of Milton studies, biblical studies and classics -- or, in terms of locations in the library I worked in, chiefly but not exclusively PR (13th floor), PA (12th floor) and BS (9th floor), my study carrel being on the 13th. I also regularly made the circuit of other campus libraries at Toronto, the most distant being 15 minutes' walk away, and including the Engineering library. (Milton was a polymath who did not confine himself to any one of our disciplines, so following in his footsteps took a bit of mind- and leg-stretching work.) I had a system of accumulating references to books in other libraries in order to minimize the amount of walking between libraries, an important consideration given the climate, but I essentially treated Robarts as a random-access repository and so was going up and down stairs with considerable frequency every day, nearly, over the 8 years of the PhD. (Those were the days!) When I finished my dissertation, I had, alas, a non-academic job, but fortunately for me still in Robarts Library, where I continued my work furtively but constantly for another 12 years until I landed a proper academic job. In other words, I have had intimate physical experience of intensively and extensively interdisciplinary work for many years under the old dispensation. That's the background against which I consider the impact (yes, the right metaphor) of JSTOR et sim. -- the world that allows me to construct what seems a profound difference from my physically peripatetic past. I now observe myself at work, gathering materials or references to them almost exclusively online, directly or indirectly. I see what happens when I go to JSTOR and look across all the journals in the online collections for hits to queries, sometimes unconstrained, sometimes not. I note where topics surface, in what disciplinary areas where I would never thought to have looked. I become a sometimes frantic manager of wildly forking paths, sometimes just a bemused observer. It's true that I was in some respects in the same position with Milton back in the 1980s, inclined to wander, though paying then more dearly in the currency of my own time than I could possibly afford to do now. But the difference is that now I discover where to look by where those paths fork to rather than decide a priori where in which libraries I will go. Now because time is limited the net result is that I tend to go wide rather than deep. My implicit commitment, then, is not to a truth obtained on some deep level of a subject but to one that is fragmented and refracted across the surfaces of many disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Recently in a course on research methods the students told me that they begin their research papers by going to JSTOR first. I imagine that they do not go as widely and wildly as I do, but they deliberately put themselves in situations in which there are no physical impediments to encounter across disciplines. This seems a very different situation from the one I was in all those years ago. Comments? Yours,WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 24 06:10:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F0C2EB28; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:10:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D80482EB0F; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:10:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090324061051.D80482EB0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.646 cfp: Learning Infrastructures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 646. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:25:05 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences andHumanities CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities Special issue of the journal Learning Inquiry (http://www.springerlink.com/content/120592/) Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger Papers Due: May 15th 2009 Please contact the editor to discuss topics at jhuns.(@)vt.edu (remove brackets) In the last 20 years, the learning infrastructures of the social sciences and humanities have transformed dramatically toward a more plural set of practices, methods, systems, and tools. In this issue, we are looking for contributions from social informatics, humanistic informatics, cultural informatics, digital humanities, internet studies, design research, media studies, and related fields dealing with the learning infrastructures. I am seeking papers that deal empirically, analytically and/or critically with the learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities. Cyberinfrastructures, physical infrastructures and organizational infrastructures have been transformed through the politics, economics, and technologies surrounding our learning infrastructures. Learning infrastructures are part of professors and students scholarly experiences everyday. These infrastructures are part of how students begin their engagement with the social sciences and humanities and perhaps become part of how they maintain that engagement throughout their lives. Beyond our professors, departments, centers and institutes, our learning infrastructures are mediating our disciplinarity and interdisciplinarities to our students. In short, learning infrastructures are a part of how students learn to be scholars in various disciplines and citizens in the world-at-large. Part of the debate surrounding learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities is the over/under-definition and over/ underdetermination of terms such as learning and infrastructure in disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. In this CFP, I want to encourage papers that help to define and critically engages those terms. Possible topics: • Transformation of institutions in relation to learning infrastructures • New methods, new understandings in the social sciences and humanities related to learning infrastructures • New disciplines, interdisciplines and transdisciplines and learning infrastructures • Political economics of learning infrastructures • Ethics, norms, and politics surrounding learning infrastructures • Openness and/or closedness in learning infrastructures • Social/Cultural/Informatics informatics and learning infrastructures • New directions for learning infrastructures based on social sciences and humanities • Cultural environmentalism and learning infrastructures • Knowledge/Design ecologies and learning infrastructures Review process will be double blind peer review following editorial selection. We expect to place fewer than 8 papers in this special issue. We would prefer papers between 4000-16000 words. Papers should be submitted tohttp://www.editorialmanager.com/linq/ Please contact the editor to discuss your paper and/or when you submit your paper. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 24 06:12:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8DF2EB8C; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:12:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 728572EB84; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:12:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090324061200.728572EB84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:12:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.647 events: semantic web; capturing 360 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 647. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu (30) Subject: RENCI Event at Duke, March 24th [2] From: Shawn Day (25) Subject: DHO Workshop: Intro to the Semantic Web --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:27:32 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: RENCI Event at Duke, March 24th An announcement from HASTAC.org Please forward widely! Send RSVPs to jshelton@renci.org and contact tford@renci.org for questions.br Immersive Media Bistro Tuesday, March 24 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) at Duke University OIT Telecommunications Building 390 Science Drive Extension West Campus, Durham, NC RSVP to jshelton@renci.org Details: The Immersive Media Bistro will focus on the unique methods and technologies used in capturing a 360 environment via RENCI. RENCI experts will discuss the use of the immersive media camera, DeltaSphere Laser Scanner and an inexpensive automated gigapixel panoramic capture. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch is provided on a first come first served basis. For more information about the RENCI Bistros, see our new website: http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/education-and-outreach/renaissance- bistro. -- Jonathan E. Tarr HASTAC Project Manager Assistant to Cathy N. Davidson Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Duke University 128 Franklin Center, Box 90403 Durham, NC 27708-0403 Phone: (919) 684-8471 Fax: (919) 684-8749 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:55:01 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Workshop: Intro to the Semantic Web Date: 7 April 2009, 12:00-16:00 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 http://dho.ie/node/60 Presenter: Dr K. Faith Lawrence, Digital Humanities Specialist (DHO) The Semantic Web is a web of linked data. But unlike the web as we know it, it is also a web of meaning with underlying rules defining, at a computational level, how different concepts relate to each other. This additional information allows computers to 'understand' the data and, through that understanding, analyse it in new ways. As digital humanities projects and the data within them becomes more complex, it may seem as though the technology supporting it does as well. This workshop offers the chance to gain an understanding of the principles of that technology and how it might be applicable to digital humanists. "Introduction to the Semantic Web" is a workshop comprised of two parts: an introductory lecture on the Semantic Web and its surrounding technologies followed by a hands-on session which offers the opportunity to investigate key concepts more closely and to gain exposure to the associated markup languages. This workshop is aimed at the absolute beginner, and there will be plenty of time scheduled for questions and discussion. To register for either the lecture or the lecture and the workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eOnxSSP5JWRr28plT4ASzA_3d_3d Places are limited so early registration is recommended to secure a place. For more information please contact: f.lawrence@dho.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 25 06:33:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F9C2D4EC; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:33:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D3FF2D4DD; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:33:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090325063319.7D3FF2D4DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.648 new study of the book's history's future X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 648. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:22:24 -0700 From: Tassie Gniady Subject: Innovating New Knowledge Environments Project Announcement $2.5 MILLION GRANT TO STUDY READING IN THE DIGITAL AGE > From ancient cave paintings to hand-printed books to Facebook, people have been reading in various forms for thousands of years. But what will the act of reading look like in the future and what can we learn from the past to ensure digital applications enhance and expand the reading experience? That’s what an international team of researchers led by the University of Victoria’s Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing Ray Siemens, will be studying over the next seven years through their participation in the “Implementing New Knowledge Environments” (INKE) project. Funded with nearly $2.5 million through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) program with an additional $10.4 million funding in institutional and research partner support, Siemens and his team of 35 researchers and 21 partner agencies will develop a better understanding of literacy in the digital age. “We describe our work as ‘the future of the history of the book’,” says Siemens. “We’ll be looking at several thousands of years of societal interaction with book-like objects and examine through them how society mobilizes and interacts with knowledge. We’ll be able to contribute directly to digital developments in this area.” The research team will focus their work in four areas. Textual studies, the evolution of reading and writing technologies from antiquity to present, will be led by Richard Cunningham at Acadia University and Alan Galey at the University of Toronto. User experience, or how people engage with knowledge objects--print or digital--in the context of their everyday work and home environments, will be led by Teresa Dobson at the University of British Columbia and Claire Warwick at University College London. Interface design, how people visualize information on a computer, will be led by Stan Ruecker at the University of Alberta, and information management, or the building of new digital reading interfaces, will be led by Siemens and Susan Schreibman at the Royal Irish Academy. The research team will also involve 19 postdoctoral research fellows and 53 graduate research assistants from all participating institutions. SSHRC MCRI funding will be supplemented with support from several partners including the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Service BC, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, the Public Knowledge Project, and ProQuest—a digital database of historical documents and academic materials. INKE will incorporate its technical, historical, psychological, and sociological knowledge into functioning prototypical computational models which it will share online. “The best parts of research are when our research developments engage the reading public’s interest and needs,” says Siemens. “Our research area teams will work together at UVic as well as at their own institutions and elsewhere to apply humanities principles to a basic social technology issue—understanding all the reading devices we’ve used and what it might mean for the future.” . . . 2 A full list of researchers, participating institutions, and partners can be found at the project’s website, www.inke.ca. Tassie Gniady INKE Project Manager University of Victoria tassieg@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 26 06:17:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F6D2F366; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:17:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A99A12F356; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:17:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090326061738.A99A12F356@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:17:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.649 job at Virginia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 649. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:50:48 -0400 From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: job opening, University of Virginia I am forwarding the following on behalf of SHANTI, a new faculty initiative at UVA. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, PhD. Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Program Associate, Scholarly Communication Institute http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ http://www.uvasci.org/ The University of Virginia Center for Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI) is seeking an Associate Director. The Center represents a new faculty-led initiative at UVa aiming to build upon its distinguished history in digital humanities, social sciences and the performing arts to play a leading role in the creative use of technology to facilitate new forms of research, learning, engagement, and publication. This position will be central in leading this process in terms of scholarship, technology, and networking. The position’s responsibilities will include consulting with faculty and students on scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and performing arts. The incumbent will help plan and execute a variety of research projects utilizing technology to advance innovative intellectual inquiry. An essential aspect of this will involve coordination with technologists and others on the management, development, implementation and sustainability of these projects. The incumbent will participate in the development of an atmosphere supporting collaboration, creativity, and community for the purpose of generating innovative approaches or applications of technology to advance research, teaching, or scholarship. The incumbent will help integrate the work of SHANTI with other relevant scholarly departments, projects and initiatives at UVa. As an Associate Director, the incumbent will display leadership and skill in strategic planning, budgeting, and management to ensure the successful launch and operation of SHANTI. Qualifications: Masters Degree in relevant humanities, social sciences, library science, or computer science-related field required; PhD preferred but not required. Demonstrates substantial knowledge and understanding of the scholarship in the humanities, social sciences and performing arts. Extensive technical knowledge of and use of digital technology; experience utilizing a variety of technologies to advance research and teaching. Demonstrated presentation skills, and the ability to connect with and communicate complex technical or scientific information to a generalist audience. Experience as a project manager providing leadership and planning for project development and implementation as well as resource allocation using both direct and indirect reporting structures. Experience providing departmental administration, strategic planning, budgeting and management. Experience developing a network of researchers to share ideas, research interests, application of technology, and/or collaboration on projects; demonstrated interpersonal skills; experience working in a diverse community, and in a large, complex environment. This is currently a two year position with the possibility of renewal for successive years. For posting details, go to https://jobs.virginia.edu. Click on Search Postings and enter 0603371 in the Posting Number. Please submit an application, and attach a cover letter, CV, and three references. Review of candidate materials begins March 25, 2009 and continues until the position is filled. For additional information, please contact Debbie Mincarelli at 434 -924-6957 or email debbiem@virginia.edu. The University of Virginia is an EEO/AA employer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 26 06:18:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FE02F3BD; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:18:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B33722F3B5; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:18:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090326061806.B33722F3B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:18:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.650 survey: Orlando interface X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 650. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:12:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Susan Brown Subject: Orlando interface survey Survey on the Orlando textbase Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an experiment in digital scholarship which has been warmly praised by all three of its academic reviewers so far - who, however, have all made suggestions, all different, for technological revision or tweaking. It contains the equivalent of more than 75 monograph volumes of information on more than 1,200 writers from Britain and beyond, including many Victorian writers, interlinked with each other and with thousands of contextualizing events. The way Orlando looks, feels, and acts right now is just one of a number of possible interfaces for these materials and we are researching its impact. We are seeking responses from users to a 10-minute survey. We are interested in knowing the purposes for which you use Orlando and its ability to meet your needs. We want to gain insight into how you actually use Orlando. We want to know how it can or should be improved. No previous experience of Orlando is required. If your university library does not offer Orlando, we will give you access so you can experience it and let us know your views. Your confidentiality will be protected and you may withdraw from the study at any time. To respond to the survey, go to http://tinyurl.com/cpfzmw Orlando is found through your library website or at http://orlando.cambridge.org. Information about Orlando is available in the scholarly introduction: http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svDocumentation?d_id=ABOUTTHEPROJECT and at the Cambridge University Press site: http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline/ If you do not have access to Orlando through your university library, email orlando@ualberta.ca to request access. To volunteer for our user study beyond participation in the survey, contact orlando@ualberta.ca. If you are a participant and wish to withdraw, contact orlando@ualberta.ca. Please forward this invitation to anyone you think would be interested in participating in the study. Many thanks, Susan Brown Director, the Orlando Project sbrown@uoguelph.ca -- Susan Brown Director, The Orlando Project Associate Professor Visiting Associate 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) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles http://orlando.cambridge.org The Orlando Project: http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 26 06:19:08 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168112F461; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:19:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D938B2F44C; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:19:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090326061905.D938B2F44C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:19:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.651 HASTAC discussion on visualizing the invisible X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 651. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:49:35 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: Join the discussion on "Making Invisible Learning Visible" at www.hastac.org An announcement from HASTAC.org ************************************** Dear HASTAC Users, We invite you to join the ongoing HASTAC Scholars discussion on: Making Invisible Learning Visible, A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum with Randy Bass and Bret Eynon, co-Project Directors of the Visible Knowledge Project, ongoing at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/03-23-09Making-Invisible- Learning-Visible What do you see when students are working in new media environments -- whether blogs, wikis, video, authoring in hypermedia, etc. -- that you can't see in traditional papers or assessments? What kinds of learning do you see Web-based environments making possible for your students? How do you gather and make sense of the evidence of their learning? What kinds of artifacts of student learning do you capture? Are there ways that these new artifacts enable or disrupt or challenge your ability to guide student development? This conversation features Randy Bass and Bret Eynon, and is inspired by the Visible Knowledge Project they co-directed -- a five-year collaborative effort to study the impact of technology on learning, which began as an effort to make visible the hidden intermediate processes students undergo on the path to learning. The project involved more than 70 faculty from 22 institutions who not only experimented with incorporating new media technologies into their classrooms, but also drew on the scholarship of teaching and learning in order to document and reflect on their findings. Many of these insights are synthesized in the January 2009 issue of Academic Commons. One of the project's key findings has been the importance of digital media in helping instructors to make visible the modes and aspects of learning -- intermediate learning processes, the importance of affective learning, the roles of community or creativity -- too often made secondary to outputs and accountability. This rich discussion already incorporates topics like using digital storytelling and Wikipedia in the classroom and includes comments from Trent Batson, Robin Heyden and other key figures interested in digital media and learning and pedagogy. The forum is facilitated by HASTAC Scholars Daniel Chamberlain and Chalet Siedel. Come join the discussion at http:// www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/03-23-09Making-Invisible-Learning-Visible Randy Bass is the Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University, where he is also Executive Director of Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. Bret Eynon is the Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) and the executive director of the LaGuardia Center for Teaching & Learning. Bass and Eynon were Co-Principal Investigators & Co-Project Directors of the Visible Knowledge Project and recently co-edited a volume of Academic Commons titled "New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." Daniel Chamberlain is a lecturer in the department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Critical Studies Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His interests include the intersections of emergent media technologies and new urban spaces, media interfaces, network theory, and digital media and learning. He has published as a columnist for FlowTV.org, an online journal of television and media studies, and has essays forthcoming in the edited collections: FlowTV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (Routledge, 2009) and Television as Digital Media (Duke, 2009). Chalet Seidel is completing a Ph.D in Writing History and Theory at Case Western Reserve University. Her work explores the professionalization of American journalism amid the rapidly changing technological and information environment of the late 19th century. Her work has been published in the journal Linguistics and the Human Sciences. In Fall 2009, Chalet will join the faculty at Westfield State College as an Assistant Professor of 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 27 06:01:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8972FCA9; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:01:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15EE02FC9A; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:01:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:01:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 652. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:20:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: What Good Are A Billion eBooks? In-Reply-To: <20090326061905.D938B2F44C@woodward.joyent.us> What Good Are A Billion eBooks? This question has recently arisen in response to several comments about the future of eBooks, basically claiming that no one can do justice to reading a billion books. Part I Of course the answer is obvious that just HAVING a billion books, or even just instantaneous access to them, should allow one to do much greater research than if one is limited to physical books in a physical set of library buildings. Much wider ranges of research done much more quickly, with errors in quotations reduced to infinitessimal levels. No more stacks and stacks of Oxford 3.5 index cards, or larger. No more copying from book to card, card to draft, draft to draft, to draft, to draft, to final copy of the paper. All done automagically, instantaneously. OK, first of all I am the first to admit, admitted it decades ago in many of my own comments, that these tools do NOTHING for those who don't care about their education. Nothing other than perhaps save them a little time in pretending at school. However, for the person who DOES care, let's suppose the minimum, the barest minimum nominal improvement, let us suppose they learn just 1% more per year during their lives. Let's further cut the lifespan we measure down from the statistic we read in our research to 70 years. . .after all, not much doing in this kind of process for most until age 5, and let us suppose, just for ease of measurement, that we stop learning at 75. 70 years of learning improved by 1% per year. Now, in all honesty, we must consider that anything extra learned this year will help us somewhat in our learning next year. Not a lot, let's just stick with that 1% for measurement's ease. As any of you who have taken even that most elementary statistics lesson of all time, 70 years at 1%, compounded yields 200% of the output you would get with 0% extra added on each year. In simple terms, it means you end up with TWICE AS MUCH!!! Most people would be rather impressed with anything that got them twice as much money, time, happiness, or whatever in the lives. Apparently not the people who are complaining that a billion book files free for the taking would generally be worthless. Of course, as above, they would be, if you never used them. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain Part II However, for many of us, particularly those who have spent, would spend, or might be tempted to spend, years in academia in pursuit of a serious education, the following scenario might work better: Let's suppose the person with access to a billion books online is going to learn 10% more per year than those following in footstep after footstep along the beaten paths that I, myself, with others numbering in the thousands, wore down the marble steps of a quite large world famous library. This could be simply due to saving enough time in walking around, using the card catalogs, waiting for books to come back in, going from library to library to library, waiting on InterLibrary Loan, or any number of other time consumers we old folks all suffered. Or it could be that the actual time spent studying was efficient, to the tune of 10% more learning in the same number of hours. Or it could be both. . .but I will limit myself to just one here. Using the same 70 year effective learning lifespan as above, this process takes the following simple mathematical path: Every 7 years, compounded, as above, we would learn TWICE what we would have learned without the extra 10%. Here is a little table of what happens over 70 years at 10%: Years Total 7 2 14 4 21 8 28 16 35 32 42 64 49 128 56 256 63 512 70 1024 I can already hear the howls of protest that no one could learn a thousand times what 75 year old people have already learned. No matter what the environment. I hate to tell you, but it already happened. YOU ARE THE RESULT!!! Before Johannes Gutenberg 99% of the population could not read. What they "knew" was a mashup of everything they heard plus a bit of personal experience on top of that. . .in fact, experience may have easily played a larger role that all they ever heard since a great deal of what they heard was very likely just rumors. YOU easily know 1,000 times as much as the average Feudal serf!!! And that was the level of the average person before Gutenberg. If you had told them they could learn 1,000 times more by reading the new Gutenberg books, they would have laughed you out of town. Just as some of you are trying to do with me. . . . 10%. . .per YEAR. . .is all it takes to accomplish this. It's nothing compared to Moore's Law of 100% per 18 months. All you have to do is USE the materials to learn 10% more. Period. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 27 06:02:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739FA2FD39; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:02:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19EDF2FD27; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:02:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090327060256.19EDF2FD27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:02:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.653 events: Renaissance studies; roboethics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 653. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ray Siemens" (29) Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2010, 8- 10 April; Venice) [2] From: Segreteria Scuola di Robotica (13) Subject: Re: Roboethics Workshop -- ICRA 2009, Kobe --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:29:59 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2010, 8-10 April; Venice) Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2010, 8-10 April; Venice)   For the past eight years, the Renaissance Society of America program has featured a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. At the 2010 RSA meeting (Venice, 8-10 April 2010), several sessions will continue to follow this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic touchstones, and in several emerging areas.   For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and beyond: a) new technology and research (individual or group projects)  b) new technology and teaching (individual or group projects)  c) new technology and publication (e.g. from the vantage point of authors, traditional and non-traditional publishers) Proposals for papers, panels, demonstrations, and/or workshop presentations that focus on these issues and others are welcome. ** We are pleased to be able to offer several graduate student travel subventions for presentation on these panels.  Those wishing to be considered for the subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission. **   For details of the RSA conference see www.rsa.org. Please send proposals before May 15 to siemens_at_uvic.ca. Ray Siemens University of Victoria   William R Bowen University of Toronto --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:47:37 +0000 From: Segreteria Scuola di Robotica Subject: Re: Roboethics Workshop -- ICRA 2009, Kobe Dear Professor McCarty, we are glad to inform you that, in the frame of ICRA 2009 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, May 12-17 2009 -- www.icra2009.org/ ) organized by the IEEE Robotics&Automation Society, the Technical Committee on Roboethics holds a Full Day Workshop on Roboethics. Here www.roboethics.org/icra2009 http://www.roboethics.org/icra2009 the webpage with the Program and the related information. Many thanks on behalf of the Organizing Committee for circulating this information within your organization. Best greetings. Emanuele Micheli _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 28 07:42:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E665C30AE8; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:42:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BD7430ADD; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:42:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:42:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 654. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (186) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? [2] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (177) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? [3] From: James Rovira (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:22:28 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? In-Reply-To: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for a splendid vision. For what it's worth: I like it, even believe it up to point. I'm curious to see whether it will earn you howls and outcries. Might also be a kind of eerie deafening silence... Can I add in that a billion electronic books will get us to the point were it becomes feasible to put out semi-intelligent bots? Agents operating on basis of a formalized learning algorithm. At first these will be very stupid indeed (just google like morphology based spiders). But we will evolve them over time into rather powerful means for scanning, preselecting, relating and weighting the information 'out there' that's relevant to the problems we're studying. This, I think, will add to your 10% base interest. But only if we have the data, vast amounts of it. Kind regards, Joris van Zundert [Quoted message omitted because of its length; for the context see Humanist 22.652. --WM] -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert, MA Dept. of Software R & D Huygens Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information can be found at http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, for more information please refer to http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=126&lang=en --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:37:12 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? In-Reply-To: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> The estimates I've seen put the total number of books published and printed in the history of the world at around 65-75 million. That's a lot of books, but also a lot of books shy of a billion. I mention it because 65-75 million objects to digitize just isn't all that many. It seems eminently within reach of current patterns and trends (leaving aside other matters, such as IP and access). Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:47:28 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? In-Reply-To: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> This is beyond silly, Michael. We don't learn from books for 70 years because we don't read for seventy years; meaningful reading perhaps doesn't begin until our teenage years and could conceivably end after retirement. Furthermore, the accumulation of knowledge for any one individual is not necessarily an accumulation of knowledge for the human race, unless that individual publishes. But when considering what publication entails, perhaps the most important thing about knowledge is not its accumulation or quantification but how we -use- it. I could add to this: how much redundancy is there in a billion books? How many of those billions books are fluff or idiotic -- popular best sellers, editorials, newspaper articles, comic books? These are all valid as objects of cultural study but do not necessarily contribute to the growth of human knowledge until they've been -written about-. Finally, the point is moot as a response to what I actually wrote because I acknowledge advantages to speed of access but questioned what phenomenological changes, specifically, are involved in the transition from print to electronic media. This leads me to consider another question: what good are a billion books to those who don't fully understand what they read? What would you learn better from: a deep understanding of a single very good book or a surface understanding of 100 lesser books? I appreciate Willard's and other listmembers' earlier posts and regret not having time to respond yet. I hope to soon. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 29 07:45:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072A5307CA; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C2A3B307B9; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:45:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090329074521.C2A3B307B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.655 a billion e-books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 655. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "dennis c.l." (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? [2] From: "Jan Rybicki" (36) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? [3] From: "Michael S. Hart" (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? [4] From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? Resp., No. 654 [5] From: "Gerry Coulter" (117) Subject: A Billion books [6] From: "Michael S. Hart" (197) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:13:28 -0300 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? In-Reply-To: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> Jim R said in 22.654: "What would you learn better from: a deep understanding of a single very > good book or a surface > understanding of 100 lesser books?" to which I make mine St Thomas Aquinas' "*hominem unius libri timeo*" and Alexander Pope's "A little learning is a dangerous thing" dennis cintra leite --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:54:43 +0100 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? In-Reply-To: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> The billion e-books, even if we limit it to literature, whatever that is, does nothing to solve our main dilemma, so nicely calculated by Etiemble ("Should we redefine the concept of Weltliteratur?") in the pre-e-book years (1966): Take a life of fifty years without a single day of illness or repose - a total of 18262 days. Meticulously substracting the hours of sleep, meals, of everyday duties and leasure, of professional work, try to estimate how much time is left for you to read literature's masterpiece to achieve little but a glimpse of what literature is. I shall be generous - I shall give you the privilege of reading a beautiful book a day - day after day - from among those available to you in your mother tongue, in languages you can read, and in translation. Now you know anyway you will never be able to go through The Magic Mountain or The Arabian Nights; at the same time, I am aware that, given some luck and zeal, you just might be able to cherish Hojoki, Romancero gitano, Menexenes and Benjamin Constant's De l'esprit de conquete all in one day, so that you can save the couple of days you might need for Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don. When compared to the overall number of all very beautiful books, what are those 18262 titles? A pittance. "Culture is striving towards the unattainable." Joris's "bots" might help, of course, but just a little; even they would produce results in billions of items. Even if the long-heralded demise of the novel finally happened, the existing produce is much too much to assimilate in a single lifetime (I'm not sure I got my conditional right). Not even the canon, whatever it is, if it exists, is assimilable; not even its travesty in the omnipresent *notes. The only real use for the billion e-books is for the final hour when the last person on this Earth rushes, server in hand, to the last spaceship leaving for a terraformed Venus minutes before the comet hits our planet, because of course the billion non-e-books is too much for any spaceship fleet - I have no idea how much they would weigh on paper, but Roberto Busa's calculations of his Aquinas project give a rough and terrifying estimate. But of course we the text analysis people are happy with even a mere million e-books. It is more than we need for a full lifetime of Delta-ing and PCA-ing and even JGAAP-ing. And the fact that it is usually other people's, not our own grants that go into this is a strangely comforting thought. Jan Rybicki --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:17:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? In-Reply-To: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> "What would you learn better from: a deep understanding of a single very good book or a surface understanding of 100 lesser books?" James Rovira Speaking as a an interdisciplinary generalist I think it is obvious that what you might call a superficial understanding of "100 lesser books" would lead to a greater world understanding that your, "deep understanding of a single very good book." I am far more suspicious of a point of view generated from a single source, no matter how deep, than of a point of view generated by an exposure to the "surface understanding of 100 lesser" sources. For the world thinker, it is the interplay between ideas that makes the whole academic process worthwhile, not just one single book, or one single point of view, or one single anything. >From this perspective it is obvious that gaining just the highlight ideas from "100 lesser books" would generate more thought procesing between them than the "deep understanding of a single...good book." It takes an interdisciplinary approach to invent new ideas/ideals-- to get outside one subject's boundaries to combine thoughts with an alternative subject--this is where human growth originates. Thanks for your comments!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:17:22 -0400 From: "Mandell, Laura C. Dr." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? Resp., No. 654 In-Reply-To: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanist: Matt usefully constrains the number of books for us, but there is another consideration. Texts published before the advent of modern typography cannot be easily digitized EXCEPT as image files with dirty OCR running behind them. Books published before 1820 on Google books run through the Tesseract OCR return with a 70% rate of correctness. That may not mean much unless I give you an example: Google books doesn't "think" that the word "curiosity" is used even once in all 1500 pages of the 1784 edition of Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa (I write this while staring at one page of that text containing three instances). And so eighteenth-century digital archives have to compensate for this problem. The Old Bailey Online project collects images of texts and then double-keys all the texts that they collect up to 1834. No one can read 75 million objects, but we CAN, as Greg Crane has famously said, run those texts through data mining tools that do an amazing amount of "thinking" work. If all the texts are clean plain text, we can be in charge of how our machines read them, not only aware of the algorithms selecting for us the texts to which we do wish to pay close attention, but also able to change and modify those algorithms. Sure, digitizing 75 million objects may not be that difficult, but digitizing 400,000 of them, if that means double-keying them as well, is huge. The Text Creation Partnership has managed to key 2,000 of those 400,000 eighteenth-century texts for which we only have page images, and they are now out of money. In my view, any texts for which there are only page images, are effectively lost, at sea in a data deluge through which no human mind can sort without the help of human-made machines. So, Michael Hart says that if we have access to ebooks, "errors in quotations reduced to infinitessimal levels." If you are looking at pdf file, page images, that cannot be copied, then you have to toggle from screen to screen to type your quotation as you look at it. Only if that image is accompanied by a text file, whether produced by OCR or keyed, can one actually cut and paste from it into one's own work. That said, quoting errors can be reduced with page images in the minds of one's readers if one publishes an article on line with a direct link to the quoted page image, whether typed or not. But the errors made texts are digital objects, accessible through some kind of database, go deeper than that. I am currently attending an 18th-century literature conference, and teachers are abuzz with the problem that students quote from pages of eighteenth-century texts that they find through keyword search and then excerpt without reading them - this gets at James Rovira's point. Finally, I just want to add that "book" is not a useful term for thinking about the textual objects that literary critics and historians wish to digitize, and given that fact, there are indeed billions and billions, like Carl Sagan's stars. Laura Mandell --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:00:52 -0400 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: A Billion books In-Reply-To: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> Too much is too much. Do the bots bet co authorhip? --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:43:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.654 a BILLION e-books??? In-Reply-To: <20090328074243.2BD7430ADD@woodward.joyent.us> Brief replies to the following below: > [1] From: Joris van Zundert (186) > > > [2] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (177) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? > > [3] From: James Rovira (34) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:22:28 +0100 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? > In-Reply-To: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Thanks for a splendid vision. For what it's worth: I like it, even believe > it up to point. I'm curious to see whether it will earn you howls and > outcries. Might also be a kind of eerie deafening silence... Sometimes the deafening silence is the silence of censorship.... > Can I add in that a billion electronic books will get us to the point were > it becomes feasible to put out semi-intelligent bots? Agents operating on > basis of a formalized learning algorithm. At first these will be very stupid > indeed (just google like morphology based spiders). But we will evolve them > over time into rather powerful means for scanning, preselecting, relating > and weighting the information 'out there' that's relevant to the problems > we're studying. Obviously the more data there is to use, the more likely to get a good solid collection of "hits" atop the list when searching it. > This, I think, will add to your 10% base interest. But only > if we have the data, vast amounts of it. The "only" word there bothers me. If we already have 10 million eBooks online, or more, we have more than enough to increase the kind of reading that invests in the readers' futures by 10% or much more. I would find your statement more accurate if you used words a little less constrictive/restrictive than "only." To me, and maybe this is NOT what you meant [apologies if], a word such as "only" translated into "necessary" and while I'm sure there will be 10 million MORE eBooks by 2020, all things being equal, I don't see them as "necessary" to improvements, at least on the order of 10%. > > Kind regards, > Joris van Zundert Many thanks for your comments, Michael > --[2] > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:37:12 -0400 > From: Matthew Kirschenbaum > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? > In-Reply-To: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> > > The estimates I've seen put the total number of books published and > printed in the history of the world at around 65-75 million. That's a > lot of books, but also a lot of books shy of a billion. > > I mention it because 65-75 million objects to digitize just isn't all > that many. It seems eminently within reach of current patterns and > trends (leaving aside other matters, such as IP and access). Matt I sent off a detailed reply to this to the list, which has not appeared yet in my mailbox. If it doesn't in a couple days, I will send directly to the "interested" parties. And yes, I agree that digitizing books will move from a paltry thousands per day to tens of thousands, perhaps before 2020. However, the next step will be translation so the whole worlds of people speaking/reading other languages can participate. Thanks!!! Michael /// My apologies, this reply is not as brief as the previous ones, as the topics were too important. mh > --[3] > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:47:28 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.652 what good are a billion ebooks? > In-Reply-To: <20090327060130.15EE02FC9A@woodward.joyent.us> > > This is beyond silly, Michael. Of course I am silly, that's how I managed to start up the Project Gutenberg effort while still a freshman in college, and that's how I managed to graduate a 4 year program in 2 years with all A's. If you aren't willing to reach for a life outside the box you have very little chance of accomplishments outside the box. Only a person willing to TAKE a million to one shot ever wins it. > We don't learn from books for 70 years because we don't read for > seventy years; meaningful reading perhaps doesn't begin until our > teenage years and could conceivably end after retirement. Please, speak for yourself. I won my first reading contest when I was in early grade school by reading 27 books in the first summer vacation week or two. I owe a lot to that library I grew up near. And, by the way, I still remember what those books were about. As for retirement, well, I don't see retirement in my future, sorry. In fact, given the current trends, I see lots of reading for a whole generation of Baby Boomers, at least those who want to. I do realize that some would prefer to play golf. So, if I live to the statistical average lifespan they talk about, I will get in just about exactly 70 years of reading, and I'm just perfectly happy to take quizzes on what I read back then. Not that I have re-read them all. > Furthermore, the accumulation of knowledge for any one individual > is not necessarily an accumulation of knowledge for the human > race, unless that individual publishes. So, you are saying that our learning "publishes or perishes" along with our corporal bodies. I prefer to think of our lives as having a more direct effect. I think of the fact that I am somewhat well read as having the improved effect on my relationships with the world at large or just the individuals I come in more direct contact with: with no reliance on my career for those direct effects. I would like to think that a world in which everyone were just 10% more well read would be at least 10% better in many ways. The odds of finding a cure for AIDS should go up 10% and along with any other such invention or discovery we might await. There are all sorts of indirect advantages, as well, just like keeping more of our population away from drugs, crime and jail which are VERY expensive to our civilization. > But when considering what publication entails, perhaps the most > important thing about knowledge is not its accumulation or > quantification but how we -use- it. I couldn't agree with you more! As Mark Twain said: "The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them." Mark Twain > I could add to this: how much redundancy is there in a billion > books? How many of those billions books are fluff or idiotic -- > popular best sellers, editorials, newspaper articles, comic books? Sorry, but you are not going to sucker me into an argument about your own personal taste in comic books, newspaper articles, etc. However, I must add that I more than agreed with you up to a big point in my life where I had so much time on my hands that I did read my very first best seller, and was totally surprised!!! However, the next one, even more famous, won a Nobel Prize for a rather out of the way author, didn't do it for me at all. I learned, as with every other exploration, that you win some on the one hand and lose some on the other hand. I will take a look at nearly any author/title someone recommends to me, but that's no guarantee I will read a whole tome. However, if you invite me over, and leave me free to do so, your experience will be that I will look over your entire library. > These are all valid as objects of cultural study but do not > necessarily contribute to the growth of human knowledge until > they've been -written about-. Sorry, I just can't agree with you there!!! LIFE IS MUCH MORE THAN BEING "WRITTEN ABOUT." For example, there are many in the media or academia who refuse to acknowlege my existence, much less my contribution, but that doesn't change the fact that I do exist or that my contribution is literally changing the face of the Earth as we speak. *blush* > Finally, the point is moot as a response to what I actually wrote > because I acknowledge advantages to speed of access but questioned > what phenomenological changes, specifically, are involved in the > transition from print to electronic media. Hardly moot, just perhaps not exactly where YOU wanted it to lead. As per the recent Wall St. Journal article about Facebook versus The Fortune 500. > This leads me to consider another question: what good are a > billion books to those who don't fully understand what they read? Again my apologies, but not everyone "fully understands what they read" in exactly the same manner as you do, otherwisd they should all get 100% on every exam you might ever give. Please give room for other interpretations, other pathways, other kinds of people. . .even such as myself. > What would you learn better from: a deep understanding of a single > very good book or a surface understanding of 100 lesser books? Speaking as a an interdisciplinary generalist I think it is obvious that what you might call a superficial understanding of "100 lesser books" would lead to a greater world understanding that your, "deep understanding of a single very good book." I am far more suspicious of a point of view generated from a single source, no matter how deep, than of a point of view generated by an exposure to the "surface understanding of 100 lesser" sources. For the world thinker, it is the interplay between ideas that makes the whole academic process worthwhile, not just one single book, or one single point of view, or one single anything. >From this perspective it is obvious that gaining just the highlight ideas from "100 lesser books" would generate more thought procesing between them than the "deep understanding of a single...good book." It takes an interdisciplinary approach to invent new ideas/ideals-- to get outside one subject's boundaries to combine thoughts with an alternative subject--this is where human growth originates. However, I agree that it is much more fulfilling on one scale to do a deep reading of a single very good book, much easier, much easier to digest, much easier to defend your position, much easier to be a noted expert of "a single very good book" However, I prefer to expand my horizons rather than stay at home to be a big fish in a small pond. Thanks for such an exciting conversation!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 29 07:47:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F17E30866; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:47:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A70DA30856; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:47:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090329074739.A70DA30856@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:47:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.656 lowercase man X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 656. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:18:58 +0200 From: Rafael Peñaloza Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.623 lowercase man In-Reply-To: <20090317062941.27BBE2E86A@woodward.joyent.us> Hello all, may I point all lower-case people out there to the case of "danah michele boyd" (officially lower-case written)? http://www.danah.org/name.html Between other reasons, she considers capitalization of one's own name as self-righteous. I am tempted to agree with her. Cheers! Rafael Penaloza On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 623. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:28:09 -0700 >        From: "W. Keith Percival" >        > > > Alan, > > Thanks for your interesting message. I never ran into FIELDDATA although > I got started in word-processing at about the same time as you did. > > As far as I’m able to judge, things seem to be going the other way, > namely away from the exclusive use of lower-case letters: nowadays > capitals are more popular in e-mail messages, particularly in usernames > and e-addresses. However, you say that you might make an exception in > the case of US and URL, but I’ve just got the following cryptic message > from the University server here in which to my astonishment url appears > entirely in lower case: ‘If you fall out of the offcampus proxy space, > and no longer see the special url or the "Off-Campus Access Granted" > message, then ...’ > > When I first used electronic mail, which was about 1990, all the > material in the headings had to be put in lower case. Now with the > advent of desktop email programs proper names are usually capitalized, > and so is the “Subject” and so forth. I’m not quite sure why that is. > Perhaps it’s just part of the process of switching from digital UNIX > programs to other e-mail programs, such as Outlook Express and > Thunderbird. Here at the University of Washington, we all used to use a > wonderful digital UNIX email program called the Pine Mailer. However, > I’ve just noticed that the University server has just introduced a new > digital e-mail program called Alpine, but to this user at least there’s > no visible difference between Pine and Alpine: the headings are still > entirely in lower case. > > It doesn’t bother me personally either way. Of course, whether you use > capitalization in messages themselves has always been entirely up to > you. Actually, I generally find I use capitalization in more or less the > traditional way, although I don’t think I’m terribly consistent. One > problem I have in that whole area is that I still vacillate between > British and American usage, which given my life history is > understandable. Also, as you well know, there have been gradual changes > in both British and American usage over the past few decades, also > understandable. I once in a while look at old articles I published in > journals years ago and am quite amazed at what I see. But to me even > more dramatic is the contrast between the orthography I followed in an > old diary I kept in long hand in 1947 and my present habits. One of the > strangest spellings I spot in that diary is “havnt.” I’m not sure where > I got that one from; possibly Bernard Shaw, who was my idol when I was > in school. > > I’m amused by the way the Germans have been agonizing over their recent > spelling reform. I still get letters from German friends and colleagues, > and what I notice is they don’t follow the revised orthography at all > consistently. In particular, they fail to follow it when it seems to me > that its innovations are quite sensible. In the new system, for > instance, you’re supposed to write ß or ss strictly according to the > length of the preceding vowel. So you write bloß because the vowel is > long, but Schloss because the vowel is short. Before the present system > came in you wrote ß or ss in word-final position regardless of the > length of the preceding vowel, so there was no way a foreigner knew that > the vowel in Fluß was short while the vowel of Fuß was long. Now you’re > supposed to write Fuß but Fluss. I think that’s rather a good rule, very > neat and logical, but in spite of that even now (after an entire > decade!) not all Germans follow it. (And we persist in thinking of the > Germans as typically rather docile people!) On top of that, of course, > there were other logically possible innovations that the people in > charge of the new spelling system didn’t have the courage to require, > like ending the obligatory capitalization of nouns, which I think most > people agree is a dispensable convention. But perhaps that’s a hopeless > cause anyway! > > But the most puzzling thing to me is that German isn’t even a world > language like English. You would think they would have no trouble > whatever getting just a few million people living in Germany, Austria > and German-speaking Switzerland to go along with the changes, but > nevertheless people didn’t just fall in line like slaves or indentured > servants. With English, on the other hand, any sweeping changes would > stand even less chance of being adopted, because there are too many > people in too many different countries involved. English is not our > language anymore; it now belongs to the entire world. Perhaps this is a > pity, but there it is! > > Here’s a funny example of the world we live in. On a recent visit to > China, a sister-in-law of mine saw the following sign: > > YOU ARE IN DISTRICT OF > FORBIDEN SMOKING. PLEASE S- > MOKE AT THE POINTED AREA > > This admittedly involves nothing more serious than hyphenation, but > isn’t hyphenation just another completely arbitrary graphic feature of > English and of all languages that use the Roman alphabet? More than once > I have, for example, had to submit articles written in English to > Italian publishers, and they would send back galley-proofs in which it > was obvious that they had redone all my hyphenation following the > Italian hyphenation rules, with hilarious results at times. Actually, > the Italian hyphenation rules are perfectly logical (any self-respecting > logician would approve of them whole-heartedly); the only problem is > that they don’t happen to apply to English. > > As you may recall, I worked for many years on an Indonesian language, > and nowadays all Indonesian languages are written in the Roman alphabet. > Some of them, including my own language, Batak, used to use their own > scripts, but these have been abandoned. In those earlier native scripts > it was customary to use the number 2 to indicate doubling. So if you had > a word like tulangtulang you would write tulang2. This use of the number > 2 in writing, you may recall, is a feature of Devanagari, the script in > which Sanskrit and many other languages spoken in India are normally > written. Centuries ago the whole of Southeast Asia was a giant Indic > empire or to be more precise a set of Hinduized kingdoms, a fact that I > think very few people in the West are aware of. > > Even the Batak, who lived in the inaccessible highlands of northern > Sumatra and were regarded as uncivilized by the other tribes of Sumatra, > not to speak of Java, and they are still regarded with suspicion by many > present-day Indonesians!) developed a perfectly decent writing system, > one feature of which was the use of the number 2 to indicate doubling, > which is an absolutely fundamental feature of Batak morphology, as it is > of most Austronesian languages as far away from Sumatra as Madagascar, > Fiji and Hawaii. To this day, when Indonesians write, whether it’s > Bahasa Indonesia or one of their native languages, they still use that > number 2 wherever necessary. > > I’ve been reflecting on how successful we would be in persuading > Indonesians to abandon that practical feature, on the grounds that it is > not used in English or Dutch. Conversely, could English-speakers be > successfully persuaded to adopt what is after all a perfectly logical > graphic device? (Morphological doubling does occur in English and other > languages, though to a limited extent, of course.) But I think you’ll > agree that in all likelihood such reforms wouldn’t be very feasible. > People would just not fall in line. This is maybe unfortunate, but such > is life! > > I’m reminded of a fellow student of mine at Yale who used his own > completely phonetic spelling system for English; for years he would > religiously use that spelling system in all his letters and e-messages > to us all. I can assure you that it really was a splendid system from a > purely phonetic point of view, although I must say he made the mistake > of basing it on his own pronunciation of English. That was back in the > fifties, and he continued to use that system for decades, but half a > millennium later I see no signs at all that the system is gaining > popularity. > > How do you feel about that sort of project in general? > > Keith > > -- > > W. Keith Percival > Professor Emeritus of Linguistics > Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences > 3815 N.E. 89th Street > Seattle, WA 98115-3742 > Ph: (206) 522-4347 > E-address: > Website:  http://people.ku.edu/~percival/ > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 29 07:48:32 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0969C30925; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:48:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8B3830916; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:48:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090329074829.C8B3830916@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:48:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.657 bibliographical winners; digital imprints in 2nd Life X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 657. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Gants (71) Subject: 2009 Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship Winners [2] From: Susan Schreibman (30) Subject: Digital Scholarly Imprint event to be broadcast in 2nd Life --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:25:34 +0000 From: David Gants Subject: 2009 Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship Winners This message was originally submitted by dgants@FSU.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 (65 lines) ------------------ The Bibliographical Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2009 fellowship competition: ** The Katharine F. Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades Dr. John Craig (Simon Fraser University), ³The Politics of Reading in the English Parish, 1536-1642.² ** The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century Dr. Norbert Schürer (California State University, Long Beach), ³The Book Advertisements of Thomas Lowndes.² ** The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography Dr. Carol Armbruster (Library of Congress), ³Reprinting French Popular Books in Nineteenth-Century America.² ** The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States: the Gift of Donald Oresman Ms. Susann Liebich (Victoria University of Wellington), ³ŒThe Connected Reader¹ - Reading Culture in New Zealand, Canada, Australia and the British World, c. 1890-1930.² ** The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas Dr. Marta Vicente (University of Kansas), ³Pornography and the Spanish Inquisition: The Reading of a Forbidden Best-Seller.² ** The Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography Ms. Kathryn Veeman (University of Notre Dame), ³John Shirley and the Circulation of Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England.² ** The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship In the British Book Trades Dr. Gary Dyer (Cleveland State University), ³The Printing and Publishing of Lord Byron¹s Don Juan, Cantos VI-XVI.² ** One-Month General Fellowships Dr. Nicholas Frankel (Virginia Commonwealth University), ³A Study of Oscar Wilde¹s Typescript of The Picture of Dorian Gray.² Dr. Julian Hendrix (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), ³The Office of the Dead and Local Liturgy in the Early Medieval West.² Prof. Nancy Marino (Michigan State University), ³The History of Jorge Manrique¹s Coplas por la muerte de su padre (Stanzas on the Death of his Father).² The BSA supports research in the history of books production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading, as well as scholarly editing projects. 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Full details can be found here: http://dho.ie/irishimprint The DHO, in conjunction with King's Visualisation Lab, King’s College London, and the Informatica Umanistica programme at the University of Pisa, will be broadcasting the event. Please join us for talks in the morning and a breakout session in the afternoon (there will be a separate breakout session held for second life attendees). Meet us at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Digital%20Humanities%20/132/19/36 from 10.00-16.00 (Dublin time; to get to the event, paste the URL above into your browser, hit return, and when the Second Life page opens click on ‘Teleport Now’. It will open SL and teleport you to the location) We look forward to seeing you there! 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.655 a billion e-books [2] From: James Rovira (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.655 a billion e-books [3] From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" (34) Subject: re a billion books --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:28:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.655 a billion e-books In-Reply-To: <20090329074521.C2A3B307B9@woodward.joyent.us> My apologies, I skipped one question in my previous response, sorry. > I could add to this: how much redundancy is there in a billion > books? Just be sure to ask the same question of any library, and expect that the larger the library, the more the redundancy. Again my apologies, the follow up line in the same paragraph did something to me when it ended with a mention of comics. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:55:28 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.655 a billion e-books In-Reply-To: <20090329074521.C2A3B307B9@woodward.joyent.us> Various replies: So I've been put into a box, eh? My first impulse is to say I don't have words for the sheer banality of this reply, it's failure to grasp the issues as they are being presented on anywhere near the level of detail (which isn't really that much on my end) in which they've been presented. This is something that belongs on a bumpersticker, not in serious conversation. Perhaps you could -carefully- read my posts and describe the box to me, quoting me, explaining what exactly you see in my words and why? Describe to me the walls of this box in -very specific terms-, not in general, cliche terms. Begin with a summary of what I do think and don't think. Be specific. That might lead to discussion more productive than the repetition of gung-ho cliches. If the books you read in the second grade are just as meaningful to you now as the books you read over the last year, you need to change your reading. I say this as a parent who knows what's really in second grade level books and as a college teacher who knows the difference between students who read deeply and those who read superficially. Yes, reading can make us better people. But this benefit from reading does not work magically -- it is not automatic. I can't believe you'd actually think that if reading ten books makes you a 1% better person then reading one hundred could make you a 10% better person. Do you really believe you can quantify goodness and that it exists in direct proportion to the -amount- of reading? I wish this were true, but reality is more complex than this. If you want an argument against the value of sheer quantity, I suggest you read Plato's Seventh Letter and Milton's Areopagitica about the effect of books and how they work. Or perhaps read some books about Nazi culture. How much do you think Heidegger and Ezra Pound read? I guess not enough. However, if this is the mind which produced Project Gutenberg, it's a mind for which I am grateful. I have benefited greatly from this resource and should hesitate before criticizing the mind which gave the world this wonderful gift. It's not perfect, but it's approximately a billion times better than nothing. Thank you. Next, I've never called into question the value of databases (literary and otherwise) for various types of research. This type of research usually does not yield a great deal of insight into individual works except after the fact -- what it gives us is knowledge of the uses and frequencies of specific words and phrases, word clusters, lexical info, etc., which in turn we can take back with us to the study of individual works. I'm a Blake scholar. I can't describe how grateful I am for the availability of Blake's works digitally on the Blake Archive and the Blake Digital Text Project. But our discussion was about the average user -- not the language or literature scholar -- having a billion books on his/her computer and about the real value of having this kind of access. Of course I don't imagine that we read one and only one good book our entire lives and that our opinion of everything is shaped by that one book. I can't believe some of the responses I'm getting here. What I'm talking about is a -proportion-: from what would I benefit more, reading 100 books superficially or 10 books deeply in any given year? In reality, we do both continually, but we take more of value away from a book read deeply than several read superficially. And yes, I make a distinction between "good" and "bad" books, and between books with substantial content and books that lack them. Reading Danielle Steele does not provide the same kind of experience as reading Milton, Shakespeare, or virtually any non-fiction book written on a professional level. The challenge isn't the same, nor the quality of content. I spent three or four days getting through Adorno's thesis on Kierkegaard during a period when I was normally reading about 100 pages of scholarship per day (which isn't that much, really) -- which means Adorno's book should have been a one day read. But Adorno was trying something different -- a decentered text, a text without topic sentences -- and I needed time to process the 25-30 or so pages per day I could read. I think he slips up and lets a controlling idea surface about every ten pages. I can honestly say I took much more away from Adorno after a day spent on just 25 pages than I would from a day spent with, say, 400 pages of Harry Potter -- and yes, I love these novels and was reading them about 300-400 pages a day every time a new one came out. Now the series is over. Damn. But there's nothing about plot, setting, character, good vs. evil, magic, religion, language, narrative, etc. in Harry Potter that I haven't already gotten elsewhere in more detail and complexity. It's okay. I just -enjoy- those novels. But if I want more substantial literary content, I need Joyce, not Rowling. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:45:33 -0700 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: re a billion books In-Reply-To: <20090329074521.C2A3B307B9@woodward.joyent.us> Hey Michael, You started project Gutenburg? Nice. Nifty thing that site. It seems to me, and forgive me for jumping in too late in the conversation, but actually reading billion books doesn't seem to be the point. I am not sure how many of the billion would be of interest to me. Say five thousand, maybe? Add us all up and maybe we start getting to need a billion books. However, I desperately want my part of the billion books on file, as a kind of literary avarice, of course, but I want to shift through them, look for what I am l looking for, see what patterns there are, and what might be flipped over in the page flipping. Our library systems are excellent, but I can't look through the shelves, seeing into the books with a kind of transparency I could with an e-text. It seems the excellent information management folks out there can us look at the information, datamining kids to help build tools to better move through the information as it grows, and visualization people can help us make sense of what we are seeing, and scholars can sort ideas and find connections are they could in smaller collections. I have done enough chatting about this to know that the physical artifact, the close reading, and the expert engagement in a field isn't going anywhere. But to be able to move through a large electronic collection, with the right tools to make it a useful trip, now that feels like an electronic archive. I like the feeling :) cheers, Kirsten -- Dr. Kirsten C. Uszkalo Assistant Professor (LTA) Department of English Simon Fraser University kirsten@uszkalo.com | circe@ufies.org "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 30 06:00:22 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C89731860; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:00:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB72531850; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:00:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090330060019.CB72531850@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:00:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.659 cfp: is logic universal? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 659. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:52:27 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Beziau Subject: Is logic universal? Call for papers Is logic universal? Call for papers Special issue of the journal Logica Universalis (Birkhauser/Springer) http://www.birkhauser.ch/LU There will be a special issue of the journal logica universalis dedicated to the question "Is logic universal?" Many questions are connected to this issue: 1. Do all human beings have the same capicity of reasoning? Does a man, a woman, a child, a papuan, a yuppie, reason in the same way? 2. Does reasoning evolve? Did human beings reason in the same way two centuries ago? In the future will human beings reason in the same way? Did computers change our way to reason? Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture ? 3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation? Do we use the same logic for everyday life, physics, economy? 4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasonings? 5. Is there any absolute true way of reaoning ? Any contibutions dedicated to one aspects of the question "Is logic universal?" is welcome. Submit your paper to universal.logic@ufc.br before August 31st 2009 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 31 05:27:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6507307D4; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:27:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 230BB307C3; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:27:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090331052755.230BB307C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:27:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 660. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.658 a billion e-books [2] From: "Michael S. Hart" (222) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.658 a billion e-books [3] From: Willard McCarty (25) Subject: wait and see and participate --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:18:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.658 a billion e-books In-Reply-To: <20090330055853.433B331767@woodward.joyent.us> In reply to: > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:45:33 -0700 > From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" > > In-Reply-To: <20090329074521.C2A3B307B9@woodward.joyent.us> > > Hey Michael, > > You started project Gutenburg? Nice. Nifty thing that site. It's always nice to be appreciated, thank you so much! > It seems to me, and forgive me for jumping in too late in the > conversation, but actually reading billion books doesn't seem to > be the point. I am not sure how many of the billion would be of > interest to me. Say five thousand, maybe? Add us all up and maybe > we start getting to need a billion books. I say the more books the better. It's just that the odds go up that you CAN find what you really want. Searching is still something not taught or done nearly well enough. I took coursework in searching nearly two decades ago and I still see that it hasn't improved all that much, even with Google and Yahoo and all the others. It's still too much of a "shotgun approach." > However, I desperately want my part of the billion books on file, > as a kind of literary avarice, of course, but I want to shift > through them, look for what I am l looking for, see what patterns > there are, and what might be flipped over in the page flipping. "Avarice," isn't that one of "The Seven Deadly Sins?" Hee hee! Ah. . .then you are interested in searching, as well! > Our library systems are excellent, but I can't look through the > shelves, seeing into the books with a kind of transparency I could > with an e-text. It seems the excellent information management > folks out there can us look at the information, datamining kids to > help build tools to better move through the information as it > grows, and visualization people can help us make sense of what we > are seeing, and scholars can sort ideas and find connections are > they could in smaller collections. Well, my own hopes are that it will get much better, that our searching will be taught better on the one hand, and improved with better engines on the other hand, not to mention, of course, having so much more books out there, or in there, depending on your perspective, to search. > I have done enough chatting about this to know that the physical > artifact, the close reading, and the expert engagement in a field > isn't going anywhere. But to be able to move through a large > electronic collection, with the right tools to make it a useful > trip, now that feels like an electronic archive. I like the > feeling :) Sadly to say, I think your first point is all too accurate, because it is so easy to manipulate those who have the narrow expertise, but not, as they say, are they "worldly wise." So many examples. . . . You can be sure that the various governments and megacorporations have NOT been having this argument. . .they are compiling the greatest text collections they can manage. . .and keeping it all SECRET FROM US. They say "knowledge is power." Some people believe this means keeping knowledge close to the vest. Other people believe this means shareing knowledge with everyone. I have a very cute example of that, if you'd like to hear it. > cheers, > Kirsten > > -- > Dr. Kirsten C. Uszkalo Many thanks for this conversation. Michael S. Hart [Who else would say this stuff?] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:49:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.658 a billion e-books In-Reply-To: <20090330055853.433B331767@woodward.joyent.us> re: I am not able to reply online as quickly as usual, my connection is just flaky enough today to make that somewhat difficult, and a time consuming operation, waiting for the cursor to catch up with me. So I'm having to answer offline and wait, my apologies. > > In-Reply-To: <20090329074521.C2A3B307B9@woodward.joyent.us> > > Various replies: > > So I've been put into a box, eh? Oh, don't misquote me quite readily and quite so early, you may find you may offend our readers who would like to be fooled on a somewhat more sophisticated level rather than with sheer sophistry. There is a difference between the two, at least there used to be. Just because I say that I have spent a whole lifetime thinking where we label things "outside the box" does not give you the right to say that I have put you "into a box, eh?" You want to pretend you are insulted, find a better way, and one our reader can start off with that is on topic, ok? They are likely to give you more credence, then. "Beyond silly," "sheer banality," "failure," "bumpersticker," these, if I may borrow your words, are "something that belongs on a bumper- sticker, not in serious conversation, not to mention "cliches." Touche! Next time, don't go with your first impulse, think a little before. > My first impulse is to say I don't have words for the sheer > banality of this reply, it's failure to grasp the issues as they > are being presented on anywhere near the level of detail (which > isn't really that much on my end) in which they've been presented. > This is something that belongs on a bumpersticker, not in serious > conversation. > > Perhaps you could -carefully- read my posts and describe the box > me, quoting me, explaining what exactly you see in my words and > why? Describe to me the walls of this box in -very specific > terms-, not in general, cliche terms. Begin with a summary of > what I do think and don't think. Be specific. That might lead to > discussion more productive than the repetition of gung-ho cliches. No, you won't sucker me into making your own points for you, sorry. If what I have said has never been said before, and it hasn't, then I can hardly be convicted of speaking in "cliches." You didn't even ask what books I was reading before jumping to an awful lot of conclusions about them. Touche! They were about rocketry, and served me well enough on stage not long thereafter at age 11, when I debated the subject at the U of Illinois auditorium with Werner Von Braun. > If the books you read in the second grade are just as meaningful > to you now as the books you read over the last year, you need to > change your reading. I say this as a parent who knows what's > really in second grade level books and as a college teacher who > knows the difference between students who read deeply and those > who read superficially. Some of us can read quickly and still retain what we have read, even many years later. I believe in "mastery learning" not this stuff in which students can't pass the same exam a month later. > Yes, reading can make us better people. But this benefit from > reading does not work magically -- it is not automatic. I can't > believe you'd actually think that if reading ten books makes you a > 1% better person then reading one hundred could make you a 10% > better person. Do you really believe you can quantify goodness > and that it exists in direct proportion to the -amount- of > reading? I wish this were true, but reality is more complex than > this. So, you, as stated below, can tell "good" from "bad" a subjective level distinction, unless you have some objective standards for it, but I may not even give the lowest nominal figures for how we improve ourselves-- in the process??? No, I don't think you are setting up a level playing field here, and it should also be obvious to our readers. However, I am sure you are familiar that that one standard. . .money. You are also undoubtedly familiar with the statistics about how much it is increased when people read well enough for a college degree, or even a high school diploma. Take your own measurements. . .but MEASURE. . .please, not just "good," "bad" and ugly. Please. . . . Take yourself seriously, even if you don't take US seriously. Hmmm, perhaps I should have said that the other way around? > If you want an argument against the value of sheer quantity, I > suggest you read Plato's Seventh Letter and Milton's Areopagitica > about the effect of books and how they work. Or perhaps read some > books about Nazi culture. How much do you think Heidegger and > Ezra Pound read? I guess not enough. "These fragments I have shored up against my ruins." As for Plato, I am sure you think highly of "The Cave," but I think we are much better than that. As for Milton's Aeropagetica, if you really take a look, I think you'd see that it supports my point of view quite strongly. Sorry, I'm also not going to let you sucker me into "Godwin's Law." I can't believe people such as yourself are still trying that when the thing is nearly 20 years old. Do you really think you are helping your position by trying all these fallacies out in such erudite company? > However, if this is the mind which produced Project Gutenberg, > it's a mind for which I am grateful. I have benefited greatly > from this resource and should hesitate before criticizing the mind > which gave the world this wonderful gift. It's not perfect, but > it's approximately a billion times better than nothing. Thank > you. When is a double positive a negative? "Yeah, right!" As if I didn't know "a billion times". . ."nothing" is "nothing"!!! Your comments on databases are not aimed at me, I presume, so I should not be the one to answer them. > Next, I've never called into question the value of databases > (literary and otherwise) for various types of research. This type > of research usually does not yield a great deal of insight into > individual works except after the fact -- what it gives us is > knowledge of the uses and frequencies of specific words and > phrases, word clusters, lexical info, etc., which in turn we can > take back with us to the study of individual works. I'm a Blake > scholar. I can't describe how I am for the availability of > Blake's works digitally on the Blake Archive and the Blake Digital > Text Project. But our discussion about the average user -- not > the language or literature scholar -- having a billion books on > his/her computer and about the real value of having this kind of > access. As for Blake, he's pretty cool, but I'm not sure how that works into the paragraph above, other than just perhaps your favorite example. Obviously Project Gutenberg started more on the Milton track, but I have to say Blake is right up there, no kidding, no offense meant. > Of course I don't imagine that we read one and only one good book > our entire lives and that our opinion of everything is shaped by > that one book. I can't believe some of the responses I'm getting > here. What I'm talking about is a -proportion-: from what would I > benefit more, reading 100 books superficially or 10 books deeply > in any given year? In reality, we do both continually, but we take > more of value away from a book read deeply than several read > superficially. "Reading 100 books superficially or 10 books deeply" ??? Wasn't that more like "reading 100 superficially or 1 book deeply"??? Are you saying your argument now needs to be 10 times stronger??? > And yes, I make a distinction between "good" and "bad" books, and > between books with substantial content and books that lack them. > Reading Danielle Steele does not provide the same kind of > experience as reading Milton, Shakespeare, or virtually any > non-fiction book written on a professional level. Are you saying Milton and Shakespeare are non-fiction? As much as I love much of what they have written, it IS fiction. At least with Shakespeare and much of Milton, not Aereopagitica, ok? As for Danielle Steele, I can't say I've read anything worth recalling--but I presume you MIGHT think Judith Krantz is in the same category--or Jacqueline Susann. . .yet, having lived in the worlds they describe--I found perhaps something more, even something worth remembering such a long time later, and even worth rereading several times. You just never know where you are going find a gem, unless you look. Let's suppose the genius is right 999 out of a thousand. Let's suppose the retarded person is right 1 time out of a thousand. The true genius, above and beyond the rest, knows when that one time in a million is coming when he should listen. . .eh? Beyond cliche? Banal? Bumpersticker? You don't think they said these same things to me when I first invented eBooks? "You're the guy who wants to put Shakespeare on the computer?" "You must be crazy! No one will ever want books on computers!" > The challenge isn't the same, nor the quality of content. I spent > three or four days getting through Adorno's thesis on Kierkegaard > during a period when I was normally reading about 100 pages of > scholarship per day (which isn't that much, really) -- which means > Adorno's book should have been a one day read. But Adorno was > trying something different -- a decentered text, a text without > topic sentences -- and I needed time to process the 25-30 or > so pages per day I could read. So, you think the fact that the author made it difficult to understand makes it all the more worthwhile??? Whew!!! Writing is communication. If you make the communicating difficult, you impede the process. The less the communication, the less effective the writing. Let me put it this way, if you will please: I believe writing is an art. I know, all too well, the cliche: "I know art when I see it, but no one can actually define it." Well, at the risk of once again being called "beyond silly," "banal," and all that, and I know it is impossible, please at least Let me try: "Art is the work of someone who can see what others cannot see, and who can communicate it in a manner that they can see." I love trying to do the impossible. . . . By this definition, if it doesn't communicate, it is not art. Perhaps this is why so many people can't define art, because they were NOT the recipient of the intended communication. If it doesn't communicate well, it is not good writing, or art. If someone does write clearly, what is the point of reading them? [I do have an answer to that, hee hee!] > I think he slips up and lets a controlling idea surface about > every ten pages. > > I can honestly say I took much more away from Adorno after a day > spent on just 25 pages than I would from a day spent with, say, > 400 pages of Harry Potter -- and yes, I love these novels and was > reading them about 300-400 pages a day every time a new one came > out. Now the series is over. Damn. But there's nothing about > plot, setting, character, good vs. evil, magic, religion, > language, narrative, etc. in Harry Potter that I haven't already > gotten elsewhere in more detail and complexity. It's okay. I > just -enjoy- those novels. But if I want more substantial > literary content, I need Joyce, not Rowling. I was going to try to avoid getting into any subjective arguments with you, and even though Joyce is one of the Project Gutenberg "best sellers," even, again, though many people think he is a great writer, there just isn't that much of Joyce that leaps off the page into my mind the way Shakespeare did. There are entire passages of Shakespeare I read before I could drive that I never had to memorize, they just leapt off the page into my mind!!! NOW THAT IS GREAT WRITING!!! Of course, you can always say that if a young kid can "get it" then it must be useless at the higher levels of education. Then again, E=mc2 is incredibly simple, incredibly easy to understand as is the temporal displacement approaching the speed of light, but those are not said to become useless at the higher levels of education. If you don't really see them as easy to understand, I will explain in a few lines in a subsequent message, and we will see if I can communicate them. > Jim R Michael S. Hart Internet User ~100 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:23:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: wait and see and participate In-Reply-To: <20090330055853.433B331767@woodward.joyent.us> However many books there might be in digital form, the question that strikes me as important is the one Greg Crane, I think it was, has asked: what to do with them? Or perhaps one should ask, how can we know? If it were the case that reality is strictly cumulative -- that knowing the behaviour of an atom, say, or a neuron, one could determine not just a cow, say, or even its behaviour, then the question would be an easy one, easily solvable by social-scientific methods. One could simply observe what n people do with their collections of digital books, then do the maths. But we know that physical reality doesn't operate like that. We know that at certain levels of complexity new things start happening, new behaviours are emergent, and we can observe this all up and down the Great Chain of Being. So, I'd guess, we should start looking for new behaviours with the amounts of digital written stuff we have. So, what's new? And since we're supposedly intelligent beings who can change things (and muck them up), we're part and parcel of the emergent happenings, yes? This means, among other things, experimenting. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 31 05:30:46 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC79A3090C; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:30:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4FBC308FC; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:30:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090331053043.E4FBC308FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:30:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.661 cfp: Summer School in Logic, Language and Information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 661. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:46 +0100 From: Richard Moot Subject: ESSLLI 2009 - Second Call for Participation 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in Bordeaux, recently selected as a Unesco World Heritage site. = Course Program = ESSLLI gathers about 500 people and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 6 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php = Registration = Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. *Early registration deadline*: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php = Grants and Volunteers = There is a limited number of fee waivers available for students who want to spend some time assisting the organizing committee during ESSLLI. *Application deadline*: 19 April 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/grants.php We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux this summer! On behalf of the ESSLLI organizing committee Richard Moot _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 1 05:26:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE88A3006F; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:26:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7598230050; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:26:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090401052602.7598230050@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:26:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.662 a billion e-books, and what might happen with them X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 662. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (128) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? [2] From: "Michael S. Hart" (80) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? [3] From: James Rovira (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? [4] From: Hope Greenberg (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:46:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? In-Reply-To: <20090331052755.230BB307C3@woodward.joyent.us> Naysayers Unite! I was not terribly satisfied with my last message, and as a result I have worked on what I hope is a much improved reply to naysayers who have commented on my previous messages: more on topic, a more cogently labeled set of premises and conclusions, citing my study, albeit some time ago, in classes on Human Perception at U Illinois and Dartmouth, etc. I hope it is worth your while to read. Introduction Recently there have been a few comment calling my predictions of a billion eBook library "beyond silly," "sheer banality," "failure," "bumpersticker," "cliche," and the like, also pointing comments of this nature towards my claim that the increased literacy/education created by eBooks will improve humanity by 10% or even 1%. Here are some refutations to those claims that will be obvious for anyone who has studied, or will now take a look at, subjects in an area that applies to these issues. Let's start with that last comment above. No one, not even the greatest detractors, seems willing to say the well read person is no better off than the person who reads little or nothing in the way of materials that might improve one. The bugaboo comes with the idea of quantizing such improvements on the order of any percentage at all, even improvements of 1% - 10%. Premise #1: However, as those who have actually studied Human Perception know, it takes at least a 10% change in something for us to notice it. Examples: One item must be at least 10% heavier than another or most of this population won't notice, unless it is right on the edge of what we can pick up and/or carry with us. One mode of transportation must be at least 10% faster before most of us notice it is any faster. Most of us would have to put 10% more salt in our food to notice a taste of greater saltiness. These characters you are reading would have to be 10% larger for a general perception that they are in fact larger. Lightbulbs have to be at least 10% brighter before most notice it. If you talk with a person who is 10% smarter than you it is hardly something you would notice. If you mix colors with 10% more black or white, the shades/pastels don't look all that much different to most people. If you use reading glasses, changing to a pair 10% stronger is not a generally noticeable characteristic. Etc., Etc., Etc. Conclusion: Therefore, in the same vein, anyone who says that being well read, in whatever area or areas of reading, improves a person, must have noticed an improvement of at least 10%. This alone should be enough to shut down such specious arguments. Conclusion #2: A 70 year reading span in which the improvement is compounded at a mere 1% rate would double the improvement over that span of years. Conclusion #3: The same span of 70 years at 10% improvement per year yields: x in Years x2 in 7 x4 in 14 x8 in 21 x16 in 28 x32 in 35 x64 in 42 x128 in 49 x256 in 56 x512 in 63 x1024 in 70 However, my example also included changes of 1%, which, compounded over 70 years of reading, would create an improvement of 100% of a human lifetime of average length for first world readers. Even at a 1% per year improvement rate, nothing to sneeze at. Let's face it, among the people in this discussion the lifespan of total years expected in their lives is at least 85 years. Why? Premise #2 Because they have already passed through childhood, most have gone well into or beyond middle age, and each year you survive ads bits to the expected lifespan. Just ask your life insurance agent, who has all this down in easy to read actuarial tables. I just tried out one of the life expectancy calculators, entered a 50 year old male, 10 pounds overweight, average height, and left a complete default of other entries at whatever their defaults were: 93 years was the answer. That's 15 years over the average, and much of it simply surviving, for the first 50 years, yields greater than average lifespan. So, my 85 year estimate doesn't sound so bad now. Women live even longer. Conclusion #4 So 70 years of reading, at least for this group, is hardly the big exception some of the naysayers would like it to appear. Indeed, increasing the reading level where standards of living are not so high would create even more improvement per year than in an exemplary location where reading was much more commonplace. Premise #3 The median age of this group is about 50 years old. The Evidence: Premise #4 First let's start with the entire United States median age of ~33. Premise #5 Then let's add on that the youngest members finished high school. Premise #6 They finished high school when they were at least 17 years old. Conclusion $5 Add 17 years to the median nation age of ~33 and you get age 50. Obviously there were several concerns that could be added, but by and large they pretty much cancel each other out. Those with not a shred of high school tend not to live as long as those who have some high school, those who graduate live even long, those with a partial college education live even longer, etc. However, by and large the national figures are acceptable and the variations are minimal. Final Conclusion So, the only argument left to the naysayers about reading levels, and their improving or not improving the human condition, is that there is no perceptible improvement from reading. Certainly NOT the 10% levels required for human perception to see and take note of the difference. However, even a 1% level would double that standard of living for anyone who read for 70 years. Would that not be worthwhile? Of course, there is always the alternative of even killing us off before we reach 70 years of reading to create argumentation. However, it seems all to obvious that any of us reading here, and any person now growing up in the world of eBooks, will have great opportunities to have 70 years of reading experience and thus for the resulting opportunity of improving the human condition. After all, improving the human condition IS the goal, is it not? Hoping to be thanking you soon for your time and attention, Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:14:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? In-Reply-To: <20090331052755.230BB307C3@woodward.joyent.us> re: > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:23:38 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > In-Reply-To: <20090330055853.433B331767@woodward.joyent.us> > > However many books there might be in digital form, the question > that strikes me as important is the one Greg Crane, I think it > was, has asked: what to do with them? Or perhaps one should ask, > how can we know? How can we know anything, for that matter? No, I am not going to go down that pathway and presume I cannot presume. I have to do the best I can with what I have, and direct perceptions, as mentioned in my previous message concerning study of Human Perception is what I have to work with, including my direct perception of your words-- ideas--concepts, no matter how distorted by our semantic differentials-- I do the best I can, which is, and must be, good enough for me. Whether it is good enough for others, is up to their own discretion. > If it were the case that reality is strictly cumulative -- that > knowing the behaviour of an atom, say, or a neuron, one could > determine not just a cow, say, or even its behaviour, then the > question would be an easy one, easily solvable by > social-scientific methods. One could simply observe what n people > do with their collections of digital books, then do the maths. But > we know that physical reality doesn't operate like that. We know > that at certain levels of complexity new things start happening, > new behaviours are emergent, and we can observe this all up and > down the Great Chain of Being. So, I'd guess, we should start > looking for new behaviours with the amounts of digital written > stuff we have. So, what's new? I'm sorry, but the previous paragraph delves too far into what I regard in general terms as "reductio ad adsurdum," though I realize I have not always used the most strict definition as applied by some. However, to say that something on the order of The Heisenberg Principle prevents us from coming to workable conclusions about our own existence and measuring it in our own idea of "standard of living" in terms of an ability to read and using that ability to expand one's horizons for the nominal period of 70 years, well, Willard, my apologies, but it sounds, again my apologies to our host. . .preposterous. I am simply not going to start any discussion or argument with the kind of statement that says we can't know anything about ourselves. "Complexity" be damned, we can still perceive the outcome in terms that are good enough to catch a baseball in rapid motion, without consciously doing the calculus required for a mathematician to tell us where/when. Yes, things may be uncertain, but not in the unknowable sense of atoms a la Heisenberg, and the direct examples of how much reading we do from the members of this group put the lie to any statement that our reading is not directly perceived as improving our standard of living. My previous message continues that thought to various conclusions. > And since we're supposedly intelligent beings who can change > things (and muck them up), we're part and parcel of the emergent > happenings, yes? This means, among other things, experimenting. True. . .and, after all, even for the most experienced outfielder there is still a certain amount of "experimenting" in catching the baseballs, they STILL adjust to the situation as it is happening. Now, if the world could just adjust to eBooks as well as that. . . . However, I do realize, particularly in my 38th year in the eBooks' fields, that the world changes slowly, and human nature even more slowly. However, I am confident, as I was on July 4, 1971, that eBooks will change the world as much as did The Gutenberg Press, and I have written much more on this topic elsewhere, but would gladly summarize here, if desires. *blush* > Comments? As above. > Yours, WM Thanks for the conversation, even though I have no idea where it came in, or where it will go out, as per Heisenberg's comments. And thank you for this discussion group! And for allowing me to be a part of it! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:52:52 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? In-Reply-To: <20090331052755.230BB307C3@woodward.joyent.us> The point, Michael, was not the numbers themselves, but how ridiculous it is to quantify human development in terms of spilled ink, whether that ink is spilled electronically or in print. I don't see what Godwin has to do with anything in this discussion. I'm not asking you to make my points for me, but to demonstrate understanding before responding. No, it's not about money -- that's silly. I have no monetary interest associated with these ideas. I was the self-educated type long before I started going to college and always read more on my own than I was ever assigned. Relegating Shakespeare and Milton's epic poetry to "fiction" as if that were diametrically opposed to "fact" in some meaningful sense...do you really mean what you say here? If it can't be quantified it's not a fact, and if it's not a fact it's not so very important? Why the praise for Jacqueline Susanne, then? Yes, I am very discriminating. I'd make a great state censor. Just like Milton. I wonder how much that position pays these days? I want to emphasize that I was not being facetious in my praise and appreciation for you and your development of Project Gutenberg (all of which would pass muster with me as state censor. If it's an elected position, your vote is safe with me). As a formerly self-educated type and as someone with limited access to good libraries, I understand the value of online texts and appreciate the service you have provided. I've benefited from it for years. Thank you. I very much appreciate the listmember who preferred researching using electronic archives. I know the feeling. I've also learned there's no substitute for browsing shelves and looking through tables of contents and indexes. I don't see this as an either/or but a both/and. I feel like I need to do both to really know what's out there. Jim R --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:07:43 -0400 From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.660 a billion e-books; what might happen with them? In-Reply-To: <20090331052755.230BB307C3@woodward.joyent.us> Willard asked: So, I'd guess, we should start looking for new behaviours with the amounts of digital written stuff we have. So, what's new? Which is better: more books online or fewer books online? That question is less interesting to me than the one Willard asks. History is rife with examples of events that altered our perception of the world around us, that moved societies and cultures in new directions. These examples occur in context with other events, however, so while we can look back and say "yes, at this point this event contributed to this result," predicting the future still remains an exercise in creativity and fantasy. Thus, if we do not know how a specific event will shape, or be shaped by, concurrent events, nor how these threads will manifest themselves in the tapestry of the future, can we at least tease out some of them? Looking for new behaviours seems to be a way to do that. So, what is new? One of the joys of interacting with people born after 1990, or with those who have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into the online world for many years regardless of their age, is the opportunity to observe how their interaction with that world is shaping their perception of information, its acquisition and use. ('d like, here, to broaden the conversation from online books, even online texts, to online information.) Getting information or building information, when we consider the traditional scholarly approach, involved hard work, much thought, much time, a willingness to follow specific paths, endure established trials, and an immense effort to learn. I will never forget the first time I realised that, while Professor X did indeed carry around a wealth of information on his given topic, his greater skill was the ease with which he could summon up the correct reference volume or bibliographic volume related to his subject to find answers. Amassing that infrastructure consumed enough time to be considered the basis for his, and many others', definition of scholarship. Much of that process, that work, is now perceived as the work of a few minutes effort by someone with decent Boolean search skills. One of the major changes, then, is the idea that "it's all online" (or if it isn't it will be soon). We noticed this when all references on student papers began coming from online sources. But that is only one small sliver. There is joy and relief in knowing that if I have a question regarding some minutiae related to a film I can probably satisfy my curiosity at IMDB. Or if something comes up in conversation or in the media about a topic I can probably get a cursory answer or at least some leads at Wikipedia. Regardless of one's belief in the fallibility or infallibility of either source, or the arguments that swirl around the comprehensiveness of such sources, their limitations, the fact that they are shaped by current ideas of what's important and that much information is being lost because it is not being put online (or will be lost because it is being put online but not managed), notions of information literacy, or information silos, etc. etc., the fact remains that for many people information is now something that is easily accessible, not something that requires a lifetime to obtain. Or as my teenage daughter asks, in all sincerity, "how did people manage before the web?" A million books, a billion books, read deeply or cursorily--the difference in number hardly matters when we are approaching and amount that equates in people's mind to "everything." How does that kind of perception change the world? Ah, that is back to predicting the future. But I put it out here as one of core ideas that has, and will, change behaviors. hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 1 05:27:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065B8300F0; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:27:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C04D3300E1; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:27:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090401052702.C04D3300E1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:27:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.663 DHO Seminar in 2nd Life X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 663. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:49:41 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Seminar LIve in Second Life The DHO is broadcasting today's seminar "The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint" live in Second Life. The seminar is currently underway (10:00 - 16:00 Dublin time) and you are invited to attend by going to: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Digital%20Humanities%20/132/19/36 You can watch the seminar live and participate in the question and answer sessions by making yourself known to Seánie Ronas (Shawn Day) your representative from the Digital Humanities Observatory. At 2pm this afternoon there will be a breakout session in Second Life led by Fides Inkpen (Faith Lawrence). Please join us in Second Life for this exciting seminar. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 2 04:39:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B49F31830; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 04:39:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 484433181F; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 04:39:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090402043918.484433181F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 04:39:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.664 DH2009 early registration deadline X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 664. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:32:41 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: DH 2009 Deadline for Early Registration Dear all, A reminder that the deadline for early registration for the dh09 conference is quickly approaching. Until April 15th (two weeks from today) registration is $325 for members. After April 15th, registration will be $425. Rates will be constant for non-members ($475), graduate members ($100), and graduate non-members ($200). Registration closes altogether June 14th. Membership information is available at ADHO's website: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/. Dh09 will take place on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park from Monday, June 21st through Thursday, June 25th. Keynotes will be given by Lev Manovich, Professor of Visual Arts and New Media at the University of California San Diego and the author of _The Language of New Media_ and Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies atUCLA, and author of _Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet_. Along with a full schedule of papers, panels, and posters, the conference will also feature a trip to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airportand a banquet at Buddy's Crabs and Ribs in downtown Annapolis. More information about the conference can be found at: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ Neil --Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 4 05:50:47 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE29430728; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:50:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C1D8306FF; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:50:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090404055045.5C1D8306FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.665 a billion e-books in Vermont X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 665. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:55:37 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.662 a billion e-books, and what might happen with them, vermont is great! dear hope, you bring hope, indeed! the clean air of vermont surely adds clarity to the mind. thank you! -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ > > --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:07:43 -0400 > From: Hope Greenberg > > with them? > In-Reply-To: <20090331052755.230BB307C3@woodward.joyent.us> > > Willard asked: > > So, I'd guess, we should start looking for new behaviours with the amounts > of digital written stuff we have. So, what's new? > > Which is better: more books online or fewer books online? That question > is less interesting to me than the one Willard asks. History is rife > with examples of events that altered our perception of the world around > us, that moved societies and cultures in new directions. These examples > occur in context with other events, however, so while we can look back > and say "yes, at this point this event contributed to this result," > predicting the future still remains an exercise in creativity and > fantasy. Thus, if we do not know how a specific event will shape, or be > shaped by, concurrent events, nor how these threads will manifest > themselves in the tapestry of the future, can we at least tease out some > of them? Looking for new behaviours seems to be a way to do that. > > So, what is new? One of the joys of interacting with people born after > 1990, or with those who have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into the > online world for many years regardless of their age, is the opportunity > to observe how their interaction with that world is shaping their > perception of information, its acquisition and use. ('d like, here, to > broaden the conversation from online books, even online texts, to online > information.) Getting information or building information, when we > consider the traditional scholarly approach, involved hard work, much > thought, much time, a willingness to follow specific paths, endure > established trials, and an immense effort to learn. I will never forget > the first time I realised that, while Professor X did indeed carry > around a wealth of information on his given topic, his greater skill was > the ease with which he could summon up the correct reference volume or > bibliographic volume related to his subject to find answers. Amassing > that infrastructure consumed enough time to be considered the basis for > his, and many others', definition of scholarship. Much of that process, > that work, is now perceived as the work of a few minutes effort by > someone with decent Boolean search skills. > > One of the major changes, then, is the idea that "it's all online" (or > if it isn't it will be soon). We noticed this when all references on > student papers began coming from online sources. But that is only one > small sliver. There is joy and relief in knowing that if I have a > question regarding some minutiae related to a film I can probably > satisfy my curiosity at IMDB. Or if something comes up in conversation > or in the media about a topic I can probably get a cursory answer or at > least some leads at Wikipedia. Regardless of one's belief in the > fallibility or infallibility of either source, or the arguments that > swirl around the comprehensiveness of such sources, their limitations, > the fact that they are shaped by current ideas of what's important and > that much information is being lost because it is not being put online > (or will be lost because it is being put online but not managed), > notions of information literacy, or information silos, etc. etc., the > fact remains that for many people information is now something that is > easily accessible, not something that requires a lifetime to obtain. Or > as my teenage daughter asks, in all sincerity, "how did people manage > before the web?" A million books, a billion books, read deeply or > cursorily--the difference in number hardly matters when we are > approaching and amount that equates in people's mind to "everything." > > How does that kind of perception change the world? Ah, that is back to > predicting the future. But I put it out here as one of core ideas that > has, and will, change behaviors. > > hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 4 05:51:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E7B3078E; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:51:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B8AD030787; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:51:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090404055157.B8AD030787@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:51:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.666 new publication: The State of Stylistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 666. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:52:53 +0100 From: Lia Hestina Subject: New publication The State of Stylistics (ed. G. Watson) Dear all, The following is a new publication in Philosophy studies which might interest you. At the moment it is offered with 30% discount until May 15th*. More information at info@rodopi.nl The State of Stylistics Edited by Greg Watson Amsterdam/New York, NY 2008. XXII, 517 pp. (Pala Papers 5) ISBN: 978-90-420-2428-1 Bound Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=Pala+5 The State of Stylistics contains a broad collection of papers that investigate how stylistics has evolved throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In so doing, it considers how stylisticians currently perceive their own respective fields of enquiry. It also defines what stylistics is, and how we might use it in research and teaching. ”This book represents an excellent snapshot of the discipline of stylistics in all its range. As well as theoretical positioning by some key figures in the field, it covers the main dimensions of cognitive, computational and discoursal approaches to literary stylistics, and it does not neglect the practical pedagogy that is the artisanal bedrock of the discipline. There is valuable work here that showcases the international reach of stylistics.” PROFESSOR PETER STOCKWELL School of English Studies, University of Nottingham *Please note that this offer is not valid in combination with any other offer. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 4 05:53:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336503083B; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:53:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C005630832; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:53:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090404055310.C005630832@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:53:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.667 new on WWW: TL Infobits for March X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 667. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 21:39:56 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- March 2009 TL INFOBITS March 2009 No. 33 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue and all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Production Line Professors Papers on Digital Literacy Report on Computer-Based Assessment Factors Influencing Faculty CMS Use Recommended Reading ...................................................................... PRODUCTION LINE PROFESSORS "In higher education in the United States, teaching and research in the fields of language and literature are in a desperate condition. Laboring on the age-old axiom 'publish-or-perish,' thousands of professors, lecturers, and graduate students are busy producing dissertations, books, essays, and reviews. Over the past five decades, their collective productivity has risen from 13,000 to 72,000 publications per year. But the audience for language and literature scholarship has diminished, with unit sales for books now hovering around 300." In the white paper "Professors on the Production Line, Students on their Own," Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, argues that the trend for faculty to do more research and publishing translates into less time for motivating and mentoring students. The result is "less academic engagement" and a lack of balance between scholarship and instruction on the part of professors. While decrying the situation, Bauerlein presents several recommendations for improving the situation, including "creating a 'teacher track' in which doctoral students are trained and rewarded for generalist knowledge and multiple course facility rather than a highly-specialized expertise." The paper is available online at http://www.aei.org/docLib/20090317_Bauerlein.pdf The white paper is a publication of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a "private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare." For more information, contact The American Enterprise Institute, 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-862-5800; fax: 202-862-7177; Web: http://www.aei.org/ See also: "Unread Monographs, Uninspired Undergrads" INSIDE HIGHER ED, March 18, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/18/production Article about the paper plus readers' comments. ...................................................................... PAPERS ON DIGITAL LITERACY "In the beginning of the 21st century, we are experiencing an interesting evolution of the demand for learning both by individuals, societies and education authorities. Evidently, the acrimonious relation between the education provision and the social mandates of growth (performance) and social inclusion is becoming extremely complex. Economic globalization and the emergence of what has been identified as the Knowledge Society go, hand-in-hand, with a gradually changing set of key competences. They have been feeding in the dialogue about academic and policy implementation of what some thinkers and stakeholders already have named as the Literacies of the 21st century." -- Nikitas Kastis and Roberto Carneiro, eLearning Papers editorial "Digital Literacy -- The Evolution of the 21st Century Literacies" is the topic of the latest issue of ELEARNING PAPERS (no. 12, February 2009). Papers include: "Digital Literacy for the Third Age: Sustaining Identity in an Uncertain World" by Allan Martin -- digital literacy for older citizens "A Digital Literacy Proposal in Online Higher Education: The UOC Scenario" by Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu "T-learning for Social Inclusion" by Chiara Sancin, Valentina Castello, Vittorio Dell'Aiuto, and Daniela Di Genova -- instruction delivered through interactive digital television (IDTV) "Designing E-Tivities to Increase Learning-to-Learn Abilities" by Maria Elisabetta Cigognini and Maria Chiara Pettenati "How to Strengthen Digital Literacy? Practical Example of a European Initiative 'SPreaD'" by Michelle Veugelers and Petra Newrly The issue is available online at http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=home&vol=12 eLearning Papers [ISSN 1887-1542] is an open access journal created as part of the elearningeuropa.info portal. The portal is "an initiative of the European Commission to promote the use of multimedia technologies and Internet at the service of education and training." For more information, contact: eLearning Papers, P.A.U. Education, Muntaner 262, 3rd, 08021 Barcelona, Spain; tel: +34 93 367 04 00; email: editorial@elearningeuropa.info; Web: http://www.elearningpapers.eu/ ...................................................................... REPORT ON COMPUTER-BASED ASSESSMENT "Future international surveys are going to introduce new ways of assessing student achievements. Electronic tests, especially adaptive ones can be calibrated to the specific competence level of each student and become more stimulating, going much further than can be achieved with linear tests made up of traditional multiple choice questions. Simulations also provide better means of contextualising skills to real life situations and provide a more complete picture of the actual competence to be assessed." The report "The Transition to Computer-Based Assessment: New Approaches to Skills Assessment and Implications for Large-scale Testing" (European Commission's Joint Research Centre Scientific and Technical Reports, 2009, edited by Friedrich Scheuermann and Julius Bjornsson) represents a combination of paper presentations from a 2008 research workshop along with additional articles that grew out of workshop discussions. The themes of "The Transition to Computer-Based Assessment" workshop and the papers associated with it were: -- Comparison between paper and pencil tests and computer-based assessment -- Electronic tests and gender differences -- Adaptive vs. linear computer-based assessment. The report is available online at http://crell.jrc.it/RP/reporttransition.pdf The report was produced by the Educational Testing Institute and CRELL. CRELL (Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning), sponsored by the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture, was established in order to "gather expertise in the field of indicator-based evaluation and monitoring of education and training systems. CRELL combines fields of economics, econometrics, education, social sciences and statistics in an interdisciplinary approach to research." For more information, see http://crell.jrc.it/ The Educational Testing Institute is an independent institution funded by the state through the Iceland Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and is "responsible for organising, setting, and grading the nationally co-ordinated examinations and for undertaking comparative analysis of the educational system through participation in international surveys." ...................................................................... FACTORS INFLUENCING FACULTY CMS USE In "Factors Influencing Faculty Use of Technology in Online Instruction: A Case Study" (OJDLA, vol. XII, no. 1, Spring 2009) authors Elizabeth Reed Osika, Rochelle Y. Johnson, and Rosemary Buteau report on a study they performed " to investigate faculty perceptions of the usefulness and importance of online courses, the factors that contribute to the decision of a faculty member to use the CMS [course management system] in their courses, and the barriers that exist which make the use of the CMS difficult." They found that faculty attitudes that presented barriers to adoption of online instruction included belief that: "[T]he quality of online courses is not equivalent to traditional courses." "[Online courses are] impersonal; no-face-to-face; no discussion; no substitute for being in class." Their paper provides suggestions that universities can implement to overcome some of the factors that influence faculty who do not use online technology tools. The paper is available at http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring121/osika121.html The ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION (OJDLA) is a free, peer-reviewed quarterly electronic journal published by the Distance and Distributed Education Center, The State University of West Georgia, 1603 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118 USA; email: distance@westga.edu; Web: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Getting Serious About Research Online" By Sara Kubik INSIDE HIGHER ED, March 20, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/20/kubik "[I]n 2006 the creator of Wikipedia advised us not to use the site as a source, and yet two years later he now wants to make the site more accepting to academic referencing by having "faculty-approved" sites. Also, wikis such as Scholarpedia claim to have content written by experts with a curator moderating all changes. Gray matter, it seems. If we are to use these quality online resources, while insisting on high standards for students, academics need to take seriously issues related to citing materials in media that didn’t exist a generation ago more seriously." ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits ...................................................................... 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 4 07:25:30 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF59E2F2C4; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 07:25:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AD3FE2F2AF; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 07:25:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090404072527.AD3FE2F2AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 07:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.669 a recommendation, some laughter and a sigh X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 669. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:20:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: wisdom, knowledge, good humour etc in the Intenet Archive In case those here do not know of the great treasures contained in the Internet Archive, www.archive.org/index.php, under its Texts section, let me point you to the site and suggest you look for anything, esp out of copyright but not necessarily by age, you're in need of. It's not a tightly edited collection, but it is massive, and there are things there that scholars across all the disciplines will find useful to have in digital form. For most of what I have seen, the pdfs need to be OCR'd once you've downloaded them. Allow me to suggest, for something off-target of most research interests but nevertheless wonderful to read and wonderfully informative, Bertrand Russell's Portraits from Memory (thanks to the Kansas City Public Library). "How to Grow Old" is delightful. But in these late and degenerate times, with respect to so-called higher education at least, I recommend "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" -- Russell *is* talking about the 1890s. Some of the tales he tells of the odd ones are hilarious but would furnish just the excuse some nowadays might be looking for. Russell starts out with the odd ones: > Some of the oddities, it must be said, were very odd. There was a > Fellow who had a game leg and was known to be addicted to the amiable > practice of putting the poker in the fire and when it became red-hot > running after his guests with a view to murder. I discovered at last > that he was only roused to homicidal fury when people sneezed. Owing > to his game leg, those whom he attacked always escaped, and nobody > minded his little peculiarities. I used to go to tea with him myself > but I went away if I saw him put the poker into the fire. Except in > his moments of aberration he was charming, and it never occurred to > anyone to place him under restraint. My mathematical coach was less > fortunate. He went mad, but none of his pupils noticed it. At last he > had to be shut up. That, however, was exceptional. At the end he takes up those whom one might envy for the liberties they had, though perhaps not for what they did with their truly free time: > One of the characteristics of academic personages was longevity. When > I was a freshman, the College was dominated by three elderly > dignitaries: the Master, the Vice-Master, and the Senior Fellow. When > I returned to the College twenty years later as a lecturer, they were > still going strong, and seemed no older. The Master had been Head > Master of Harrow when my father was a boy there. I breakfasted at the > Master's Lodge on a day which happened to be his sister-inlaw's > birthday, and when she came into the room he said, "Now, my dear, you > have lasted just as long as the Peloponnesian War." The Vice-Master, > who always stood as stiffly upright as a ramrod, never appeared out > of doors except in a top hat, even when he was wakened by a fire at > three in the morning. It was said that he never read a line of > Tennyson after witnessing the poet putting water into the '34 port. > Before dinner in Hall the Master and the Vice-Master used to read a > long Latin Grace in alternate sentences. The Master adopted the > Continental pronunciation but the Vice-Master adhered > uncompromisingly to the old English style. The contrast was curious > and enlivening. The Senior Fellow was the last survivor of the old > system by which men got life Fellowships at twenty-two and had no > further duties except to draw their dividend. This duty he performed > punctiliously, but otherwise he was not known to have done any work > whatever since the age of twenty-two. But then -- and this is the point -- Russell goes on to observe, > As the case of the Senior Fellow shows, security of tenure was > carried very far. The result was partly good, partly bad. Very good > men flourished, and so did some who were not so good. Incompetence, > oddity and even insanity were tolerated, but so was real merit. In > spite of some lunacy and some laziness, Cambridge was a good place, > where independence of mind could exist undeterred. I think in the balance we have perhaps lost more than we have gained. Yes, I know, the social conditions of that time would not have favoured anyone born at the stratum of society from which I originated, nor were women allowed at all, and so forth and so on. But surely our choices, unlike our computers, are not crudely binary. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 6 05:55:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BE52FEA4; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:55:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E61442FE8F; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:55:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090406055523.E61442FE8F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:55:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.670 a recommendation and a kind offer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 670. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Michael S. Hart" (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.669 a recommendation, some laughter and a sigh [2] From: "David L. Hoover" (152) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.669 a recommendation, some laughter and a sigh --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:52:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.669 a recommendation, some laughter and a sigh In-Reply-To: <20090404072527.AD3FE2F2AF@woodward.joyent.us> If any of you find a particular title at The Internet Archive and would like it OCR'd and/or converted in Project Gutenberg formats, proofread by the Distributed Proofreaders, etc. just let me know and I will put in a request for you. Of course, since we are all volunteers at Project Gutenberg-- there is no guarantee how long this might take if ever, but I will see what I can do. I can always put in a second request if nothing happens. . .. Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Censored Humanist Inventor of eBooks --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:48:13 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.669 a recommendation, some laughter and a sigh In-Reply-To: <20090404072527.AD3FE2F2AF@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks, Willard for the charming Russell stories. He's too little read these days. My own favorite Russell story is the often-told one of his incarceration for resisting World War I. When he was being processed, he was asked his name, address, and so forth, and then was asked his religion. When he replied, "Agnostic," the jailer look puzzled, then said, "Well, I guess we all worship the same God." Russell said that used the memory of the incident to cheer himself up while in prison. Perhaps his best known essay, "A Free Man's Worship" is full of good stuff, but nothing much better than this: That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins--all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built. Much less read, but a real eye-opener, is his 1929 /Marriage and Morals,/ of which a snippet: The view of the orthodox moralist (this includes the police and the magistrates, but hardly any modern educators) on the question of sex knowledge may, I fancy, be fairly stated as follows. . . . There is no doubt that sexual misconduct is promoted by sexual thoughts and the best road to virtue is to keep the young occupied in mind and body with matters wholly unconnected with sex. They must, therefore, be told nothing whatever about sex; they must as far as possible be prevented from talking about it with each other, and grownups must pretend that there is no such topic. It is possible by these means to keep a girl in ignorance until the night of her marriage, when it is to be expected that the facts will so shock her as to produce exactly that attitude towards sex which every sound moralist considers desirable in women (53-54). Finally, in "Why I am not a Christian," Russell refutes proofs of the existence of God in sequence. At the end of the refutation of the the moral arguments for Deity, Russell suggests one "could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up -- a line which I often thought was a very plausible one -- that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it." Always a reasonable man, Russell Best, David L. Hoover Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 669. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:20:55 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > In case those here do not know of the great treasures contained in the > Internet Archive, www.archive.org/index.php, under its Texts section, > let me point you to the site and suggest you look for anything, esp out > of copyright but not necessarily by age, you're in need of. It's not a > tightly edited collection, but it is massive, and there are things there > that scholars across all the disciplines will find useful to have in > digital form. For most of what I have seen, the pdfs need to be OCR'd > once you've downloaded them. > > Allow me to suggest, for something off-target of most research interests > but nevertheless wonderful to read and wonderfully informative, Bertrand > Russell's Portraits from Memory (thanks to the Kansas City Public > Library). "How to Grow Old" is delightful. But in these late and > degenerate times, with respect to so-called higher education at least, I > recommend "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" -- Russell *is* talking > about the 1890s. Some of the tales he tells of the odd ones are > hilarious but would furnish just the excuse some nowadays might > be looking for. > > Russell starts out with the odd ones: > > >> Some of the oddities, it must be said, were very odd. There was a >> Fellow who had a game leg and was known to be addicted to the amiable >> practice of putting the poker in the fire and when it became red-hot >> running after his guests with a view to murder. I discovered at last >> that he was only roused to homicidal fury when people sneezed. Owing >> to his game leg, those whom he attacked always escaped, and nobody >> minded his little peculiarities. I used to go to tea with him myself >> but I went away if I saw him put the poker into the fire. Except in >> his moments of aberration he was charming, and it never occurred to >> anyone to place him under restraint. My mathematical coach was less >> fortunate. He went mad, but none of his pupils noticed it. At last he >> had to be shut up. That, however, was exceptional. >> > > At the end he takes up those whom one might envy for the liberties they > had, though perhaps not for what they did with their truly free time: > > >> One of the characteristics of academic personages was longevity. When >> I was a freshman, the College was dominated by three elderly >> dignitaries: the Master, the Vice-Master, and the Senior Fellow. When >> I returned to the College twenty years later as a lecturer, they were >> still going strong, and seemed no older. The Master had been Head >> Master of Harrow when my father was a boy there. I breakfasted at the >> Master's Lodge on a day which happened to be his sister-inlaw's >> birthday, and when she came into the room he said, "Now, my dear, you >> have lasted just as long as the Peloponnesian War." The Vice-Master, >> who always stood as stiffly upright as a ramrod, never appeared out >> of doors except in a top hat, even when he was wakened by a fire at >> three in the morning. It was said that he never read a line of >> Tennyson after witnessing the poet putting water into the '34 port. >> Before dinner in Hall the Master and the Vice-Master used to read a >> long Latin Grace in alternate sentences. The Master adopted the >> Continental pronunciation but the Vice-Master adhered >> uncompromisingly to the old English style. The contrast was curious >> and enlivening. The Senior Fellow was the last survivor of the old >> system by which men got life Fellowships at twenty-two and had no >> further duties except to draw their dividend. This duty he performed >> punctiliously, but otherwise he was not known to have done any work >> whatever since the age of twenty-two. >> > > But then -- and this is the point -- Russell goes on to observe, > > >> As the case of the Senior Fellow shows, security of tenure was >> carried very far. The result was partly good, partly bad. Very good >> men flourished, and so did some who were not so good. Incompetence, >> oddity and even insanity were tolerated, but so was real merit. In >> spite of some lunacy and some laziness, Cambridge was a good place, >> where independence of mind could exist undeterred. >> > > I think in the balance we have perhaps lost more than we have gained. > Yes, I know, the social conditions of that time would not have favoured > anyone born at the stratum of society from which I originated, nor were > women allowed at all, and so forth and so on. But surely our choices, > unlike our computers, are not crudely binary. > > Yours, > WM > > -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU 212-998-8832 http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dh3/ Most of her friends had an anxious, haggard look, . . . Basil Ransom wondered who they all were; he had a general idea they were mediums, communists, vegetarians. -- Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 6 05:58:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A70A2FF67; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:58:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 39B252FF60; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:58:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090406055824.39B252FF60@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.671 gathering, collecting, analyzing and distributing results? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 671. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:41:26 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Education for Sustainable Development Greetings! The E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence (SSNV) is launching a new series on education for sustainable development. This is a long term project, and we would welcome advice from the informatics community about the most effective way to gather, collect, analyze, and distribute results from a survey like this. This is the link for our first test version: http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv05n04page1.html To get started on this new series, you are invited to a consultation on educational priorities for sustainable development. A preliminary test version of the consultation form is online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cDNoNGlfcDh6NmQ0WTVPNllqRlNSVVE6MA.. Participants can view the results in spreadsheet format: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p3h4i_p8z6d4Y5O6YjFSRUQ&hl=en See page 1 for more on how the consultation will proceed. Even though this is a preliminary test, your participation and feedback are critical for this exercise to yield new insights that may be useful to sustainable development professionals. Please participate! Comments, suggestions, questions, problems ... please let me know. Thanks, Luis _________________________________________ Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. Editor, E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisust.html This is a monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 7 05:07:01 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A9230E70; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:07:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E6E1230E68; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:06:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090407050659.E6E1230E68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:06:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.672 use of geospatial data? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 672. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:29:40 +0100 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: AGILE Initiative - Higher Education Geospatial Data Access Survey Apologies for cross postings. **** AGILE Initiative - Higher Education Geospatial Data Access Survey**** Are you are a teacher, lecturer or researcher at a Higher Education Institute in Europe? Do you use geospatial data (maps, air photography, satellite imagery, etc)? If the answer to both these questions is YES then we would like to invite you to complete our survey. (If you want to complete the survey without finding out more, you can find the survey at http://tinyurl.com/NMCAUserSurvey, otherwise read on. The survey will run from 30th March to 21st April 2009. ) What is the purpose of this survey? The purpose of this survey is to find out how easy it is for you, as a teacher or researcher, to gain access to the geospatial data sets held by the National Mapping and Cadastral Agency or Agencies in your country. Europe's Network of National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs) hold and maintain the majority of Europe's 'core' geospatial information including: * topographic data; * cadastral information; * aerial photography; and * land use information and historical map data. We believe that Higher Education in Europe should be an important market for the NMCAs, as there are around 4,000 Higher Education institutions, with over 17 million students and 1.5 million staff. With your help, we hope to find out how easy it is to access these data. We will use this information to encourage more NMCAs to make their data available to teachers and researchers in Higher Education across Europe. Our goal is to help you gain access to the quality geospatial data that you need. Who is carrying out the survey? Our research team is part of the EDINA National Data Centre, based in the University of Edinburgh, UK (http://edina.ac.uk). The survey has been endorsed by the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) (http://www.agile-online.org/) and EuroGeographics (http://www.eurogeographics.org/), which represents 52 National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies from 43 countries across Europe. When will the survey finish? The survey will be open for you to complete until Tuesday 21st April 2009. During this time we would like your help to get as many teachers and researchers as possible to complete the survey. So, once you have completed the survey, please pass on the email and web link to this survey. How do I complete the survey? The survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/NMCAUserSurvey Who should I contact for more information? If you have any questions please contact: Dr David Medyckyj-Scott, by email at edina.surveys@ed.ac.uk Thank you for your help and, remember, please pass this email on to other geospatial data users in your community or other communities. Dr David Medyckyj-Scott -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ----------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 7 05:09:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE1130F4A; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C22730F40; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:09:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090407050925.0C22730F40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:09:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.673 events: text-encoding; virtual worlds; Nebraska Digital Workshop X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 673. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rehbein, Malte" (93) Subject: CFP: Text encoding in the era of mass digitization (2009 AnnualMeeting of the TEI Consortium) [2] From: Katherine L Walter (34) Subject: 4th annual Nebraska Digital Workshop update [3] From: Luis Gutierrez (5) Subject: Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:41:09 +0100 From: "Rehbein, Malte" Subject: CFP: Text encoding in the era of mass digitization (2009 AnnualMeeting of the TEI Consortium) CALL FOR PROPOSALS ================== Text encoding in the era of mass digitization: 2009 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/ The Program Committee of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on the theme "Text encoding in the era of mass digitization". SUBMISSION TOPICS Topics might include but are not restricted to: * In-depth encoding vs. mass digitization * Is text encoding sustainable? * Is text encoding scalable? * Using TEI to create: - scholarly editions - hybrid publications (digital and print) - databases and other resources * Tools that create and process TEI data * TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards * TEI as: - metadata standard - interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data * TEI and its contribution to digital scholarship * TEI and markup theory * Learning the TEI * The future of the TEI * When not to use the TEI In addition, we are seeking P5 micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on the topic "How I've customized TEI encoding to meet my needs". SUBMISSION TYPES Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. P5 micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by 15 May 2009. The system is not yet ready to accept submissions but will be ready to accept submissions in mid-April. You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations): - Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the "Abstract" field. - Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * P5 micropaper: - The procedure is the same as for an individual paper except that the abstract should be no more than 300 words. * Panel sessions: - The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 500 words in the "Abstract" field. - The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above. The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at tei-meeting-2009@umich.edu to schedule a room. Please send queries to tei-meeting-2009@umich.edu . Conference submissions will be considered for a conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. --- Malte Rehbein M.A. Marie Curie Research Fellow Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Mob.: +353 85 8144 685 Fax.: +353 91 49 5507 Email: malte.rehbein@nuigalway.ie Web: http://www.denkstaette.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:36:17 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: 4th annual Nebraska Digital Workshop update The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is pleased to announce that the senior scholars for the 4th Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop are Johanna Drucker, Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English at University of Maryland College Park. Drucker is a noted author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, and art. Her most recent book is SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing, University of Chicago Press, 2009. Kirschenbaum, associate director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and Vice President of the Electronic Literature Organization, is author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, MIT Press, 2008. The Nebraska Digital Workshop will be held October 2-3, 2009 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Selected early scholars will receive full travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work. The application deadline is April 24th. Applicants should send an abstract, CV, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or on disk to CDRH on or before the deadline. E-mail applications should be sent to kwalter1@unl.edu. Katherine L. WalterCo-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln NE 68588-4100 voice: (402) 472-3939 kwalter1@unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:30:42 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research This may be of interest: Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research http://benking.de/futures/Humanities-VirtualWorld_Proposal_LOI-Benking.pdf http://www.fas.org/programs/ltp/emerging_technologies/humanities/_Media/proposal-harnessing-virtual.pdf Luis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 8 08:12:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3842F478; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:12:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5EA162F464; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:12:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090408081208.5EA162F464@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:12:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.674 Walter Pitts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 674. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:07:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Walter Pitts Some here will have heard of Walter Pitts (1923-1969), best known as the other author of papers for which Warren McCulloch is famous, such as "A logical calculus of the ideas imminent in nervous activity" (1943). The work of both is important to us because it, influenced by Turing's ideas, in turn influenced John von Neumann's design of computer architecture and via cybernetics, of which McCulloch was a part, much else. A couple of anecdotes will give you some idea of Pitts, as well as of his time and place: > "At the age of twelve [Pitts] was chased into a library by a gang of > ruffians, and took refuge there in the back stacks. When the library > closed, he didn’t leave. He had found Russell and Whitehead’s > Principia Mathematica. He spent the next three days in that library, > reading the Principia, at the end of which time, he sent a letter to > Bertrand Russell, pointing out some problems with the first half of > the first volume; he felt they were serious. . . . A letter returned > from Russell, inviting him to come as a student to England—a very > appreciative letter. That decides him; he’s going to be a logician, a > mathematician." (Lettvin, 1998b, p. 2) > > "Walter Pitts was forced to drop out of high school by his father, > who wanted him to go to work and earn money. Rather than do this, > young Pitts ran away from home and ended up in Chicago, penniless. > The fifteen-year-old boy spent a lot of time in the park, where he > met and began to have conversations with an older man he knew only > as Bert. When Bert detected the boy’s interests, he suggested that > young Pitts read a book that had just been published by a professor > at the University of Chicago by the name of Rudolf Carnap. Pitts did, > and showed up at Carnap’s office. “Sir,” he said, “there’s something > on this page which just isn’t clear.” Carnap was amused, because when > he said something wasn’t clear, what he meant was that it was > nonsense. So he opened up his newly published book to where young > Pitts was pointing, and sure enough, it wasn’t clear; it was > nonsense. Bert turned out to be Bertrand Russell." (McCorduck, 1979, > pp. 73–74, n.1) > > Lettvin, J. Y. (1998b). [Interview with J.A. Anderson and E. > Rosenfeld]. In J. A. Anderson & E. Rosenfeld (Eds.), Talking nets: An > oral history of neural networks (pp. 1–21). Cambridge MA: MIT Press. > McCorduck, P. (1979). Machines who think: A personal inquiry into the > history and prospects of artificial intelligence. San Francisco: W. > H. Freeman. Apparently friends of Pitts kept pushing him to get a PhD, but he had the unfortunate habit of criticizing the questions on the qualifying exam rather than accepting their assumptions & errors and answering them like a good boy. Keep watch! You never know until, and perhaps not even then. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 8 08:20:58 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671CD2F5ED; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B690B2F5D8; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:20:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090408082055.B690B2F5D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:20:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.675 a matter of concern X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 675. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:04:01 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a matter of concern Dear colleagues, I forward, below, a note from a colleague at the University of Oregon about the fate of the very fine Wired Humanities Project, which has done wonderful work for many years. This note asks those who know of the Project, especially collaborators, fellow travellers and visitors to its offices in Eugene, to add to a log of comments that will be forwarded to the VP for Research there. Please do that if you can. In the face of radically tightening budgets many institutions are behaving quite badly as deficit panic sets in. Even wealthy institutions (for whom a decline of the interest on huge endowments constitutes their crisis) are acting thus. Of course no one external to Oregon can argue the details, but what we can argue are the principles, the most significant of which is the fundamental purpose of an institution of higher education. From a financial point of view, I would suppose, culture is a hole in the ground into which money disappears without yielding anything that accountants can account with. So when a cultural institution tries to run itself as a business, it fails. It also fails because those in it seldom, it seems, have any idea of what businesses are actually like. They seem incapable of understanding the idea of investment -- indeed, less capable than a family running a corner shop. Even very bright people, and some who aren't so bright, turn into idiots. I am tempted to recommend that we ask our neighbours who run the corner shops to take over and show our supposed betters how it is done. Of course you cannot say any of that. But what you can do is to write eloquently about what educational institutions are for. We need reminding, it seems. If you are needing one or more capable humanities computing people you can hire them away from the University of Oregon while it is still in its muddle. Write to me directly if that is the case, and I will play matchmaker. O tempora, o mores! Yours, WM > *From: *"Robert Haskett" *Date: *April 5, 2009 2:12:25 PM PDT > *> > Dear colleagues, > > I am writing to alert you to a situation at the University of Oregon > that threatens the integrity, and perhaps the survival, of the Wired > Humanities Project. At risk are not only WHP’s digital Mesoamerican > projects, such as the Mapas Project (close study of indigenous > pictorial manuscripts; http://mapas.uoregon.edu/), the Virtual > Mesoamerican Archive finding aid (http://vma.uoregon.edu/), and the > online Nahuatl Vocabulary (http://whp.uoregon.edu/NahVocab/), but WHP > was just beginning to clone and adapt these projects for use in > studies about medieval Europe and indigenous cultures of the U.S., > among others. Despite WHP’s success at winning external grants (three > significant NEH and NSF grants worth more than $700,000 since 2006), > its sponsoring unit is slashing WHP’s budget, personnel, and asking > that it radically alter course. Yes, these are hard times and there > will be cuts everywhere, but these cuts are drastic, debilitating, and > seemingly punitive. They come at a time when the campus should be > rejoicing and celebrating WHP’s successes and trying to find ways to > nurture it. If you are willing to take a moment to speak to the > significance of WHP as a unit worthy of protecting, any positive > experiences you have had collaborating with WHP, or comment on the > ability of its experienced leaders and its staff to continue to take > WHP in the right direction, your comments would be greatly > appreciated. It is my goal to get these comments to the Vice President > for Research, who may be able to reverse or ameliorate the cuts. Here > is the link: > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Yfayu7axnjRf5AZ23wrUnA_3d_3d > > Thank you so much for considering this. > Bob > -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 8 08:21:48 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD182F671; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:21:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B161F2F662; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:21:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090408082145.B161F2F662@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:21:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.676 text-analysis in the news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 676. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:31:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: text-analysis in the news See Alison Flood, "Study claims Agatha Cristie had Alzheimer's: Textual analysis detects signs of sharply declining faculties towards the end of beloved mystery writer's life", Guardian, for Friday, 3 April 2009, www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/03/agatha-christie-alzheimers-research. This research was carried out by Ian Lancashire (professor of English and a member of Humanist, of course) and Graeme Hirst (computational linguist), both at Toronto. WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 8 08:23:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AFD2F70C; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:23:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 721ED2F704; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:23:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090408082343.721ED2F704@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:23:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.677 events: NLP for digital libraries; CS & the humanities; museums & the web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 677. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (112) Subject: InterFace, 9-10 July 2009 [2] From: Luca Dini (24) Subject: CFP Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries [3] From: j trant (49) Subject: MW2009: Advance Registration Deadline Apr. 8, 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:50:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: InterFace, 9-10 July 2009 Interface 1st National Symposium for Humanities and Technology Avenue Campus, University of Southampton 9-10 July 2009 http://www.interface09.org.uk InterFace is a new type of annual event. Part conference, part workshop, part networking opportunity, it will bring together postdocs, early career academics and postgraduate researchers from the fields of Information Technology and the Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. As well as having a focus on Digital Humanities, it will also be an important forum for Humanities contributions to Computer Science. The event will furthermore provide a permanent web presence for communication between delegates both during, and following, the conference. Delegate numbers are limited to 80 (half representing each sector) and all participants will be expected to present a poster or a 'lightning talk' (a two minute presentation) as a stimulus for discussion and networking sessions. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating keynote talks from world-leading experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects, 'Insider's Guides' and workshops. The registration fee for the twoday event is £30. For a full overview of the event, please visit the website. Paper Submissions: If you are interested in attending, please submit an original paper, of 1500 words or less, describing an idea or concept you wish to present. Please indicate whether you would prefer to produce a poster or perform a 2-minute lightning talk. Papers must be produced as a PDF or in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and submitted through our EasyChair page: - Register for an easy chair account: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/ account_apply.cgi - Log in: https://www.easychair.org/?conf=interface09 - Click New Submission at the top of the page and fill in the form. Make sure you: - Select your preference of lightning talk or poster. - Select whether you are representing humanities or technology. - Attach and upload your paper. If you encounter any problems, please e-mail submissions@interface09.org.uk A number of travel bursaries may be available to successful applicants - if you would like to be considered for one, please email bursaries@interface09.org.uk and provide grounds for consideration. Papers should focus on potential (and realistic) areas for collaboration between the Technology and Humanities Sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments, or both. Prior work may be presented where relevant but the nature of the paper must be forward-looking. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include: Technology * 3D immersive environments * Pervasive technologies * Online collaboration * Natural language processing * Sensor networks * The Semantic Web * Agent based modelling * Web Science Humanities * Spatial cognition * Text editing and analysis * New Media * Linguistics * Applied sociodynamics & social network analysis * Archaeological reconstruction * Information Ethics * Dynamic logics * Electronic corpora Due to the limited number of places, papers will be subject to review by committee and applicants notified by email as to their acceptance. All accepted papers will be published online one week in advance of the conference. Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: 1 May 2009 * Acceptances Announced: 18 May 2009 * Conference: 9th-10th July 2009 Confirmed Speakers Keynote: * Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, President of the Association of Computing Machinery * Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, KCL Insider's Guides: * Stephen Brown, De Montfort University Knowledge Media Design, De Montfort University * Ed Parsons Geospatial Technologist, Google * Sarah Porter Head of Innovation, JISC Project Showcase: * Mary Orr & Mark Weal, University of Southampton Digital Flaubert * Adrian Bell, University of Reading The Soldier in Later Medieval England * Kathy Buckner, Napier University TBC Workshops: 1) Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Arianna Ciula, European Science Foundation & Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University 2) Visualisation Manuel Lima, VisualComplexity.com 3) Data Management Facilitator TBC 4) Media & Communication Jon Copley & Claire Ainsworth For further information, please visit the conference website (http://www.interface09.org.uk) or e-mail admin@interface09.org.uk -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:05:26 +0100 From: Luca Dini Subject: CFP Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries In-Reply-To: <47650.10.170.136.84.1238691125.squirrel@www.di.fct.unl.pt> Call for Papers First NLP4DL Workshop Viareggio, Italy 15 June 2009 Digital libraries represent a crucial contact point among traditional libraries, recent advances in Information Technology, and Natural Language Processing technologies. In a sense, digital libraries represent a *perfect* crossroads: they are mainly built out of text, they are consulted by humans via natural language, and one of the major tools for accessing the information they hold, metadata, is a mix of structured and unstructured information. The First Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (NLP4DL) workshop, organised under the auspices of the CACAO project (eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, ECP 2006 DILI 510035 CACAO), aims to collect all fundamental and innovative research which is done in connection with Natural Language Technologies applied to the digital libraries universe. The workshop will host invited speakers together with talks/papers concerning: -free text access to full-text digital libraries; -access to digital resources via metadata; -NLP techniques for harmonizing metadata in digital library (DL) federations; -cross-language access to DLs; -cross-language harmonization of metadata; -discovery in DLs: hyperlinking, clustering, user-oriented categorization; -management of digital collections via NLP-based algorithms; -adaptation of linguistic resources to thematic DLs; -fundamental issues: named entity extraction, word sense disambiguation, translation disambiguation. All abstracts papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted contributions will be distributed on a CD at the workshop. A volume from the conference will be published in Fall 2009. Depending on the number of high quality submissions, a poster/demo session may also be held. Practical Information ================ The conference will be held in Viareggio, Italy on 15 June 2009. More details will be available soon at the conference website at http://www.cacaoproject.eu/NLP4DL09 . Important Dates ============ Deadline for submission (Abstract, maximum five pages): 20 April 2009 (flexible, upon notice); submission should be sent as a PDF file to . Notification of acceptance: 4 May 2009 Conference version of the paper due (Instructions will be provided to authors): 1 June 2009 Conference date: 15 June 2009 Press version of the paper due: 4 September 2009 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:09:43 +0100 From: j trant Subject: MW2009: Advance Registration Deadline Apr. 8, 2009 In-Reply-To: <47650.10.170.136.84.1238691125.squirrel@www.di.fct.unl.pt> Museums and the Web 2009 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 15-18, 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ ==> MW2009 Opening Keynote: Maxwell L. Anderson <== A leader in moving museums on to the Web, Max Anderson has challenged each of the art museums he's directed to think about the Web as a critical part of museum programming space. He'll push these ideas -- and us -- further in his keynote address, entitled "Moving from Virtual to Visceral". ==> Advance Registration Deadline: April 8, 2009 <== The deadline for advance registration is *this Wednesday*. If you are planning to come to MW2009, save yourself some time and money by registering on-line, in advance. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2009/mw2009.registrationForm.html You can register on-site for the conference and some pre-conference workshops [if space is available]. Download the form the conference site and bring it with you. ==> Papers On-line <== This year's papers are now all on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/speakers/index.html for the full list. All the papers from past Museums and the Web conferences are also available on-line. See the full bibliography at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum ==> Best of the Web People's Choice <== You don't have to be coming to MW2009 to register your vote for the MW2009 Best of the Web People's Choice Award. See the list of sites nominated at http://conference.archimuse.com/best_web/nominees-2009 and vote for your favourite [each registered user has one vote]. ==> Join the Community <== The MW on-line community lets you participate from wherever you are, both during the conference and later. See http://conference.archimuse.com ==> Another Great Group @ MW2009 <== MW2009 will welcome more than 450 delegates from more than 20 countries to Indianapolis. We hope to see you there -- or on-line -- for more great discussions around bringing culture and heritage on-line in all kinds of institutions . jennifer and David -- ------------ Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2009 produced by April 15-18, 2009, Indianapolis, Indiana Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2009@archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 | fax +1 416 352-6025 ------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 9 05:19:00 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4821230C74; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:19:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 02E7C30C6B; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090409051859.02E7C30C6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.678 text-analysis, speculations and news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 678. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: Turing, McCulloch & Pitts, Weaver and text-analysis [2] From: "Ian.Lancashire" (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.676 text-analysis in the news --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:51:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Turing, McCulloch & Pitts, Weaver and text-analysis In the context of the possibilities for text-analysis, consider the following. 1. In a letter to the editor in the Times Literary Supplement for 4 May 1962, Karen Spärk Jones and T. R. McKinnon Wood pointed out that the problems and arguments concerning machine translation can be generalised to "any field which is concerned with handling language". In other words, what has happened in MT should, at least in principle, concern us. 2. In his memorandum of 15 July 1949, "Translation", Warren Weaver wrote the following: > A more general basis for hoping that a computer could be designed which would cope > with a useful part of the problem of translation is to be found in a theorem which was proved > in 1943 by McCulloch and Pitts. This theorem states that a robot (or a computer) constructed > with regenerative loops of a certain formal character is capable of deducing any legitimate > conclusion from a finite set of premises. > Now there are surely alogical elements in language (intuitive sense of style, > emotional content, etc.) so that again one must be pessimistic about the problem of literary > translation. But, insofar as written language is an expression of logical character, this theorem > assures one that the problem is at least formally solvable. In other words, MT links us, "insofar as written language is an expression of logical character", back to the work on the physiology of thought pursued by McCulloch and Pitts by means of networks of idealised neurons. 3. This work on the physiology of thought had a number of sources, but certainly one of them was the Turing Machine, which linked the behaviour of humans and machines. As Tara Abraham puts it, in "(Physio)logical circuits: The intellectual origins of the McCulloch-Pitts neural networks", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 38.1 (2002), > Simply put, Turing was able to define the complicated process of > computation in "mechanical" terms, with the notion of a simple > algorithm so exhaustive, rigorous, and unambiguous that the executor > would need no "mathematical knowledge" to carry out its task. Turing > had linked the behavior of humans and machines: in both cases, > "computing numbers" involved a finite number of "states of mind" or > "configurations." These "states of mind," according to Turing, were > irreducible: the "operations" performed by a logic machine or a human > computer can be split up into "simple operations" so elementary they > cannot be further divided. So, we have the human person in one of his or her many roles (here doing calculations) rendered as a machine, which in turn serves in the design of an idealised scheme to explain how humans think. That scheme then contributes to another for rendering the strictly machine-like aspects of a specific expression of thinking in one language into another. And it lives on to teach us about the limits of what we can expect from text-analysis. Or does it -- teach us about limits, that is? Propositional statements are one thing, but when stylometric techniques applied to a literary text demonstrate consistency in the style, say, of Swift, or Poe, or whomever, then is it fair to say that what is found is an "expression of logical character" in that literary language? Is, then, that "logical character" extractable in some way from the statistical patterning of language? I have the sense that I'm going around in circles. Can anyone see around the next bend? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:32:49 -0400 From: "Ian.Lancashire" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.676 text-analysis in the news In-Reply-To: <20090408082145.B161F2F662@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to Willard for this note. The Agatha Christie paper and poster were quietly presented at the 19th annual Rotman Institute conference (on cognition and aging) last month. You can find both at http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Lancashire+Hirst-extabs-2009.pdf Somehow Anne Kingston found out and wrote a fine article on them in Maclean's Magazine last week at http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/02/the-ultimate-whodunit/ which in turn attracted the attention of the Guardian and UPI. The paper argues that my Christie findings confirm Peter Garrard's evidence (in analysing Iris Murdoch's novels) that a sudden decline in vocabulary richness is an early marker of AD. I used Rob Watt's Concordance for vocabulary and indefinite nouns, and TACT (still usable in a virtual OS on my PC) to collect repeating phrases. Graeme and his students are now developing software to analyze for degraded syntactic features. We are fortunate to collaborate with Dr Regina Jokel, a post-doctoral researcher at Baycrest in speech pathology and AD. Anyone interested in this subject should read Peter Garrard's recent paper, "Cognitive Archaeology: Uses, Methods, and Results," in Journal of Neurolinguistics 22.3 (May 2009): 250-65 ... a study of Harold Wilson's contributions to questions period. Garrard also uses Rob Watt's Concordance and John Burrows' delta. Ian Lancashire University of Toronto _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 9 05:20:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C7730CE4; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:20:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 015F030CD5; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:20:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090409052002.015F030CD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:20:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.679 job at MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 679. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:03:44 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Job Opening at MITH Web Programmer The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland in College Park seeks a full time web programmer to work on two grant funded projects. The first involves the creation of a collaboratively-edited database of 3-dimensional models of historical theater buildings. The second will integrate MITH's web-based multimedia annotation tool (AXE) into the Center for History and New Media's world-renowned citation management system, Zotero. Both are potentially very high profile projects in the digital humanities and it is likely this one year appointment will lead to other exciting opportunities in the digital humanities. The successful candidate will at the minimum have a bachelor’s degree and will be proficient in PHP, XML, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS. Familiarity with cross browser compatibility issues and the ability to work well individually and in a team environment and to produce high-quality work under tightly defined deadlines is also essential. The ideal candidate will also have thorough knowledge of SVG (scalar vector graphics), ActionScript 3.0, and the Yahoo User Interface (YUI). Located in McKeldin Library at the heart of the campus, MITH is the University of Maryland’s primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, new media, and cyberculture. MITH’s house research includes projects in text mining, tool building, visualization, digital libraries, electronic publishing, and digital preservation. We collaborate actively with allied campus units, including the University Libraries, the College of Information Science, and the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Situated in a suburb of Washington DC, MITH also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area. Salary range, $45,000 - $55,000 commensurate with experience. Consideration of applications to begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged. The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and the names, addresses, and current phone numbers of three professional references to: Dr. Doug Reside Chair, MITH Search, Web Programmer Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities B0131 McKeldin Library University of Maryland Web College Park, MD 20742 -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 9 05:20:33 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED82C30D35; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:20:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D305230D1F; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:20:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090409052030.D305230D1F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:20:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.680 the spirit of Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 680. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:50:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the spirit of humanist Michael Arbib, who worked with Warren McCulloch and many of his colleagues, has provided us with a quite wonderful biographical account of the man in "Warren McCulloch’s search for the logic of the nervous system", Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 43.2 (2000): 193-216. I mention this because of an anecdote he tells by way of probable explanation of why McCulloch and Norbert Wiener fell out so spectacularly. The story goes like this: > Norbert Wiener, flushed with the success of his book on Cybernetics, > decided it was time to get really serious and go beyond general > observations about feedback in the nervous system and so on, and make > a serious mathematical model of the brain. So he goes to his friend > Warren McCulloch and says, “McCulloch, tell me what you know about > the brain.” Now, McCulloch was both a great scientist and a great > storyteller, and he was not going to let the facts spoil a good > story. So when he told Norbert about the brain, it was a mixture of > what was known to be true and what McCulloch thought should be known > to be true. If you were a naïve person, this could be very dangerous. > If, on the other hand, you understood the nature of the man, this was > tremendously stimulating, because then you realized that it was your > responsibility to figure out what was known and what was provocative > speculation. It was then your challenge to do the new stuff. But, > unfortunately, Norbert Wiener was “emotionally challenged.” He had > been a child prodigy but, poor fellow, whenever he got a brilliant > idea, his father would not say “Norbert, you are brilliant,” but > “This proves my pedagogical theory. I can make even you do something > brilliant.” The result of all this was that Wiener was “tone deaf” to > nuances of human personality, and had an absolutely pathological need > for praise throughout his life, even when established as one of the > world’s great scientists. So he had no way of reading this man, > McCulloch, and took everything he said about the brain to be true. He > then, according to Pat Wall, spent three years of his life creating > the theory that explained it all, went to a physiology congress to > present the theory, and had it shot down. And again, because he was > no judge of character, he thought that McCulloch had set him up—and > thus the fury I experienced a decade later. (This fury Arbib experienced when he went to say farewell to Wiener, under whom he had done his PhD, while simultaneously, unbeknownst to Wiener, holding a research fellowship in McCulloch's lab. Seeing no harm in it, he let the cat out of the bag, hence Wiener's explosive rage.) I relate all this because it reminds me so much of how Humanist works when it is working best. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 9 05:21:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126FC30D58; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09D9330D40; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:21:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090409052109.09D9330D40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:21:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.681 DH2009 final reminder, early registration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 681. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:13:02 +0100 From: DH2009 Subject: DH09 Final Reminder: April 15th Early Registration Deadline Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, A quick, final reminder that early registration for the dh09 conference closes a week from today, on April 15th. Members will pay $325 before this date and $425 after. Rates will be constant for non-members ($475), graduate members ($100), and graduate non-members ($200). Information on becoming a member or renewing membership can be found at the ADHO website: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/. For those who cannot find their member numbers or intend to become a member by the time of the conference, we would advise you to register using eight zeros as your subscriber number. At the conference registration desk, we will have a list of members to check that those who have paid member fees are in good standing. -- Digital Humanities 2009 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org// ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:33:39 +0200 From: Hanno Biber Subject: Job Announcement for Corpus Researcher at the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus CORPUS RESEARCHER / AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus The "AAC - Austrian Academy Corpus" is looking for corpus researchers: Job description: The applicant will support the AAC working group in their text technology projects. He/she will be investigating innovative methods in exploiting middle to large sized text corpora (of predominantly German language texts). Acting as a member of a group of scholars engaged in corpus research, a readiness to communicate across boundaries of disciplines as well as an eagerness to explore new IT methods and approaches applying them to literary and cultural studies, linguistics, history etc. are a prerequisite for the job. The candidate's responsibilities will include both encoding and programming tasks, documenting his/her work in form of regular publications either as a single or as a co-author. Requirements: The researcher we are looking for has a degree (preferably PhD) in computer science, informatics, corpus linguistics, general linguistics or any other discipline in the humanities with a research focus on IT related issues and has strong programming skills (preferably C++, Delphi and/or scripting languages). Ideally, he/she has a background in applied research making use of written textual resources, has experience with applied research on textual data, and has an international research track record and publication record in the field. How and where to apply: The AAC - Austrian Academy Corpus (http://www.aac.ac.at/) is a research department based within the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which is mainly funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, and is situated in the historic centre of Vienna (Austria). Interested applicants should submit a CV along with a statement of research interests and letters of reference (if to hand). The position is open until filled, the duration of the contract will be at least for one year with the possibility of extension to a long-term or permanent position. Email: aac@oeaw.ac.at _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 10 05:06:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEDC2B53; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:06:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EC962B4C; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:06:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090410050618.9EC962B4C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:06:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.683 blasts from the past of computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 683. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: collaborate like our own neurons [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: a scientist's historiography [3] From: renata lemos (87) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.680 the spirit of Humanist --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:50:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: collaborate like our own neurons At the very end of his article, "Warren McCulloch's search for the logic of the nervous system" (Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 43.2, 2000) that I cited yesterday, Michael Arbib talks in a very neurological way a la McCulloch about collaboration. The image is quite charming, and I think would do us some good to contemplate. But before I quote Arbib's words, a preliminary note is needed. McCulloch was one of those people who seem to draw ideas from everywhere. As a young man he spent time in the U.S. Navy, where he learned about the strategic idea known as "redundancy of potential command". Arbib explains as follows: > In a naval battle, there are many ships widely separated at sea, and > normally command rests in the ship with the Admiral. But if some > fighting breaks out or some crucial information becomes available > locally, then temporarily the ship that has that information is the > one with command. He then relates this to McCulloch's subsequent work: > This notion of redundancy of potential command, rooted in McCulloch’s > experience in World War I, came in the 1960s to yield the view that > the nervous system is not to be seen as a pure hierarchy but rather > operates by cooperative computation. Thus the neurological metaphor, which we're now equipped to understand. Here are Arbib's final words, where collaboration comes in: > Of course, each scientist must master a certain palette of > techniques, whether empirical or theoretical. Nonetheless, the idea > of seeing how we can go beyond technique to answer fundamental > questions remains crucial if the fruits of these techniques are to > transcend mere data collection. Some neuroscientists worry more about > theory or cognition, some focus on anatomy, or neurophysiology, or > neurochemistry. But the array of talents and techniques marshaled by > a community of scholars who know how to communicate with each other > really creates a redundancy of potential command, as it were, to take > control of this incredible question: how does the brain work? or any of the many other questions we have, indeed the wonderfully endless questioning of the humanities. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:11:40 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a scientist's historiography The following comes from a man in the very thick of technological progress, at the time vice-president and dean of engineering at MIT: > A review of the mode of living of our forefathers, if it is to be > useful, should be sympathetic in its attitude. The lapse of time > often obscures the difficulties surrounding a former generation, and > we are apt to smile at crudities when a just estimate should rather > leave us to marvel that so much was accomplished with so little. > > It is especially pertinent that we should review the technical > accomplishments of another period only in the light of the > contemporary science. Otherwise, we may well be guilty of a > patronizing complacency, and as a result lose the benefit to be > derived from a really analytical view of history.... It is possible > that by taking our minds back, divesting them of their modern > knowledge, and then studying these bygone days in an attempt really > to appreciate their true worth, we would lose some of our > satisfaction with respect to the technical accomplishments of our own > generation, and be better prepared for advance. At least it is worth > the attempt. This is from the introduction to Vannevar Bush's "The Inscrutable 'Thirties: Reflections Upon a Preposterous Decade", The Technology Review 35.4 (January 1933), written tongue-in-cheek as if it were "a preprint of a paper that might be found many years hence among the literary effects of the present Vice-President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology", or one that might be written by a future VP. Good advice, no? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:49:58 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.680 the spirit of Humanist In-Reply-To: <20090409052030.D305230D1F@woodward.joyent.us> in the spirit of Humanist, i feel compelled to say a few words about o times, o mores. from the recent wave of cut backs in the DH field, which seems to be happening not only in europe but also in the usa, we are forced to acknowledge that this field is faced with the challenge of "upgrade or die". let us upgrade. this is the spirit of Humanist. so i once again make the call for all humanists to look forward. taking risks is unavoidable right now. looking forward, leaping ahead, and doing it fast, might be the way to ensure the very survival of the digital humanities. in love, light and peace, renata lemos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 10 05:09:11 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA932BB5; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:09:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B80932BAE; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:09:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090410050909.B80932BAE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:09:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.684 new MA, new course & funding, summer school & workshop X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 684. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (112) Subject: CFP: JCDL 09 Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content,withComputational Tools and Services [2] From: "Ray Siemens" (51) Subject: [DHSI, new 2009 course,scholarships] SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (36) Subject: New MA programme in Digital Asset Management [4] From: Dot Porter (56) Subject: DHO 2009 Summer School in Dublin --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:35:15 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: CFP: JCDL 09 Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content, with Computational Tools and Services Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services A Full Day Workshop 19 June 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009) Austin, Texas, USA See http://www.music-ir.org/sgdl-workshop/sgdl-cfp.pdf for a more complete CFP. INTRODUCTION Over the past ten years, the development, deployment and use of “first generation” digital libraries (DL) have matured into a stable use paradigm: the browsing, searching and then retrieving of digital materials. With recent strides being made in the areas of data mining, high performance computing, semantic web, linked-data, and web-services, etc. exciting new opportunities are arising to create “second generation digital libraries” (SGDL) by extending the standard DL use paradigm to include the analysis of the retrieved materials in a tightly integrated manner. It is the purpose of this workshop to bring together all those that are interested in creating SGDL systems by making this analytic extension to the DL use paradigm a reality. The workshop organizers are currently involved in several SGDL technology projects that deal with both humanities and scientific data sets: 1. Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA; http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu) 2. Metadata Data Offer New Knowledge (MONK; http://monkproject.org) 3. MyExperiment (http://myexperiment.org) 4. Networked Environmental Sonic-Toolkits for Exploratory Research (NESTER; http://nester.lis.uiuc.edu) 5. The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR; http://seasr.org) and its Meandre infrastructure system (http://seasr.org/meandre). In order to encourage the exchange of technologies, experiences and ideas, the workshop is soliciting participants drawn from the following communities: 1.CONTENT SPECIALISTS a. Content Scholarship: Researchers, scholars and educators with interest in more fully engaging with and more fully exploiting the content of digital libraries and similar repositories of digital materials b. Content Provision: Digital librarians, digital archivists and data curators, etc. who want to better serve their users by providing extended mechanisms by which uses can select, manipulate and then perform sophisticated analyses on the selected materials. 2. DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS a. Digital Library Development: Digital library software developers and administrators, etc. who are engaged at the coding level with the creation, modification and/or administration of digital library and digital repository software. b. Tool and Service Development: Computer scientists, semantic web/linked-data experts, web-services developers, data mining researchers, computation musicologists, and digital humanists, etc. who are developing analytic tools that should be better integrated into digital library and digital repository installations. 3. Call for Participation: We invite the participation of all interested parties. You may participate at one or more level(s): 1. Presenter 2. Panelist 3. General Participant Presentations and/or demonstrations are solicited that cover such topics as: 1. Prototype or deployed systems that have SGDL capabilities 2. Prototype or deployed analytic toolkits that could play a role in creating SGDL systems 3. Use case scenarios based upon actual or intended SGDL capabilities 4. Intellectual property issues surrounding content accessibility and exploitation 5. Intellectual property issues surrounding the integration of foreign tools into extant DL systems (i.e., license incompatibilities). 6. Interface, security and user management issues 7. Computational infrastructure issues (i.e., providing compute cycles for the analyses and storage of results) 8. Standards, either extant or proposed, that can help generalize the integration process across unique collections and tools Formal papers are not required. However, we do want to have an extended abstracts 2-4 pages (JCDL format) for the demos and presentations along with appropriate presentation materials (copies of slides, charts, etc.) for inclusion in the workshop information package. Submission requirements: Whether you want to participate as a General Participant, Presenter and/or Panelist, we would like you to contact the Workshop Chair ASAP. We would like to have your name, background information, contact information, and the level at which wish to participate. For those wishing to present we would also appreciate brief abstract of your proposed lecture/demonstration along with any special equipment requirements. (NOTE: this does not constitute formal registration; it is merely a means by which we can better plan the workshop). Submission Information: Send all expressions of interest, proposals, and questions, to the Workshop Chair (with the subject line: SGDL Workshop), J. Stephen Downie [jdownie@illinois.edu]. Deadlines: 10 May 2009 for submitting proposals for lectures and/or demonstrations 10 June 2009 for submission of “camera ready” package materials. Contact information for Workshop Chair: Dr. J. Stephen Downie, Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820-6212 fax: (217) 244-3302 Email: jdownie@illinois.edu -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:05:26 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: [DHSI, new 2009 course,scholarships] SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars DHSI 2009 8-12 June, U Victoria http://www.dhsi.org/ A quick note, as we move forward with our preparations for the 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, to mention that we're pleased to be able to confirm a new course offering for 2009, SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars. Loretta Auvil and Boris Capitanu will be joining us from NCSA/UIUC to offer the course, and have generously agreed that a good number of spots in the course will be available by tuition scholarship. If you're interested in a tuition scholarship spot in this course - either as a new enrollee, or as one of the 100 or so already enrolled in the 2009 DHSI - please ensure that you have an account at http://www.dhsi.org/ and, then, drop a note to institute@uvic.ca. Regular registration is available directly via the DHSI website, http://www.dhsi.org/. Tuition fellowship spots are available on a first-come first-served basis; transfer of those already enrolled in other DHSI courses can be facilitated. All best, Ray [From http://www.dhsi.org/courses] [6] SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars Loretta Auvil and Boris Capitanu This course focuses on introducing participants to The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research, SEASR, providing humanities, arts, and social science communities a transformational cyberinfrastructure technology. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about SEASR through a comprehensive set of presentations and hands-on exercises meant to outline the key aspects of the technology and how it can be applied to solve real-world research problems. SEASR eases scholars' access to digital research materials and enhances scholars' use of them through analytics that can uncover hidden information and connections. SEASR fosters collaboration, too, through empowering scholars to share data and research in virtual work environments. SEASR technology is also designed to enable digital humanities developers to design, build, and share software applications that support research and collaboration. Developers can tailor applications both in whole and part to fit scholars' research needs---from changing the visualization landscapes that provide them with views of analytical results, to inserting new analytics that support their linguistic analysis for different time periods or languages, to readjusting entire steps in the work process so that researchers can validate results and alter their queries. The course will incorporate a variety of learning activities ranging from presentations to structured application sessions to designing specialized analyses. Topics will include: Overview of SEASR infrastructure (components, flows, applications), Introduction to text mining tools, and Using and creating Zotero flows. Bring a laptop for hands-on exercises (with admin privileges or install the following Java 1.5+ and Firefox 3.x with these plugins: Zotero 1.0.x and SEASR Analytics for Zotero). See http://seasr.org/. ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:45:22 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: New MA programme in Digital Asset Management Something of interest to all digital humanists. copied from the Stoa: http://www.stoa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------- New MA programme in Digital Asset Management The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) in collaboration with the Centre for e-Research both at King’s College London has just launched its new Masters Programme in Digital Asset Management. This complements CCH’s existing graduate programmes: MA Digital Humanities, MA Digital Culture and Technology, PhD (Digital Humanities). There is a promotional flyer with full details at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/05/00/84/MADAMleafletfinal.pdf All details about graduate study at CCH are at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/pg/ Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist Centre for Computing in the Humanities School of Arts and Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:11:27 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: DHO 2009 Summer School in Dublin Announcing the 2009 DHO Summer School In conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect 13 -17 July 2009 http://dho.ie/ss2009 To register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TIhP7y31Wm_2fvjsIL5B3uSw_3d_3d Following the success of the 2008 DHO Summer School, the 2009 Summer School will be held from 13-17 July 2009 at Academy House in Dublin, Ireland. This year's event will be larger and it is being held in conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect, two prominent virtual communities in digital literary studies. Registration for the Summer School is now open. Early-bird registration is available until May 15, 2009. Early-bird registration for the week-long summer school is € 375. After 15 May standard registration cost of €450 will apply. To register or for more information, go to: http://dho.ie/ss2009 If you are at an HSIS institution please contact your HSIS representative. A list of a list of representatives is available at http://www.dho.ie/committee * Programme Master Classes will be led by two of the leading textual scholars in the world: Jerome McGann, founder of NINES and co-founder of SPECLAB, will be speaking on ' Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture.' Hans Walter Gabler, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University, is presenting: 'From Conception to Design and Vice Versa: Ways to make your mark-up do what you want it to do at the interface.' In addition, Paul Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University, Belfast will lecture on 'Humanities Digital Deluge: Serendipity, Scholarship, Sustainability.' There are also four week-long workshop strands:  • Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative: Theory and Practice led by James Cummings (University of Oxford) and Dot Porter (DHO);  • Data Modelling and Databases for Humanities Research led by Aja Teehan (An Foras Feasa, NUI, Maynooth) and Don Gourley (DHO);  • Data Visualisation for the Humanities led by Paolo Battino (DHO), Shawn Day (DHO), and Faith Lawrence (DHO);  • Text Transformations with XSLT led by Laura Mandell (Miami University) and Kirstyn Leuner (Miami University). For more details, consult the Summer School website at: http://dho.ie/ss2009 Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) regarding the summer school. We look forward to seeing you in Dublin. -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 11 07:24:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F542FF6; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:24:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CA4F52FE5; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:24:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090411072412.CA4F52FE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.685 text-analysis speculations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 685. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:51:04 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.678 text-analysis speculations Willard, If you accept that the majority of logical operators in a language like English are expressed by the core set of function words, then a logical stylistics of natural language would have to limit it self to some modified set of those words (perhaps with some additional operators thrown in). In addition, the signature which is developed to describe the stylistics of a given author would have to be composed of some specific, unique, and logically coherent relation between how those terms are used by the author. I guess this would look like a kind of syntactical analysis. I would argue that the combination of various statistical measures which underpins some stylistics is not formal or logical, but rather qualitative. This to me is the strength of statistical approaches; they allow us to dig empirically into the rich "alogical aspects in language" (which, for me, constitute the inspired elements of a writer like Poe or Swift). Sincererly, Devin Griffiths -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:19 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 678. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: Turing, McCulloch & Pitts, Weaver and text-analysis [2] From: "Ian.Lancashire" (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.676 text-analysis in the news --[1]----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:51:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Turing, McCulloch & Pitts, Weaver and text-analysis In the context of the possibilities for text-analysis, consider the following. 1. In a letter to the editor in the Times Literary Supplement for 4 May 1962, Karen Spärk Jones and T. R. McKinnon Wood pointed out that the problems and arguments concerning machine translation can be generalised to "any field which is concerned with handling language". In other words, what has happened in MT should, at least in principle, concern us. 2. In his memorandum of 15 July 1949, "Translation", Warren Weaver wrote the following: > A more general basis for hoping that a computer could be designed > which would cope with a useful part of the problem of translation is > to be found in a theorem which was proved in 1943 by McCulloch and > Pitts. This theorem states that a robot (or a computer) constructed > with regenerative loops of a certain formal character is capable of deducing any legitimate conclusion from a finite set of premises. > Now there are surely alogical elements in language (intuitive sense of > style, emotional content, etc.) so that again one must be pessimistic > about the problem of literary translation. But, insofar as written > language is an expression of logical character, this theorem assures one that the problem is at least formally solvable. In other words, MT links us, "insofar as written language is an expression of logical character", back to the work on the physiology of thought pursued by McCulloch and Pitts by means of networks of idealised neurons. 3. This work on the physiology of thought had a number of sources, but certainly one of them was the Turing Machine, which linked the behaviour of humans and machines. As Tara Abraham puts it, in "(Physio)logical circuits: The intellectual origins of the McCulloch-Pitts neural networks", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 38.1 (2002), > Simply put, Turing was able to define the complicated process of > computation in "mechanical" terms, with the notion of a simple > algorithm so exhaustive, rigorous, and unambiguous that the executor > would need no "mathematical knowledge" to carry out its task. Turing > had linked the behavior of humans and machines: in both cases, > "computing numbers" involved a finite number of "states of mind" or > "configurations." These "states of mind," according to Turing, were > irreducible: the "operations" performed by a logic machine or a human > computer can be split up into "simple operations" so elementary they > cannot be further divided. So, we have the human person in one of his or her many roles (here doing calculations) rendered as a machine, which in turn serves in the design of an idealised scheme to explain how humans think. That scheme then contributes to another for rendering the strictly machine-like aspects of a specific expression of thinking in one language into another. And it lives on to teach us about the limits of what we can expect from text-analysis. Or does it -- teach us about limits, that is? Propositional statements are one thing, but when stylometric techniques applied to a literary text demonstrate consistency in the style, say, of Swift, or Poe, or whomever, then is it fair to say that what is found is an "expression of logical character" in that literary language? Is, then, that "logical character" extractable in some way from the statistical patterning of language? I have the sense that I'm going around in circles. Can anyone see around the next bend? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:32:49 -0400 From: "Ian.Lancashire" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.676 text-analysis in the news In-Reply-To: <20090408082145.B161F2F662@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to Willard for this note. The Agatha Christie paper and poster were quietly presented at the 19th annual Rotman Institute conference (on cognition and aging) last month. You can find both at http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Lancashire+Hirst-extabs-2009.pdf Somehow Anne Kingston found out and wrote a fine article on them in Maclean's Magazine last week at http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/02/the-ultimate-whodunit/ which in turn attracted the attention of the Guardian and UPI. The paper argues that my Christie findings confirm Peter Garrard's evidence (in analysing Iris Murdoch's novels) that a sudden decline in vocabulary richness is an early marker of AD. I used Rob Watt's Concordance for vocabulary and indefinite nouns, and TACT (still usable in a virtual OS on my PC) to collect repeating phrases. Graeme and his students are now developing software to analyze for degraded syntactic features. We are fortunate to collaborate with Dr Regina Jokel, a post-doctoral researcher at Baycrest in speech pathology and AD. Anyone interested in this subject should read Peter Garrard's recent paper, "Cognitive Archaeology: Uses, Methods, and Results," in Journal of Neurolinguistics 22.3 (May 2009): 250-65 ... a study of Harold Wilson's contributions to questions period. Garrard also uses Rob Watt's Concordance and John Burrows' delta. Ian Lancashire University of Toronto _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 11 07:24:55 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C501D2067; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:24:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E3FA2036; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090411072454.1E3FA2036@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.686 scholarships for MA studies at King's London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 686. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:18:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Scholarships for study at King's College London PLEASE CIRCULATE The School of Arts & Humanities at King's College London is offering 16 scholarships to the value of £5,000 (U.S. $7,318; CAN $8,981; AUS $10,186) for pursuit of an MA degree. See www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/grad/prospective/humsintscholar.html. Check out the MA programmes in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch/pg/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 11 07:30:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B083218B; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:30:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0805F2184; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:30:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090411073024.0805F2184@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:30:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.689 Mapping Digital Humanities discussion; leadership change at SCI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 689. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joseph Gilbert (43) Subject: leadership transition at the Scholarly Communication Institute [2] From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu (75) Subject: [HASTAC Announcement] Mapping the Digital Humanities, A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum now underway --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:01:52 -0400 From: Joseph Gilbert Subject: leadership transition at the Scholarly Communication Institute Dear Colleagues, Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian, and Diane Parr Walker, Deputy University Librarian at the University of Virginia Library and Co-Principal Investigators of the Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI), announced today that Richard E. Lucier will step down as director of SCI, and that Abby Smith, currently senior advisor to SCI, will become director, effective April 10, 2009. Bethany Nowviskie, currently SCI program associate, will become associate director. Richard Lucier founded the Institute in 2003, together with Deanna Marcum, and under his leadership, SCI has worked to advance scholarly communication through annual summer Institutes and working with and advising Institute participants throughout the year. Lucier has actively advised SCI participants in the development of EthicShare, the Architecture Visual Resources Network (recently launched as SAHARA), and the Online Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. With initial three-year funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) began in 2003 with the overall goal of providing an opportunity for leaders in scholarly disciplines, academic libraries, advanced technologies, and higher education administration to study, develop, and implement creative and innovative strategies to advance scholarly communication in the context of the ongoing digital revolution. Extended by the Mellon Foundation for an additional six years, SCI has most recently focused on Architectural History (2006); on Visual Studies (2007); and in 2008 on models and strategies for national “centers of excellence” in humanities scholarship. The upcoming Institute at the University of Virginia Library in 2009 will explore the use of geospatial technologies in the humanities. Future sessions in 2010 and 2011 will further explore the integration of multimedia into emerging areas of inquiry. SCI is advised by a Steering Committee, whose members are leaders in the academic, digital humanities, and research library communities. More information about SCI is available here: http://uvasci.org/ and a full press release about the leadership transition is available here: http://www.uvasci.org/news/2009/04/10/leadership-transitions-at-sci/ -- Joseph Gilbert Head, Scholars' Lab Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library 434.243.2324 | joegilbert@virginia.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:46:48 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: [HASTAC Announcement] Mapping the Digital Humanities, A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum now underway An announcement from HASTAC.org ************************************************ Please join the HASTAC Scholars for a discussion on: Mapping the Digital Humanities A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/ forums/04-06-09Mapping-the-Digital-Humanities Much has been said of maps, and it seems that--with technologies and software such as Loopt, the iPhone, ArcGIS, and Google Maps and Earth--people are becoming increasingly familiar with where, exactly, they are located. Of course, mapping suggests more than "you are here." It implies not only the delimiting of how people relate to each other, to space and place, and to objects, but also the study of how those relationships emerge. What's more, mapping is no doubt a slippery term. As scholars such as Willard McCarty note, it is affiliated with an array of other concepts and practices, such as modeling, diagramming, networking, and representation. With such affiliations in mind, this HASTAC discussion, facilitated by Jentery Sayers and Matthew W. Wilson, seeks to aggregate and unpack how "mapping" (broadly understood) is mobilized in different learning and research spaces, across the disciplines, in the field of the digital humanities: * How does mapping inform how scholars identify novel patterns in their own research and archives? * What does mapping afford pedagogy and classroom learning, and how does it foster collaboration and media expansion? * How do mapping projects by academics alter how they engage their community partners and publics, and vice versa? Regardless of experience in or familiarity with the digital humanities, we invite participation from anyone who is currently involved in a mapping project. We imagine that contributors could include, but are certainly not limited to, critical geographers, cartographers, literary historians, artists, architects and urban planners, community-based researchers, cultural anthropologists, information scientists, students in digital humanities courses, public intellectuals, and scholars of new media, design, and composition. Come join in the discussion at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-06- 09Mapping-the-Digital-Humanities Jentery Sayers is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Washington (UW), and he teaches computer-integrated courses situated in the digital humanities, new media, and science and technology studies. In both his research and teaching, he is invested not only in historicizing technology in particular cultural contexts, but also exploring how it can be mobilized through creative, critical and collaborative projects. His dissertation, "Invisible Technologies?: Media Ecology and the Senses", attends to how technology is culturally embedded in 19th and 20th century Anglo-American literature, with particular emphasis on sound technologies and their relation to print. In Spring 2009, he is teaching two courses: Mapping the Digital Humanities" (an advanced undergraduate course at UW-Seattle, in the Comparative History of Ideas program) and "New Media Production" (an introductory arts technique course at UW-Bothell, in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences). He has been named a HASTAC Scholar, a UW Huckabay Teaching Fellow, and a UW Science Studies Network Fellow for his technology-focused cultural research and collaborations in the development of digital humanities curricula. In 2009-10, he will be a dissertation fellow in the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the UW. Matthew W. Wilson is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, and will be Assistant Professor of Geography at Ball State University in the next academic year. His research is situated across political, feminist, and urban geography as well as science and technoculture studies, interfacing these with the more specified field of "critical geographic information systems". He is interested in how geographic information technologies enable particular neighborhood assessment endeavors, and how these kinds of geocoding activities mobilize notions of "quality-of-life" and "sustainability". His dissertation research concentrates at the intersections of several phenomena, namely the energies with which nonprofit and community organizations approach neighborhood quality- of-life issues, the increased role that geographic information technologies have in addressing this kind of indicator work, as well as the increased geocoding of city spaces more generally. In his fifth year as an instructor with the University of Washington GIS Certificate program, he lectures on principles of cartography and cartographic critique. He also serves as the editorial assistant for Social & Cultural Geography. He has been named a HASTAC Scholar and a Huckabay Teaching Fellow, for his collaborative role in developing interdisciplinary pedagogies for the digital humanities. http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-06-09Mapping-the-Digital-Humanities _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 11 07:32:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67D4220C; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:32:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A09372203; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:32:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090411073213.A09372203@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:32:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.690 cfp: NLP for Libraries; London Seminar 2009-10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 690. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (54) Subject: cfp: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2009-10 [2] From: Luca Dini (40) Subject: CFP Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:37:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2009-10 Call for papers, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 2009-10 (tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar) All within range of London during the 2009-10 academic year, October through May, are invited to submit proposals to give a seminar in the London Seminar series, on any topic related to digital text and scholarship. The London Seminar is held once per month, at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1, in Bloomsbury. It is co-sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. Interested individuals should write to the undersigned with a proposed title, c.v. or equivalent URL and a preference for date(s). The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future of and for the book. The primary form of discussion is a yearly series of seminars by leading scholars and practitioners involved in the making of digital editions and scholarly textual resources, in reflecting on these productions and in examining the historical and material culture of written language as these inform practice. Running through and uniting the seminars is the single question, “What is to be done?” They are in that sense all meant to be practical investigations from which guiding theory will emerge, feed back into a revised practice and so help us to progress. The Seminar is deeply rooted in the history of textual production and its scholarship but is preoccupied with the future. It takes as its starting point Alan Turing’s principle of computing as a scheme for constructing indefinitely many machines – from which we derive the practice of constructing indefinitely many varieties of the digital book and indefinitely many ways of studying the book in any form. Its question is not how to arrive at the best successors to this or that existing form or the best configuration of libraries to house and manage the products, rather how continuously to remake the digital book and its environment so that they serve “the living condition of the human mind” (Peirce). The Seminar explores through practical experiment the changing ways in which this continuous remaking is to be done and both the challenges it poses and the opportunities it offers to our institutions. Titles and abstracts for past seminars are available online, via tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar and the "Past Events" and "Events Archive" links. Willard McCarty Convenor willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:05:26 +0100 From: Luca Dini Subject: CFP Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries In-Reply-To: <47650.10.170.136.84.1238691125.squirrel@www.di.fct.unl.pt> Call for Papers First NLP4DL Workshop Viareggio, Italy 15 June 2009 Digital libraries represent a crucial contact point among traditional libraries, recent advances in Information Technology, and Natural Language Processing technologies. In a sense, digital libraries represent a *perfect* crossroads: they are mainly built out of text, they are consulted by humans via natural language, and one of the major tools for accessing the information they hold, metadata, is a mix of structured and unstructured information. The First Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (NLP4DL) workshop, organised under the auspices of the CACAO project (eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, ECP 2006 DILI 510035 CACAO), aims to collect all fundamental and innovative research which is done in connection with Natural Language Technologies applied to the digital libraries universe. The workshop will host invited speakers together with talks/papers concerning: -free text access to full-text digital libraries; -access to digital resources via metadata; -NLP techniques for harmonizing metadata in digital library (DL) federations; -cross-language access to DLs; -cross-language harmonization of metadata; -discovery in DLs: hyperlinking, clustering, user-oriented categorization; -management of digital collections via NLP-based algorithms; -adaptation of linguistic resources to thematic DLs; -fundamental issues: named entity extraction, word sense disambiguation, translation disambiguation. All abstracts papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted contributions will be distributed on a CD at the workshop. A volume from the conference will be published in Fall 2009. Depending on the number of high quality submissions, a poster/demo session may also be held. Practical Information ================ The conference will be held in Viareggio, Italy on 15 June 2009. More details will be available soon at the conference website at http://www.cacaoproject.eu/NLP4DL09 . Important Dates ============ Deadline for submission (Abstract, maximum five pages): 20 April 2009 (flexible, upon notice); submission should be sent as a PDF file to . Notification of acceptance: 4 May 2009 Conference version of the paper due (Instructions will be provided to authors): 1 June 2009 Conference date: 15 June 2009 Press version of the paper due: 4 September 2009 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Apr 12 07:45:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A9621CC; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:45:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D997021B3; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:45:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090412074511.D997021B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:45:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.691 new series: mathematical linguistics & language theory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 691. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:05:55 +0100 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: new book series A new book series is going to be announced in a few weeks by a major publisher under the (tentative) title of Mathematics, Computing, Language, and the Life: Frontiers in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Theory SERIES DESCRIPTION: Language theory, as originated from Chomsky's seminal work in the fifties last century and in parallel to Turing-inspired automata theory, was first applied to natural language syntax within the context of the first unsuccessful attempts to achieve reliable machine translation prototypes. After this, the theory proved to be very valuable in the study of programming languages and the theory of computing. In the last 15-20 years, language and automata theory has experienced quick theoretical developments as a consequence of the emergence of new interdisciplinary domains and also as the result of demands for application to a number of disciplines, most notably: natural language processing, computational biology, natural computing, programming, and artificial intelligence. The series will collect recent research on either foundational or applied issues, and is addressed to graduate students as well as to post-docs and academics. TOPIC CATEGORIES: A. Theory: language and automata theory, combinatorics on words, descriptional and computational complexity, semigroups, graphs and graph transformation, trees, computability B. Natural language processing: mathematics of natural language processing, finite-state technology, languages and logics, parsing, transducers, text algorithms, web text retrieval C. Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and programming: patterns, pattern matching and pattern recognition, models of concurrent systems, Petri nets, models of pictures, fuzzy languages, grammatical inference and algorithmic learning, language-based cryptography, data and image compression, automata for system analysis and program verification D. Bio-inspired computing and natural computing: cellular automata, symbolic neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, DNA computing, molecular computing, biomolecular nanotechnology, circuit theory, quantum computing, chemical and optical computing, models of artificial life E. Bioinformatics: mathematical biology, string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics, mathematical evolutionary genomics, language processing of biological sequences, digital libraries The connections of this broad interdisciplinary field with other areas include: computational linguistics, knowledge engineering, theoretical computer science, software science, molecular biology, etc. The first volumes will be miscellaneous and will globally define the scope of the future series. INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE: Contributions are requested for the first five volumes. In principle, there will be no limit in length. All contributions will be submitted to strict peer-review. Collections of papers are also welcome. Potential contributors should express their interest in being considered for the volumes by April 25, 2009 to carlos.martinvide@gmail.com They should specify: - the tentative title of the contribution, - the authors and affiliations, - a 5-10 line abstract, - the most appropriate topic category (A to E above). A selection will be done immediately after, with invited authors submitting their contribution for peer-review by July 25, 2009. The volumes are expected to appear in the first months of 2010. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Apr 12 07:46:49 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D912259; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:46:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D6C1E224A; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:46:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090412074646.D6C1E224A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:46:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.692 events: law & neuroscience; books & reading X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 692. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ray Siemens" (46) Subject: CFP, Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations forUnderstanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age (23 and 24October 2009, U Victoria) [2] From: Humanities (40) Subject: research conference - Call for applications --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:03:23 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP, Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations forUnderstanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age (23 and 24October 2009, U Victoria) Call for Papers: INKE 2009 Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age 23 and 24 October 2009, University of Victoria (http://www.uvic.ca) Proposals by 1 June 2009 to inke.conference@gmail.com 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 artifacts--electronic books, being just one type of many--that must sustain those practices now and into the future. This conference explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work 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, and [5] and reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area. We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area to INKE 2009, to be held at the University of Victoria, 23-24 October 2009. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal. Some funding is available to assist in graduate student travel to this event; if you wish to apply for this, please indicate this when submitting your proposal. Please send your proposals before 1 June 2009 to inke.conference@gmail.com. Proposals will be reviewed and participants contacted by 1 July 2009, and papers for publication in the conference volume will be due 15 August 2009. Conference details will be posted as they are available to http://www.inke.ca/inke2009, beginning 1 May 2009. Programme Committee: Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Claire Warwick (U C London), Tassie Gniady (U Victoria, Coordinator). ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:34:41 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: research conference - Call for applications For wide dissemination: Call for applications for two Conferences in the Humanities ESF-COST Conference on Law and neuroscience: our growing understanding of the human brain and its impact on our legal system 26-31 October 2009 - Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy Programme and applications: accessible online at www.esf.org/conferences/09302 http://www.esf.org/conferences/09302 Deadline for applications: 16 July 2009 Chair: Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics, UK Scope: This conference will address empirical evidence and current research on the likely impacts of neuroscience on legal practice, with a specific focus on European legal systems. Topics will include: * The legal and societal impact of recent neurobiological research on aggression, impulsivity and anti social conduct; * The impact of brain imaging technologies on the criminal justice system. Impact of neuroscience on criminal responsibility, sentencing and punishment; * Evidence from current cases in criminal and civil law on the impact of neuroscience on witness credibility and the rules of evidence. Problems, possibilities and perils of neuroscience based lie detection; * The implications of the use of neuroscience for screening, risk prediction and preventive interventions; * Challenges to law and regulation in Europe posed by the neurosciences. Grants: available for researchers, especially young researchers, to cover the conference fee and travel costs Further information: visit www.esf.org/conferences/09302 or contact Ms. Antje Teegler, Conference Officer (ateegler@esf.org) ************************************************************************************************** ESF-LiU Conference on The Changing Use and Misuse of Catha Edulis (Khat) in a Changing World: Tradition, Trade and Tragedy 5-9 October 2009 - Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden Programme and applications: accessible online at www.esf.org/conferences/09274 http://www.esf.org/conferences/09274 Deadline for applications: 5 July 2009 Chair: Dr. Michael Odenwald, University of Konstanz, Germany Vice-chairs: Dr. Nasir Warfa, Queen Mary, University of London, UK - Dr. Axel Klein, University of Kent, UK Scope: The conference will present and discuss the current state of knowledge on the multi-faceted and swiftly changing issues related to khat (a naturally occurring stimulant plant, traditionally used in a number of African and Arab countries) at the Horn of Africa, in Europe and elsewhere. It will foster the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion among economists, social and political scientists, natural scientists, social and medical scientists, healthcare and social care professionals, health service providers, as well as policy makers, international organisations and community groups. The programme will cover: 1. Economic, ecological and political issues of khat use 2. The changing culture of khat use 3. Pharmacological, medical and psychological issues related to khat use 4. Legislation, regulation and international schedulling Grants: are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel costs Further information: visit www.esf.org/conferences/09274 or contact Ms. Jean Kelly, ESF Conference officer (jkelly@esf.org) ______________________________ Ivanka Angelova | Communications Officer European Science Foundation - Communications Unit | 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 | 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 48 | Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 | Email: iangelova@esf.org | www.esf.org http://www.esf.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 14 05:44:40 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326BC2F15; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:44:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 491C92F04; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:44:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090414054437.491C92F04@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:44:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.693 invitation to comment: Harnad on Fodor on Darwin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 693. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:32:35 +0100 From: Stevan Harnad Subject: On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution: Invitation to Comment Dear all, I've written a summary and critique of Jerry Fodor's critique of Darwin's principle of Natural Selection and posted it on CogPrints: http://cogprints.org/6417/ I've also launched a discussion Forum at Philpapers and invite discussion there: http://philpapers.org/browse/38/thread.pl?tId=202 (If you are not yet registered to Philpapers, it would be a good idea to register as this site is now on the way to becoming an important one for serious scholarly discussion of philosophical topics.) Best wishes, Stevan Harnad --- On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution http://philpapers.org/browse/38/thread.pl?tId=202 Stevan Harnad I would like to invite discussion on my paper, On Fodor on Darwin On Evolution, which is a critique of Jerry Fodor's Hugues Leblanc Lectures at UQAM on "What Darwin Got Wrong" (Fodor, forthcoming; Fodor & Piatelli-Palmarini, forthcoming). Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have happened") and because (2) only minds can select. Hence Darwin's analogy with "artificial selection" by animal breeders was misleading, and evolutionary explanation is nothing but post-hoc historical narrative. I argue that Darwin was right on all counts. Until Darwin's "tautology," it had been believed that either (a) a god had created all organisms as they are, or (b) organisms had always been as they are. Darwin revealed instead that (c) organisms have heritable traits that evolved across time through random variation, with survival and reproduction in (changing) environments determining (mindlessly) which variants were successfully transmitted to the next generation. This not only provided the (true) alternative (c), but also the methodology for investigating which traits had been adaptive, how and why; it also led to the discovery of the genetic mechanism of the encoding, variation and evolution of heritable traits. Fodor also draws erroneous conclusions from the analogy between Darwinian evolution and Skinnerian reinforcement learning. Fodor's skepticism about both evolution and learning may be motivated by an overgeneralization of Chomsky's "poverty of the stimulus argument" -- from the origin of Universal Grammar (UG) to the origin of the "concepts" underlying word meaning, which, Fodor thinks, must be "endogenous," rather than evolved or learned. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 14 05:45:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2BD2F8F; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0BB82F82; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090414054524.F0BB82F82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.694 new publications: LLC 24.1; Writing Systems Research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 694. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" (51) Subject: LLC on Computing the Edition for April 2009; Vol. 24, No. 1 [2] From: Willard McCarty (14) Subject: cfp for new journal: Writing Systems Research --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:08:38 +0100 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: LLC on Computing the Edition for April 2009; Vol. 24, No. 1 Literary and Linguist Computing 24.1 Special Issue 'Computing the Edition': April 2009; Vol. 24, No. 1 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue1/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Julia Flanders, Fred Unwalla, and Peter Shillingsburg Introduction Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 1-7; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn037. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/1/1?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Fraistat and Steven E. Jones Editing Environments: The Architecture of Electronic Texts Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 9-18; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn032. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/9?etoc Peter Shillingsburg The dank cellar of electronic texts Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 19-25; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn031. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/19?etoc C. M. Sperberg-McQueen How to teach your edition how to swim Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 27-39; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn034. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/27?etoc Peter Robinson What text really is not, and why editors have to learn to swim Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 41-52; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn030. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/41?etoc Julia Flanders Data and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of Knowledge Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 53-62; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn036. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/53?etoc John Lavagnino Access Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 63-76; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn038. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/63?etoc Edward Vanhoutte and Ron Van den Branden Describing, transcribing, encoding, and editing modern correspondence material: a textbase approach Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 77-98; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn035. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/77?etoc Kathryn Sutherland Material text, immaterial text, and the electronic environment Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 99-112; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn033. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/99?etoc Daniel Paul O'Donnell Back to the future: what digital editors can learn from print editorial practice Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 113-125; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn039. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/113?etoc --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:42:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp for new journal: Writing Systems Research Call for papers: Writing Systems Research (WSR) WSR is an innovative new title from Oxford Journals launching in 2009. It is concerned with empirical approaches to writing systems based on the analysis of written data and on experiments. The editors invite research-based contributions from relevant fields such as applied linguistics, psychology, computing and education. To read the full call for papers go to http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3366/1 -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 14 05:45:57 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81EA2FDD; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC9252FC9; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:45:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090414054554.BC9252FC9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:45:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.695 events: text mining X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 695. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:13:40 +0100 From: "gpl@di.fct.unl.pt" Subject: cfp: EPIA09 track on Text Mining and Applications Text Mining and Applications (TeMA’09) Track of EPIA09 TeMA-2009 will be held at the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), in University of Aveiro, Portugal, 12-15 October 2009. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2009 URL: http://epia2009.appia.pt/ This announcement contains: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts. [1] Track Description: Pure symbolic methods for Language Processing alone are unable to address human languages complexity. Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques applied to text, raw or annotated, brought up new insights and completely shifted the approaches to Human Language Technologies. Both approaches, symbolic and statistical based, when duly integrated, bridge the gap between language theories and effective use of languages, and enable important applications. Our aim, with this track, is to bring together innovative contributions to fill in this gap. The track of Text Mining and Applications is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL), Machine Learning (ML) and related areas. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified below. Papers will be blindly reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Best papers will be published at Springer, in LNAI series. If there are additional papers whose quality is sufficiently high for deserving to be presented at TeMA’09, those other accepted papers will be published in a conference proceedings book. [2] Topics of Interest Text Mining: - Language Models. - Multi-word Units. - Lexical Knowledge Acquisition. - Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation. - Semantic Restrictions Extraction. - Acquisition and Usage of Ontologies in Text Mining. - Pattern Extraction methodologies. - Topic Segmentation. - Word and Multi-word Translation Extraction. - Sentiment Analysis. - Text Entailment. - Document Clustering and Classification. - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining. - Information Extraction. Applications: - Natural Language Processing. - Example-Based/Statistical Machine Translation. - Automatic Summarization. - Intelligent Information Retrieval. - Multilingual access to multilingual information. - Question-Answering Systems. - E-training and E-learning. [3] Important dates 29-April-09: Paper submission extended deadline 31-May-09: Notification of paper acceptance 15-July-09: Deadline for final versions 12-15 October-2009: Conference dates [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EPIA2009. [5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2009 conference. No extra fee shall be paid for attending this track. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim F. Ferreira da Silva. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. José G. Pereira Lopes. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Gaël Dias. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal. Vitor R. Rocio. Universidade Aberta, Portugal. [7] Program Committee: Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd, United Kingdom) Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Antoine Doucet (University of Caen, France). António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Antonio Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA). Belinda Maia (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Christel Vrain (Université d'Orléans, France). Eric de La Clergerie (INRIA, France) Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France). Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). Gaël Dias (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Guillaume Cleuziou (University of Orléans, France). Irene Rodrigues. Universidade de Évora, Portugal). Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska (ESIGETEL, France). Luisa Coheur (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal). Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain). Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil). Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom). Nuno Mamede (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal). Nuno Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). Pablo Gamallo (Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain). Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain). Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal). Pavel Brazdil (University of Porto, Portugal). Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, France). Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia). Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Vitor Jorge Rocio (Universidade Aberta, Portugal). Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium). [8] Contacts Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal, Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, PortugalTel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10722 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: gpl [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 15 08:12:14 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE382E2A; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:12:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7ED6C2E17; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:12:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090415081212.7ED6C2E17@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:12:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.696 new NEH guidelines for preservation & access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 696. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:37:51 -0400 From: "Aguera, Helen" Subject: NEH-New Guidelines and Application Instructions for Preservation and Access Humanities Collections and Reference Resources The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program. These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference materials, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. Maximum awards are $350,000 for up to three years. Eligible activities include: · arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; · cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; · implementing preservation measures, such as basic rehousing, reformatting, deacidification, or conservation treatment; · digitizing collections, or preserving and improving access to born-digital resources; · developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject field or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; · creating encyclopedias; · preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars; · developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographical information systems (GIS); and · designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. The new guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, can be found at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html. The application receipt deadline of July 15, 2009 is for projects beginning May 2010. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of the 2008 awards is available at http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/preservationFeb2008.html. ************* > NEH Preservation and Access Research and Grants > The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in the Research and Development grant competition. > Eligible projects may include efforts to: > * Develop technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections. > * Explore more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections. > * Develop automated procedures and computational tools to integrate humanities data in disparate online resources. > * Investigate and test new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not amenable to standard modes of digitization. > NEH especially encourages applications that address the following areas: > * Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including those for which no analog counterparts exist. > * Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats. > > * Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies. > The new guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, may be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html. > The application receipt deadline of July 30, 2009 is for projects beginning May 2010. All applications submitted to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. > Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov . > A list of recent R&D awards (2005-2009) is available by emailing preservation@neh.gov . > Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. > > The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 15 08:13:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B2F2EB3; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:13:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC7832E9C; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:13:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090415081347.AC7832E9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.697 events: storytelling; reasoning; medieval studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 697. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (47) Subject: Fwd: Kalamazoo workshops: final announcement [2] From: "reds@dei.uc.pt" (110) Subject: ICIDS 2009 - Call for Papers [3] From: Enrico Franconi (69) Subject: 5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:01:34 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: Kalamazoo workshops: final announcement In-Reply-To: <96f3df640904132342q15260d0au32ad082beb30cd21@mail.gmail.com> The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). Workshop registration online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d 1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian. Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.). Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dot Porter is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics. Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required. The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65. To register, complete the online form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at jimb@uca.edu Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at dot.porter@gmail.com -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:29:36 +0100 From: "reds@dei.uc.pt" Subject: ICIDS 2009 - Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <96f3df640904132342q15260d0au32ad082beb30cd21@mail.gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS *** ICIDS ? Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2st International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Submission Deadline: June 20, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------- ***SCOPE*** Interactive entertainment, including novel forms of edutainment, therapy, and serious games, promises to become an ever more important market. Interactive Digital Storytelling provides access to social and human themes through stories, and promises to foster considerably the possibilities of interactive entertainment, computer games, and other interactive digital applications. ICIDS also identifies opportunities and addresses challenges for redefining the experience of narrative through interactive simulations of computer-generated story worlds. Interactive Storytelling thus promises a huge step forward for games, training, and learning, through the aims to enrich virtual characters with intelligent behavior, to allow collaboration of humans and machines in the creative process, and to combine narrative knowledge and user activity in interactive artifacts. In order to create novel applications, in which users play a significant role together with digital characters and other autonomous elements, new concepts for Human-Computer Interaction have to be developed. Knowledge for interface design and technology has to be garnered and integrated. Interactive Storytelling involves concepts from many aspects of Computer Science, above all from Artificial Intelligence, with topics such as narrative intelligence, automatic dialogue- and drama management, cognitive robotics and smart graphics. In order to process stories in real time, traditional storytelling needs to be formalized into computable models, by drawing from narratological studies, and by taking into account the characteristics of programming. Consequently, due to its technological complexity, it is currently hardly accessible for creators and end-users. There is a need for new authoring concepts and tools supporting the creation of dynamic story models, allowing for rich and meaningful interaction with the content. Finally, there is a need for theoretical foundations considering the integration of so far disjunctive approaches and cultures. Before ICIDS, two European conference series had been serving as main platforms for these topics: * ICVS (International Conference on Virtual Storytelling) * TIDSE (Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment) While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. ICIDS 2009 will be held in the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, in Guimarães, Portugal, EU. It is organized by the University of Minho and the CCG Centro de Computação Gráfica, supported by several partners. We welcome research papers, case studies and demonstrations presenting new scientific results, innovative technologies, best practice showcases, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the multidisciplinary research field of interactive digital storytelling and its related application areas, e.g. games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, edutainment, and entertainment. Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not limited to: * Interactive Storytelling Theory * Virtual Characters and Agents * Environments and Graphical Effects * Interactive Cinematography * Design of Sound Interactivity * Story Generation and Drama Management * New Authoring Modes * Narrativity in Digital Games * Mixed Realities and Mobiles * Tools for Interactive Storytelling * Emotion Design for Interactive Storytelling * Non-Visual Senses for Interactive Storytelling * Social and Cognitive Approaches for Interactive Storytelling * Semantic knowledge for Interactive Storytelling * Real-time techniques for Interactive Storytelling * Collaborative environments for Interactive Storytelling * Evaluation and user experience reports * Case studies and demonstrations *** SUBMISSIONS *** - All submissions should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format (see ?Information for LNCS Authors? at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must be in English. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review. Submissions (of all categories) that receive high ratings in the review process will be selected for publication by the program committee. They shall be published as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For the final print-ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft Word/LaTeX, TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required. Submission categories: - Full papers (8-12 pages in the proceedings) - Short papers (4-6 pages in the proceedings) - Demonstration and posters (2-4 pages in the proceedings) For the submission and review process, we will use the Easychair conference management system. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** June 20, 2009 Submission deadline (all categories) August 20, 2009 Author notification of the review result September 10, 2009 Submission of the print-ready version December 9-11, 2009 ICIDS Conference Interactive Storytelling ?09 A limited number of Student Volunteers will be granted free access to the conference in exchange for helping with on-site organizational tasks. Details on application modalities will be published after the reviewing process. *** COMMITTEES *** Co-Chairs: Ido Iurgel, Nelson Zagalo, Paolo Petta Local Chairs: Pedro Branco & Rogério Silva (Programme Committee under construction, please check website) *** CONTACT *** Ido Iurgel, idoiurgel@gmail.com, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Nelson Zagalo, nzagalo@ics.uminho.pt, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Paolo Petta, paolo.petta@ofai.at, OFAI, Austria Best regards, Rogério E. da Silva State University of Santa Catarina - UDESC PhD Student @ University of Minho, Guimaraes/Portugal ICIDS'09 - Local Organisation --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:00:39 +0100 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: 5th Reasoning Web Summer School 2009 - call for participation In-Reply-To: <96f3df640904132342q15260d0au32ad082beb30cd21@mail.gmail.com> This message was originally submitted by franconi@INF.UNIBZ.IT 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 (70 lines) ------------------ 5th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2009) "Semantic technologies for information systems" http://www.reasoningweb.org/2009/ Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy 30 August - 4 September 2008 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10 May 2009 The "Reasoning Web" series of annual Summer Schools was started in 2005 by the Network of Excellence REWERSE. This edition will focus on the use of semantic technologies to enhance data access on the web. Courses will present a range of techniques an formalisms which bridge semantic based and data intensive systems. COURSES: 1. Description Logics. by Franz Baader 2. Ontologies and databases. by Diego Calvanese 3. Database theory for RDF. by Claudio Gutierrez, Marcelo Arenas, Jorge Perez 4. Database technology for RDF. by Souripriya Das (Oracle) 5. Answers-set semantics based tools. by Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni 6. The Semantic Desktop. by Siegfried Handschuh, Michael Sintek 7. Logical foundations of XML and XQuery. by Maarten Marx REGISTRATION FEE: €400 (including all lunches and social events). APPLICATION: The applications have to be submitted by the *** 10th of May 2009 *** according to the instruction in the web site: http://reasoningweb.org/2009/ Details on the registration procedure will be available after the notification of acceptance of the application; details on the accommodation are already available in the web site. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Thomas Eiter, Vienna Technical University, Austria. Enrico Franconi (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland. Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France. Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Sergio Tessaris (co-chair), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. REASONING WEB SCHOOL STEERING COMMITTEE: Uwe Assmann. Cristina Baroglio (chair). François Bry. Norbert Eisinger. Nicola Henze. Massimo Marchiori. Axel Polleres (deputy chair). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Stefano David, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 16 05:44:02 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD11F3C7C; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:44:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 289A73C72; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:44:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090416054401.289A73C72@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:44:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.698 traces of mind: where, and for how long? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 698. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:42:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: traces of mind? In "The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision", Critical Inquiry 21 (Autumn 1994), Peter Galison argues that the idea of cybernetics was formed within and shaped by the way the enemy was conceived during World War II, as a man at one with his machine of death and destruction. That in itself is not difficult to see and to accept as what we call a formative influence. What's difficult is the question of how much of this conceptual influence sticks to the cybernetic ideas and devices, and how hard it sticks, or whether it becomes an inescapable part of them. How much of the enemy Other is inherited by and comes secretly along with e.g. the idea of interaction design, and is reinforced by wargaming and cyberporn? Galison walks the tightrope quite carefully: > Cultural meaning is neither aleatory nor eternal. We are not free by > fiat alone to dismiss the chain of associations that was forged over > decades in the laboratory, on the battlefield, in the social > sciences, and in the philosophy of cybernetics. At the same time, > it would clearly be erroneous to view cybernetics as a logically > impelled set of beliefs. Nothing in the feedback device implies a > representation of human beings as behavioristic black boxes; nothing > in the mathematics entails by deduction alone a universe reducible > to Wiener's monadic input-output analysis. What we do have to > acknowledge is the power of a half-century in which these and other > associations have been reinstantiated at every turn, in which > opposition is seen to lie at the core of every human contact with the > outside world. (p. 266) Elsewhere, in Image and Logic, which was then in progress, he writes about the "partial disencumberance of meaning" as objects pass from one person to another in the "trading zone", i.e. across cultural boundaries. In our daily work we are starting to draw on ideas of "thing knowledge". Some of us, with reference e.g. to the experimental sciences and arts, assert that computational objects can be scholarly objects on an equal par with papers and books, i.e. that they have a kind of permanent and integral meaning not disencumbered as the objects pass from person to person. Is this the case only as long as the objects pass from hand to hand within a common culture and delimited period of time during which assumptions are stable? It seems to me that here we face a fundamental problem in the social sciences, namely the reality of socio-cultural entities, which are not material but anything but immaterial or, in many cases, especially transient. Spooky, I say, but would wish to say more. Any ideas? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 16 05:45:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B143CEF; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:45:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22DAB3CDD; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:45:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090416054515.22DAB3CDD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:45:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.699 events: immersive worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 699. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:13:19 -0400 From: Kevin Kee Subject: REGISTRATION OPEN - INTERACTING WITH IMMERSIVE WORLDS CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPEN - INTERACTING WITH IMMERSIVE WORLDS CONFERENCE Interacting with Immersive Worlds An International Conference presented at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario JUNE 15-16, 2009 Register to attend at: www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Focusing on the growing cultural significance of interactive media, IWIW will feature academic papers organized along four streams: -Challenges at the Boundaries of Immersive Worlds features creative exploration and innovation in immersive media including ubiquitous computing, telepresence, interactive art and fiction, and alternate reality. -Critical Approaches to Immersion looks at analyses of the cultural and/or psychological impact of immersive worlds, as well as theories of interactivity. -Immersive Worlds in Education examines educational applications of immersive technologies. -Immersive Worlds in Entertainment examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies, such as computer games. The IWIW conference also features 4 keynote speakers: -Janet Murray, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology -Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, IT University of Denmark -Geoffrey Rockwell, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta -Deborah Todd, Game Designer, Writer and Producer, and Author of Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light Visit the conference Web site at www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Organizing Committee: Jean Bridge, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, jbridge@brocku.ca Martin Danahay, Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University, mdanahay@brocku.ca Denis Dyack, Silicon Knights, Catharines, Ontario, denis@siliconknights.ca Barry Grant, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, bgrant@brocku.ca David Hutchison, Faculty of Education, Brock University, davidh@brocku.ca Kevin Kee, Department of History, Brock University, kkee@brocku.ca John Mitterer, Department of Psychology, Brock University, jmitterer@brocku.ca Michael Winter, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, mwinter@brocku.ca Philip Wright, Information Technology Services, Brock University, philip.wright@brocku.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 17 05:19:16 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EF3205F; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4642C202F; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:19:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090417051913.4642C202F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:19:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.700 traces of mind: where, and for how long X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 700. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:22:27 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.698 traces of mind: where, and for how long? In-Reply-To: <20090416054401.289A73C72@woodward.joyent.us> > > > In our daily work we are starting to draw on ideas of "thing knowledge". > Some of us, with reference e.g. to the experimental sciences and arts, > assert that computational objects can be scholarly objects on an equal > par with papers and books, i.e. that they have a kind of permanent and > integral meaning not disencumbered as the objects pass from person to > person. Is this the case only as long as the objects pass from hand to > hand within a common culture and delimited period of time during which > assumptions are stable? wow, this is truly an inspiring and exciting question. papers and books are very stable and self-enclosed formats of knowledge transmission; computational objects that are interactive and that have various degrees of artificial intelligence might increase and / or further develop the knowledge that was originally embodied in it... there´s one big difference. however when it comes to cultural differences on the user side, then books are not so different from computational objects, because understanding of content (be it embodied on written language, be it embodied on digital code and multimedia) is always relative to the cultural context in which it is being presented... > It seems to me that here we face a fundamental problem in the social > sciences, namely the reality of socio-cultural entities, which are not > material but anything but immaterial or, in many cases, especially > transient. Spooky, I say, but would wish to say more. another amazing issue. the way I see it the reality or "materiality" of socio-cultural entities is so elusive that it prevents its full replication by semi-autonomous software agents that, by all other means but emotional, are capable to simulate human intelligence. socio-cultural identities are so intricate, that robotics has not even come near its complexity yet... digital humanists might be called upon to provide cultural insights to robotics research in the future. renata lemos _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 17 05:20:23 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2CF20ED; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE29B20D9; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090417052021.CE29B20D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.701 events: GIS in history; nano-minded work X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 701. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (92) Subject: NANO at Science Gallery, call for ideas [2] From: Sara Schmidt (41) Subject: Re: CFP Historical GIS at ESSHC conference, Ghent, Belgium --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:30:55 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: NANO at Science Gallery, call for ideas In-Reply-To: <49E74EAB.7090307@pucsp.br> NANO: THINK SMALL CALL FOR IDEAS The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin (www.sciencegallery.com http://www.sciencegallery.com/ http://www.sciencegallery.com/ ) is seeking ideas and proposals from scientists, engineers, artists, designers and creative thinkers for a new interdisciplinary exhibition and festival exploring nanotechnology and its implications for our future. Focussed on the dreams, nightmares, possibilities and achievements of this broadly interdisciplinary field, the exhibition will explore what it means to act in a realm we can never directly see and to consider how our emerging science and technology is enmeshed with some of our deepest hopes and fears. What we are looking for: We want your suggestions and ideas for events, speakers, debates, films, workshops, live experiments performances, competitions, exhibits, interactive installations and demonstrations exploring nanotechnology, its applications and implications. Suggestions may be based on previously existing projects or may be a new proposal specifically for NANO. We are also very interested in hearing from you about people and projects you think we should contact or include even if you are not directly involved. Please send initial suggestions tonano@sciencegallery.com > nano@sciencegallery.com > andhttp://www.youtube.com/sciencegallery http://www.sciencegallery.com/nano Subject: Re: CFP Historical GIS at ESSHC conference, Ghent, Belgium In-Reply-To: <49E74EAB.7090307@pucsp.br> ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:08:43 +0100 >From: "Gregory, Ian" >>To: > > Dear All, > > The European Social Science History Conference > (ESSHC) has added Historical GIS to its History and > Computing network to create a new network > provisionally called "Historical Computing and GIS." > It is hoped that that this new network will become a > focus for Historical GIS research in Europe. This > new network will be launched at the next ESSHC > conference which will take place in Ghent, Belgium > 13-16th April 2010. > > We welcome submissions on all aspects of using GIS > in historical research from database development to > applied research in which GIS has made a > contribution to understanding a historical topic. > Contributions from PhD students are encouraged. > > To submit a paper for this please pre-register at: > http://www.iisg.nl/esshc. This requires your > details, a paper title, and a short abstract > (100-500 words). > > To submit a full session please contact > I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk. A session usually > requires four papers plus a discussant but other > formats are welcome. > > Deadline for submission: 1st May 2009. > > For informal enquiries please contact: Ian Gregory > (I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk) > > Best wishes, > > Ian Gregory _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 18 09:55:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A52864E7A; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:55:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F4504E72; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:55:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090418095551.8F4504E72@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:55:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.702 something to read? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 702. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:50:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: something to read? Surely there is no one here who lacks for things to read, so I won't go there, as we say nowadays. But just as surely there are some here who cultivate particular writers, or who may be -- as I just was -- on the lookout for a digital version of a particular essay. (In my case, this was for Stanley Cavell's "The Uncanniness of the Ordinary", 1986.) For all those who find themselves in either category, I can recommend looking at the University of Utah site where The Tanner Lectures on Human Values sit, ready to be downloaded, from http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/. Scanning down the list of past lectures will make you wish there were more hours in the day. Here let me commend those responsible for the Tanner Lectures for their wonderful generosity. Let me also draw the attention of those who observe what's going on, and what follows from that, to yet another example of the digital yeast that is utterly transforming how we do what we do -- and, however slowly, what we do. (I take Langdon Winner's point about hype in his essay "Mythinformation"; all I ask is that others *attend* to what's going on.) And let me further recommend to those attenders that they think about the Tanner site &al as an example of what can be done against the current prophecy that in a few decades the humanities will exist only at a few elite institutions. Let no one think that an idle threat, nor give up in despair. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 18 09:58:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59ACB4FCC; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:58:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0153A4FBE; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:58:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090418095825.0153A4FBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.703 events: noisy text; digital futures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 703. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - cch (72) Subject: Digital Futures Training Event at King's, 27th April - 1st May 2009 [2] From: L V Subramaniam (37) Subject: CFP : 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data(AND-09) [ Deadline Extended to May 4, 2009] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:17:08 +0100 From: kcl - cch Subject: Digital Futures Training Event at King's, 27th April - 1st May 2009 DIGITAL FUTURES LONDON 2009 We are pleased to announce the Digital Futures 5 day training event: Digital Futures Academy: from digitization to delivery King's College London, Council Room, Strand 27th April - 1st May 2009 Only a few places left - book now to avoid disappointment! http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/ KCL staff receive a 50% discount off the full rate. Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in co-operation with Lyrasis, USA. Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues involved in developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery. Digital Futures will cover the following core areas: o Planning and management o Fund raising o Understanding the audience o Metadata - introduction and implementation o Copyright and intellectual property o Sustainability o Financial issues o Visual and image based resource creation and delivery o Implementing digital resources o Digital preservation The Digital Futures leaders are: * Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ * Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis http://www.palinet.org/ The leaders have over 30 years of experience in the digital realm between them. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise. What past delegates say about Digital Futures: * "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a digitization program" * "The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable." * "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you." * "Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience." * "A really useful course and great fun too!" King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane 2nd Floor London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2861 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Email: kdcs@kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalconsultancy.net www.digitalconsultancy.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:59:33 +0100 From: L V Subramaniam Subject: CFP : 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data(AND-09) [ Deadline Extended to May 4, 2009] The deadline for submission has been extended to May 4, 2009. Request you to actively participate. 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-09) 23-24 July 2009, Barcelona, Spain in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) http://and2009workshop.googlepages.com/ Call for Papers Workshop Description and Objectives Noisy unstructured text data is ubiquitous in real-world communications. Text produced by processing signals intended for human use such as printed/handwritten documents, spontaneous speech, and camera-captured images, are prime examples. ICR/OCR error rates on paper documents can range widely from 2-3% for clean inputs to 50% or higher depending on the quality of the page image, the complexity of the layout, aspects of the typography, etc. Individual variability in handwriting make this a particularly difficult form of input and error rates here are often substantially higher than for machine print text. Telephonic conversations between call center agents and customers often see 30-40% word error rates, even using state-of-the-art ASR techniques. In spite of the tremendous challenges such data presents, it is pervasive in applications of interest to corporations and government organizations. Recognition errors are not the sole source of noise; natural language and the creative ways that humans use it can create problems for computational techniques. Electronic text from the Internet (emails, message boards, newsgroups, blogs, wikis, chat logs and Web pages), contact centers (customer complaints, emails, call transcriptions, message summaries), and mobile phones (text messages) is often noisy, containing spelling errors, abbreviations, non-standard words, false starts, repetitions, missing punctuation, missing case information, and pause-filling words such as “um” and “uh” in the case of spoken conversations. The Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-09) is devoted to issues arising from the need to contend with noisy inputs, the impact noise can have on downstream applications, and the demands it places on document analysis. AND 2009 will build on two previous successful AND workshops held in 2007 (in conjunction with the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and in 2008 (in conjunction with the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference). AND 2008 proceedings are available in ACM Digital Library (http://portaltest.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1390749&type=proceeding&coll=portal&dl=ACM). Selected papers from AND 2007 was published in a special issue of International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) and selected papers from AND 2008 will appear in IJDAR at a future date. For AND 2009 as well, selected papers will be published in IJDAR and presently we are in the process of deciding of the publisher for the proceedings. Topics of Interest (but not limited to) o Noise induced by document analysis techniques and its impact on downstream applications o Formal models for noise, including characterization and classification of noise o Treatment of noisy data in specific application areas, including historical texts, multilingual documents, blogs, chat / SMS logs, social network analysis, patent search, and machine translation o Data sets, benchmarks, and evaluation techniques for analysis of noisy text o All other topics arising from noise and its effects on textual data Participation We hope that the workshop will allow researchers working in areas related to Unstructured Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Document Image Analysis etc., to focus on the needs of users extracting useful information from noisy text. The target audience is a mixture of academia and industry researchers working with noisy text. We believe this work is of direct relevance to domains such as call centers, the world-wide web, and government organizations that need to analyze huge amounts of noisy data. Submission Guidelines Full papers may be submitted following the guidelines specified on the AND 2009 website: http://and2009workshop.googlepages.com/ Important Dates Paper Submission: April 20, 2009, Extended to May 4, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2009 Camera-Ready papers due: June 20, 2009 Workshop Chairs Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University Shourya Roy, IBM Research, India Research Lab Klaus U Schulz , University of Munich L. Venkata Subramaniam, IBM Research, India Research Lab Workshop contact Daniel Lopresti, lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu Please visit the workshop website http://and2009workshop.googlepages.com/ for information about participation and submitting papers. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Apr 19 08:12:29 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9655345F2; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:12:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4FA7045E2; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:12:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090419081227.4FA7045E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:12:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.704 doing as well as the codex, continued X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 704. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:36:25 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: doing as well as the codex, continued I have a question about how we might do better with our digital objects for reading than I, at least, know how to do. The situation must be familiar to everyone here: so much to read that every opportunity needs to be taken and device used to keep in mind the reading that must be done and to make sure that it does. With printed books I do the following: place piles of them on my desk, signifying immediately-to-be-read; place others strategically here and there around the house, including in the loo, so that I cannot avoid the reminder and can avail myself of them in the few moments of idleness I have; carry with me the current book or article under assault so that I can read it and make notes when in transit. Unlike Pliny I am not wealthy enough to be transported wherever I go, so time is lost to reading when I walk. And no one buys my groceries for me etc. The physicality of the codices in question thus helps enormously in the seemingly trivial process of being reminded. Furthermore, these physical objects can be positioned in space so as to signify what kind of book each is in my own rapidly changing categorizations of them. Now compare the digital objects. I have at the moment somewhat more than 4.5GB of written material. Some of it I have read but most of it merely collected in anticipation of wanting to read it. This personal collection is in fact loosely unified by my choices and alphabetized by the last name of the author. The material for current research is more elaborately categorized. My question here pertains to how I might use whatever tools could almost effortlessly be deployed -- otherwise, requiring significant effort, they won't -- to serve the same sort of strategy as I use with my printed books. What do you do? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Apr 19 08:13:21 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D452B4647; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:13:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B4F14638; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:13:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090419081320.1B4F14638@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.705 events: information & language technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 705. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:35:34 +0100 From: saggion Subject: Brazil: STIL 2009 - Second Call for Papers 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology STIL 2009 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09 September 7-11, 2009 São Carlos, Brazil Second Call for Papers STIL 2009 (formerly known as TIL - Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology) is the annual Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (http://www.sbc.org.br/) (SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/). The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, and Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industry participants that work on those areas. STIL-2009 welcomes research work in human language technology in general (and not only Portuguese) in various fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computer science: text mining, semantic web, information extraction,information retrieval, natural language interfaces, written and spokenlanguage processing, tagging, parsing, summarization, machine translation, writing tools, anaphora resolution, statistical language processing, NLP resources, applications and evaluation. * Linguistics: terminology, lexicology and lexicography, grammar formalisms,discourse analysis, ontologies, translation, corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics. * Information science: information filtering and retrieval, digital libraries,document and knowledge management, knowledge modelling. * Natural language understanding and generation. * Others: work on Philosophy or Human sciences in general, related to language processing. Call for Submissions: Papers can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is not allowed. Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only through the JEMS SBC system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). Authors should chose between full papers for oral presentation or short papers to be presented as posters, and should also indicate whether they accept their full paper to be reallocated as a poster should the reviewers recommend so. Full papers should describe complete work with significant results and cannot exceed 8 pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Short papers (posters) may describe ongoing research with partial results, software demos etc. and should not exceed 4 pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Paper formatting must follow the SBC guidelines available at http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads As papers will be blind-reviewed, they should not display any information regarding their authorship in the header or body of the text. Important Dates Papers/posters submission: 15 May 2009 Notification to the authors: 13 July 2009 Camera ready copy: 24 July 2009 Program Committee Alexandre Agustini (PUCRS, Brazil) Laura Alonso (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentine) Sandra M. Aluísio (USP/ICMC, Brazil) Jason Baldridge (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Gladis Barcellos (UFSCar, Brazil) António Branco (UL, Portugal) Ariadne Carvalho (UNICAMP, Brazil) Helena de Medeiros Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil) Rove Chishman (UNISINOS, Brazil) Javier Couto (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Gustavo Crispino (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Iria da Cunha (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Valéria Feltrim (UEL/Londrina, Brazil) Ariani Di Felippo (UFSCar, Brazil) Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil) Marcelo Finger (USP/IME, Brazil) Sérgio Freitas (UFES, Brazil) Maria Fuentes Fort (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Adam Funk (University of Sheffield, UK) Michel Gagnon (Ecole Polytechnique , Canada) Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Caroline Gasperin (USP/ICMC, Brazil) Claudine Gonçalves (UFES, Brazil) Marco Gonzalez (PUCRS, Brazil) Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain) Louise Guthrie (University of Sheffield, UK) Celso Antônio Kaestner (UTFPR/PR, Brazil) Tracy King (PARC, USA) Aldebaro Klautau (UFPA, Brazil) Valia Kordoni (DFKI, Germany) Stanley Loh (UCPEL, Brazil) José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNL, Portugal) Gabriel Infante Lopez (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentine) Maria Luiza Machado Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) Nuno Marques (UNL, Portugal) Palmira Marrafa (UL, Portugal) David Martinez (University of Melbourne Merbourne, Australia) Ronaldo Teixeira Martins (Mackenzie, Brazil) Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK) Ruy Luiz Milidiu (PUC/Rio, Brazil) Jean-Luc Minel (Universite de Paris X, France) Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Juan Manuel Torres Moreno (Universite d'Avignon, France) Daniel Nehme Muller (UFRGS, Brazil) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Viviane Moreira Orengo (UFRGS, Brazil) Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Ivandré Paraboni (USP/EACH, Brazil) Thierry Poibeau (Uviversite de Paris XIII, France) Carlos Augusto Prolo (PUCRS, Brazil) Paulo Quaresma (Univ. Évora, Portugal) Violeta Quental (PUC/Rio, Brazil) Antonio Ribeiro (European Railway Agency, France) Lucia Rino (UFSCar, Brazil) Horacio Rodriguez (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) João Luís Garcia Rosa (USP/ICMC, Brazil) Karin Kipper Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Thais Cristófaro Silva (UFMG, Brazil) Bento da Silva (UNESP, Brazil) Alberto F. de Souza (UFES, Brazil) Renato Rocha Souza (UFMG, Brazil) Lucia Specia (Xerox, France) Vera Strube de Lima (PUCRS, Brazil) Stella Tagnin (USP/FFLCH, Brazil) Diego Uribe (Instituto Tecnologico de la Laguna, Mexico) Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil) Leo Wanner (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Leandro Wives (UFRGS, Brazil) Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Yi Zhang (DFKI, Germany) CONTACT INFORMATION You can contact us by emailing stil09-l@inf.ufrgs.br General Conference Chairs: Thiago A. S. Pardo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Program Co-Chairs: Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 20 05:13:56 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0195C4D62; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:13:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45AD04D5A; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:13:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090420051353.45AD04D5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:13:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.706 doing as well as the codex X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 706. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "dennis c.l." (65) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.704 doing as well as the codex, continued [2] From: James Rovira (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.704 doing as well as the codex, continued --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:44:45 -0300 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.704 doing as well as the codex, continued In-Reply-To: <20090419081227.4FA7045E2@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, allow me a bit of sophomoric levity in suggesting the hanging of a Kindle around ones neck. yours dennis cintra leite On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 704. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:36:25 +0100 >        From: Willard McCarty >        > > I have a question about how we might do better with our digital objects > for reading than I, at least, know how to do. > > The situation must be familiar to everyone here: so much to read that > every opportunity needs to be taken and device used to keep in mind the > reading that must be done and to make sure that it does. With printed > books I do the following: place piles of them on my desk, signifying > immediately-to-be-read; place others strategically here and there around > the house, including in the loo, so that I cannot avoid the reminder and > can avail myself of them in the few moments of idleness I have; carry > with me the current book or article under assault so that I can read it > and make notes when in transit. Unlike Pliny I am not wealthy enough to > be transported wherever I go, so time is lost to reading when I walk. > And no one buys my groceries for me etc. > > The physicality of the codices in question thus helps enormously in the > seemingly trivial process of being reminded. Furthermore, these physical > objects can be positioned in space so as to signify what kind of book > each is in my own rapidly changing categorizations of them. > > Now compare the digital objects. I have at the moment somewhat more than > 4.5GB of written material. Some of it I have read but most of it merely > collected in anticipation of wanting to read it. This personal > collection is in fact loosely unified by my choices and alphabetized by > the last name of the author. The material for current research is more > elaborately categorized. My question here pertains to how I might use > whatever tools could almost effortlessly be deployed -- otherwise, > requiring significant effort, they won't -- to serve the same sort of > strategy as I use with my printed books. > > What do you do? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, > King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; > Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; > Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:46:58 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.704 doing as well as the codex, continued In-Reply-To: <20090419081227.4FA7045E2@woodward.joyent.us> You've posed a great question, Willard. The only possible solution I can think of is to develop a schedule and stick to it. But this is too linear, really -- we usually don't read only one book at a time (at least it's clear to me that you don't, and I don't either) and usually fit article reading in while reading books. However, suppose the schedule were for reading for the week or month? Then we'd have a list of works to read simultaneously, and we could include electronic documents on the schedule to make sure they weren't ignored. I have a related question for those who read electronic books: do you read in the bathtub, if you're the type of person who takes baths? Would you feel more comfortable taking your $6.99 paperback into the tub with you or your $350 Kindle 2? Or on the beach? How do you feel about leaving your $6.99 paperback on your towel while you swim vs. your Kindle? An even more difficult question is how to fit in reading for fun amidst your necessary reading. I've tried making that my reading before sleep, but by then I don't want to read another word. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 21 05:31:41 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B282C445C; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:31:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42D92444A; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:31:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090421053138.42D92444A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.707 reading on 3-inch screens X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 707. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:03:28 -0400 From: David Green Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.706 doing as well as the codex [The following raises the question of how many people actually attempt to do a significant amount of their computing on handheld devices. At one time, under different circumstances of work, I was a strong advocate (or at least a persistent one) of handheld computing, using such a device for taking notes. But more experience with same, and developing habits as well as better circumstances, have led me to abandon the practice, and to revert to bits of paper stuck in books, on which very brief notes are kept. Since then e-book readers have become more or less affordable. These at least potentially could take the place of printouts of downloaded articles. So, a general question: what are your peripetetic reading and note-taking habits? --WM] Hi Willard: I'm still an enthusiastic, if mostly silent, reader of Humanist. I wonder if you might consider this suggestion about format. On many mobile devices, when scrolling down email messages one can see the first 3, 4 or 5 lines or so of text of the message. Humanist though has so much heading that when scrolling down you can never get a view of the specific contents. I wonder if you might consider a re-design - perhaps more of the head details at the bottom? When Humanists started who knew that a significant number of subscribers would be reading on 3" screens! David David Green 170 Brooklawn Terrace Fairfield, CT 06825 redgen@mac.com 203-345-3228 203-520-9155 (mobile) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 21 05:32:37 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E2644FD; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:32:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6F3E944AE; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:32:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090421053234.6F3E944AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:32:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.708 events: book historical lectures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 708. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:16:33 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Fwd: Book Historical Lectures in Antwerp: start April 29th FYI > > The Flemish Society for Book History (VWB) wants to welcome > everybody at their first Book Historical Lecture in the Hendrik > Conscience Library in Antwerp (Hendrik Conscienceplein 4, 2000 > Antwerp, Belgium). It will be the first of a hopefully long-running > cycle of lectures focussing on book history in an international > context. > > All lectures will be held from 17.00 to 18.30 in the magnificent > Nottebohm room (http://stadsbibliotheek.antwerpen.be/tekst/ > Not.htm). The entrance is free, and afterwards there is a small > reception. > > The first lecture will be held at Wednesday April 29th at 17.00 by > professor Paul Dyck. > > _______________________________________________________________ > > prof. Paul Dyck (Canadian Mennonite University), Picturing the > Word: Antwerp Biblical Illustrations at Little Gidding > > Abstract: In the 1630s, the Ferrar family of Little Gidding (near > Cambridge) constructed gospel harmonies by cutting and pasting > printed English New Testaments and Antwerp biblical illustrations, > forming new pages out of pre-existing parts, and also forming what > did not otherwise exist: early 17th century illustrated bibles. > This presentation will describe the Ferrars’ project, with > particular attention to its marriage of a Protestant text to > Catholic images. > _______________________________________________________________ > > I'm looking forward to seeing you there. Please confirm your > attendance: stijn.vanrossem@ua.ac.be > > > Kindest regards, > > Stijn van Rossem > president VWB _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 22 07:58:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE97440FF; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:58:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B813240E7; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:58:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090422075840.B813240E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.709 the longest acronym? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 709. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:48:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the longest acronym I have just run across a good candidate for the longest acronym having anything to do with computing: "USCSRIIDDACWF" for the Universal Study Center for the Salvage and Reorganization of Institutions in Imminent Danger of Destruction Applying Computers Wherever Feasible. Unfortunately for the joke-telling potential of this acronym, the organization named is an imaginary one. It occurs at the beginning of an article proposing the use of computers to further world peace: Louis Fein, "A Proposal for a Scientific Computer-Oriented Project on World Peace Research", Background 7.2 (August 1963): 97-108, available through JSTOR. A contest could be held.... Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 22 08:03:53 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1887427C; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:03:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 826C7426C; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:03:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090422080350.826C7426C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:03:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.710 events: perception; humanities & technology; digital libraries; language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 710. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Luca Dini (64) Subject: Re: CFP Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries [2] From: Richard Moot (59) Subject: ESSLLI 2009 - Early registration deadline approaching [3] From: "M.Boon@GW.UTWENTE.NL" (56) Subject: [SPSP] Interdisciplinary Workshop - Knowledge and Performance inthe Perception of Objects and Living in Bieleveld Univ [4] From: li07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (105) Subject: InterFace 2009: Second Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:20:09 +0100 From: Luca Dini Subject: Re: CFP Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries In-Reply-To: <49DB2516.1060104@celi.it> Call for Papers First NLP4DL Workshop Viareggio, Italy 15 June 2009 Digital libraries represent a crucial contact point among traditional libraries, recent advances in Information Technology, and Natural Language Processing technologies. In a sense, digital libraries represent a *perfect* crossroads: they are mainly built out of text, they are consulted by humans via natural language, and one of the major tools for accessing the information they hold, metadata, is a mix of structured and unstructured information. The First Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (NLP4DL) workshop, organised under the auspices of the CACAO project (eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, ECP 2006 DILI 510035 CACAO), aims to collect all fundamental and innovative research which is done in connection with Natural Language Technologies applied to the digital libraries universe. The workshop will host invited speakers together with talks/papers concerning: -free text access to full-text digital libraries; -access to digital resources via metadata; -NLP techniques for harmonizing metadata in digital library (DL) federations; -cross-language access to DLs; -cross-language harmonization of metadata; -discovery in DLs: hyperlinking, clustering, user-oriented categorization; -management of digital collections via NLP-based algorithms; -adaptation of linguistic resources to thematic DLs; -fundamental issues: named entity extraction, word sense disambiguation, translation disambiguation. All abstracts papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted contributions will be distributed on a CD at the workshop. A volume from the conference will be published in Fall 2009. Depending on the number of high quality submissions, a poster/demo session may also be held. Practical Information ================ The conference will be held in Viareggio, Italy on 15 June 2009. More details will be available soon at the conference website at http://www.cacaoproject.eu/NLP4DL09 . Important Dates ============ Deadline for submission (Abstract, maximum five pages): 11 May 2009; submission should be sent as a PDF file to . Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2009 Conference version of the paper due (Instructions will be provided to authors): 1 June 2009 Conference date: 15 June 2009 Press version of the paper due: 4 September 2009 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:15:36 +0100 From: Richard Moot Subject: ESSLLI 2009 - Early registration deadline approaching In-Reply-To: <49DB2516.1060104@celi.it> 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr/ The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computer science. The 21st edition of ESSLLI will be held in the city center of Bordeaux, France, wine capital of the world and a Unesco World Heritage site. = Course Program = ESSLLI gathers around 500 people from all over the world and offers a total of 48 courses and workshops, divided among foundational, introductory and advanced courses, and including a total of 6 workshops. The courses and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. The full program can be found on our website. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/programme.php = Registration = Registration for ESSLLI is open. Early registration rates are 225 euros for students and 350 euros for others. Note that in order to benefit from the reduced early registration rate, *your payment has to reach us before the 1st of May 2009*. The late registration registration rate is 350 euros for students and 500 euros for others. Early registration deadline: 1st of May 2009. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/reg.php = Accommodation = During registration, ESSLLI participants can reserve student accommodation: simple but inexpensive rooms (12 euros a night) within easy reach by tramway of the ESSLLI lecture rooms. In addition, our website gives an extensive list of hotels in different price ranges. http://esslli2009.labri.fr/accomodation.php We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux this summer! On behalf of the ESSLLI organizing committee Richard Moot --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:25:32 +0100 From: "M.Boon@GW.UTWENTE.NL" Subject: [SPSP] Interdisciplinary Workshop - Knowledge and Performance inthe Perception of Objects and Living in Bieleveld Univ In-Reply-To: <49DB2516.1060104@celi.it> CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS//CALL FOR POSTERS* * * *Interdisciplinary Workshop* * /"Knowledge and Performance in the Perception of Objects and Living Beings/*/"/ *Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld* *October 29-31, 2009* *at Bielefeld University* The philosophical conceptions of perception and cognition have undergone a critical transformation in recent debates. Perception is no longer thought to be a pure "input mechanism" enabling the mind to make rational judgments on the nature of things. Rather, its integral relation to action and higher cognition has become the focus of investigation, keeping pace with new developments in cognition research. The conference aims to clarify the mutual relations between perceptual experience, prior knowledge, and action capacities. Talks will be given by experts from the fields of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, psychology, and computer science. *Invited speakers:*** Prof. Dr. Dana Ballard (University of Texas) Prof. Dr. Moshe Bar (Harvard Medical School) Prof. Dr. Gary Bente (Universität zu Köln) Prof. Dr. Axel Cleeremans (Universität Brüssel) Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf) Prof. Dr. Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen) Prof. Alex Martin, Ph.D. (National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland) Prof. Dr. Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Pachérie (Institut Jean-Nicod) Prof. Dr. Stephen Palmer (University of California) Ulrike Pompe, M.A. (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Prof. Dr. Ralph Schumacher (ETH Zürich) Prof. Susanna Siegel, Ph.D. (Harvard University) Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley (Universitätsklinikum Köln) Prof. Dr. Oliver T. Wolf (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) We welcome *POSTER* submissions. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference as well as at a designated poster session. Please send an extended abstract (600 words max.) or finished Poster (PDF) via email to Ulrike.Pompe@rub.de . If you are going to present an empirical study please send in addition to the abstract two to three power point slides displaying the central results of the study. Deadline for submission is July 15 2009. Acceptance will be announced by August 15th 2009. Selected contributors can ask for support (accommodation) by the ZiF. If you are interested in participating, please register until September, 15 2009 via email to: Marina.Hoffmann@uni-bielefeld.de The organizers, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen Prof. Dr. Gary Bente Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley Ulrike Pompe, M.A. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:35:00 +0100 From: li07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: InterFace 2009: Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20090407120136.2sq05012osk840cw@secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk> InterFace 2009: Second Call for Papers **PLEASE NOTE - ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PRESENT A POSTER OR LIGHTNING TALK** **DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 1ST** InterFace 2009: 1st National Symposium for Humanities and Technology 9-10 July, University of Southampton, UK. http://www.interface09.org.uk InterFace is a new type of annual event. Part conference, part workshop, part networking opportunity, it will bring together postdocs, early career academics and postgraduate researchers from the fields of Information Technology and the Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. As well as having a focus on Digital Humanities, it will also be an important forum for Humanities contributions to Computer Science. The event will furthermore provide a permanent web presence for communication between delegates both during, and following, the conference. Delegate numbers are limited to 80 (half representing each sector) and all participants will be expected to present a poster or a 'lightning talk' (a two minute presentation) as a stimulus for discussion and networking sessions. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating keynote talks from world-leading experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects, 'Insider's Guides' and workshops. The registration fee for the two-day event is £30. For a full overview of the event, please visit the website. Confirmed Speakers Keynote: * Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, KCL * Dame Wendy Hall, President of the Association of Computing Machinery University of Southampton Insider's Guides: * Stephen Brown, De Montfort University Knowledge Media Design, De Montfort University * Ed Parsons Geospatial Technologist, Google * Sarah Porter Head of Innovation, JISC Project Showcase: * Mary Orr & Mark Weal, University of Southampton Digital Flaubert * Adrian Bell, University of Reading The Soldier in Later Medieval England * Kathy Buckner, Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University e-Participation Projects in Action: a socio-technical perspective Workshops: 1) Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Arianna Ciula, European Science Foundation & Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University 2) Visualisation Manuel Lima, VisualComplexity.com 3) EPrints Respositories: Managing Data for Mash-ups Leslie Carr & Adam Field 4) Interdisciplinarity & the Media Jon Copley & Claire Ainsworth Paper Submissions: If you are interested in attending, please submit an original paper, of 1500 words or less, describing an idea or concept you wish to present. Please indicate whether you would prefer to produce a poster or perform a 2-minute lightning talk. Papers must be produced as a PDF or in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and submitted through our EasyChair page: - Register for an easy chair account: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/account_apply.cgi - Log in: https://www.easychair.org/?conf=interface09 - Click New Submission at the top of the page and fill in the form. Make sure you: - Select your preference of lightning talk or poster. - Select whether you are representing humanities or technology. - Attach and upload your paper. If you encounter any problems, please e-mail submissions@interface09.org.uk Papers should focus on potential (and realistic) areas for collaboration between the Technology and Humanities Sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments, or both. Prior work may be presented where relevant but the nature of the paper must be forward-looking. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include: Technology * 3D immersive environments * Pervasive technologies * Online collaboration * Natural language processing * Sensor networks * The Semantic Web * Agent based modelling * Web Science Humanities * Spatial cognition * Text editing and analysis * New Media * Linguistics * Applied sociodynamics & social network analysis * Archaeological reconstruction * Information Ethics * Dynamic logics * Electronic corpora Due to the limited number of places, papers will be subject to review by committee and applicants notified by email as to their acceptance. All accepted papers will be published online one week in advance of the conference. Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: 1 May 2009 * Acceptances Announced: 18 May 2009 * Conference: 9th-10th July 2009 For further information, please visit the conference website (http://www.interface09.org.uk) or e-mail admin@interface09.org.uk. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 23 05:13:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C2B3A99; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:13:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC1023A82; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:13:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090423051322.BC1023A82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:13:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.711 longest acronym X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 711. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Steven Totosy (62) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.709 the longest acronym? [2] From: "Wouden, A. van der" (45) Subject: FW: [Humanist] 22.709 the longest acronym? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:17:10 +0800 From: Steven Totosy Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 22.709 the longest acronym? In-Reply-To: <20090422075840.B813240E7@woodward.joyent.us> willard: this related to your posting: i have been arguing against acronyms in URLs for years (although not very successfully even in the case of my own journal): acronyms in URLs, traditionally and historically, come from techies who for a number of reasons would not relate to or agree with "narrative" URLs and this remains the case in too many instances; i would argue, however, that acronyms are not as good or as functional as narrative URLs because they are not immediately recognizable, thus a URL, for example ....humanist/ digitalhumanist.org is incomparably better than the same if it were ....hmnst/dhl.org or some such; of course i am aware of the problem of URLs too long, nevertheless where possible i believe a narrative URL is superior and more user-friendly than URLs with acronyms. best, steven steven totosy de zepetnek http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv * editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu * series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html think of trees before printing this email --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:05:44 +0200 From: "Wouden, A. van der" Subject: FW: [Humanist] 22.709 the longest acronym? In-Reply-To: <20090422075840.B813240E7@woodward.joyent.us> GUACAMOLE, Grammatical Unification-based Analysis in a CAtegorial paradigm with MOrphological and LExical support. (pun intended) as referred to in http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=976841 t (dr.) Ton van der Wouden LUCL/Dutch Department Leiden University PO Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 23 05:14:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496723B1A; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:14:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FDDD3B0B; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:14:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090423051410.8FDDD3B0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:14:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.712 events: libraries & archives; Nissim Francez X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 712. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Henderson, Ian" (43) Subject: 2009 Australia and New Zealand Library and Archives Group Workshop [2] From: Shuly Wintner (8) Subject: Call for participation: Symposium honoring Nissim Francez on theoccasion of his 65th birthday --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:48:46 +0100 From: "Henderson, Ian" Subject: 2009 Australia and New Zealand Library and Archives Group Workshop *** Attachments: mhstore: missing argument to -part THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU BY THE MENZIES CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, ON BEHALF OF THE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LIBRARIES GROUP Advance registrations are open for the following event - please email david.clover@sas.ac.uk to register your interest Australia and New Zealand Library and Archives Group London Workshop Friday 8th May Basement Seminar Room at the Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, London WC2B 4LG. DIRECTIONS ATTACHED Provisional Programme 10.30-11.00 Registration and welcome (Coffee and tea) Session 1: 11.00 - 12.00 - Exploration and Travel (Chair: Dr Frank Bongiorno, Senior Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London) Amanda Engineer (Archivist, Archives and Manuscripts, The Wellcome Library, London) Journeys Down Under: Stories of two 19th Century Naval Surgeons Dr Rob Allan, (ACRE Project Manager, Climate Monitoring and Attribution Group, Met Office Hadley Centre) The international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstruction over the Earth (ACRE) initiative: the need for historical Southern Hemisphere weather observations. Lunch 12.00 - 1.00 (A sandwich lunch will be provided) Session 2: 1.00 - 2.30 - Labour and trade unions (Chair: Ian Henderson, Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College London) A panel discussion exploring resources for and the experience of studying labour history and politics in the UK David Clover Information Resources Manager & Librarian, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Research Library Services, Chris Coates Librarian, Trades Union Congress (TUC) Collections, Holloway Road Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University Dr Frank Bongiorno Senior Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London Session 3: 2.30- 3.30 European collections of note Dr John Cardwell, Archivist, Royal Commonwealth Society Collections, University of Cambridge Arlette Apkarian, Librarian CREDO (the Centre of Research and Documentation on Oceania : Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) Maison Asie Pacifique, Provence University. Registration £10 (£5 students and unwaged) payable on the day to assist with catering costs Please register in advance to david.clover@sas.ac.uk ________________________ David Clover Information Resources Manager/Librarian Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library and Academic Liaison Librarian - Social Sciences (Senate House Library) University of London 28 Russell Square London WC1B 5DS Tel: 020 7862 8840 David.Clover@sas.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:54:46 +0100 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Call for participation: Symposium honoring Nissim Francez on theoccasion of his 65th birthday Languages: From Formal to Natural Symposium honoring Nissim Francez on the occasion of his 65th birthday May 24-25 2009, Technion, Haifa, Israel http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/francez-2009/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 23 05:15:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3083C24; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 253593C13; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:15:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090423051512.253593C13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:15:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.713 reading on 3-inch screens X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 713. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:00:56 +0200 From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.707 reading on 3-inch screens In-Reply-To: <20090421053138.42D92444A@woodward.joyent.us> I have recently been using an iPod Touch as a reading device. I found it works quite well, and allows me to use my regular commuting time to catch upon reading, and also means I don't have to pack a large number of books when spending time away from home. Note-taking facilities are minimal; picking out letters one by one is tedious, so I simply make book-marks which I can then take more extensive notes from on returning home. Apparently cut and paste will be available in a future up-date to the software. Yesterday while participating in a protest against deteriorating conditions in French universities I discovered that you can also read text on the device fairly comfortably while walking round and round in circles - a boon for any academic. I second David Green's suggestion. Best wishes -- Timothy Mason Université de Paris 8 Web-site : http://www.timothyjpmason.com/ Blog (Tracks) : http://timothyjpmason.com/wordpress/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 23 08:34:05 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDAF37E7; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:34:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3D5537D6; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:34:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090423083402.A3D5537D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:34:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.714 being obedient to what? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 714. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:28:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: being obedient to what? In his article, "What is information measurement?", American Psychologist 8 (1953): 3-11, George A. Miller (of WordNet fame) wrote as follows about the then new information theory: > In the first blush of enthusiasm for this new toy it is easy to > overstate the case. When Newton's mechanics was flowering, the claim > was made that animals are nothing but machines, similar to but more > complicated than a good clock. Later, during the development of > thermodynamics, it was claimed that animals are nothing but > complicated heat engines. With the development of information theory > we can expect to hear that animals are nothing but communication > systems. If we profit from history, we can mistrust the "nothing but" > in this claim. But we will also remember that anatomists learned from > mechanics and physiologists profited by thermodynamics. Insofar as > living organisms perform the functions of a communication system, > they must obey the laws that govern all such systems. How much > psychology will profit from this obedience remains for the future to > show. Consider this as a way of putting our situation with respect to algorithmic computing. How, then, would the restatement go? Miller uses the word "obedience" -- a word that denotes first an act of the will, that is, a submission; then, a yielding to some force or agency; then, simply, a manifestation of that force or agency. Thus, in the last of these senses, a living organism performing the functions of a communication system "obeys" its laws; thus the tightrope walker isn’t defying gravity but skilfully manifesting it. How about the child, for whom the parent's wishes are like a force of nature? Consider what happens as that child gets older and begins to have and to assert a mind of his or her own. What about the writer or other user of a language? To what is she or he being "obedient", in what sense and to what degree? In Miller's formulation psychology stands apart from the obedience to the natural law that information theory is supposed perfectly or nearly perfectly to describe. I suppose that an obedient psychology (in the first sense, at least at first) would be trying out this theory, as one tries out an article of clothing, as if it were a perfect fit. Psychology tried out behaviourism and found itself in a straitjacket. Or one can start from the other end of things, as Warren McCulloch did, trying for an "experimental epistemology", looking for what his predecessor Rudolf Magnus called the "physiological a priori" of thought, to which it must be "obedient" (in the third sense). For the interpretative disciplines, such as literary criticism, we construct algorithmic models, which is, it seems, as close as these disciplines can come to something to which obedience is possible -- as if these models were natural law? Recently, as John Burrows says, it has become clear that authorship and features of style as we perceive them constitute statistically significant entities, within the limits of which, one might say, the creative artist has perfect freedom. For the creative practices do we, then, build our own "fence of the law" (as Jacob Bronowski called it) and then live obediently within it? It seems that we scholars can establish its presence. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 23 08:35:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126D1386A; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:35:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 191E83846; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:35:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090423083518.191E83846@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:35:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.715 [Fwd: In Loving Memory of David Reed] X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 715. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:20:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: [Fwd: In Loving Memory of David Reed] Dear colleagues, For all those here who knew David Reed, a long-time member of Humanist -- for how many years I cannot say -- this sad message from his son. Yours, WM -------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:43:58 EDT From: Haradda@aol.com To All Friends of David Reed, I don't know who all of my fathers friends were online, so I am sending this email to everyone in his contacts. My dad died April 21st 2009 from complications of diabetes, over the last 7 years his health slowly worsened. I just thought his friends would want to know. Thank you for being a friend to my dad, I am sure that he appreciated your friendship. Thanks, Chris -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 24 04:51:27 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07A14D42; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:51:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC3184CFE; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:51:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090424045124.CC3184CFE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.716 new book on narrative information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 716. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:14:19 +0100 From: Gian Piero ZARRI Subject: New Book: "Representation and Management of Narrative Information" NEW BOOK: Apologies for multiple postings. Gian Piero ZARRI Representation and Management of Narrative Information, Theoretical Principles and Implementation Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing 2009, X, 302 p. 55 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-077-3 Springer-Verlag London http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-1-84800-077-3 A big amount of important, economically relevant information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of 'narrative' description. Due to the ubiquity of these narrative resources, representing in a general, accurate, and effective way their semantic content - i.e., their key 'meaning' - is then both conceptually relevant and economically important. In this book, we present the main properties of NKRL ('Narrative Knowledge Representation Language'), a language expressly designed for representing and managing, in a standardised way, the 'meaning' of complex multimedia narrative documents. NKRL is also a fully implemented environment that exists in two versions: a relational database-supported version and a file-oriented one. It constitutes probably the most complete and realistic effort realised so far to deal with the huge industrial potentialities of the narrative domain. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book not only supplies an exhaustive description of NKRL and of the associated knowledge representation principles, it also constitutes a source of reference for practitioners, researchers and graduates in domains that range over narrative theories, linguistics and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, knowledge bases, information retrieval, and languages for the ontologies and the semantic web. Contents: - Narratology and NKRL. - The notion of 'event' in an NKRL context. - Knowledge representation and NKRL. - Architecture of NKRL, the four 'components'. - Primitives and semantic roles. - Second order structures. - The semantic and ontological contents. - Ontology of 'concepts' and ontology of 'events'. - The query and inference procedures. - Temporal information and indexing. - High-level inference procedures. - Technological enhancements and theoretical enhancements. - Appendix A: NKRL software. - Appendix B: Plural entities in NKRL. Professional address of the author from February 1st, 2009: Gian Piero Zarri University Paris-Est - LISSI Laboratory 120-122, rue Paul Armangot 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine France Phone: 33-1-41807383 Fax: 33-1-41807369 Email: zarri@noos.fr, gian-piero.zarri@univ-paris12.fr _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Apr 24 04:53:24 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA4A4DF7; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:53:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29BD74DEF; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:53:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090424045322.29BD74DEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:53:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.717 new on WWW: Ubiquity on mind-hygene; Swiss mss X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 717. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christoph_Flüeler (23) Subject: e-codices - NEW UPDATE on the Virtual Manuscripts Library ofSwitzerland [2] From: ubiquity (12) Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:14:44 +0100 From: Christoph_Flüeler Subject: e-codices - NEW UPDATE on the Virtual Manuscripts Library ofSwitzerland e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland "It started as a preservation mission for a single abbey, but grew into a more ambitious effort to put medieval documents from all over Switzerland on a single web site. Now the Stiftsbibliothek is part of a network for digitizing medieval manuscripts called the "Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland". Spiegel Online "What started as a pilot project in 2005 grew sharply last year, when the Saint Gallen project was incorporated into a program to digitize all of Switzerland's roughly 7,000 medieval manuscripts" The New York Times, October 18, 2008 * single point of access for Swiss manuscripts on the internet * a project of the Medieval Institute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland * accessible at: www.e-codices.ch http://www.e-codices.ch/ * follow-up project of CESG - Codices electronici Sangallenses (Digital Abbey Library of Saint Gall). * high resolution digital images: over 140'000 facsimile pages * regularly updated: now 380 complete manuscripts from 16 Swiss manuscript collections * new web application * manuscript descriptions * browse and search functions * sponsed by the Mellon Foundation and E-lib (Digital Library of Switzerland) accessible in German, French, Italian and English English: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en German: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de French: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr Italian: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/it ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:00:16 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: April 21 – May 4, 2009 Mind Hygiene for All - a Concept Map Maintaining mental sharpness and clarity is important to most everyone, and doing so is valuable for maintaining our professional edge. But we are under assault from many directions with challenges that can interfere with mental sharpness. Some of the challenges are familiar; others hide in the background. What are these challenges and what can we do about them? Goutam Saha, has put together a very concise summary of everything contributing to mental hygiene, including the challenges and actions to meet them. He expresses this with mind maps, which themselves contribute to mental clarity. Peter Denning Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2008 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 25 06:29:26 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606D5500B; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9AFE94FB2; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:29:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090425062923.9AFE94FB2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:29:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.718 HASTAC forum on blogging & tweeting academia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 718. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:34:47 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: Blogging and Tweeting Academia: A HASTAC Scholars Forum now underway at hastac.org An announcement from HASTAC.org Please forward widely! ******************************************************* Blogging & Tweeting Academia A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/ forums/04-16-09Blogging-Academia As the tools necessary for creating blogs and other forms of micro-publishing (podcasts, videocasts, microblogs) have become more readily available, many academics have been quick to embrace these new forms of communication. However, academics blog for many different reasons, such as disseminating scholarship, demystifying the inner workings of the academy, or promoting themselves in an uncertain job market. Many academics are employing blogging in the classroom, assigning podcasts as required reading, creating collaborative class blogs, and experimenting with Twitter to develop classroom community. In this forum we will be discussing the theory and practice of academic blogging. The academy has not yet settled on the role that digital scholarship will take in relation to more traditional forms of scholarship, and for this reason scholars are still struggling with questions about the role that bloggers play in spreading disciplinary knowledge, and how this kind of activity should be measured. Likewise, the pedagogical value of blogging, let alone "best practices" guidelines for incorporating blogging into the classroom, are still somewhat up in the air. Join us as HASTAC Scholars John Jones and Ramsey Tesdell facilitate a discussion about such questions as: * How are blogs being used in academic circles? * Do blogs help spread information or create bubbles and isolation of highly specialized academics? * Should blogs be counted for tenure applications? Should blog posts count as publications? * How can blogging enhance student learning? What successful ways have you seen blogging incorporated into pedagogy, and what can we learn from less successful attempts? * How does live blogging impact the experience of academic conferences or other such large, collective events? John Jones is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin where he studies rhetoric and technology. Currently he is an Assistant Director of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing's Computer Writing and Research Lab. Ramsey Tesdell graduated from the University of Washington after writing his thesis, entitled "An Ecology of New Media in Jordan," through which he explored how various new media technologies are being utilized for collective actions. He now lives in Amman, Jordan and writes for 7iber.com. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Apr 25 06:31:25 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FB45095; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA37E507F; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:31:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090425063122.BA37E507F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:31:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.719 events: art history; collective memory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 719. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gardiner, Hazel" (18) Subject: Call for Papers - CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference (2009) [2] From: kcl - ldc (30) Subject: FORWARD --->Friday 1 May: Memory-Media-Global Formations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:43:14 +0100 From: "Gardiner, Hazel" Subject: Call for Papers - CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference (2009) In-Reply-To: <02429B4748296B48824E88E528EAEB534C31A6D794@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - OBJECT AND IDENTITY IN A DIGITAL AGE The CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference Thursday 12 - Friday 13 November 2009, Birkbeck, University of London We live in a time when our identities are increasingly fractured, networked, virtualised and distributed. The same appears to be true of our things. Objects are becoming more contingent, reconfigurable, distributable and immaterial. For the 25th anniversary CHArt conference we are looking for papers that engage with these questions in relation to art practice, production, consumption, representation and display. We are interested in new notions of the identity of the artist, including those involving collaboration and anonymity; new conceptions and ontologies of the art object, as processual, virtual, or hybrid; new means of consumption and reception, whether in galleries and museums, in public spaces, or over networks of broadcast and narrowcast; and the challenges these transformations bring to the display of art and to its curation and access. We also welcome papers looking at earlier parallel transformations such as, for example, those brought about by photography, or developments in printmaking. We welcome contributions from all sections of the CHArt community: art historians, artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, conservators, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, educationalists and philosophers. Please email a three to four hundred word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s by 30 May 2009 to Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk). *Please note that submissions exceeding the stated word count will not be considered* Dr Charlie Gere Chair, CHArt CHArt (www.chart.ac.uk) c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College, University of London 26 – 29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:14:10 +0100 From: kcl - ldc Subject: FORWARD --->Friday 1 May: Memory-Media-Global Formations In-Reply-To: <02429B4748296B48824E88E528EAEB534C31A6D794@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> Memory-Media-Global Formations An Interdisciplinary conference hosted by the department of Creative, Critical and Communications Studies of the University of Greenwich. Keynote speakers include: Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia), Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths College), Susannah Radstone (University of East London), Stephanos Stephanides (University of Cyprus), Leo Burley (Southbank Show) Friday 1st of May 2009, 10am -6pm followed by an evening event at the Mitre 7pm onwards The concept of cultural trauma has become increasingly central to contemporary cultural, political and academic debate. This interdisciplinary conference considers academic and creative approaches to understanding the processes associated with collective memory, its signification, preservation and reproduction through mediation. Is the memory of others also our own? By taking into account that it might be, societies expand their sense of identity and belonging. Conversely social groups can and very often do refuse to recognise the existence of others' trauma and the validity of their memory and such refusal is manifested through particular media practices and artefacts. How have artists, film makers, media producers and academics generated and intervened in debates on global formations, national identity and cultural homogeneity? This conference will explore possible responses to the proliferation of (personalised) media production, dissemination and social networking in order to understand and analyse memory from within and create new collectivities and conceptualisations of memory. Friday 1st of May Venue: Edinburgh (075) Queen Anne Court Time: 10am -1pm Speakers: Stephanos Stephanides Leo Burley Venue: Howe (080) Queen Anne Court Time: 2pm -6pm Speakers: Marianne Franklin Susannah Radstone Jeffrey Olick for further information contact Kostas Maronitis mk60@gre.ac.uk http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/humanities/departments/cccs how to get here: http://www.gre.ac.uk/about/travel/greenwich Kostas Maronitis Department of Creative, Critical and Communication Studies University of Greenwich Maritime Campus SE10 9LS Greenwich 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 27 05:03:42 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F7447D9; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:03:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9175547C9; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:03:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090427050339.9175547C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:03:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.720 events: On the Human X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 720. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:24:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: On the human Dear colleagues, Allow me to draw your attention to a special online Forum that is part of the National Humanities Center's project, On the Human, http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/. The Forum calendar is as follows; I give here the start-dates for the weeks during which the discussion will be lead by various people (including me): March 30, Ian Hacking, "What will commercial genome-reading...do to middle-class conceptions of personal identity?" April 13, John Doris, "Do You Know what You're Doing? Maybe Not." May 11, Willard McCarty, "Who am I computing?" May 25, Katherine Hayles June 1, Paul Rabinow June 22, Joe Carroll August 3, Tim Lenoir August 17, Mark Turner November 23, Patrick Bateson All discussions are open (everyone is invited to "sympoze"). The Forum follows from the 3-year series of conferences, Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity, held 2006-2008, more information about which is given at the site. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 28 05:25:06 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F118A4A69; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:25:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 981E04A59; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:25:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090428052503.981E04A59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:25:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.721 On the Human: a better URL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 721. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:15:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: On the Human: a better URL Dear colleagues, Regarding the online Forum conducted by the National Humanities Center, On the Human, I'm informed that there's a better URL for the event, http://onthehuman.org/. Phillip Baron, Managing Editor of the Forum, writes that, > With the new url, you can point people to subdirectories (like the > forum itself, http://onthehuman.org/humannature/) whereas that > wouldn't work with the old domain name. Sorry for any confusion. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 28 05:26:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B304AF9; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:26:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46B8F4AE8; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:26:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090428052633.46B8F4AE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:26:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.722 events: "analogy" at ACA; multimodal interfaces X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 722. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Barnett (20) Subject: session on "analogy" at ACA [2] From: Gualtiero Volpe (69) Subject: eNTERFACE'09 Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:36:18 -0400 From: Michael Barnett Subject: session on "analogy" at ACA In-Reply-To: <49F1B6D6.2070505@mccarty.org.uk> Contributions on the representation and classification of analogies in humanities, e.g. textual analysis, visual arts and music, and on uses of analogy in symbolic calculation of text and other non-mathematical material will be welcome in the session on Analogy in Reasoning and Construction at the 19th Annual Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra, hosted by the University of Montreal at Quebec (UQAM), June 25-28, 2009. The study of analogy is vast. It permeates every field of scholarship and research. Symbolic calculation software provides powerful tools for exploring the mechanized use of analogy in reasoning and construction. This session will address: 1. symbolic calculations that have involved analogy, 2. models on which future software can be based, 3. the selection of further topics for mechanization, from the overwhelming field of possibilities, 4. the development of strategies to study these. Half an hour will be allotted to each talk with adequate time for discussion. A major goal is to establish ongoing dialogue between people in different fields. The link to the session site is http://www.princeton.edu/~allengrp/ms/mscp/analogy.html . For more information, contact Michael P. Barnett (michaelb@princeton.edu). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:19:43 +0100 From: Gualtiero Volpe Subject: eNTERFACE'09 Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <49F1B6D6.2070505@mccarty.org.uk> Casa Paganini – InfoMus Lab in collaboration with the Openinterface Foundation, the EU IST CALLAS and the EU ICT SAME Projects present eNTERFACE’09 the 5th Intl. Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces Genova, Italy, July 13th – August 7th, 2009 Call for Participation The eNTERFACE 2009 Workshop is being organized this summer in Genova, Italy, from July 13th to August 7th, 2009. The Workshop will be held at Casa Paganini – InfoMus Lab (www.casapaganini.org), DIST-University of Genova. The eNTERFACE Workshops present an opportunity of collaborative research and software development by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, PhD students, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for the duration of four weeks. Participants are organized in teams, assigned to specific projects. eNTERFACE’09 will also encompass presentation sessions, including tutorial state-of-the-art surveys on several aspects of design of multimodal interfaces, given by invited senior researchers, and periodical presentations of the results achieved by each project group. The ultimate goal is to make this event a unique opportunity for students and experts all over the world to meet and effectively work together, so as to foster the development of tomorrow’s multimodal research community. Outcome of synergy and success stories of past eNTERFACE Workshops held in Mons, Belgium (2005), Dubrovnik, Croatia (2006), Istanbul, Turkey (2007), and Paris, France (2008), can be seen at www.enterface.net. Senior researchers, PhD, or undergraduate students interested in participating to the Workshop should send their application by emailing the Organizing Committee at enterface09@casapaganini.org on or before May 4, 2009. The application should contain: * A short CV * A list of three preferred projects to work on * A list of skills to offer for these projects. Participants must procure their own travel and accommodation expenses. Information about the venue location and stay are provided on the eNTERFACE’09 website (www.infomus.org/enterface09). Note that although no scholarships are available for PhD students, there are no application fees and the estimated cost of lodging and meals for the full four weeks is about 1000 Euros. eNTERFACE'09 will welcome students, researchers, and seniors, working in teams on the following projects: #01 Multimodal monitoring of the behavioural and physiological state of the user in interactive VR games #02 Coordination between signal and semantic fusion of multimodal data #03 Multimodal guitar: performance toolkit and/or study workbench #04 Video navigation tool: application to browsing a database of dancers' performances #05 A multi-player game using neurophysiological sensors #06 Playful interaction in a multi-tracking environment #07 Attention-based gestures expressivity analysis in a collective context #08 AVLaughterCycle #09 Interactivity of an affective puppet The full detailed description of the projects is available at www.infomus.org/enterface09 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 29 05:30:39 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9A444D9; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:30:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 280FA44C4; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:30:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090429053035.280FA44C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:30:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.723 Dictionary of Words in the Wild on the move X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 723. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:59:51 +0100 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Dictionary Moving [The following, though meant for registered users of the Dictionary of Words in the Wild, gives me occasion to reflect once again on this marvellous tool of incompletely resolved purpose. The other day, taking my camera as usual on my habitual early morning walk to the Leyton Leisure Lagoon, I noticed when the walk was almost done that I had been so wrapped up in thoughts about a friend's impending journey to Australia that I had not been looking at the streets and buildings and people as I walked along. Ordinarily now, because of the Dictionary, I carry the camera everywhere I go, looking for interesting words. And, despite the fact that I've been doing this for well over a year, on a walk in a neighbourhood much of which has not changed in well over a century, I find worthy words nearly every time. True, the neighbourhood has its share of entrepreneurial signs and more than its share of loose rubbish (source of a high percentage of the words I find inspiring), but still, the people who live here are not *that* energetic nor *that* sloppy. So I conclude that there is always much to see. And this leads to a further reflection on the tool itself. One day, perhaps, clever programming will allow us to exploit the growing collection toward a visual corpus linguistics taking account of colours, shapes and so forth. But for now, for this user-interactor, the primary function of the tool is behavioural and cognitive. The main thing is the interaction with it and what that leads to. How misleading our focus on exclusively digital results can be! See http://tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca/~dictwordwild/ for the moment, after May 5, http://lexigraphi.ca. --WM] Dictionary of Words in the Wild Users, We are moving the dictionary to a new location - http://lexigraphi.ca on a new server at the University of Alberta. We have the Dictionary intstalled at lexigraphi.ca and will be moving the database of images on May 5th. We ask that you not upload any images on May 5th - anything uploaded before will be transferred. After May 5th you will be redirected to lexigraphi.ca where your account should work as before. If you have ideas for the dictionary, please e-mail us, Geoffrey Rockwell (geoffrey.rockwell@ualberta.ca) or Kamal Ranaweera (kamal.ranaweera@ualberta.ca). If you have any problems please e-mail us. Remember: * Dictionary is moving May 5th * Please use the address http://lexigraphi.ca from May 5th (the old one will redirect) * Send us ideas or bugs We are getting close to 5000 unique words - we need another 133 words! Best, Geoffrey Rockwell ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Apr 29 05:31:20 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4006D4534; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B2D6F450F; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:31:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090429053117.B2D6F450F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:31:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.724 events: Games for Change; spaces at the Zoo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 724. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (52) Subject: Kalamazoo workshops: spaces still available [2] From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu (68) Subject: Registration open for the 6th Annual Games for Change Festival, May 27-29, discount code enclosed --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:48:29 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Kalamazoo workshops: spaces still available In-Reply-To: <96f3df640904280145q1048875dub13bf5388a717ac7@mail.gmail.com> Spaces are still available in both MAA CER-sponsored workshops at Kalamazoo. If you are interested in how digital projects are designed, or are considering building one of your own, we look forward to seeing you there! **************** The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). Workshop registration online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d 1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian. Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.). Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dot Porter is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics. Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required. The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65. To register, complete the online form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at jimb@uca.edu Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at dot.porter@gmail.com -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)          Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444        Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie          Email: dot.porter@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:04:32 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: Registration open for the 6th Annual Games for Change Festival, May 27-29, discount code enclosed In-Reply-To: <96f3df640904280145q1048875dub13bf5388a717ac7@mail.gmail.com> An announcement from HASTAC.org Games For Change is offering 10% off registration for their annual festival, to be held on May 27-29 in New York City. The discount code for registration is 125489HS. Please forward widely, and contact Mark@GamesForChange.org with any questions. Best, Jonathan E. Tarr HASTAC Project Manager Please join us for the 2009 Sixth Annual Games for Change Festival, May 27 - 29, in New York City! This is the only event dedicated to the exciting new movement of video games for social change - games about poverty, global conflict, climate change. Called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially- responsible game-makers" we're building a new genre of video game - games to change the world - for the better. This year's festival features an Opening Keynote by Pulitzer-Prize winning author and world-changing New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof who will give us a sneak peek into his new book, television show and video game! Other festival highlights include a fireside chat with preeminent games and learning scholars Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins; an interactive game design session by leading game designer Eric Zimmerman; and a closing keynote by Lucy Bradshaw, Executive Producer of Spore, and one of the 10 Most Influential Women In Games. And don't miss our Games Expo, where festival-goers can see and play these new games firsthand in a lively and media-friendly reception. And this year will see the first-ever Knight News Game Award, sponsored the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Come see how games are being used to address key events and issues in the news! Back by popular demand "Let the Games Begin: 101 Workshop on Making Social Issue Games," our pre-festival day-long workshop for newbies on May 27th! (2008 MacArthur Foundation's DML Competition award-winner) This workshop is a soup- to-nuts tutorial on the fundamentals of social issue games. Vital to those who are new to designing learning games but passionate about social issues, the workshop features leading experts on game design, fundraising, evaluation, youth participation, distribution, and press strategies. The 101 Workshop on Making Social Issue Games is made possible through the generous support of the AMD Foundation. There are also special festival events for journalists, researchers, and funders. Festival panelists and speakers include: Ian Bogost, CEO of Persuasive Games and author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism Heather Chaplin, journalist (NPR, NYT) and author of Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution. Mary Flanagan, Director of the Tiltfactor Lab Tracy Fullerton, Assistant Professor, USC, Interactive Media Judith Helfand, Independent filmmaker Frank Lantz, CEO Area Code; Acting Director, NYU Game Center John Nordlinger, Senior Research Manager, Microsoft Ian Rowe, former head of Public Affairs at mTV Katie Salen, Executive Director, Institute of Play; Associate Professor, Design and Technology Department, Parsons The New School for Design Seth Scheisel, New York Times game critic and technology journalist Kurt Squire, Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison Constance Steinkuehler, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Clive Thompson, Contributor, The New York Times, Wired Among many others. A recent Pew Report showing that 97% of teenagers playing games, noted that "some particular qualities of game play have a strong and consistent positive relationship to a range of civic outcomes" making games perhaps one of the most powerful media of our day for learning and civic engagement. The Annual Games for Change Festival brings together the world's leading foundations, NGOs, game-makers, academics, and journalists to explore this potential and how best to harness games in addressing the most critical issues of our day, from poverty to climate change, global conflicts to human rights. And some of these new games are being played by (literally) millions of people of all ages. For more information, visit http://www.gamesforchange.org/fest2009. We look forward to seeing you all there! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 30 05:25:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA212F06; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:25:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E261C2EFC; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:25:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090430052516.E261C2EFC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:25:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.725 can't concentrate? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 725. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:15:53 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Digital life eroding capacity to concentrate http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/04/29/rapt/ Why can't we concentrate? Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider, but they are making us more distracted. A new book explains why learning to focus is the key to living better. By Laura Miller Apr. 29, 2009 | Here's a fail-safe topic when making conversation with everyone from cab drivers to grad students to cousins in the construction trade: Mention the fact that you're finding it harder and harder to concentrate lately. The complaint appears to be universal, yet everyone blames it on some personal factor: having a baby, starting a new job, turning 50, having to use a Blackberry for work, getting on Facebook, and so on. Even more pervasive than Betty Friedan's famous "problem that has no name," this creeping distractibility and the technology that presumably causes it has inspired such cris de coeur as Nicholas Carr's much-discussed "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" essay for the Atlantic Monthly and diatribes like "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future," a book published last year by Mark Bauerlein. You don't have to agree that "we" are getting stupider, or that today's youth are going to hell in a handbasket (by gum!) to mourn the withering away of the ability to think about one thing for a prolonged period of time. Carr (whose argument was grievously mislabeled by the Atlantic's headline writers as a salvo against the ubiquitous search engine) reported feeling the change "most strongly" while he was reading. "Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy," he wrote. "Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text." For my own part, I now find it challenging to sit still on my sofa through the length of a feature film. The urge to, for example, jump up and check the IMDB filmography of a supporting actor is well-nigh irresistible, and once I'm at the computer, why not check e-mail? Most of the time, I'll wind up pausing the DVD player before the end of the movie and telling myself I'll watch the rest tomorrow. This is no mere Luddite's lament. A couple of years ago a craze for "full screen mode" writing software like WriteSpace and WriteRoom swept through the Web's various digital communities devoted to productivity tips and tricks favored by technology workers. These applications reduce a computer's display to a simple black screen with a column of text running down the middle. My colleague Rebecca Traister wrote recently of her love affair with Freedom, a program that locks her computer off the Internet for a preset block of time so she can "get some goddamn work done," a desperate measure she characterized as a bid to "protect me from myself." What this commonplace crisis comes down to is our inability to control our own minds. You may, like Traister, need to buckle down and write, or you may, like Carr, pine for the deeply engaged style of reading we bring to books and New Yorker profiles. You may, like me, realize that your evening will be more enjoyable and more enriching if you commit to the full 110 minutes of "Children of Men" instead of obsessively checking out your friends' Facebook updates or surveying borderline illiterate reader reviews -- or, for that matter, browsing through the "Seinfeld" reruns in your Tivo Suggestions queue. In many cases, the thing we wish we would do is not only more interesting but ultimately more fun than the things we do instead, and yet it seems to require a Herculean effort to make ourselves do it. What to do? For most people, bailing on the Web or e-mail or cellphones isn't even feasible, let alone practical or ultimately desirable. (I shudder at the thought of living without my beloved Tivo.) Besides, modern life really isn't making us stupider: IQ tests have to be regularly updated to make them harder; otherwise the average score would have climbed 3 percent per decade since the early 1930s. (The average score is supposed to remain at a constant 100 points.) And IQ measures problem-solving ability, rather than sheer data retained, which has grown even faster over the same interval. Each of us knows many more people and facts than our counterparts of 100 years ago; it's just that the importance of those people and facts remains somewhat uncertain. Knowing a little bit about Lindsay Lohan and Simon Cowell (two people I recognize despite having no active interest in either one) can't really be equated with knowing a bit about Marie Curie or Lord Mountbatten. We have more information, but it isn't necessarily more valuable information. Winifred Gallagher's new book, "Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life" argues that it's high time we take more deliberate control of this stuff. "The skillful management of attention," she writes, "is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience, from mood to productivity to relationships." Because we can only attend to a tiny portion of the sensory cacophony around us, the elements we choose to focus on -- the very stuff of our reality -- is a creation, adeptly edited, providing us with a workable but highly selective version of the world and our own existence. Your very self, "stored in your memory," is the product of what you pay attention to, since you can't remember what you never noticed to begin with. Gallagher came to appreciate this while fighting "a particularly nasty, fairly advanced" form of cancer. Determined not to let her illness "monopolize" her attention, she made a conscious choice to look "toward whatever seemed meaningful, productive, or energizing and away from the destructive, or dispiriting." Her experience of the world was transformed. This revelation naturally led her to wonder why she'd had to exert herself to do what made her feel better. Why didn't she turn to it as naturally as a thirsty woman turns to a glass of ice water? Why do we reflexively award more attention to negative or toxic phenomena like disasters and insults, while neglecting to credit small pleasures and compliments with the significance they deserve? A good part of "Rapt" explores this puzzle, identifying both biological and cultural causes for our sometimes self-defeating habits. The book belongs to a school of nonfiction -- Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" is the model -- that aims to walk the line between social science and self-help. Despite the title, disappointingly little of "Rapt" is concerned with the state Gallagher describes as "completely absorbed, engrossed, fascinated, perhaps even 'carried away,'" that is, precisely the experience Carr thinks is becoming ever more inaccessible. Ironically, for a book about focusing, "Rapt" can be frustratingly scattered, self-contradicting and platitudinous; do we really need more hand-wringing about families who don't have dinner together or reheated summaries of scientific studies demonstrating the power of positive thinking? Still, Gallagher deserves credit for calling our attention to attention itself, specifically to the way it works neurologically. In essence, attention is the faculty by which the mind selects and then zeroes in on the most "salient" aspect of any situation. The problem is that the brain is not a unified whole, but a collection of "systems" that often come into conflict with each other. When that happens, the more primitive, stimulus-driven, unconscious systems (the "reactive" and "behavioral" components of our brains) will usually override the consciously controlled "reflective" mind. There are excellent reasons for this. In the conditions under which humanity evolved, threats had the greatest salience; individuals who spotted and eluded dangers before they went chasing after rewards tended to live long enough to pass on their traits to future generations. As a result, we inherited from our distant ancestors the tendency to pay greater attention to the unpleasant and troublesome elements of our surroundings, even when those elements have evolved from real menaces, like a crocodile in the reeds, to largely insignificant ones like nasty anonymous postings in a Web discussion. Likewise, our interest is grabbed by movement, bright colors, loud noises and novelty -- all qualities associated with potential meals or threats in a natural setting; we are hard-wired to like the shiny. The attention we bring to bear on less exciting objects and activities, where the payoff may be long-term rather than immediate, requires a conscious choice. This is the kind of attention that opens into complex, nuanced and creative thought, but it tends to get swamped by the more urgent demands of the reactive system unless we exert ourselves to overcome our instincts. The reflective system flourishes best when the environment is relatively free of bells and whistles screaming "Delicious fruit up here!" or "Large animal approaching over there!" The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives. When the physical limitations on print and broadcast media kept the number of competitors for our attention relatively few, some candidates could afford to appeal to our reflective side. Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is "eyeballs." As more options crowd the menu, direct appeals to the reactive mind in the form of bright colors or allusions to sex, aggression, tasty foods and so on, take over. The machinations of late capitalism aren't the only things driving the incessant pinging on our reactive attention systems, either. If you're like most people, you will keep checking for new e-mail despite the unresolved messages that await in your inbox. The already-read messages may even deal with urgent matters like an impatient question from your boss or appealing subjects like possible vacation rentals, yet there's something lackluster about them compared to what might be wending its way to you over the Internet right this minute. Despite the fact that the incoming messages are probably not any more compelling than the ones you've already received, they're more attention-grabbing simply by virtue of being new. When Carr complains of the compulsion to skim and move on that possesses readers of online media, a major culprit is this instinct-driven craving for the novelties that lurk a mere mouse-click away. The fact that sensationalism sells is hardly news, but less well-known is the fact that a constant diet of reactive-system stimuli has the potential to alter our very brains. The plasticity of the brain, scientists concur, is much greater than was once thought. New brain-imaging technologies have demonstrated that people consistently called upon to use one aspect of their mental toolbox -- the famously well-oriented London cabbies, for example -- show enhanced blood flow to and development of those parts of the brain devoted to, say, spatial cognition. In "The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory," Torkel Klingberg, a Swedish professor of cognitive neuroscience, argues that careful management and training of our working memory (which deals with immediate tasks and the information pertaining to them) can increase its capacity -- that your data-crammed noggin can essentially build itself an annex. But while it's one thing to accommodate more information, it's another to engage with it fundamentally, in a way that allows us to perceive underlying patterns and to take concepts apart so that we can put them back together in new and constructive ways. The early human who was constantly fending off leopards or plucking low-hanging mangoes never got around to figuring out how to build a house. Because leopards and mangoes were for the most part relatively few and far between, most of our ancestors found it easier to summon the kind of attention conducive to completing projects that, in the long term, make life measurably better. Ironically, while immediate threats and fleeting treats are comparatively much rarer in our complex social world, the attention system designed to deal with them has been kept on perpetual alert by both design and happenstance. As long as we remain only dimly aware of the dueling attention systems within us, the reactive will continue to win out over the reflective. We'll focus on discussion-board trolls, dancing refinancing ads, Hollywood gossip and tweets rather than on that enlightening but lengthy article about the economy or the novel or film that has the potential to ravish our souls. Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold! Over time, our brains will adapt themselves to these activities and find it more and more difficult to switch gears. Gallagher's exhortations to scrutinize and redirect our attention could not be more timely, but actually accomplishing such a feat increasingly feels beyond our control. I can't speak personally to the effectiveness of meditation, Gallagher's recommended remedy for chronic distraction, but the effectiveness of meditative practices (religious or secular) in reshaping the brain have also been abundantly demonstrated. Knee-jerk Internet boosters like to argue that the old ways of thinking are both obsolete and less wondrous than fuddy-duddies make them out to be. The next generation of citizens, they insist, will happily inhabit a culture composed of millions of small, spinning, sparkly bits and, what's more, they will thrive in it. Tell that to the kids who spent all weekend holed up with the last Harry Potter book. As exhausting as it can be to fight off the siren call of the reactive attention system, some part of us will always yearn to be immersed, captivated and entranced by just one thing, to the point that the world and all its dancing diversions grows dim, fades and falls away. -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 30 05:26:04 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F812F90; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:26:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F16F2F7F; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:26:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090430052602.1F16F2F7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:26:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.726 new publication: Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensitivity Exchange X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 726. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:21:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange Warren Neidich: Lost Between the Extensivity / Intensivity Exchange With Essays By Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Lia Gangitano and Freek Lomme Book Launch at Printed Matter, New York City, Saturday, May 2, 2009, 5:00 - 7:00 PM http://www.warrenneidich.com/ Printed Matter is pleased to announce a launch for Warren Neidich's new publication Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange, published by Onomatopee and featuring essays by Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Lia Gangitano and Freek Lomme. The launch will take place at Printed Matter's storefront at 195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Street) in New York City on Saturday, May 2, 2009, from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. For the past 12 years Warren Neidich has created elaborate diagrams as models of thinking that form the basis of his works of art and his essays. This book is a history of one drawing as it was transformed from works on paper into a disseminated poster project into a wall drawing and finally into a projected light installation Warren Neidich uses diagrammatic drawings as a means to elucidate his interest in the way that ideas of historical materialism produce a theory of mind, especially in the context of post-Fordist labor practices and the information age. He refers to this as Neuropower when the apparatus of the Empire administrates subjectivity through interventions upon cultural and neurobiological plasticity. Neidich believes, as many post-conceptualist artists have, that art has the potential to explore fields of knowledge beyond the normal boundaries of aesthetics, such as sociology, anthropology, politics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Utilizing the apparatus, materials, procedures, spaces, and performances of their aesthetic discourses, whether it be film, photography, painting, sculpture, or installation, artists have the potential to create an alternative paradigm which at times can be a form of resistance. Lia Gangitano, writer and founder of Participant Inc in New York City, will be present at the opening to read an excerpt from her essay included in the publication. Warren Neidich is an artist, writer and organizer who currently lives and works in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of Art, Palais de Tokyo, Ludwig Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Museum, The Kitchen and P.S.1, MOMA. Seven catalogues and books of his work and writings have been published including American History Reinvented, Aperture Foundation, 1989, Unknown Artist, Fricke-Schmid, 1993, Camp O.J. , DAP, 1996 and Earthling, Pointed Leaf Press, 2005. A collection of his writing Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain was published by DAP in 2003. He recently organized the conference "The Mind in Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noo-politics." An edited collection of essays will be published under the same title in 2010 by 010 Press, Rotterdam. He is former artist in resident at Goldsmith College, London and currently holds the title of Visiting Scholar at the TU Delft School of Architecture, Delft, Holland. www.warrenneidich.com Lost Between the Extensivity / Intensivity Exchange is published by Onomatopee and 127 pages. It contains essays by Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Lia Gangitano and Freek Lomme. It retails for $50.00 and can be purchased at Printed Matter's storefront or on our website at www.printedmatter.org. For more information, please contact aabronson @ printedmatter.org. -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Apr 30 05:34:50 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF545094; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:34:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB0865086; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:34:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090430053447.EB0865086@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:34:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.727 events: the everyday ubiquitous; embodied interaction; serious games X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 727. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Takashi Matsumoto (44) Subject: TEI'10 :: Conference on Tangible, Embedded,and Embodied Interaction [2] From: "Artur R. Lugmayr" (56) Subject: cfp: ACM Academic MindTrek2009 [3] From: Riccardo Berta (26) Subject: cfp: Serious Games and Cultural Heritage Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:02:43 +0100 From: Takashi Matsumoto Subject: TEI'10 :: Conference on Tangible, Embedded,and Embodied Interaction ANNOUNCING THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIED INTERACTION >> The submissions deadlines have changed this year << Papers are now due August 3rd (not in October, the deadline for previous TEIs). Also, there are three new submission types with various deadlines: Studios, Explorations, and a Graduate Student Consortium. http://tei-conf.org/10/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- DATES AND LOCATION Submission deadline for Papers and Studios: August 3rd 2009 Submission deadline for Explorations and the Graduate Student Consortium: October 2nd 2009 Author notification deadline: October 20th 2009 Conference dates: January 25-27, 2010 Location: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------- Computing is progressively moving beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. Key areas of innovation in this respect are tangible, embedded, and embodied interactions. These concerns include the interlinking of digital and physical worlds through tangible and embodied interaction and the computational augmentation of everyday objects and environments in new ways through embedded technologies. Research and practice in these innovative areas lead to works of tangible interfaces, graspable interfaces, physical computing, whole- body interaction, gesture-based interfaces, and interactive surfaces. Designing such systems requires interdisciplinary thinking as their creation not only encompasses software, electronics, and mechanics, but also form, aesthetics, and social impact. Following the success of previous TEI conferences we are pleased to announce the fourth international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. We will uphold the tradition of a single-track conference that provides a unique forum for exchange of ideas through talks, hands-on studios, interactive exhibits, demos, posters, art installations, and performances. We invite submissions of prototypes and daring ideas, tools and technologies, methods and models, as well as interactive art, interaction design, and user experience that contribute new understandings to the broad area of tangible computing, embodied interaction, interactive surfaces, and embedded interactive systems. ... --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:09:34 +0100 From: "Artur R. Lugmayr" Subject: cfp: ACM Academic MindTrek2009 CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS ACM Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era Ambient Media *** Social Media *** Games September 30th – 2nd October, 2009, Tampere, Finland Submission Deadlines: - 15th May 2009: submission of tutorial and workshop proposals - 31st May 2009: submissions of long papers (6-8 pages) - 15th June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages) - 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page) - 15th June 2009: submissions of workshop papers for accepted papers http://www.mindtrek.org http://www.mindtrek.org/academic In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI Publications will be published in the ACM digital library Selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters or in journals ============== Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from September 30th – 2nd October, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business, social and technical to content-related topics. September 30th is the main Academic day, featuring the following three tracks: * Social Media Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices both in private and public communities. Traditional communication and expression modalities are challenged and totally new practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space; * Ambient and Ubiquitous Media “The medium is the message!” – This conference track focuses on the definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus of this track is on applications, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick; * Digital Games Digital play and games are currently undergoing many transformations: gaming devices are becoming truly connected, players are finding more possibilities for collaboration, and simultaneously games are being applied into novel uses and mobile use contexts. In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held on Oct 1st & 2nd, parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers and authors are warmly welcome to attend the business conference tracks as part of the academic conference fee during these days as well. The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the economy, to technology. ... --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:10:45 +0100 From: Riccardo Berta Subject: cfp: Serious Games and Cultural Heritage Workshop FINAL CALL FOR PAPER   ***** WORKSHOP ***** Second Workshop on Serious Games in Cultural Heritage (SGCH) Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009 To participate please send a full paper to:  segach@elios.unige.it Best selected papers will be considered for a special issue in the International Journal of Arts and Technology(IJART, www.inderscience.com/ijart).   In conjunction with VSMM 2009: 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia Vienna, Austria, September 9-12, 2009, http://www.vsmm2009.org/workshops-1/segach-1   ------------------------------------------------------- The “Serious Games in Cultural Heritage” (SGCH) workshop is intended to be a forum for the areas related with Serious Games applied to the Cultural Heritage (CH). The main objective of the workshop is the exploration of “engage yourself with the heritage” concept, in order to investigate new, compelling modalities of interacting with faithful representations of the CH and propose new areas of applications for Serious Games. The idea is to explore how to conveniently apply leading-the-edge entertainment technologies to the promotion and wide dissemination of contents and experiences related to the 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 2 06:04:59 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172B83F8B; Sat, 2 May 2009 06:04:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62A643F6D; Sat, 2 May 2009 06:04:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090502060456.62A643F6D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 06:04:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.728 controlled vocabularies? statistics for humanists? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 728. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "James R. Kelly" (80) Subject: Statistics for Humanists [2] From: Vika Zafrin (21) Subject: Controlled vocabularies for the humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 07:08:33 -0400 From: "James R. Kelly" Subject: Statistics for Humanists I received the following message from a colleague at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I find it interesting and fascinating, but other than some vague ideas as to approaching it, I'm rather at a loss. My first thought (hence this message) was to present it to this diverse and well-informed collective to see what responses you might have for Bruce. Thanks in advance, Jim Kelly ___________________________________________________________ Jim, I am writing to you at the suggestion of Jim Craig, to whom I spoke recently about several problems currently facing our Institute (the Warring States Project) as it prepares to launch its journal. In one sentence: Is there a compact and competent introduction, for humanistic scholars, to the elementary statistical procedures that are sometimes useful in the text-based sciences? And no others? Background: Our field is the classical Chinese texts, in which my colleague and I have made some fundamental discoveries. One of them, publicized in 1990, had as a corollary a prediction about the nature of a certain text, should an early 03rd century copy of it ever turn up: it should lack a certain number of its final chapters. Three sets of extracts from that text were archaeologically recovered from an early 03c tomb in 1993, and published in 1998. The result exactly confirmed our prediction: the 33 extracts were drawn from chapters 2-66 of the received text, but wholly ignored chapters 67-81. The chance of a selection from the 81-chapter text having just this configuration (a draw without replacement problem) works out, as I figure it, to less than 1 in 7,000. This, I suppose, would normally be thought definitive, and would thus produce wide acceptance of our theory of the text. It has not worked out that way. Humanists have proved to be very capable of ignoring numerical evidence, and this is what most of them have done in the present case. We will be publishing our theory of that text, with a note on that empirical confirmation, in v1 of our now imminent journal. As a desperation move, to increase understanding of the result, or at least indicate the possibility of such understanding, we are presently planning to include at the back of that volume a tiny (4p) primer on the way to calculate and interpret draw-without-replacement situations. In subsequent volumes, other basic numerically solvable situations in Chinese (and Greek) texts will be pointed out, and we are prepared to add similar primer-like sections at the back of *those* volumes, in order to show that a technique for these things does exist, and is not all that hard to follow, and that it constitutes a useful addition to the toolkit of the working Sinologist. If those sections are in fact necessary, as it currently seems to us they are, then there is a general gap in this area, and it might make sense to cumulate our little primer pages at some point into a pamphlet-sized guide to humanistically solvable text problems. I don't want to do this; I have other things to attend to. I would rather, from the outset, simply refer readers to an already existing handbook of this sort. Hence the question: Does anything of the kind now exist, in recommendable form? I haven't come across anything of the sort myself. The few attempts of which I know, to introduce historians or other text-based humanists to statistical procedures, have been quietly unsuccessful. I have asked others at UMass and elsewhere, but so far nothing useful has turned up. Jim pointed me to the proper shelves in the Science and Engineering Library, but again nothing there or in the 5C catalog under keywords "humanities" and "statistics" seemed suitable, and the shelflist at D16.17 also yielded nothing that would well serve the present purpose. If you can recommend something, we will be very grateful. Thanks and best wishes, Bruce E Bruce Brooks Research Professor of Chinese Warring States Project University of Massachusetts at Amherst http://www.umass.edu/wsp ----- End forwarded message ----- James R. Kelly Humanities Bibliographer W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts 154 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003-9275 (413) 545-3981; (413) 577-2565 (fax) E-mail: jrkelly@library.umass.edu American Co-Editor, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; Section Head & Senior Bibliographer, MLA International Bibliography; Adjunct faculty: UMass German & Scandinavian Studies, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies; Research Librarian, Mass. Ctr. for Renaissance Studies; Slavic Cataloger, Amherst College; Humanities Co-Editor, Guide to Reference --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 11:16:02 -0400 From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Controlled vocabularies for the humanities? Humanists, I'm trying to ascertain the existence of specific controlled vocabularies in the humanities and social sciences (and/or fields therein). I'm particularly interested in those used with institutional repositories, if they exist. If you know of controlled vocabularies that are widely accepted and used in the relevant fields outside of IRs (in journals, for example), I'd appreciate pointers to those too. I suspect that if such vocabularies exist, they're based on something pre-existing -- the Library of Congress subject headings, perhaps. Useful as LoC is, what I'm looking for are current computational uses of such indices/taxonomies. The equivalent of the vocabularies used in, say, medicine to parse and auto-keyword published articles. For example. Many thanks, -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Digital Collections and Computing Support Librarian Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 617.353.1317 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 2 06:05:45 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5485D4013; Sat, 2 May 2009 06:05:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A9B33FFD; Sat, 2 May 2009 06:05:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090502060543.6A9B33FFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 06:05:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.729 events: text-encoding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 729. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:01:44 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: Text encoding in the era of mass digitization (due 15 May 2009) CALL FOR PROPOSALS Text encoding in the era of mass digitization 2009 Conference and Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/ November 11-15, 2009 . University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Program Committee of the 2009 Conference and Members' Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on the theme "Text encoding in the era of mass digitization." == Submission Topics == Topics might include but are not restricted to: * In-depth encoding vs. mass digitization * Is text encoding sustainable? * Is text encoding scalable? * Using TEI to create: o scholarly editions o hybrid publications (digital and print) o databases and other resources * Tools that create and process TEI data * TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards * TEI as: o metadata standard o interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data * TEI and its contribution to digital scholarship * TEI and markup theory * Learning the TEI * The future of the TEI * When not to use the TEI In addition, we are seeking P5 micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on the topic "How I've customized TEI encoding to meet my needs." == Submission Types == Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. P5 micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. == Submission Procedure == All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by 15 May 2009. You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations): o Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the "Abstract" field. o Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * P5 micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper except that the abstract should be no more than 300 words. * Panel sessions: o The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 800 words in the "Abstract" field. o The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above. The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Conference submissions will be considered for a conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process for the conference proceedings will be forthcoming. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 3 06:19:17 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CC15037; Sun, 3 May 2009 06:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6ACB85027; Sun, 3 May 2009 06:19:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090503061914.6ACB85027@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 06:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.730 controlled vocabularies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 730. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 16:47:43 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: controlled vocabularies? On 2009-05-02, at 01:04 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I'm trying to ascertain the existence of specific controlled > vocabularies in > the humanities and social sciences (and/or fields therein). I'm > particularly interested in those used with institutional > repositories, if > they exist. If you know of controlled vocabularies that are widely > accepted > and used in the relevant fields outside of IRs (in journals, for > example), > I'd appreciate pointers to those too. Folklorists have something like this with the Ethnographic Thesaurus. You can find it on the website of the American Folklore Society: http://et.afsnet.org/ -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.org/ ResearcherID: A-5742-2009 Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: johnlaudun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 3 06:20:10 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B8C50D3; Sun, 3 May 2009 06:20:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3123D50BC; Sun, 3 May 2009 06:20:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090503062008.3123D50BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 06:20:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.731 statistics for humanists X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 731. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 06:44:56 -0700 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.728 controlled vocabularies? statistics for humanists? In-Reply-To: <20090502060456.62A643F6D@woodward.joyent.us> The issue of statistics and text runs between several areas: structure (systemic), multi-dimensionality, combinatorial expressions,and patterns/variation. Corpus linguistics looks at how language is used and use patterns. A corpus has millions of words and has multiple registers: academic, conversational, dialect,newspaper, internet, radio, etc. Corpus linguists have some statistical practices. Pioneers (linguists) in these pursuits include: Douglas Biber, Patrick Hanks, James Pustejovsky, and Christian Matthiessen Currently, I am developing a new way to encode,decode, and recode the following through features based on packing, fill-in, and an optical system based on two states: 1) features 2) transition (presence, absence/evacuation, and effacement).This work thinks about the mobility of patterns in the movement of checker pieces. Such an analogy between the movement of checkers and text (language-use) grows out of Halliday and Hasan's Cohesion in English. For methodologies on Statistics and text-analysis see: Corpus Linguistics Introductory Materials: Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., S. Conrad, and R. Reppen. 1998. Corpus linguistics: Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Conrad, S., and D. Biber (eds.). 2001. Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional studies. London: Longman. Biber See Multidimensional Analysis related papers at: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~biber/journal.htm Biber, D. 2004. Conversation text types: A multi-dimensional analysis. In Gérald Purnelle, Cédrick Fairon, and Anne Dister (eds.), Le poids des mots: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, 15-34. Louvain: Presses universitaires de Louvain. Biber, D. 2003. Variation among university spoken and written registers: A new multi-dimensional analysis. In Charles Meyer and Pepi Leistyna (eds.), Corpus analysis: Language structure and language use, 47-70. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Generative/ Combinatorial Methods Patrick Hankshttp://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/cpa/ Hanks, Patrick, and James Pustejovsky. 2005. "A Pattern Dictionary for Natural Language Processing" in Revue Francaise de linguistique appliquée, 10:2. Hanks, Patrick. 2008. "Mapping meaning onto use: a Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs". AACL 2008, Utah. (slides) Pustejovsky, James. 1995. The Generative Lexicon. MIT Press. http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/cpa/ Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. 1995. Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems. xviii + 978 pp. Tokyo, Taipei & Dallas: International Language Sciences Publishers. One obvious application of corpus linguistics is world english in poetics.http://www.world-english.org/listening.htm http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp/classes/prague/index.htmlhttp://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/matthiessen_christian/publications.html Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=lexico%20grammatical%20cartography%20&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws Simple software you can explore: http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx Note it uses American/British English, conversational english, radio transcripts.Type a word or a phrase you will see samples from the corpus that shows you common uses. Surf and explore an actual corpus: http://www.americancorpus.org/ There is a five minute tour link look for the following at the bottom of the text on the right hand frame:"Please feel free to take a five minute guided tour, which will show the major features of the corpus. A simple click for each query will automatically fill in the form for you, search through the 385 million words of text, and then display the results." The following will show you how to use corpus linguistics to develop teaching materials. Here is a general (non-technical) introductory book: http://www.amazon.com/Corpus-Classroom-Language-Teaching-Linguistics/dp/0521616867/ref=pd_sim_b_4 Nat Bobbitt Portland,OR _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 4 06:18:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1812966A8; Mon, 4 May 2009 06:18:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 655C06699; Mon, 4 May 2009 06:18:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090504061849.655C06699@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 06:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.732 controlled vocabularies, static and dynamic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 732. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: William Allen (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.730 controlled vocabularies [2] From: Willard McCarty (16) Subject: building vocabularies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 15:49:05 -0500 From: William Allen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.730 controlled vocabularies In-Reply-To: <20090503061914.6ACB85027@woodward.joyent.us> The Getty is famous for assembling controlled vocabularies for works of art. The intro page is http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ _____ William Allen Prof. Art History On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 730. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 16:47:43 -0500 > From: John Laudun > > > > On 2009-05-02, at 01:04 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > I'm trying to ascertain the existence of specific controlled > > vocabularies in > > the humanities and social sciences (and/or fields therein). I'm > > particularly interested in those used with institutional > > repositories, if > > they exist. If you know of controlled vocabularies that are widely > > accepted > > and used in the relevant fields outside of IRs (in journals, for > > example), > > I'd appreciate pointers to those too. > > Folklorists have something like this with the Ethnographic Thesaurus. > You can find it on the website of the American Folklore Society: > > http://et.afsnet.org/ > > -- > John Laudun > Department of English > University of Louisiana – Lafayette > Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 > 337-482-5493 > laudun@louisiana.edu > http://johnlaudun.org/ > ResearcherID: A-5742-2009 > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: johnlaudun --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 07:17:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: building vocabularies In-Reply-To: <20090503061914.6ACB85027@woodward.joyent.us> Slightly off the topic of existing controlled vocabularies, I'd like to know if thought has been given to the activity of building and rebuilding them -- i.e. of modelling ideas on the fly. It's obvious, I suppose, how to do this more or less manually, using e.g. a concordance program on a relatively coherent text or collection. But with larger collections of highly disparate texts, it would seem to me that some human-machine mechanism for building up a vocabulary to suit a specific purpose would be possible -- and better than Roget's or even WordNet. Has anyone thought about this? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 5 05:07:18 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5688E4408; Tue, 5 May 2009 05:07:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A620E43F7; Tue, 5 May 2009 05:07:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090505050715.A620E43F7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 05:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.733 statistics for humanists X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 733. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jockers Matthew (140) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.731 statistics for humanists [2] From: "Goldfield, Joel" (132) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.728 controlled vocabularies? statistics forhumanists? [3] From: Alan Corre (29) Subject: Statistics for Humanists (22.728) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 06:19:51 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.731 statistics for humanists In-Reply-To: <20090503062008.3123D50BC@woodward.joyent.us> I'd add one more text to Nathaniel's fine list. . . Anyone wishing to learn statistics for use in a language/linguistics context, who also wants to learn R (the fantastic, but not for the uninitiated, open-source stats application, see www.r-project.org) will be deeply grateful for R.H. Baayen's book _Analyzing Linguistic Data: A practical introduction to Statistics _. I went through a series of R books before I found this one, and it's top-notch: the only book I know that puts R and statistics into a context (language/ linguistics) that I can really sink my teeth into: those drug trial examples that are so frequently used in other stats books were driving me crazy. I bought ($35.00) a hard copy from Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Linguistic-Data-Introduction-Statistics/dp/0521709180 But Baayen's draft MS is available as a PDF on his web site: http://www.ualberta.ca/~baayen/publications/BaayenCUPstats.pdf Matt -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:26:00 -0400 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 22.728 controlled vocabularies? statistics forhumanists? In-Reply-To: <20090503062008.3123D50BC@woodward.joyent.us> In response to Jim Kelly's query: In France, where I did my pre-doctoral and doctoral work in French literature and civilization, we used two works by Charles Muller: Principes et méthodes de statistique lexicale (Hachette, 1977) and Initiation aux méthodes de la statistique linguistique (Hachette, 1973). The best part was actually meeting Muller, a charming fellow, at the ALLC-ACH conference in 1985. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 12:12:37 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Statistics for Humanists (22.728) In-Reply-To: <20090503062008.3123D50BC@woodward.joyent.us> This is in response to the question about statistics for Humanists raised by Professors Brooks and Kelly (22.728). Please consult the excellent book by Anthony Kenny entitled "The Computation of Style" (Oxford, 1982), unfortunately now out of print. I based on Kenny's guidelines on statistics my 1990 book "Icon Programming for Humanists" published in 1990 by Prentice-Hall and also out of print. This book offers instruction in the Icon programming language, which has unique features singularly well-suited to string manipulation, and the book gives numerous examples of the computerization of the procedures suggested by Kenny. A couple of years ago Clint Jeffery, professor of computer science at the University of Idaho, proposed to me to update my book, since he feels there is such a lack of books dealing with text processing, and we have been working hard on the second edition. So much has changed in the interim! It should be available later this year in a free online edition, unlike the first edition which was on old-fashioned paper. It includes entirely new chapters on Unicode and the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative.) I would also recommend Jonathan Gottschall's rather controversial book "Literature, Science, and a New Humanities (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)". Jonathan believes that literary criticism has reached a dead end, and the critics mostly just talk to themselves. Criticism has to be "scientized" in his view, and he has tried out modes of so doing. I think he is brave (the thesis is anathema to some professors of English) and probably right. His approach is more sociological, using scientific surveys. See my brief review of his book on the amazon.com website. Search "books" on his name. 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 From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 5 05:08:51 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2E144E8; Tue, 5 May 2009 05:08:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C7EA4499; Tue, 5 May 2009 05:08:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090505050849.9C7EA4499@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 05:08:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.734 events: digital humanities at ALA; advanced TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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. 22, No. 734. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (70) Subject: Call for participation: Advanced TEI seminars [2] From: Julia Flanders (43) Subject: Call for participation: Digital humanities table at ALA midwinter 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:58:45 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for participation: Advanced TEI seminars Call for Participation Advanced Seminars in TEI Encoding Applications are invited for participation in a new series of advanced text encoding seminars, sponsored by the Brown University Women Writers Project with generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore specific encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. Each seminar will focus on one of two topics: 1. Manuscript encoding: focusing on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. 2. Contextual information: focusing on TEI methods for formalizing and representing information about context: named entities such as people and places, thematic analysis and keywords, text classification, glossaries and annotations. These seminars are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. 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 encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. 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 (e.g. an introductory workshop, job experience, etc.) will be assumed. Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant. Application deadlines are below. For information on how to apply, and for more detailed information on each workshop, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 6 05:53:19 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3CB5BD9; Wed, 6 May 2009 05:53:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 94F865BD1; Wed, 6 May 2009 05:53:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090506055317.94F865BD1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 05:53:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.735 events: contemporary history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 735. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 07:30:16 +0200 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Contemporary history in the digital Age - 2nd Call for Paper Call for contributions ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’ (Luxembourg, 15-16 October 2009) > Deadline for applications: 30 May 2009 The University of Luxembourg (Master’s in Contemporary European History) and the Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE) are organising a Symposium to be held in October 2009, whose theme will be ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’. The use of the computer and Internet in the methods, techniques and work of historians is coming under ever-wider examination. However, contemporary history as a subject has remained relatively detached from the use of digital applications for academic purposes — excepting word processing and electronic mail — and from those methodological studies linked to it. Nonetheless, information and communication technologies can offer a number of possibilities to contemporary history studies in terms of publication, the collection of primary and secondary sources, networking, data visualisation, etc., not to forget that the Web is itself becoming an archive. The application of digital technology to the study of contemporary history is therefore destined to increase, and our discipline certain to change drastically with it. This Symposium will focus on a simple question, but one offering complex answers: ‘Will the Web provide us with a better understanding of history?’ The Symposium will bring together contributions and workshop activities in three areas: 1. Contemporary history on the Web today: resources and tools; 2. Contemporary history on the Web today: methods and writing; 3. Contemporary history on the Web tomorrow: what will be the future digital environment for researchers in contemporary history? Keynote speakers will be Dan Cohen (CHNM), Marin Dacos (CNRS) and Gino Roncaglia (Tuscia University). > Requirements for applications Candidates shall present a 500-word proposal for a contribution and a 200-word presentation on the main lines of their main research (ie their next book, their PhD, etc). Texts may be submitted in French, English, Italian or German and should be sent to Frédéric Clavert (symposium@cvce.lu) before 30 May 2009 at the latest. Authors of contributions that have been accepted will be contacted by 30 June 2009 at the latest. Incomplete files shall not be considered. Proposals shall be examined by a committee of experts composed of -       Marianne Backes (Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe), -       René Leboutte (University of Luxembourg), -       Serge Noiret (European University Institute, Florence), -       Wolfgand Schmale (University of Vienna), -       Seamus Ross (University of Toronto / University of Glasgow), -       Yannick Maignien (TGE-Adonis). Working languages shall be English and French. Proposals from disciplines other than that of contemporary history cannot be accepted. Contributions that have been accepted shall be published. Travel, accommodation and meal expenses will be covered by the organising bodies. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 03:19:18 -0700 (PDT) From: txt@craigbellamy.net Subject: Re: [Humanist] 22.730 controlled vocabularies In-Reply-To: <20090503061914.6ACB85027@woodward.joyent.us> Hi John, By 'controlled vocabulary' if you mean descriptive meta-data, then the answer is yes it is widely used within institutional repositories (ie. Dublin Core). Another type of controlled vocabulary is a methods taxonomy that we have developed and used for this project. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ictguides/methods Also, you may with to look at the work from the repository support organisations. http://repinf.pbworks.com/Repository-support-organisations Best, Craig Bellamy > > > On 2009-05-02, at 01:04 , Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> I'm trying to ascertain the existence of specific controlled >> vocabularies in >> the humanities and social sciences (and/or fields therein). I'm >> particularly interested in those used with institutional >> repositories, if >> they exist. If you know of controlled vocabularies that are widely >> accepted >> and used in the relevant fields outside of IRs (in journals, for >> example), >> I'd appreciate pointers to those too. > > Folklorists have something like this with the Ethnographic Thesaurus. > You can find it on the website of the American Folklore Society: > > http://et.afsnet.org/ > > -- > John Laudun > Department of English > University of Louisiana – Lafayette > Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 > 337-482-5493 > laudun@louisiana.edu > http://johnlaudun.org/ > ResearcherID: A-5742-2009 > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: johnlaudun _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 6 05:58:09 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5725D1A; Wed, 6 May 2009 05:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E466F5D09; Wed, 6 May 2009 05:58:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090506055806.E466F5D09@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 05:58:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.737 Digital Humanities conference bids X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 737. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 19:53:43 -0500 From: John Unsworth Subject: Conference bids Hello, The Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) represents three organizations (The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, The Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs) who sponsor an annual conference, Digital Humanities [year]. This year's iteration of that conference is at the University of Maryland: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ Every year, the ADHO steering committee entertains proposals for conferences two years in the future. This year, we solicit bids for Digital Humanities 2011, a conference that is likely to take place in North America. Those interested in considering a bid are advised to consider the following documents: Guidelines for submitters and reviewers: http://digitalhumanities.org/adho/archive/submitters_reviewers.html Conference protocol: http://digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ConferenceProtocol Conference Annex: http://digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ConferenceAnnex As chair of the ADHO Conference Coordinating Committee, I am available to consult with anyone who would like to submit a bid: please contact me at unsworth@illinois.edu Note that bids need to be presented, in person, to the ADHO Steering Committee, which will meet in College Park, Maryland, on Saturday, June 20th, 2009. John Unsworth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 6 07:42:12 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140E546EC; Wed, 6 May 2009 07:42:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FF1346DC; Wed, 6 May 2009 07:42:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090506074209.8FF1346DC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 07:42:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 22.738 events: textual scholarship and the sciences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 738. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 08:38:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Analysing Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Sciences *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1241595566_2009-05-06_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_26704.2.pdf International Conference Analysing Manuscripts – Textual Scholarship and the Sciences University of Berne, Switzerland, 29th May 2009 Please see the attached programme. Contact: Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz University of Berne Department of German Studies Länggass-Str. 49 CH-3000 Berne 9 Tel: +41 31 631 83 04 Fax: +41 31 631 37 88 E-mail: michael.stolz@germ.unibe.ch URL: http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/stolz/ -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/; Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.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