From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:38:17 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 49C0266F6; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC50066E3; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:38:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507083814.CC50066E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:38:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.1 Happy 22nd birthday! 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. 23, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 22nd Birthday! If a dog seems to live 7 times faster than a human, how fast does an online seminar like Humanist age in our sight? How old do we Humanists feel? Like the 22 year-old clinging to the belief that he or she can do anything but beginning to suspect otherwise? Like the 154 year-old (22 * 7 = 154) who cannot behave properly? Like an ageless sage? A marvellous, wonderful celebration of Humanist's 21st birthday was staged by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen at DH2008 almost a year ago, at which not a few digital grandees were to be seen drinking liberally to its health. (See the post-sauna http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/gallery/pages/IMG_4445.html and its unsteady sequels.) A few years back I recall making some claim or other about Humanist coming of age at 18, by which time few of its original members remained, many having grown too old or too busy with heavy matters of state to remain in this playpen of ideas and, as we say, information. Now we're 22. I sit here in my 109 year-old Victorian London house with the latest building project underway (a conservatory, and beautiful it will be once it is done...) marvelling at the dizzying speed with which Humanist's 22nd continuous year of existence has passed. Although it may be said that the handbasket headed for Hell continues its lamentable journey filled with most things we value, there are moments when the view (I am imagining, unaccountably, the view from a ski-lift or mountain-top) gives back blessings all out of proportion to the efforts invested in getting here. This ritual occasion, on 7 May every year when I send out a birthday message, allows me publically to notice them, or at least to notice that blessings are bestowed and then to let you fill in the details for yourself. And to all those (if there be any) who grumble objections at blessedness such as it is among digital humanists, I recommend Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), in which the perfect bureaucrat (spitting image of the one Turing used to help him think his way through the Entscheidungsproblem) gets up from his desk, shows us what's what and dies in a state of grace. This 7th May is special for Humanist because it marks the nearly seamless move to digitalhumanities.org and completely successful trial of the new automatic mechanisms designed for it by Malgosia Askanas (good job indeed) and funded by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (to which, to whom many thanks). As one member remarked, the move has been unremarkable because almost completely invisible; my reply was, that’s true craftsmanship. If all the gears are perfectly meshed, the changeover from messages numbered 22.xxx to 23.xxx today will have been automatic too. Previously this had to be done by hand. But the major improvements are those that make my life easier as editor in the day-to-day task of scooping up postings and posting them. What you observe (if that's the right word and I remain mindful of the gift) is a happier editor. This 7th May is special for me professionally as being in the midst of my efforts to unearth the wherewithal from which, I hope, a genuine history of literary computing will emerge. Those who have spent much time in archives will know what it means to be turning up loads of mundane stuff, which is all to the purpose, but from time to time unearthing a gem. My latest gems, for example, are Edmund Callis Berkeley's Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1949); Martin Mann, "Want to Buy a Brain?", Popular Science Monthly, May 1949: 148-52; a warning against such use of language for computers, G. R. Stibitz, "A Note on 'Is' and 'Might Be' in Computers", Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 4.31 (July): 168-9; and a doctoral dissertation covering the ground, David P. Julyk, "'The Trouble with Machines is People.' The Computer as Icon in Post-War America: 1946-1970" (Michigan, 2008). Then there's Rich Didday, Finite State Fantasies (Matrix, 1976), a comic book with a story, "Escape", about a teenage boy who retreats into his room, constructs a VR machine from a kit, hooks it to his television, builds a virtual world (an Eden, presumably, including a naked woman), then strips off his clothes, dives through the screen and flies off with her in a manner familiar to us from Second Life. And on the other side of the street is Walter M. Mathews and Kaye Reifers, "The Computer in Cartoons: A Retrospective from the Saturday Review", Communications of the ACM 27.11 (1984): 1114-9. These are gems because they help make a history from a catalogue of activities and achievements. All the stuff turned up serves as a reminder of how much we have forgotten. The gems (yes, including the comic books, wacko rants, hype and techno-enthusiasms some now would wish permanently forgotten) are gems because they speak to the rounded humanity of computing humanists now old, very old or dead who did more than prepare concordances for print or whatever else. They’re gems because they give us clues as to why certain things happened and others did not. They speak to the silences in the historical record. They illumine certain odd statements here and there. And they eventually, I hope, will amount to a “history of the present”, as Foucault said, i.e. a history that speaks to and helps us out with our current predicaments. Marvin Minsky said somewhere that science doesn’t need history – it just forges ahead. He’s a mischievous imp, and a very bright one. But Thomas Kuhn is, I think, more important for us at this point, esp in showing us what a difference an historical view of progressive disciplines can do for them. Before blowing out the candles, make a wish! Yours, with best wishes, 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 May 7 08:40:39 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 D5A136821; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:40:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B19E1680B; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:40:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084037.B19E1680B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:40:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.2 invitation to join the iSchools 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. 23, No. 2. 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 09:39:34 -0500 From: Maeve Reilly Subject: Join the iSchools The iSchools (http://www.ischools.org) project represents a group of schools committed to the idea that expertise in all forms of information is required for progress in science, business, education, and culture. This expertise includes understanding of the uses and users of information, and of the nature of information itself, as well as information technologies and their applications. Criteria for being recognized as an iSchool are not rigid, but schools are expected to have substantial sponsored research activity (an average of $1 million in research expenditures per year over three years), engagement in educating future researchers (usually through a research-oriented doctoral program), and a commitment to progress in the information field. Schools that share that commitment and meet the baseline characteristics will be represented on ischools.org, if they are willing to provide some basic documentation, and they will be assessed a modest annual administrative fee, currently $500. For that fee, the school will be able to contribute brief descriptions of students, faculty, research, and academic programs, and have the opportunity to feed RSS-based news items to the iSchools newsfeed aggregator. Heads of these schools will also have the opportunity to participate in email discussions, periodic conference calls, and other collaborative activities. Leadership for the iSchools is provided by the iCaucus, which will include elected representatives from the iSchools. More information on the iSchools can be found at www.ischools.org http://www.ischools.org/site/charter/ If you direct a program that is interested in iSchools membership, please contact Maeve Reilly at mjreilly@illinois.edu . -- Maeve Reilly iSchools communications coordinator mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 ischools.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:42:35 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 342AC6916; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 476B0690C; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084233.476B0690C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:42:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.3 events: TEI; digital American lit; food and medicine 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. 23, No. 3. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (64) Subject: Amanda Gailey at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship,21 May [2] From: James Cummings (47) Subject: TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! [3] From: "Prof. Hal Cook" (11) Subject: SYMPOSIUM: 'Food and Medicine 1650-1820', Wellcome Trust Centre London,22 May 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:24:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Amanda Gailey at the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 21 May London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Thursday, 21 May 2009, 17.30-19.30 Room 275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN http://tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ Amanda Gailey (Georgia, U.S.), 'Digital American Literature: Some Problems and Prospects' In this paper I will discuss obstacles to the full integration of digital resources for American literature into research and the classroom. First is the strange relationship between the selective canon of print literature and the body of texts digitized by digital libraries and digital scholarly editions. On the one hand, digital scholarly editions in American literature tend to focus conservatively on highly canonical authors (such as Whitman and Dickinson), and foreground compositional histories by displaying manuscript drafts, applying markup that highlights authorial process, etc. This approach asserts an author-centered view of literature and has resulted in the digitization of minutiae by a few great authors while the major works of slightly less canonical authors (such as Poe) have been altogether neglected. Digital libraries, on the other hand, often aim to digitize large numbers of texts that are difficult to access, such as early American newspapers or out-of-print books. While these efforts uncover invaluable information and provide new insight into the history of American literature, they also generally contribute a body of dross: texts that individually are rarely important to research or teaching. The corpus of digitized American literature is emerging, then, as a strange hodgepodge of highly canonical writing, minutiae discarded by geniuses, and scads of obscure texts that have been and will continue to be fairly unimportant to the literary scholar and teacher. The second obstacle I will discuss is how XML-based digital libraries and editions are not yet poised to accommodate criticism and interpretation, which remains a predominantly print-based commodity. The general inability of XML to handle conflicting claims about a text gracefully, together with markup schemes concerned more with literary structures than with interpretive claims, encourages projects to adopt an editorial approach that, like Muzak, is as unlikely to offend as it is to enthrall. If the technology did not rule out the inclusion of conflicting interests in the text, though, contestable tagging would not severely limit the usability of the document and might seem a more viable possibility for projects directed by literary scholars. Throughout, I will address how these issues are unfolding in a project I co-edit, "Race and Children's Literature of the Gilded Age", which specifically addresses texts that have drifted from the canon (such as Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus tales), and how we have tried to develop editorial strategies that allow for more contentious claims about the texts. Amanda Gailey (PhD, University of Nebraska, 2006) is assistant professor of English at the University of Georgia, where she teaches humanities computing and American literature. She has worked on the Walt Whitman Archive and the Spenser Archive, and currently co-edits Race and Children's Literature of the Gilded Age, a digital archive that examines how adults wanted children to think about race during Reconstruction in the US. Her publications include essays in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and the forthcoming American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. She is working on a book that examines how print and digital editing have helped shape the canon of 19th century American literature. All are welcome. Refreshments provided. 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, 06 May 2009 12:16:56 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! The TEI@Oxford team is pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for our annual summer school. Dates: Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July Venue: Oxford University Computing Services Full information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/ This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines 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 digital text, this course is for you. You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon. At the end of the course we hope to have given you: 1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular; 2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative; 3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations; 4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages. 5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with practical experience in: * using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant schema * using XML editing software to o create new encoded texts o standardize existing digital texts * using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and analyse TEI documents The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI experts. -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 07:50:22 +0100 From: "Prof. Hal Cook" Subject: SYMPOSIUM: 'Food and Medicine 1650-1820', Wellcome Trust Centre London, 22 May 2009 'Food and Medicine 1650-1820' ALL-DAY SYMPOSIUM Friday 22 May 2009 from 1020 The Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE (Fifth Floor) UK Registration required. To download the programme and registration form in pdf format, please click here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/downloads/EMM09-prog.pdf For information on our other events, please see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/events/events Posted by Prof. Hal Cook, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, h.cook@ucl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 7 08:48:03 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 272E86B23; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE36A6B16; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084801.AE36A6B16@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.4 new on WWW: TL Infobits for 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. 23, No. 4. 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 15:52:19 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- April 2009 TL INFOBITS April 2009 No. 34 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. ...................................................................... Technology and Lifelong Learning Are Wikis on the Way Out? Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces Internet Literacy Handbook Updated World Digital Library Launches OECD Education Report Disruptions and Breaking Points in Scholarly Publishing Recommended Reading ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND LIFELONG LEARNING "Most learning does not take place in formal educational programmes. Increasingly, technology is being used for learning -- both by young people of school age and older people inside and outside work, interacting with social networks -- and is greatly increasing in its power to do so. Yet we remain largely inept at responding to this at curriculum, pedagogical, administrative or financial levels. If this situation remains, then formal education is likely to become less relevant for the everyday lives and learning of many people. Of course, lifelong learning will not cease to be, but may be increasingly disconnected from the formal provision of education. However unpredictable the longterm nature of technological change, lifelong learning will be shaped by the increasing power and adaptability of the Web and the applications that it supports." "Technological Change, IFLL Thematic Paper 2," published by the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning (IFLL), focuses on adult learning in the United Kingdom. However, much of its observations and conclusions are applicable, regardless of location: "[I]ndividuals [are] becoming producers of learning content, initiating an un-owned and untethered 'curriculum cloud'." "[L]earning through communities of interest [is] being self-defined rather than institutionally defined." "[I]nformation and knowledge access [will] become increasingly unconstrained by having to make choices about where to go, what to take, or what to bring at any given time." The report is available at http://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/docs/IFLL-TechnologicalChange.pdf The goal of the IFLL, established in 2007 and sponsored by the National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE), is to offer "an authoritative and coherent strategic framework for lifelong learning in the UK." NIACE, founded in 1921, is "the main advocacy body for adult learning in England and Wales and probably the largest body devoted to adult education in the world." For more information, contact: NIACE, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP, UK; tel:+44 (0)116 204 4200/4201; fax: +44 (0)116 285 4514; email: enquiries@niace.org.uk; Web: http://www.niace.org.uk/ ...................................................................... ARE WIKIS ON THE WAY OUT? "Have wikis lost their mojo? Were they before their (Internet) time? Or have they been co-opted by the newer, shinier social networks?" In "Whither Wikis? The State of Collaborative Web Publishing" (LINUX INSIDER, April 29, 2009) Renay San Miguel asks if the usefulness of wikis has run its course. He speculates that the tool is too "nerdy," takes too much work, and requires too much oversight. The article is available at http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Whither-Wikis-The-State-of-Collaborative-Web-Publishing-66927.html ---- In response to San Miguel's argument, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION asked the question "Have Wikis Run Out of Steam?" (April 30, 2009; http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3744/have-wikis-run-out-of-steam?). The resulting reader comments indicate that many college and university Instructors still continue to find wikis beneficial for their courses and students. ...................................................................... PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACES The first online-only edition of EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY (EQ)is devoted to learning spaces, both physical and virtual. Articles covering Internet tools in learning spaces include: "Virtual World Learning Spaces: Developing a Second Life Operating Room Simulation" by Stephanie Gerald and David M. Antonacci "'Where Do You Learn?': Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development" by Elizabeth J. Aspden and Louise P. Thorpe The entire issue is available at http://www.educause.edu/eq/ The March/April 2009 issue of EDUCAUSE REVIEW (http://www.educause.edu/er/) provides a complement to EQ by focusing on the same theme. EDUCAUSE Quarterly [ISSN 1528-5324] is "an online, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal from EDUCAUSE about managing and using information resources in higher education." Articles from current and back issues are available at http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/ EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is also published by EDUCAUSE. Articles from current and back issues are available at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/ 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/ ...................................................................... INTERNET LITERACY HANDBOOK UPDATED THE INTERNET LITERACY HANDBOOK, compiled by Janice Richardson et al., was updated in December 2008. This third edition, aimed at parents, teachers, and students, contains a collection of Fact Sheets that provide brief, basic introductory explanations for a variety of Internet tools such as portals, email, social networks, and blogs. The Handbook is available at no cost online in HTML, Flash, or RTF formats, or it can be purchased in a hardcopy version. To access the Handbook go to http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/internetliteracy/hbk_EN.asp The Handbook is published by the Council of Europe, an organization of 47 member countries working to "promote awareness and encourage the development of Europe's cultural identity and diversity." For more information, contact: Council of Europe, Avenue de l'Europe, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France; tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 20 00; email: infopoint@coe.int; Web: http://www.coe.int/ ...................................................................... WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY LAUNCHES On April 21, 2009, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) opened the World Digital Library (WDL). The Library's mission is to make "available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world" for the use of educators, scholars, and the general public. The initial collection includes about 1,200 documents and their explanations from scholars in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. To explore the WDL, go to http://www.wdl.org/ ...................................................................... OECD EDUCATION REPORT In March 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the report "Education Today: The OECD Perspective." Based on OECD work since 2002, the report's content ranges from "student performance to educational spending and equity in education" and covers educational levels from early childhood through higher education and adult education. You can access the Handbook at http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_2649_33723_42440761_1_1_1_1,00.html The OECD, established in 1961, is an international organization that represents 30 member countries and collects economic and social data, monitors trends, analyzes and forecasts economic developments, and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more. For more information, contact: OECD, 2 rue Andre Pascal, F-75775 Paris Cedex 16, France; tel: +33 1.45.24.82.00; fax: +33 1.45.24.85.00; Web: http://www.oecd.org/ ...................................................................... DISRUPTIONS AND BREAKING POINTS IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING "Far from being a neutral conduit for knowledge, the publication system defines the social processes through which knowledge is made, and gives tangible form to knowledge." In "Signs of Epistemic Disruption: Transformations in the Knowledge System of the Academic Journal" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 4-6, April 2009), Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis provide an overview of the current state of scholarly journals and go on to discuss some of the "disruptive forces" and breaking points that are changing the scholarly journal. Some of these breaking points include -- the unsustainable costs and inefficiencies of traditional commercial publishing -- the credibility and accountability of the peer review system -- the flawed system of post-publication evaluation and impact analysis The paper is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2309/2163 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/ ...................................................................... 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 Is Not Available Online Is Not Worth Reading?" By Hamid R. Jamali WEBOLOGY, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2008 http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/a63.html "Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists believe that what is not available online is not worth the effort to obtain it." ...................................................................... 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 Thu May 7 08:48:52 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 946626C3B; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 651866C33; Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090507084850.651866C33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:48:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.5 events: DH publication; geospatial methods 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. 23, No. 5. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (43) Subject: digital humanities publication at the ALA [2] From: Shawn Day (48) Subject: DHO Workshop: Introduction to Geospatial Methods --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:34:17 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: digital humanities publication at the ALA In-Reply-To: <4A0128A4.8040506@mccarty.org.uk> Call for participation: please circulate The Association for Computers in the Humanities will be sponsoring an exhibit table on Digital Humanities Publication at the 2010 American Library Association midwinter meeting (January 15-18, 2010). We are seeking expressions of interest from interested digital humanities projects and publications who would like to have a presence at the ALA meeting but cannot afford an exhibit space on their own. This is an excellent opportunity to present your project to a very wide audience, and to participate in the ALA exhibit at low cost and with simple logistics. (Those who have been exhibitors at ALA before will know how much that is worth!) We hope the exhibit will be a showcase for diverse and important digital humanities work and publications. The total costs of the table (which is a "small press table") will be approximately $3000 (including internet and other services). These costs will be shared among the participating exhibitors based on level of presence (how much exhibit time you would like), project size, and ability to pay. The exhibit runs for three full days, and the table can accommodate two or three projects at a time, so in principle we have about 12-18 half-day slots, but we can also allocate time in other ways, depending on need. In addition, participants may leave brochures and other materials at the table for distribution. We expect to have someone staffing the booth at all times who will be able to answer general questions about ACH, digital humanities, and the projects being exhibited. We will also have at least one computer at the table at all times with links to all participating projects. If you are interested in participating, please send email to Julia_Flanders@brown.edu with the following information, by July 1, 2009: --The name of your project and a brief description of what you would be exhibiting --How much time would your project be able to have someone present at the table? (e.g. a half day, two full days, etc.) --What date(s) would you be interested in attending? (please indicate any specific constraints) Members of the ACH executive council will review the applications. Once we have an initial sense of the level of interest, we will contact applicants (by mid-July) to determine what the cost will be and give applicants an opportunity to confirm their participation. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders President, ACH Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:26:59 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Workshop: Introduction to Geospatial Methods In-Reply-To: <4A0128A4.8040506@mccarty.org.uk> Announcing a DHO Workshop: Introduction to Geospatial Methods for e- Humanities Research Date: 21 May 2009, 11:00-16:00 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 To Register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=picIc8t5QLI7fAtv_2bEN4bA_3d_3d Presenters: Mr Anthony Corns (Discovery Programme), Mr Shawn Day (Digital Humanities Observatory), and Dr Rob Sands (University College Dublin) In the very recent past, geospatial methods and the use of GIS in particular was limited to a very small group of scientists and researchers in the environmental sciences and remote sensing. In the past few years, humanities scholars have begun to adopt similar tools and methods and apply them to the areas of classics, languages, history, literature, the performing arts and others to visualise complex datasets or those of larger magnitudes. This visualisation has provided intriguing new perspectives for both analysis and presentation of research in the humanities. "An Introduction to Geospatial Methods for e-Humanities Research" is a workshop designed for researchers engaged with digital humanities projects. It will provide examples of how visualising textual, numerical, social data can aid in the analysis and presentation of humanities research. Led by Anthony Corns of the Discovery Programme, Rob Sands of the UCD School of Archaeology and Shawn Day from the Digital Humanities Observatory, the workshop will provide opportunities for learning through lecture, group discussion, and hands-on exercise. Specific topics will include the variety of formats and standards that exist for working with geospatial data as well as some of the more popular tools that are applicable for humanities researchers. This workshop is aimed at the absolute beginner, and there will be plenty of time scheduled for questions and discussion. Registration is required and a limited number of places are available. To register for this workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=picIc8t5QLI7fAtv_2bEN4bA_3d_3d For more information on this workshop please visit: http://dho.ie/geospatial We look forward to seeing you on the 21st of May. --- 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 -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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 May 8 05:02:03 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 0EC336777; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 414A06768; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050200.414A06768@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.6 Humanist's birthday 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. 23, No. 6. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 09:11:11 -0400 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.1 Happy 22nd birthday! Thank you for reminiscing and for celebrating the future of Humanist, Willard! Could we create a "digital wall" where those Humanists who were at the original meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, twenty-two years ago could sign a "birthday card"? Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University ________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thu 5/7/2009 4:38 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 22nd Birthday! If a dog seems to live 7 times faster than a human, how fast does an online seminar like Humanist age in our sight? How old do we Humanists feel? Like the 22 year-old clinging to the belief that he or she can do anything but beginning to suspect otherwise? Like the 154 year-old (22 * 7 = 154) who cannot behave properly? Like an ageless sage? A marvellous, wonderful celebration of Humanist's 21st birthday was staged by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen at DH2008 almost a year ago, at which not a few digital grandees were to be seen drinking liberally to its health. (See the post-sauna http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/gallery/pages/IMG_4445.html and its unsteady sequels.) A few years back I recall making some claim or other about Humanist coming of age at 18, by which time few of its original members remained, many having grown too old or too busy with heavy matters of state to remain in this playpen of ideas and, as we say, information. Now we're 22. I sit here in my 109 year-old Victorian London house with the latest building project underway (a conservatory, and beautiful it will be once it is done...) marvelling at the dizzying speed with which Humanist's 22nd continuous year of existence has passed. Although it may be said that the handbasket headed for Hell continues its lamentable journey filled with most things we value, there are moments when the view (I am imagining, unaccountably, the view from a ski-lift or mountain-top) gives back blessings all out of proportion to the efforts invested in getting here. This ritual occasion, on 7 May every year when I send out a birthday message, allows me publically to notice them, or at least to notice that blessings are bestowed and then to let you fill in the details for yourself. And to all those (if there be any) who grumble objections at blessedness such as it is among digital humanists, I recommend Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), in which the perfect bureaucrat (spitting image of the one Turing used to help him think his way through the Entscheidungsproblem) gets up from his desk, shows us what's what and dies in a state of grace. This 7th May is special for Humanist because it marks the nearly seamless move to digitalhumanities.org and completely successful trial of the new automatic mechanisms designed for it by Malgosia Askanas (good job indeed) and funded by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (to which, to whom many thanks). As one member remarked, the move has been unremarkable because almost completely invisible; my reply was, that's true craftsmanship. If all the gears are perfectly meshed, the changeover from messages numbered 22.xxx to 23.xxx today will have been automatic too. Previously this had to be done by hand. But the major improvements are those that make my life easier as editor in the day-to-day task of scooping up postings and posting them. What you observe (if that's the right word and I remain mindful of the gift) is a happier editor. This 7th May is special for me professionally as being in the midst of my efforts to unearth the wherewithal from which, I hope, a genuine history of literary computing will emerge. Those who have spent much time in archives will know what it means to be turning up loads of mundane stuff, which is all to the purpose, but from time to time unearthing a gem. My latest gems, for example, are Edmund Callis Berkeley's Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1949); Martin Mann, "Want to Buy a Brain?", Popular Science Monthly, May 1949: 148-52; a warning against such use of language for computers, G. R. Stibitz, "A Note on 'Is' and 'Might Be' in Computers", Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 4.31 (July): 168-9; and a doctoral dissertation covering the ground, David P. Julyk, "'The Trouble with Machines is People.' The Computer as Icon in Post-War America: 1946-1970" (Michigan, 2008). Then there's Rich Didday, Finite State Fantasies (Matrix, 1976), a comic book with a story, "Escape", about a teenage boy who retreats into his room, constructs a VR machine from a kit, hooks it to his television, builds a virtual world (an Eden, presumably, including a naked woman), then strips off his clothes, dives through the screen and flies off with her in a manner familiar to us from Second Life. And on the other side of the street is Walter M. Mathews and Kaye Reifers, "The Computer in Cartoons: A Retrospective from the Saturday Review", Communications of the ACM 27.11 (1984): 1114-9. These are gems because they help make a history from a catalogue of activities and achievements. All the stuff turned up serves as a reminder of how much we have forgotten. The gems (yes, including the comic books, wacko rants, hype and techno-enthusiasms some now would wish permanently forgotten) are gems because they speak to the rounded humanity of computing humanists now old, very old or dead who did more than prepare concordances for print or whatever else. They're gems because they give us clues as to why certain things happened and others did not. They speak to the silences in the historical record. They illumine certain odd statements here and there. And they eventually, I hope, will amount to a "history of the present", as Foucault said, i.e. a history that speaks to and helps us out with our current predicaments. Marvin Minsky said somewhere that science doesn't need history - it just forges ahead. He's a mischievous imp, and a very bright one. But Thomas Kuhn is, I think, more important for us at this point, esp in showing us what a difference an historical view of progressive disciplines can do for them. Before blowing out the candles, make a wish! Yours, with best wishes, 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 May 8 05:02:54 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 A902267D7; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D0C2067CE; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050252.D0C2067CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:02:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.7 job at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, UVic 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. 23, No. 7. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:57:05 -0700 From: ETCL University of Victoria Subject: ETCL Job Posting: Programmer Analyst / Developer Hello, all. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria is looking for a full-time (35 hours per week) programmer analyst who can work in a variety of environments, may prefer Linux to others, and will enjoy an open-source environment, both technically and philosophically. You will work with a team to develop an online reading environment geared toward aiding professional readers. This reading environment requires innovative interface features for social networking, annotation tools, and more. The position will require knowledge of and experience with database architecture and design. Go to the ETCL website for further details < http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/04/16/job-posting-programmer-analyst-developer-2/>. The ETCL team works on a variety of leading-edge research projects. Our lab suits self-motivated personalities; we encourage individual development and new ideas. Read more about us at http://etcl.uvic.ca . Salary for this position is competitive in the academic market and will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position’s contract is for a four-month or one-year term, renewable. Applications, comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to < etcl.apply@gmail.com >. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. Thanks, Kim S. Webb Electronic Textual Cultures Lab University of Victoria web: http://etcl.uvic.ca/ email: uvic.etcl@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 May 8 05:04:14 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 908416853; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:04:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BAFDE684A; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:04:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090508050412.BAFDE684A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:04:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.8 Rosanne Potter? 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. 23, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:59:09 +0100 From: "Vander Viana" Subject: Rosane G. Potter's e-mail Dear list members, I have been trying to reach Rosane G. Potter, but the e-mail addresses I have do not seem to be operational any longer (sl.rgp@isumvs.bitnet; S1.RGP@isumvs.edu; rgpotter@iastate.edu). Would anyone happen to know a way of contacting her? Thanking you all in advance, Vander Viana _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:05:16 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 42FB368AB; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E7B468A2; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050514.6E7B468A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.9 events: Seminar in Humanities Computing, 14 May 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. 23, No. 9. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: tamara.lopez@kcl.ac.uk Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing: 14 May, 1pm Harvey Quamen (University of Alberta) Digital + Humanities = Humanism 2.0 14 May (Thursday, 1 p.m.) CCH Seminar room, 26–29 Drury Lane For the past eight years, I’ve taught courses in both the University of Alberta’s Humanities Computing program and its English Department, introducing students to everything from cyberpunk novels to cultural theories of the Internet to database design and web scripting with Perl and PHP. Humanities students can be notoriously technophobic, and the student response to learning new technologies -- often as simple as web design, or the philosophy of open source software, or even just elementary XML -- has ranged from enthusiasm to downright vitriol. I’ll discuss several “case studies” of teaching the digital arts to Humanities students: 1) my own experiences teaching our Humanities Computing program’s course on database design and web scripting; 2) teaching XML to a graduate English course on “Editing Texts”; 3) teaching an undergraduate course on Internet Culture (in which I required my students to cite Wikipedia); and 4) being a technical editor for O’Reilly Press’s recent publication, Head First PHP & MySQL.. Over the years, I’ve accumulated some pedagogical rules of thumb that, with some hearty discussion, might eventually pass as an elementary set of “best practices.” I’ll end on a more philosophical point -- namely, that introducing digital technologies into our humanities courses does indeed change, wholly and radically, what we mean by the “humanities.”  The old humanism -- known by its emphasis on the discrete individual, on the progressive amelioration of society, on the sanctity of subjective experience -- cannot remain unchanged as our work increasingly embraces digital technologies. My suggestion is that the Humanities are evolving into something new and that the future success of our Digital Humanities programs may well depend upon our ability to teach our own awareness of that transformation alongside our new technologies.. ---- Harvey Quamen (PhD Penn State) specializes in science studies, cyberculture, and Modern and Postmodern literature. One of his works-in-progress, Becoming Artificial: H.G. Wells and the Scientific Discourses of Modernism, examines the early science fiction writer H.G. Wells as a crucial figure in the transformation of our conceptions of "artificiality" from nineteenth-century evolutionary theory to twentieth-century cyberculture and artificial intelligence. He is also working on a textbook that teaches the web technologies PHP and MySQL to humanities students. Other current interests include representations of science in popular culture, Internet Culture and web scripting languages. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London. Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 8 05:08:35 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 4E0F56988; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C4946981; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:08:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090508050834.0C4946981@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 05:08:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.10 various: Wolfram-Alpha; trends in e-book publishing 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. 23, No. 10. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (34) Subject: Wolfram-Alpha: Web-based numeric Question-Answering [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (24) Subject: Trends in e-book publishing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 11:36:14 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Wolfram-Alpha: Web-based numeric Question-Answering In-Reply-To: <20090507102115.aklcyrrdogks8k0w@webmail.utexas.edu> The first news story I read about this was so badly garbled by the reporter who didn't have a clue as to what was new about it that I almost discounted the whole project, but fortunately someone pointed me to Doug Lenat's excellent review of what Stephen Wolfram (creator of the Mathematica software) is about to go public with on the web. http://semanticuniverse.com/blogs-doug-lenat-i-was-positively-impressed-wolfram-alpha.html It's quite logical that automating the retrieval of numeric data answers from existing information on the web could be done. It is also quite logical that a computer can perform calculations over sets of numeric values quite easily i.e., we call it a spreadsheet). The time may have arrived when combining both tasks in one web-accessible software application will become available. So, we'll go from being able to find out how much taller the Eiffel Tower is than the Washington Monument by downloading the two Wikipedia articles, finding the heights and doing the math ourselves to just asking the question directly and having the answer computed for us. You can't store all the possible answers or questions---you have to be able to compute them. For example, suppose you wanted to know, "What man-made structure was the tallest on Earth for the longest period of time?" That's tricky as you'd need to know both the dates and heights for the tallest man-made structures, and then calculate the differences in their dates of existence. (My guess would be the Pyramids in Egypt?). But it could get harder if you specified yet another limit, say "What man-made structures were the tallest on Earth for more than 50 years?" Now, the playing field is leveled for modern construction and the work load is higher. Numeric questions are within the grasp of full automation far more readily than questions whose answers are entirely textual ("What fruits were known to colonists at Jamestown? or "Where were bananas available in the 17th century?) True numeric question answering may be about to appear (rather than (1) looking up the words and retrieving the best matching text pages (i.e., a browser search) or (2) looking for a match to a previously stored question string. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:21:15 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Trends in e-book publishing In-Reply-To: <48B32E4F.9050609@mccarty.org.uk> The introduction of the new Kindle DX has brought to light some background news about trends in the e-book publishing field. Here's an extract from a Christian Science Monitor news story that Humanist readers might find interesting: [From: http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/06/introducing-the-super-sized-kindle-dx/] The Christian Science Monitor By Chris Gaylord | 05.06.09 ..... "A e-book boom" Bezos admits that he still has a long way to go before fulfilling his dream of “every book ever printed in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds.” But Kindle has opened up a blossoming market for Amazon. The NYTimes notes that: “Today there are 275,000 books available for the device. On Amazon.com, 35 percent of sales of books that have a Kindle edition are sold in that format.” And yesterday the (Christian Science) Monitor reported that “The Association of American Publishers (AAP), the industry’s primary trade group, has tracked digital book sales since 2003, when wholesale revenues amounted to $20 million. By 2007, that number had ambled up to $67 million. But in 2008, the figure nearly doubled to some $113 million. This year is off to an equally heady start, says Ed McCoyd, director of digital policy for AAP, pointing to the whopping 173 percent jump in sales from January 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 May 9 05:57:07 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 EF0D07E35; Sat, 9 May 2009 05:57:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B081D7E2D; Sat, 9 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090509055705.B081D7E2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.11 call for nominations, TEI-C Board & Council 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. 23, No. 11. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:28:48 +0100 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Call for nominations to TEI-C Board and TEI-C Council This message was originally submitted by cwittern@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 (42 lines) ------------------ The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. Nominations should be sent to the nomination committee at [nominations at tei-c.org] by July 1, 2009. Members of the nomination committee this year are Julia Flanders, Malte Rehbein and Christian Wittern (chair). The elections will take place via electronic voting prior to the annual Members' Meeting in November 2009. Self-nominations are welcome and common. All nominees should provide a brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph, and notice that, if elected, they will be willing to serve. 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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, 08 May 2009 16:06:02 +0100 From: saggion Subject: Brazil: STIL 2009 - Third and Last Call for Papers (extended deadline;invited speakers; publications) 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology STIL 2009 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09 September 7-11, 2009 São Carlos, Brazil Third and Last Call for Papers NEWS: extended deadline; invited speakers; publications 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: *** 24 May 2009 *** Notification to the authors: 13 July 2009 Camera ready copy: 24 July 2009 * Invited Speakers: * Profa. Dra. Clarisse de Souza (PUC-Rio, Brazil) * Prof. Dr. Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK) * Profa. Dra. Violeta Quental (PUC-Rio, Brazil) * The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the Linguamática Journal. 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 Tue May 12 04:58:16 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 2B9EDE18F; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:58:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1188FE17F; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:58:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090512045814.1188FE17F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 04:58:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.13 new projects: Hindu mss collection; music notation data model X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 13. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (93) Subject: parampara project [2] From: "Mayhood, Erin (elm8s)" (30) Subject: Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:11:06 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: parampara project *"Parampara" (Tradition) Project: .Condensing Knowledge and Time as e-Culture* ** *Arnab B. Chowdhury* is founder and CEO of Ninad http://www.ninad.biz/ ~ an e-Learning consulting and collaborating network that participated in the "Parampara" project. Ninad offers consulting services that are centered in Integrality. http://www.ninad.biz/ *A case study * A poet once said that memory is man's real possession; in nothing else is mankind so rich, or so poor. In the confines of the Institut Français de Pondicherry (IFP, www.ifpindia.org) and the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), two French governmental research institutes, Indian and French researchers have been working hand-in-hand for over 30 years on a fascinating undertaking to create a database of one of the world's richest collection of manuscripts devoted to the "Saivasiddhanta", a Saiva religio-philosophical system written in verse - a prominent aspect of Hinduism. They are ensuring that India conserves a vital component of her rich cultural memory via e-Culture while synergising appropriate cultural pedagogy, knowledge management, communication design with smart ICT. * Project:* The manuscript collection of the IFP was initiated in 1955 under the auspices of IFP founder-director, Jean Filliozat. Bundles were brought back to the IFP from the private collections of priests and temples across South India. When the manuscripts themselves could not be obtained, transcripts in Devanagiri script (as in Hindi) were made. More than half the collection consists of Saiva manuscripts, comprising: - Approximately 60,000 texts preserved in 8,600 palm-leaf bundles. - 1,144 transcripts of manuscripts on paper. - Precisely 6,850 are in Sanskrit (of which approximately 60% are in Grantha script). - 1,200 in Tamil or Tamil and Sanskrit. - A few are in Tulu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada (regional Indian languages). In addition to the Saiva materials, the wide range of subjects covered includes Astrology, Puranas (Mythology), Siddha Medicine, Veda, Epics, Belles Lettres and Tamil devotional literature. *Process:* The digitisation and transliteration project, aptly named "Parampara" (denoting 'tradition' in Sanskrit), got into full swing in 1997 and the entire collection is presently housed and being painstakingly catalogued at both the research institutes in air-conditioned conservation-chambers. Its first CDROM release is of a unique digital archiving system, published under the name "Parampara", co-produced by the IFP, EFEO and the Chennai-based AMM Foundation with a multi-lateral team of Indology scholars, media experts and information technologists. Currently a collaborative Indo-French project has been framed with National Mission for Manuscripts initiated by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India. *Challenge: *The cataloguing process is a challenge on its own since each bundle of leaves may contain dozens of texts, and there are no headings, no word-breaks and no rubrication of titles or colophons. This requires not only a sound knowledge of the Saivasiddhanta system but also the ability to read handwritten scripts, in particular Grantha, a dying skill in Tamil Nadu (southern Indian state) today. Each folio is studied and the texts are identified. A descriptive form is filled out that describes each manuscript along with an English transliteration. These details are then entered into a database. As far as e-Culture is concerned, the challenge lay in reflecting the taxonomy of how the palm-leaf manuscripts and their content have been collated over millennia (6th century A.D onwards) onto a suitable taxonomy of a graphics-based database that is scalable with efficient access. In recent times, thanks to the help of the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute (India), a major part of the collection (namely all the transcripts) can now be downloaded online free of charge: ( http://muktalib.org/access_page.htm) *Technology:* From a software perspective, all images of manuscripts and books in the online digital library are made available in two formats, DjVu (http://djvu.org) and PDF. The DjVu format is ideal for the viewing of large books and manuscripts on the web and uses an encoding scheme called "wavelet" technology. Essentially this means that they are stored as mathematical formulas describing curves. This allows the page images to be zoomed with almost no loss of quality to 1200% and without getting the jagged edges (called "jaggies") that occur if the image is stored as a pattern of pixels. The PDF format is ideal for the downloading and disseminating of files of books or manuscripts because it is so universally available and known. The online database of the 210,000 pages of transcripts occupies 102 Gigabytes of storage and is hosted on a Linux Apache server. Additionally, this e-Culture application applies Open Source technologies such as PHP and MySQL. *Conclusion:* In all, we can see how ICT with a sincere pedagogical sensitivity towards culture, can help unravel and disseminate the cultural and research Knowledge-Value from the past to make it accessible, comprehensive; to transport it from the past to the present and ensure its future. *Appreciation:* The "Parampara" project is now a part of UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' program - an initiative to recognize the immense cultural significance of various sites worldwide. -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:30:57 +0100 From: "Mayhood, Erin (elm8s)" Subject: Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System University of Virginia Library and University of Paderborn Receive Grant to Create a Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System Contact: Erin Mayhood, Head Music Library, Old Cabell Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA (434) 924-7017, elm8s@virginia.edu Prof. Dr. Joachim Veit Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe, Arbeitsstelle Detmold Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn Gartenstraße 20, jveit@mail.uni-paderborn.de The University of Virginia Library and the University of Paderborn are pleased to announce the receipt of a grant jointly funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG). The $77,065 grant will support the development of a music notation data model and encoding scheme for music scholars, publishers, and performers. In addition to the common notation functions of traditional facsimile, critical and performance editions, the encoding scheme will provide for the capture of a composition's textual variants and their origins. Textual matter, very important to the understanding of a composition in its historical and cultural contexts, will also be accommodated. The grant will support two workshops that will result in guidelines that can be widely used by libraries, museums, and individual scholars who engage in online research, teaching, and preservation of cultural objects. The international work group is made up of musicologists, specializing in notational styles from medieval to twenty-first century music, and technologists, with skills in music representation, schema design, optical music recognition, and software development. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) is the central, self-governing research funding organization that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. The DFG serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers. The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. Any views, finding, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The expected completion date of the project is July 31st, 2010. About the U.Va. Library With 13 physical locations as well as the original Rotunda, the U.Va. Library contains more than five million books, 17 million manuscripts, rare books and archives, and rapidly-growing digital collections. The Library is a leader in developing collections, tools, and collaborations that foster scholarship at the University and worldwide. It is known in particular for its strength in American history and literature, as well as its innovation in digital technologies. About the University of Paderborn The University of Paderborn has a special focus on Computer Science, exemplified by its Heinz-Nixdorf Institute. Together with the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, the University conducts the Seminar for Musicology where, in 2004 and in cooperation with the Carl Maria von Weber Complete-Edition project, preliminary work was performed regarding digital critical editions of music. Its "Edirom" project (also DFG funded) has been developing platform-independent solutions for musical editions since 2006. Erin Mayhood Head, Music Library Old Cabell Hall University of Virginia PO Box 400175 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4175 elm8s@virginia.edu (434) 924-7017 (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 Tue May 12 04:59:06 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 3A7BDE1DF; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75056E1D0; Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090512045905.75056E1D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.14 events: language & automata theory; art history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 14. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gardiner, Hazel" (26) Subject: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2009 Conference Bursaries [2] From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" (5) Subject: LATA 2010: bids for venue --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:46:36 +0100 From: "Gardiner, Hazel" Subject: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2009 Conference Bursaries Hello Willard, A further announcement if you wouldn't mind circulating this to humanist. (incidentally I bought a copy of The Same and Not the Same - although I've not had a chance to look at it yet..) Best wishes Hazel CHArt is pleased to announce that we will be able to offer a small number of bursaries to assist doctoral students selected to present papers at the 2009 CHArt conference with their conference fees. The bursary scheme has been set up in memory of Helene Roberts. The Call for Papers is appended below (Deadline for submissions 30 May 2009) - 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 - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS – --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:23:12 +0100 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: LATA 2010: bids for venue The 4th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2010) is expected to take place on March 25-31, 2010. After three editions in Tarragona, the venue for LATA 2010 is sought throughout the globe. Those universities, institutes or departments that may be willing to host the conference are invited to express their interest to Carlos Martin-Vide at carlos.martin@urv.cat The deadline is May 25, 2009. The ones shortlisted will be asked to comment on a few organizational issues soon after the deadline. For background information, please visit http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 05:11:46 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 D34A5EED7; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:11:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7FDECEEC7; Wed, 13 May 2009 05:11:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090513051144.7FDECEEC7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 05:11:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.15 happy 22nd Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 15. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:36:48 +0200 From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.1 Happy 22nd birthday! In-Reply-To: <20090507083814.CC50066E3@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group skrev: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 1. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > If a dog seems to live 7 times faster than a human, how fast does an > online seminar like Humanist age in our sight? How old do we Humanists > feel? Like the 22 year-old clinging to the belief that he or she can do > anything but beginning to suspect otherwise? Like the 154 year-old (22 * > 7 = 154) who cannot behave properly? Like an ageless sage? > > A marvellous, wonderful celebration of Humanist's 21st birthday was > staged by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen at DH2008 almost a year ago, at which > not a few digital grandees were to be seen drinking liberally to its > health. (See the post-sauna > http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/gallery/pages/IMG_4445.html and its > unsteady sequels.) Thank you very much Willard for Humanist. And thank you very much also for the Oulu photos. I scanned through all of them and there are many very good ones. Some of them could be used for posters for the ADHO! Espen Espen S. Ore National Library of Norway, Oslo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 14 04:59:11 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 C150516932; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:59:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9895E16920; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:59:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090514045910.9895E16920@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 04:59:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.16 Scholarly E-Pub Bibliography, ver 75 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 16. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:23:17 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 75, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 75 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,400 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: 2008 Annual Edition is now available as a paperback book. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.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 A backup Digital Scholarship server is available at: http://digital-scholarship.com/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication * 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://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/rss2/ (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, 2007, and 2008 annual PDF editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 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/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/rss2/ (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/cwbaileyprofile.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 14 05:00:13 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 E8BCF169BF; Thu, 14 May 2009 05:00:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8360169B0; Thu, 14 May 2009 05:00:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090514050011.A8360169B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 05:00:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.17 events: metadata at the DHO, Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 17. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:02:31 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Workshop: Metadata - Working with Data about Data This very popular workshop is being offered in May and registration is filling up quickly. To register for this workshop, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=floIcGU1cLaaoL3HOtyF5Q_3d_3d Date: 27 May 2009, 10:00 - 16:00 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=floIcGU1cLaaoL3HOtyF5Q_3d_3d Once you have registered, please download, complete, and bring with you to the workshop, the powerpoint template found on this page: http://dho.ie/node/97 --- 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 Fri May 15 05:03:52 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 B4A2E114C8; Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29856113D7; Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090515050351.29856113D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 05:03:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.18 events: Knuth & Parshall at Greenwich; Methods for Modalities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 18. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Bolander (35) Subject: 2nd CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) [2] From: Gerhard Brey (50) Subject: Knuth and Parshall at Greenwich --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:55:51 +0100 From: Thomas Bolander Subject: 2nd CFP: 6th workshop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-6) SECOND 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). Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:30:58 +0100 From: Gerhard Brey Subject: Knuth and Parshall at Greenwich > From: Tony Mann > Date: 14 May 2009 21:32:03 BST > To: MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > > On Tuesday June 2nd, the University of Greenwich is pleased to > present an afternoon exploring the history of mathematics & > computing in the appropriate setting of the Old Royal Naval College > in Greenwich: > Donald Knuth: /"History of Computer Science versus History of > Mathematics"/ > Karen Parshall: /"Victorian Algebra"/ > > Don Knuth is a retired professor of Computer Science at Stanford > University, where he joined the faculty forty years ago. His multi- > volume work-in-progress entitled "The Art of Computer Programming" > has been translated into twelve languages. His software is used to > format the pages of most of the world's books and journals about > mathematics and physics. He tries to write computer programs that > are actually a pleasure to read. > > Karen Parshall is Professor of History and Mathematics at the > University of Virginia. She works on the history of science and > mathematics in America and the history of 19th- and 20th-century > algebra, and her research currently focuses on the life, times, and > mathematical work of the British mathematician, James Joseph > Sylvester. The organisers are grateful to the London Mathematical > Society for support for Professor Parshall's visit. > > Date: Tuesday 2nd June 2009, 2-4pm > Venue: Burnside Lecture Theatre, King William Court (KW315), > Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS > All welcome. Admission free. > > Further information from Tony Mann (A.Mann@gre.ac.uk) > Travel directions at http://www.gre.ac.uk/about/greenwich/greenwich > > -- > Tony Mann > Head of Department, Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences > University of Greenwich > Old Royal Naval College > Park Row, London > SE10 9LS > Phone: 020 8331 8709 Fax 020 8331 8665 > A.Mann@gre.ac.uk http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~A.Mann/ > > University of Greenwich, a charity and company limited by guarantee, > registered in England (reg no. 986729). Registered Office: Old > Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich SE10 9LS. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 05:44:00 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 8475881FE; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FF7581F6; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:43:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090517054359.0FF7581F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 05:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.19 events: textual studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:55:24 +0100 From: Alice Wood Subject: CTS symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 11th June Dear Colleagues, Just a preliminary notice that the annual CTS symposium will this year be held on 11th June. Fuller information will follow. The event is free, but it would be helpful if you could inform myself and Alice Wood (the co-organiser aliceruthwood@yahoo.co.uk) whether you will attend the symposium. I hope to see you on the 11th. Andrew 6th Annual Symposium on Textual Studies Centre for Textual Studies De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 11th June 2009 Speakers include: Tony Edwards (DMU): 'Disintegrating the Text: The Career of Otto Ege' Clare Hutton (Loughborough) ‘The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century’ Jim Mussell (Birmingham): ‘From textual codes to visual modes: the importance of the visual when digitizing journalism’ John Woolford: 'Tennyson's Day-Dreams' Henry Woudhuysen (UCL): 'Bibliography and the history of the book: a companionable view' Claire Squires (Oxford Brookes): tba Deborah Mutch (DMU) : tba Professor Andrew Thacker Department of English De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH Director, Centre for Textual Studies http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ Co-Director, AHRC funded Modernist Magazines Project http://modmags.cts.dmu.ac.uk/ Editor, Literature & History _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 17 05:44:30 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 65CD88314; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E76F88305; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090517054428.E76F88305@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 05:44:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.20 new on WWW: D-Lib for May/June X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 20. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:00:13 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is nowavailable Greetings: The May/June 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six articles, a commentary, one 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 Southern Methodist University Digital Collections, courtesy of Cindy Boeke, Southern Methodist University. The commentary is: Time Challenges - Challenging Times for Future Information Search Thomas Mestl, Olga Cerrato, Jon Ølnes, Per Myrseth, and Inger-Mette Gustavsen, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Norway The articles include: EScience in Practice: Lessons from the Cornell Web Lab William Arms, Manuel Calimlim, and Lucia Walle, Cornell University Towards a Repository-enabled Scholar's Workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra Richard Green, Consultant to the University of Hull; and Chris Awre, University of Hull, United Kingdom Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine Jennifer L. Marill and Edward C. Luczak, National Library of Medicine NeoNote: Suggestions for a Global Shared Scholarly Annotation System Bradley Hemminger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Fierce Urgency of Now: A Proactive, Pervasive Content Awareness Tool James E. Powell, Linn Marks Collins, and Mark L.B. Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Tom Evens and Laurence Hauttekeete, Ghent University, Belgium The Conference Report is: Developer Happiness Days: Takin' it to the Pub Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University; Ben O'Steen, Oxford University; and David Flanders, University of London 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 May/June 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 Mon May 18 04:42:01 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 61BEF1C6D3; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:42:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 850BE1C6C3; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:41:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090518044159.850BE1C6C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 04:41:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.21 numbers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 21. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:33:08 +0100 From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: Call for Contributions - Numbers In-Reply-To: <2908216542688796925681@Jack-PC> (b) NUMERALS Charred Western Red Cedar 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Accidentally break forming additional fragments Take from all things their number and all shall perish The cessation of Time The consumption of ordering systems http://www.bbrace.net/burnt11.jpg http://www.bbrace.net/metaconstruct1984.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 Mon May 18 04:43:16 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 B9CEF1C8E9; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46C461C8E2; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:43:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090518044315.46C461C8E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 04:43:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.22 computing in the Forum, "Who am I computing" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 22. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:37:07 -0400 From: Phillip Barron Subject: Willard McCarty on Who am I computing? For those of you who have not yet seen it, The Humanist's very own Willard McCarty is leading a fascinating conversation on computing and the humanities at *On the Human's Forum* — http://onthehuman.org/humannature/ Comments will be taken up until this Friday, at which time the conversation will close with a final post from Willard. Enjoy, phillip -- Phillip Barron pbarron@nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.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 19 05:02:48 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 E455D293A; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8774B2932; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090519050247.8774B2932@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.23 new publication: ISR 34.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 23. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:01:42 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.1 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Volume 34 Number 1 March 2009 www.isr-journal.org This issue is dedicated to the "To-day and To-morrow" series of publications edited by Charles Kay Ogden, 1923 to 1931. "The rationale for the To-day and To-morrow series was to combine the popularization of expert knowledge with futurology: as the title suggests, to lay out the current state of particular disciplines or subjects, and to consider their probable future developments. The scope of its futurology varied: those treating social trends tended to limit themselves to a few decades; those dealing with topics like evolution or cosmology needed to take a longer view.... Some thirty of the volumes were devoted to scientific or technological subjects, and these provide the focus for the essays comprising this issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews." (from the Introduction by Max Saunders and Brian Hurwitz) CONTENTS The To-day and To-morrow Series and the Popularization of Science: An Introduction Max Saunders and Brian Hurwitz 3 From Spiritualism to Syncretism: Twentieth-Century Pseudo-Science and the Quest for Wholeness Maurizio Ascari 9 Darwinism, Biology, and Mythology in the To-day and To-morrow Series, 1923–1929 Alison Wood 22 The Sexual Politics of Ectogenesis in the To-day and To-morrow Series Aline Ferreira 32 Robots, Clones and Clockwork Men: The Post-Human Perplex in Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Science Patrick Parrinder 57 ‘Science and Futurology in the To-Day and To-Morrow Series’: Matter, Consciousness, Time and Language Max Saunders 69 Aeolus: Futurism’s Flights of Fancy Clare Brant 80 Roger Money-Kyrle’s Aspasia: The Future of Amorality (1932) Neil Vickers 92 Feature Review Review — The To-day and To-morrow Series Elise Schraner 108 Essay Review Sixty Years of Science in Mainland China (Michael Sargent): G. Walden, China: A Wolf in the World?; S. Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China; V. J. Carplus and X. W. Deng, Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Origins and Prospects. Book Reviews Siegfried Zielinski; translated by Gloria Custance, Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (Julianne Nyhan); M.G. Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms. New Media and the Forensic Imagination (Bert Van Raemdonck) -- 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 19 05:03:19 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 C4AFB6E6A; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:03:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3922266D7; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:03:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090519050318.3922266D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 05:03:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.24 events: high-performance computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 24. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:09:09 -0400 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Dear colleagues, Please note the following event that may be of interest to anyone near the University of Waterloo this coming Thursday. The even will also be broadcast via Sharcnet's AccessGrid (see information below the schedule or contact me directly if you're interested). Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Date Thursday May 21 2009 Time 11:30 - 17:00 Location Hosted at University of Waterloo, Room AL-105, and to be broadcast online over AccessGrid URL http://www.sharcnet.ca/Events/RDay2009/ Room AL-105, Chair: Stéfan Sinclair 11:30-12noon(EST), Ray Siemens, “Computation and the History of the Future of the Book” 12:10-12:30(EST), Stéfan Sinclair, “Web-based HPC: Oil and Water?” 3:40-4:05(EST), Miriam Pena-Pimentel, “Topic Maps in Philological and Cultural Analysis” 4:05-4:30(EST), Robert Hamilton, “Visualizing Words in the Brain: Using HPC to Analyze and Understand Brain Imaging Data” 4:30-4:55(EST), Juan Luis Suarez, “Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Cultural Dynamics” HPC in Digital Humanities Session at Research Day 2009 will be broadcast online over AccessGrid, The URL to SHARCNET venue server is https://agvs.sharcnet.ca:8000/Venues/default Other consortia can join the AG session. From outside of SHARCNET, do the following: 1) connect to SHARCNET AG Venue server using the URL listed above; 2) In the Venue Server window, click ‘Tools’ to use ‘Use Unicast’, then move mouse to Bridges to select ‘SHARCNET’; and 3) The AG session will be in ‘Seminars’ room. To go to the Seminars room, simple click ‘Seminars’ from the left side menu on the Venue window. 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 Tue May 19 07:29:23 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 B1716579A; Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8CDC5787; Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 25. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:06:12 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: servants as automata? I would be enormously grateful for any clues to the explicit characterization of human servants or slaves as automata or to attribution to them of characteristics proper to machines. Such would include passages in novels and depictions in drama as well as guidebooks to proper social behaviour. Scholarly opinions that this was the way servants were treated when people had them would also be welcome. It's clear that from the earliest times automata were made or imagined in the form of servants, but I am interested particularly in how human beings were seen as machines. 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 Wed May 20 05:41:35 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 0D2CD837A; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAF298368; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090520054133.AAF298368@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.26 events: many, various & worthy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 26. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kevin Kee (40) Subject: Registration Reminder - Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, June 15-16 [2] From: "Ray Siemens" (39) Subject: DHSI 2009 colloquium: "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future ofthe Digital Humanities" [3] From: "list@ami-09.org" (64) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on AmbientIntelligence - 2nd Call for Contributions [4] From: Raffaella Bernardi (97) Subject: CfP: Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009) [5] From: Stéfan_Sinclair (44) Subject: Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 [6] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (66) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar programme --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:10 -0400 From: Kevin Kee Subject: Registration Reminder - Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference, June 15-16 REGISTRATION REMINDER - 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, St. Catharines, Ontario, denis@siliconknights.com 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: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:56:57 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: DHSI 2009 colloquium: "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future ofthe Digital Humanities" -----Original Message----- From: cmleitch@gmail.com On Behalf Of Caroline Leitch This year, a new graduate student element is being added to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. A number of graduate students attending the Institute will be participating in a colloquium entitled "Next Wave: New Researchers and the Future of the Digital Humanities". There will be presentations on many aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, such as 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 morning sessions (June 9-12) from 8:30-9:30 in Harry Hickman 105. Each session will feature 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. Sessions are open to all DHSI attendees and interested members of the public. We are pleased to announce the presenters for the first DHSI Grad Colloquium: Trish Baer (U Victoria) Devin Becker (Indiana U) Tracy Boger (U Alberta) Alberto Campagnolo (King's College, London) Anne Cong-Huyen (UCSB) Kristin Crandall (UNB) Marc Fortin (Queens U) Elizabeth Lorang (U Nebraska-Lincoln) Piotr Organisciak (U Alberta) Lauralee Proudfoot (Trent) Jentery Sayers (U Washington) Kristine Smitka (U Alberta) Vanessa Steinroetter (U Nebraska-Lincoln) Meagan Timney (Dalhousie U) Elizabeth Vincelette (Old Dominion U) See the full schedule at: http://www.dhsi.org/home/schedule For more information, please contact Diane Jakacki or Cara Leitch . Visit us on the web at . --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:36:32 +0100 From: "list@ami-09.org" Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence - 2nd Call for Contributions 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI-09: Roots for the Future of Ambient Intelligence November 18th-21st, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ami-09.org 2nd Call for Contributions AmI-09 will bring keynotes, technical papers, workshops, industrial case studies, posters & demos and panels. As new categories this year we feature landscapes and ambient visions to review the current status and to look into the next decade of Ambient Intelligence. Prof. Emile Aarts (Philips Research) has agreed to be one of the AmI-09 keynote speakers. AmI-09 will feature a 10 years anniversary since the term Ambient Intelligence started to fly around. We explicitly intend to look back what has been achieved, review existing solutions and identify what will come. The conference should provide a forum to establish new roads for the future of Ambient Intelligence. Important Dates: Workshops: May 25th, 2009 Papers: June 8th, 2009 Short Papers: June 22nd , 2009 Posters & Demos: June 22nd , 2009 Landscapes: June 22nd, 2009 Industrial Case Studies: Oct 5th, 2009 Visions: Oct 5th, 2009 Please visit the conference website for more details on each submission category and potential conference topics: http://www.ami-09.org Conference Committee: Manfred Tscheligi, Boris de Ruyter (Conference Co-Chairs & Paper Co-Chairs) Panos Markopoulos, Reiner Wichert (Short Paper Co-Chairs) John Soldatos, Alexander Meschtscherjakov (Poster & Demo Co-Chairs) Emile Aarts, Albrecht Schmidt (Visions Co-Chairs) Cristina Buiza, Wolfgang Reitberger (Workshops Co-Chairs) Maddy Janse, Marianna Obrist (Industrial Case Study Co-Chairs) Norbert Streitz (Landscapes Chair) The conference is hosted and organized at the University of Salzburg, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S Center. For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.ami-09.org We are looking forward to your contributions! Manfred Tscheligi Boris de Ruyter --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:07:12 +0100 From: Raffaella Bernardi Subject: CfP: Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009) Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries 2009 (AT4DL 2009) 8 September 2009, Trento (Italy) http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl Submission deadline: 18 June 2009 *********************************************************************** AIM and SCOPE The fast growth of digital material is challenging for research in many disciplines. The EU has funded many projects to advance research in this field and facilitate end-user access to cultural and scientific heritage. The ENRICH, Europeana, CACAO, GAMA, NEEO and TELplus projects, funded by the eContentplus programme, have joined forces to organise a workshop as a satellite event of ICSD 2009 (http://www.icsd-conference.org/). The workshop aims to bring together stakeholders in order to present an overview of state-of-the-art systems in the field and identify open research problems that require further work. We invite submissions of extended abstracts describing running projects in the field of Digital Libraries. Research projects of any size are welcome, ranging from EU to PhD projects. Preference will be given to projects that will be able to demonstrate a functioning prototype. We also invite the submission of posters describing research in progress that will be on display during the workshop. We are particularly interested in the following topics: * Analysis of users' requirements and use of DL systems. * DL systems for supporting e-research. * Integration of Classification Systems, Subject Headings and IR methods. * Multi-modal indexing of DLs. * Language Technologies: cross document co-reference and temporal information extraction. * Linking and clustering data in DLs. * Ontology learning for DL systems. SUBMISSION Each extended abstract may consist of up to three (3) pages of content and one (1) extra page for references. Submissions should be made following the Author's Instructions for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submission/reviewing will be electronic, managed by the EasyChair system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. The PDF file of the paper must be uploaded to the system by the submission deadline. See details at the workshop website: http://www.cacaoproject.eu/at4dl IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission: 18 June 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2009 * Camera Ready Deadline: 25 August 2009 WORKSHOP STRUCTURE: * In the morning, short presentations of accepted abstracts * In the afternoon, posters and demos time * Closing section with a general discussion PUBLICATIONS All the accepted abstracts and posters will be made available online before the Workshop as pre-prints published in "Bozen-Bolzano University Press" series and will be distributed on a CD at the time of the workshop. Following the workshop, it is planned to publish the full papers as post-proceedings in Springer LNCS, the publication of which is expected in early 2010. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Raffaella Bernardi, (CACAO, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) (co- chair) * Sally Chambers (TELplus-CACAO, The European Library) (co-chair) * Björn Gottfried, (GAMA, University of Bremen) (co-chair) * José Borbinha (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portgual) * Vittore Casarosa (ISTI CNR, Italy) * Carl Demeyere (NEEO, K.U. Leuven, Belgium) * Stefan Gradmann (Europeana, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) * Jakub Heller (ENRICH, Cross Czech a.s., Czech Republic) * Antoine Isaac (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University, UK) * Patrice Landry (MACS project, Swiss National Library, Switzerland) * Andreas Lattner (University of Frankfurt, Germany) * Mikolaj Leszczuk (AGH Krakow, Poland) * Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Italy) * Stefan Pletschacher (University of Salford, UK) * Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy) * Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Pasquale Savino (ISTI-CNR, Italy) * Viliam Simko (CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic) * Massimo Zancanaro (FBK, Italy) If you have any questions, please contact the Co-Chairs of the Programme Committee by sending an email to: at4dl@inf.unibz.it --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:09:09 -0400 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Dear colleagues, Please note the following event that may be of interest to anyone near the University of Waterloo this coming Thursday. The even will also be broadcast via Sharcnet's AccessGrid (see information below the schedule or contact me directly if you're interested). Digital Humanities / High Performance Computing Session at Sharcnet Research Day 2009 Date Thursday May 21 2009 Time 11:30 - 17:00 Location Hosted at University of Waterloo, Room AL-105, and to be broadcast online over AccessGrid URL http://www.sharcnet.ca/Events/RDay2009/ Room AL-105, Chair: Stéfan Sinclair 11:30-12noon(EST), Ray Siemens, “Computation and the History of the Future of the Book” 12:10-12:30(EST), Stéfan Sinclair, “Web-based HPC: Oil and Water?” 3:40-4:05(EST), Miriam Pena-Pimentel, “Topic Maps in Philological and Cultural Analysis” 4:05-4:30(EST), Robert Hamilton, “Visualizing Words in the Brain: Using HPC to Analyze and Understand Brain Imaging Data” 4:30-4:55(EST), Juan Luis Suarez, “Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Cultural Dynamics” HPC in Digital Humanities Session at Research Day 2009 will be broadcast online over AccessGrid, The URL to SHARCNET venue server is https://agvs.sharcnet.ca:8000/Venues/default Other consortia can join the AG session. From outside of SHARCNET, do the following: 1) connect to SHARCNET AG Venue server using the URL listed above; 2) In the Venue Server window, click ‘Tools’ to use ‘Use Unicast’, then move mouse to Bridges to select ‘SHARCNET’; and 3) The AG session will be in ‘Seminars’ room. To go to the Seminars room, simple click ‘Seminars’ from the left side menu on the Venue window. 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/ --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:30:24 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar programme Please find below the programme for the 2009 Digital Classicist seminar series, sponsored by the Institute for Classical Studies in London, and supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for e-Research (King's College London), and the British Library. *Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009* Fridays at 16:30 in STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU (July 17th seminar in British Library, 96 Euston Rd, NW1 2DW) June 5 Bart Van Beek (Leuven) Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri June 12 Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham) Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and Mediaeval warfare logistics June 19 Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts) No Unmediated Analysis: Digital services constrain and enable both traditional and novel tasks June 26 Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig) Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works July 3 Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds) Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification July 10 Cristina Vertan (Hamburg) Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology July 17 Christine Pappelau (Berlin) *NB: in British Library* Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building structures July 24 Elton Barker (Oxford) Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive July 31 Leif Isaksen (Southampton) Linking Archaeological Data August 7 Alexandra Trachsel (Hamburg) An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Skepsis ALL WELCOME We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer Science. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 05:43:23 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 C0E5E8434; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D331C8425; Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 27. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? [2] From: DrWender@aol.com (7) Subject: Re: 23.25 // king as automaton [3] From: ksearsmi (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? [4] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:49:34 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Willard -- If you're interested generally in how human beings were seen as machines, there's quite a bit out there in the history of science and in relationship to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Golem stories are part of this tradition as well. But the more specific, "servants as automata" -- that's interesting, and I'm not sure. I don't recall anything off hand. I'll think it over a bit and if I come up with anything I'll email you. You don't have to post this to the list. Jim --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:50:06 EDT From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: 23.25 // king as automaton In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> In einer eMail vom 19.5.2009 09:29:42 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit schreibt willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk: > I am interested particularly in how human beings > were seen as machines In the view of german philosophers at the beginning of the 19th century monarchy was theorized in a way that the king were a signature machine in the center of a totally technocratic administration... --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:36:11 -0500 From: ksearsmi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> In Jean Ingelow's Victorian fairy tale, Mopsa the Fairy, two women dressed in finery who serve horses that have been ill-treated in the mortal world turn out to be automata (full of gears). Jack, the hero, learns that the horses intend to fix him up as a wind-up too, so that he may also serve. Of course, he flees, as would any sensible boy. Kelly Searsmith Assistant Director, eDream edream.illinois.edu ksearsmi@ncsa.illinois.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:15:34 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, There is that amusing movie Sleeper with Woody Allen where he pretends to be one of the domestic servants to escape at one point. Best, Geoffrey R. On May 19, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 25. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:06:12 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > I would be enormously grateful for any clues to the explicit > characterization of human servants or slaves as automata or to > attribution to them of characteristics proper to machines. Such would > include passages in novels and depictions in drama as well as > guidebooks > to proper social behaviour. Scholarly opinions that this was the way > servants were treated when people had them would also be welcome. It's > clear that from the earliest times automata were made or imagined in > the > form of servants, but I am interested particularly in how human beings > were seen as machines. > > 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 Thu May 21 06:00:09 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 35824E1F7; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 199B1E1EF; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:00:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090521060008.199B1E1EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 06:00:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.28 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 28. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: why servants as automata [2] From: Neil Kelly (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata [3] From: Steve Jones (14) Subject: servants as automata [4] From: "Rabkin, Eric" (169) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata [5] From: Igor Kramberger (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:08:25 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why servants as automata Thanks for the several leads so far. But let me clarify my query about servants as automata. It's clear from Victorian British practices (brilliantly represented in Robert Altman's Gosford Park and well documented in the scholarship) that servants are seen as a function of the household for which they work and so are de-personalized in various ways -- by giving of names not their own, by dress and by rules of conduct. What I am looking for, however, is the specific equating of servants with automatic machines. This is one half of the story. The other half is the identification of such machines, computers specifically, with the performance of drudgery, while humans are thus "liberated" to do what is considered higher or more noble work, or simply to think. The computer in this common imagining takes on the role of the servant. On the conceptual level all this is fairly straightforward. But I want to find people making an *explicit* connection between living human beings in menial roles and machines, automata, computers. 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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:51:36 +0200 From: Neil Kelly Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> >>> Regarding the representation of human servants as machines - there are many representations of soldiers as automata in film and literature - the military and civil service requirement that the individual act without fear of favor (administrative decisions preclude compassion) is caricatured as machine-like. Durenmatt's essay/short-story "The Winter War in Tibet" has soldiers with heavy prosthetic parts. Neil Kelly Schutzenrainstrasse.12 Aesch, 4147 Switzerland home: +41 (0)61 681 17 77 mobile: +41 (0)79 227 40 78 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:08:55 -0500 From: Steve Jones Subject: servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> A parodic sketch from 1829 by Silver-Fork novelist T. H. Lister, "A Dialogue for the Year 2030," offers a steampunk science fictional view of the future, complete with mechanical hunting machines instead of horses--and an automaton "steam porter" at the door of a fashionable London Lady. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/2130.htm Steve _________ Steven E. Jones Professor of English Loyola University Chicago 773-508-2792 sjones1@luc.edu http://web.me.com/stevenjones1/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:59:25 -0400 From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.27 servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, The whole field of puppetry plays at least unconsciously and sometimes consciously on the mechanical view of human beings. Bergson's notion (in _Le Rire_) that the joke arises from the imposition of the mechanical on the animate (as in a pratfall) points to a sudden rebalancing of that relationship more toward the mechanical. I take it, then, that you are not so much interested in the machine (mechanical) aspect of servants as in the more specifically automatic aspects of servants, as your header has it. The sorcerer's apprentice (and the golem et al), it seems to me, raises an important question: how do we define "automatic"? If free will is required for an automaton to be truly automatic, is an automaton still a machine? If the machine has no free will, then can it be viewed fully as an automaton? Example: I set my thermostat for a given temperature. Without my further attention, it turns the air conditioner and the furnace on and off as needed. Is the thermostat an automaton? It makes decisions on its own but has no free will. Is a roomba an automaton? Not only does it navigate around furniture, it knows when to recharge itself and does so. But while people would often call a roomba an automaton (and it is made by a company called iRobot), conceptually it is merely a complicated thermostat adjusting itself to predefined parameters. Is the talking mirror in "Snow White" an automaton? It is clearly an information servant, but we have reason to believe that its role in the story depends on its inability to lie. Is that restriction a consequence of its nature or its social status as a servant, something built in (no free will) or something constantly imposed by the ongoing situation? What is the difference between the ongoing situation being social (which makes a slave or servant a slave or servant) and asocial (like the ambient temperature changes activating the thermostat)? My guess is that at least a good chunk of the issue you're pursuing may be amenable to exploration of a narrower question: what is the relation between nature and culture in our understanding of free will? An excellent text in which to consider that is Asimov's _I, Robot_. An older, comic example is Plappa, the out-of-repair robot mathematics teacher in Zamyatin's _We_. That 1920 novel explores vividly the role of "fancy" or "imagination" (translations vary) in distinguishing a person (called a "Number" here and all Numbers are servants of the One State) from a machine. The question of nature versus culture here may arise in a problem that flows from the inherent and necessary ambiguity of natural language. Oracles say one thing but turn out to mean another which is equally well represented by the same phrasing. For example, "You will kill your father and marry your mother" obviates Oedipus' free will because "father" and "mother" have both natural meanings (contributing gametes) and cultural meanings (raising a child). Freed genies, as bound servants, grant wishes, but not necessarily wishes intended. As Susan Calvin discovers in _I, Robot_, when it comes to robots, the key problem is properly formulating the instructions. And this is true of dealings with servants. The more precise one must be ("take a slice of bread and toast it at level 4 and then spread one-quarter ounce of butter on it and then bring it to me on a blue plate" as opposed to "bring me breakfast tomorrow after I shower"), the less valuable the machine as servant. To put that another way, the less automatic, the less valuable. But at what point does automatism become free will and the servant escape the world of machines (no matter its etiology) altogether? Yours, Eric ---------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin Dept of English Univ of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 www.umich.edu/~esrabkin --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:34:44 +0200 From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090520054322.D331C8425@woodward.joyent.us> Good morning, perhaps this could be useful for your purpose: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Sandmann_(Hoffmann) Look for: Olimpia as a woman, but it is automata. Kind regards, -- Igor ----- Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/index.php?page_id=81&person=89 Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik Slovenija, Evropa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 21 06:01:25 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 91D5EE311; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:01:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7918E302; Thu, 21 May 2009 06:01:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090521060124.B7918E302@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 06:01:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.29 new on WWW: Ubiquity on design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 29. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:18:31 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: May 19 - 25, 2009 Is Design the Preeminent Protagonist in User Experience? We are gradually learning that "user experience" is a critical factor in customer satisfaction and loyalty. A positive experience means a happy customer who returns again. Designers of software systems and web services have been digging deeply into how they might generate a positive user experience. They are moving beyond anecdotes about excellent examples of user experiences and are developing design principles. Phillip Tobias gives us a fascinating account of the emerging design principles that will generate satisfied and loyal users. 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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: "Rehbein, Malte" (23) Subject: Conf. Anouncement "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age",Munich, 3/4 July 2009 [2] From: Franca Garzotto (82) Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - ACM-SIGCHI IDC 2009: TheEight International Conference on Interaction Design and Children [3] From: Dot Porter (87) Subject: Fwd: EpiDoc Training Workshops --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:22:03 +0100 From: "Rehbein, Malte" Subject: Conf. Anouncement "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", Munich, 3/4 July 2009 Dear colleagues, The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) organises an international symposium on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" in Munich, 3/4 July 2009. Please find a brief description below and more information including the preliminary programme here: http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal/index.html#programm. You are all very welcome to participate. Kind regards, Malte Rehbein, NUI Galway International Conference "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", Munich, 3-4 July 2009 The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. The presentations will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes), (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools. A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the "digital age". The conference is open to the public. ---- Malte Rehbein M.A. Marie Curie Research Fellow Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Mob.: +353 85 8144 685 Email: malte.rehbein@nuigalway.ie Web: http://www.denkstaette.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:34:38 +0100 From: Franca Garzotto Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - ACM-SIGCHI IDC 2009: TheEight International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 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 ****** REGULAR REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2009 ****** ****** FINAL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE ****** www.idc09.polimi.it http://www.idc09.polimi.it/Program.html 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. This conference builds on the successes and high standards of the previous IDC conferences (IDC 2008 in Chicago, USA, 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). The PROGRAM of IDC09 presents a complete spectrum of events and sessions, exploring all the themes of the conference, in all possible aspects: - 4 high level scientific WORKSHOPS (selected from a set of 12 proposals) will be held on June 3 and will offer a terrific opportunity to meet in the context of focused and interactive discussions, to investigate emerging topics, to move new fields forward and to build communities - Two prestigious KEYNOTE speakers - S. A. Barab (Indiana University, USA) and A. Druin (University of Maryland, USA) - will provide a broad perspective on issues of general interest and new visions in the IDC field - The different sessions on June 4 and 5 will include 17 outstanding FULL PAPERS (selected from a set of 53 submissions), 30 high-quality SHORT PAPERS (selected from a set of 82 submissions), and 14 exciting DEMOS (selected from a set of 20 submissions) - A PANEL will debate the issue of INTERACTION FOR CHILDREN in the context of MUSEUMS and SCIENCE CENTRES. - A SPECIAL SESSION is devoted to present the European Commission 2010 Research Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, and the recently launched IFIP Special Interest Group on Interaction Design and Children. - The best ideas for interaction for children at pre-school, object of the international COMPETITION C4C (Como for Children), will be presented in the final session. Social events (a welcome cocktail on June 3, a Gala Dinner on the lake shores on June 4, and a closing reception at Villa del Grumello) 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. We look forward to meeting you in Como! For detailed and up-to-date information about IDC 2009, please visit www.idc09.polimi.it or contact idc09.info@polimi.it --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:28:09 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: EpiDoc Training Workshops In-Reply-To: <4A142DFB.1020308@kcl.ac.uk> Those on the list working with premodern texts may be interested in these workshops, led by one of the principal designers of EpiDoc (a TEI schema designed for encoding inscriptions, papyrus, and other early texts). ************************************************ *EpiDoc Training Sessions 2009* *London 20-24 July* *Rome 20-25 September* The EpiDoc community has been developing protocols for the publication of inscriptions, papyri, and other documentary Classical texts in TEI-compliant XML: for details see the community website at http://epidoc.sf.net. Over the last few years there has been increasing demand for training by scholars wishing to use EpiDoc. We are delighted to be able to announce two training workshops, which will be offered in 2009. Both will be led by Dr Gabriel Bodard. These sessions will benefit scholars working on Greek or Latin documents with an interest in developing skills in the markup, encoding, and exploitation of digital editions. Competence in Greek and/or Latin, and knowledge of the Leiden Conventions will be assumed; no particular computer skills are required. *London session,* 20-24 July 2009. This will take place at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, 26-29 Drury Lane. The cost of attendance will be £50 for students; £100 for employees of universities or other non-profit institutions; £200 for employees of commercial institutions. Those interested in enrolling should apply to Dr Bodard, gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by 20 June 2009. We hope to be able to offer some follow-up internships after the session, to enable participants to consolidate their experience under supervision; please let us know if that would be of interest to you. *Rome session,* 20-25 September 2009. This will take place at the British School at Rome. Thanks to the generous support of the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, the British School and Terra Italia Onlus, attendance will be free. Those interested in enrolling should apply to Dr Silvia Orlandi, silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it by 30 June 2009. *Practical matters* Both courses will run from Monday to Friday starting at 10.00 am and ending at 16.00 each day. Participants should bring a wireless-enabled laptop. You should acquire and install a copy of Oxygen (http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html) *and* either an educational licence ($48) or a 30-day trial licence (free). Don’t worry if you don’t know how to use it! -- 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/ ____________________________________ EpiDoc Collaborative for Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML http://epidoc.sf.net Markup List Archives: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/markup.html The Stoa Consortium: http://www.stoa.org/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Fri May 22 05:57:07 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 1919B6287; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 441536263; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055705.441536263@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.31 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 31. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jan Rybicki" (59) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? [2] From: John Levin (40) Subject: humans as automata [3] From: Devin Griffiths (209) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.28 servants as automata --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 08:35:44 +0200 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.25 servants as automata? In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Sorry for the obvious reference, but Vonnegut does a little discussion of this in his Breakfast of Champions. He begins: "Actually, the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines." All the best, Jan Rybicki --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:35:24 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: humans as automata In-Reply-To: <20090519072921.C8CDC5787@woodward.joyent.us> Concerning the characterization of humans as machines, I don't know of anything as specific as the portrayal of servants or slaves as automata, but can offer some wider examples of the mechanical body and worker, and the identification of machines with drudgery. Considering the body as mechanical is an old idea, found in Descartes' dualism and elsewhere. The mind distinguished human from animal. "The soul of brutes .... but a meer machine, is the opinion publicly owned and declared of Des Cartes, Gassendus, Dr Willis and others" (John Ray, quoted in Jennings, Pandemonium.* Ray was opposing this view.) In the 18th century, La Mettrie wrote L'homme machine (The Man Machine); especially notable as rather than dehumanising the body, atheism and materialism turned him towards hedonism. In economics, the division of labour turns workers into parts of a machine: Adam Ferguson, 1783: "Thus we might say that perfection, as regards manufacture, consists in its being able to be dismissed from the mind, in such a manner that without an effort of the brain the workshop may be operated like a machine, of which the parts are men." (Quoted in Marx, Poverty of Philosophy.) Kay, 1832: "Whilst the engine runs the people must work - men, women and children are yoked together with iron and steam. The animal machine - breakable in the best case, subject to a thousand sources of suffering - is chained fast to the iron machine, which knows no suffering and weariness ...." (Quoted in Jennings, Pandemonium.*) Marx: "Machinery is misused in order to transform the worker .... into a part of a specialized machine." (Capital, penguin ed., p547) I suspect the man machine metaphor is often used in connection with the military: Foucault briefly talks of this in Discipline and Punish. Lang's film 'Metropolis' is, if my memory serves, fairly explicit in portraying the workers as robotic, mechanised slaves to the machine. The word robot comes from the Czech word robota, meaning "work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Etymology * OT: Humphrey Jennings' 'Pandemonium' seems to be out of print and not on the net. Given that it was an early hypertext, this is a terrible state of affairs. Hope this is of interest, John Levin -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 05:58:09 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.28 servants as automata Dear Willard, I'm not sure if this is helpful, but Dickens's character Pancks from Little Dorrit is an agent (a debt collector) for Mr. Casby, is explicitly figured as steam-powered, (huffing and puffing), and, initially at least, unable to make decisions or change course. I think Dickens had a human steam engine in mind, but perhaps this counts as automata. Of course, what's interesting about Pancks is how be becomes less machine-like over the novel. Best,Devin Griffiths Devin S. Griffiths Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University English Department, Murray Hall 510 George St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 4702 Feagan Houston, TX 77007 (713) 882-7675 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 22 05:57:40 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 08CE56396; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 212546381; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055738.212546381@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.32 education for sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 32. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:49:13 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Consultation on "Education for Sustainable Development" Consultation on "Education for Sustainable Development" This consultation is sponsored by the E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence. You are cordially invited to participate. The agenda includes the eight educational priorities defined by UNESCO: 1. Gender equity 2. Human health 3. Environmental stewardship 4. Rural development 5. Cultural diversity 6. Human security 7. Sustainable urbanization 8. Sustainable consumption Version 1 of the consultation survey is online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cDNoNGlfcDh6NmQ0NUFGTjhjampxVmc6MA.. I would be grateful if you forward this invitation to others who might be interest. 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 Fri May 22 05:58:00 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 D6F566423; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2987F641C; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055800.2987F641C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.33 new publications: LLC 24.2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 33. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 06:49:31 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.2 Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.2 (June) Special Issue 'Selected papers from Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 25-29 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen, Espen S. Ore, and Claire Warwick Intoduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Arianna Ciula and Tamara Lopez Reflecting on a dual publication: Henry III Fine Rolls print and web Neal Audenaert and Richard Furuta Annotated Facsimile Editions: Defining macro-level structure for image-based electronic editions Jama S. Coartney and Susan L. Wiesner Performance as digital text: Capturing signals and secret messages in a media-rich experience Christian-Emil Ore and Oyvind Eide TEI and cultural heritage ontologies: Exchange of information? Stephanie A. Schlitz The TEI as luminol: Forensic philology in a digital age Brian L. Pytlik Zillig TEI Analytics: converting documents into a TEI format for cross-collection text analysis Georg Rehm, Oliver Schonefeld, Andreas Witt, Erhard Hinrichs, and Marga Reis Sustainability of annotated resources in linguistics: A web-platform for exploring, querying, and distributing linguistic corpora and other resources Claire Warwick, Claire Fisher, Melissa Terras, Mark Baker, Amanda Clarke, Mike Fulford, Matt Grove, Emma O'Riordan, and Mike Rains iTrench: A study of user reactions to the use of information technology in field archaeology Lynne Siemens 'It's a team if you use "reply all" ': An exploration of research teams in digital humanities environments ---------------------------------------------------------------- Review Article ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Van den Branden From Common Sense to Common Knowledge. And Vice Versa ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Spiro Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. * Christine L. Borgman. John Nerbonne Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Parsers and Pedagogues. * Trude Heift and Mathias Schulze. -- 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 May 22 05:58:40 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 D598B669F; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 05B6B668A; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090522055839.05B6B668A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:58:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.34 events: visual arts & trade; Birds of a Feather; TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 34. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kayleigh Merritt (35) Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts & Global Trade in Early American Republic [2] From: Inke Conference (46) Subject: INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather Conference [3] From: Dan O'Donnell (82) Subject: Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:51:13 -0400 From: Kayleigh Merritt Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts & Global Trade in Early American Republic In-Reply-To: <54475820905210749h592a5c8cwad73644bed333184@mail.gmail.com> Call for Papers Visual Arts and Global Trade in Early American Republic Salem, Massachusetts Tentative Date: March 6, 2010 American participation in global trade increased dramatically during the Early Republic. American ships ventured beyond the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to expand direct contact with China, India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific world. This trade brought widespread access to Asian arts and other visual materials and profoundly influenced American visual arts. While much of the literature on the arts of the Early Republic has focused on building nationalism in the wake of the Revolution, this conference investigates the state of early American internationalism. How did global trade contribute to knowledge and culture in the Early Republic, particularly in the arts? We invite papers and proposals that examine the impact of global trade from the 1780s to the 1840s on all aspects of visual art production: painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpaper, textiles, fashion, and other media. We also invite papers on the transmission of artistic ideas—through eyewitness accounts, illustrated books and prints, imported images and objects, museum collections, patronage, art markets, and other topics. Honoraria and travel support for speakers are available through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Organizing institutions include Salem State College, the Salem Maritime Historical Site (National Park Service), and the Salem Athenaeum. The conference will provide opportunities to tour Salem’s magnificent Federalist architecture and museum collections. To submit proposals for papers, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a brief c.v. via email to pjohnston@salemstate.edu. Proposals may also be submitted by mail to Visual Arts and Global Trade conference, c/o Patricia Johnston, Art Department, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem MA 01970. Proposals must be received by July 15, 2009. Speakers should be willing to revise their papers for later publication. Text and visuals for presentations are due in December 2009. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:18:26 -0700 From: Inke Conference Subject: INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather Conference In-Reply-To: <54475820905210749h592a5c8cwad73644bed333184@mail.gmail.com> As a partner of INKE or a related discussion list I am forwarding to you our call for papers for a Birds of a Feather conference to be held at the University of Victoria on October 24 and 25. Please note that the submissions deadline for abstracts is June 1 to inke.conference@gmail.com. Thank you! 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] 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), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Claire Warwick (U C London), Tassie Gniady (U Victoria, Coordinator). ------------------------------ Tassie Gniady INKE Project Manager University of Victoria tassieg@gmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:25:44 -0600 From: Dan O'Donnell Subject: Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 In-Reply-To: <54475820905210749h592a5c8cwad73644bed333184@mail.gmail.com> (also posted to the TEI News server: http://www.tei-c.org/News/index.xml#mm2010Call Please feel free to cross post) Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 The annual TEI Conference and Members' Meeting takes place every year in late October or early November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2010. The meeting this year (2009) will take place on November 11-15 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. The previous meetings have been: * London, England, November 6-8, 2008. hosted by King's College London. * College Park (MD), USA, October 31-November 3, 2007. Hosted by the University of Maryland. * Victoria, Canada, October 27-28, 2006. Hosted by the University of Victoria. * Sophia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2005. Hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. * Baltimore, USA, October 22-23, 2004. Hosted by Johns Hopkins University. * Nancy, France, November 7-8 2003. Hosted by ATILF. * Chicago, USA, October 11-12 2002. Hosted by the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. * Pisa, Italy, November 16-17 2001. Hosted by the University of Pisa. The site of the conference and meeting has typically alternated between Europe and North America, but that is not a fixed rule. We welcome proposals from other parts of the world, and in particular from areas where new TEI communities are arising. This year's conference and meeting will be a four-day event (plus pre-conference workshops), with approximately 120 attendees. The three days of the main conference will include a mix of plenary lectures by invited speakers, round-table discussions, and conference-style sessions; there will also be a business meeting of the membership. The fourth day (Sunday) will be a closed session for members of the Board. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) may also scheduled for this day. Future meetings should assume roughly this shape, although there is considerable room for local initiative in consultation with the Board. The TEI Consortium guarantees direct costs of the conference and meeting up to a maximum of US$5200 with special provisions for funding attendance in excess of approximately 120 attendees. The conference organising committee is also expected to seek additional funds from local institutions, commercial sponsors, and other organisations. A conference registration fee is charged to assist the TEI in recovering its expenditure and ensure that it is able to underwrite the cost of future conferences. Bids should be sent to info@tei-c.org by no later than September 1, 2009, though institutions considering making a proposal are encouraged to contact chair of the TEI (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca ) much earlier in the process in order to discuss their ideas. Bids should include the following information: * The name of the institution(s) making the bid * The name, address, email, and telephone number of the contact person * A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food) * An indication of what financial support, if any, the hosting institution is prepared to give (for instance, sponsoring one or more receptions or pre-meeting workshops; payment of travel expenses for one or more plenary speakers; etc.) * Any other details that may be useful in assessing the bid (e.g. the presence of a conference on a related topic at the institution around the time of the meeting; the launch of a new TEI-related initiative at the institution, etc., ideas for a particular theme or focus). In submitting bids, local organisers are encouraged to be creative: the TEI is willing to work with hosts to reflect local interests and strengths. Further information about the requirements for the conference and members meeting may be found in our document on Hosting a Members Meeting http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/meeting_hosting.xml and the Board's own Practices and Procedures http://www.tei-c.org/Board/procedures.xml#body.1_div.4 document. All bids will be reviewed by the TEI board, which makes the final decision. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:05:33 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 1ED7A88AA; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C1EC886C; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523060531.4C1EC886C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.35 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 35. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:42:07 -0400 From: "Milde, Robert" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.31 servants as automata In-Reply-To: <20090522055705.441536263@woodward.joyent.us> The (in)famous portrayal of Topsy in _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ has a strong hint of the child slave ("the thing") as a mechanical wind-up doll, and also has a steam-engine image like Dickens. And, a few lines later, Topsy insists that she never had parents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Augustine, what in the world have you brought that thing here for?" "For you to educate, to be sure, and train in the way she should go. I thought she was rather a funny specimen in the Jim Crow line. Here, Topsy," he added, giving a whistle, as a man would to call the attention of a dog, "give us a song, now, and show us some of your dancing." The black, glassy eyes glittered with a kind of wicked drollery, and the thing struck up, in a clear shrill voice, an odd negro melody, to which she kept time with her hands and feet, spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time, and producing in her throat all those odd guttural sounds which distinguish the native music of her race; and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet, and stood with her hands folded, and a most sanctimonious expression of meekness and solemnity over her face, only broken by the cunning glances which she shot askance from the corners of her eyes. -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Milde Department of English & Theatre Eastern Kentucky University 859-622-3181 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:08:48 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 9D58089CF; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:08:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA06989C8; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.36 postdocs at Umeå; PhD studentships at Liverpool From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523060847.EA06989C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 36. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Patrik Svensson" (31) Subject: Five postdoctoral fellowships at HUMlab, Umeå University [2] From: Carolyn Guertin (27) Subject: PhD Scholarship in Media Art Histories --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:13:29 +0200 From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Five postdoctoral fellowships at HUMlab, Umeå University Five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2009 or January 15, 2010. The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of "religion and the digital", "digital journalism", "architecture and the digital", "next generation digital humanities tools" and/or "visualization in the digital humanities". HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. Much of the work takes place in a 5,300 square feet studio space at the center of the university and in different kinds of digital and hybrid environments. HUMlab is based on a double (or triple) affiliation model where much of the work is done in close collaboration with the humanities (or other) departments. HUMlab offers an open, friendly, creative and intellectually rich milieu for doing work in the humanities and information technology. The fellowships are for one year. Another year may be possible based on a review as well as the availability of funding. Collaboration is a central part of the ethos of HUMlab and among our strategic partners are Kulturverket (local award-winning culture organization), Lund University (the Humanities Laboratory), King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities) and the University of California (UC Humanities Research Institute). Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline. In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. Applications should include a description of an envisioned postdoctoral year-long project. Please see http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs for more information. Applications should be submitted electronically by June 18, 2009. We look forward to receiving your application. Patrik Svensson Director, HUMlab Umeå University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:33:16 +0100 From: Carolyn Guertin Subject: PhD Scholarship in Media Art Histories The deadline is very soon, but this might be of interest to people on the list. http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/858826/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-award-extended-programme-2009-2014 UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Liverpool School of Architecture/F.A.C.T. (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Extended Programme 2009-2014 'New Media in a digital age: the role of new media in art, culture and society at the turn of the 21st century' The first of 3 full-time PhD studentships, beginning October 2009, concerned with the history of developments in new media, offers an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified candidate able to take advantage of FACT's excellent digital resources while undertaking this research programme based in the School of Architecture. For further information and an application pack, contact Jan Martin, email: jmmartin@liv.ac.uk Deadline for applications: 29 May 2009 FACT FOUNDATION FOR ART AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY Arts & Humanities Research Council Heather Corcoran Curator FACT 88 Wood Street Liverpool, L1 4DQ t: + 44 (0)151 707 4425 f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445 http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.fact.co.uk -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD Director, eCreate Lab Department of English University of Texas at Arlington Website: https://mavspace.uta.edu/guertin/portfolio/ Email: carolyn.guertin@gmail.com Skype: carolyn_guertin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:09:12 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 712548AE8; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:09:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D03B58A8D; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:09:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523060910.D03B58A8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:09:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.37 on Wikipedia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 37. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:07:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Wikipedia Nearly everyone here, I'd suppose, will be (and, if not, should be) interested in David Runciman's "Like Boiling a Frog", rev. of The Wikipedia Revolution, by Andrew Lih, London Review of Books, 28 May 2009. The entirety of this long review is online, at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n10/runc01_.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 Sat May 23 06:10:29 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 C6A5D8BA0; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:10:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 684E28B64; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:10:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523061028.684E28B64@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:10:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.38 Czech, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian NLP tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 38. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:13:00 +0100 From: "[TiP, Poland] Newsletter" Subject: Czech, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Natural Language ProcessingTools Press Release, May, 21 TiP Ltd, Katowice Poland has announced release of updated versions of its NLP morphology based software tools. Developed in the scope of the multi-national European Projects taggers, lemmatizers and spellcheckers for Slavic Languages are now available to be included in third party applications. TiP specializes in development of linguistic components for incorporating into other applications. Depending on required functionality modules may be customized to fulfill specific needs. Application Programming Interface (API) delivered with the standard version provides necessary entry points to basic routines; it may be adjusted to fit into existing programs. More details - here. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:18:26 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 1A7198EBB; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AFD18EAC; Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090523061824.3AFD18EAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.39 events: serious games; data ecosystems; text-grid X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 39. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marc (40) Subject: Reminder: IEEE DEST 2009 Tutorials [2] From: Riccardo Berta (42) Subject: cfp: Serious Games and Cultural Heritage Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:35:23 +0200 From: Marc Subject: Reminder: IEEE DEST 2009 Tutorials Dear Colleagues, May I remind you of the two upcoming tutorials of interest to eHumanities scholars, to take place on May 31st in the context of the IEEE DEST conference in Istanbul: * TUTORIAL ** Data Ecosystems: Repositories in Digital Ecosystems ** Lecturers: ** Tobias Blanke - **King's College London, UK ** Mark Hedges - King's College London, UK * In this tutorial, Tobias and Mark will present the general model of repository applications and will demonstrate several systems that use these principles to enable exploration of large data sets. The tutorial will cover the state of the art in this rapidly growing area of research. Several real world applications will be presented, which take the first steps towards a data ecosystem for research and business. *TUTORIAL ** TextGrid ** Lecturer - **Marc Wilhelm Küster - University for Applied Sciences in Worms, Germany* This TextGrid tutorial will provide an overview on the infrastructure of the TextGrid ecosystem, followed by a hands-on introduction to the development of new agents, the integration of new data sources and the use and population of service registries. Not only will this tutorial be relevant to eHumanities researchers but also to other disciplines that want to study the practicalities of the design of a domain-specific digital ecosystem that is still part of a larger ecosystem of ecosystems. The tutorial is complemented by a special session on the role of Digital Ecosystems in the eHumanities. More details and registration under http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/ and in particular http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 Best regards, Marc Küster -- ------ Prof. Dr. Marc Wilhelm Küster University of Applied Sciences Worms Erenburgerstr. 19 D-67549 Worms --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:36:52 +0100 From: Riccardo Berta Subject: cfp: Serious Games and Cultural Heritage Workshop EXTENDED DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPER ***** WORKSHOP ***** Second Workshop on Serious Games in Cultural Heritage (SGCH) Submission Deadline: May 24, 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. The workshop areas of interest includes (but are not limited to): - Promotion of the cultural heritage through entertainment technologies - Serious games to promote knowledge and interaction with the cultural heritage - Virtual worlds with a cultural-heritage value - Living worlds - Online interaction with 3D reconstructions of the heritage - Serious games programming and design - Narrative related to cultural heritage (especially non-linear story-telling and interactive narrative) - Digital tools for increasing the interaction of the general public with the cultural heritage - Game Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage - Cultural Computing - Cultural Knowledge Engineering - Cultural Heritage applications-games in mobile devices - Interactive Digital TV and Cultural Heritage - New interaction modalities with digital representations of the cultural heritage - Validation of the cultural appropriateness and usefulness of systems based on digital entertainment - Evaluation and assessment methodologies - User-centred design of cultural entertainment applications - Business models for serious games and, more generally, for cultural entertainment - Definition of user needs and stakeholder requirements for cultural entertainment projects - Tools, methodologies and practices to support participatory and contextual design of multidisciplinary teams in projects for the digital heritage -Case studies based on concrete experiences We are also organizing a book to provide a more comprehensive overview of the emerging field of Serious Game and Cultural Heritage. A selection of the papers of the workshop will be published in an extended form also in this book. [...] Riccardo Berta Research Fellow ELIOS Lab, Department of Biophsyisical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 11a Genova, 16145 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 Mon May 25 06:04:26 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 E6580864E; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:04:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 188C48630; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:04:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090525060424.188C48630@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:04:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.41 servants as automata X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 41. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 20:47:06 -0700 From: Ayhan Aytes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.35 servants as automata Dear Willard, Aristotle in Politics (1253b) defines servants as animate household instruments: "Property is a part of the household, and the art of acquiring property is a part of the art of managing the household; for no man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries. And as in the arts which have a definite sphere the workers must have their own proper instruments for the accomplishment of their work, so it is in the management of a household. Now instruments are of various sorts; some are living, others lifeless; in the rudder, the pilot of a ship has a lifeless, in the look-out man, a living instrument; for in the arts the servant is a kind of instrument. Thus, too, a possession is an instrument for maintaining life. And so, in the arrangement of the family, a slave is a living possession, and property a number of such instruments; and the servant is himself an instrument which takes precedence of all other instruments. For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, "of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods; " if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves." (tr. Benjamin Jowett http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.1.one.html) It is necessary to note that both examples from the myths of Daedalus andHephaestus refer to automata-like beings. Ayhan Aytes Ph.D. Candidate University of California San Diego Department of Communication _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 25 06:06:03 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 8104E9B64; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 095B09B49; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:06:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090525060602.095B09B49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:06:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.42 1st European Summer School in "Culture & Technology" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 42. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:07 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which in its name links up consciously with an international video conferencing seminar which has been in place for two years now, is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians and technical assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the target audience of the courses. The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities, who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems they develop by arts and humanities-related data. The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges presented by technological developments and by the integration of the Humanities and ICTs. Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a place in a specific workshop will be made on the Portal of the Summer School. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their expectations from the Summer School with good arguments. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and accommodation costs. Important dates: 31.05.2009 last day for the expression of interest by setting up a personal account with ConfTool 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application via ConfTool (accessible from the portal of the Summer School) 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of registration fees 27.07.2009 Summer School starts For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue, registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Prof. Dr. Elisabeth BurrOrganizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 26 05:39:26 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 CE6E712CDB; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B09312CCA; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090526053925.1B09312CCA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.43 one or more problems with Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 43. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 06:24:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a problem? Dear colleagues, Apparently there are some problems with Humanist that may have begun between 23.39 and 23.41 -- 23.40 having vanished is, I suspect, either the first victim or an accomplice. First of all, at least one person here is getting Humanist as follows: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 42. Centre for >> Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: >> humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 >> 00:39:07 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr >> >> Summer School "Culture & Technology" We are happy to announce the >> 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology, to take place at >> the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. >> http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Funded by the University >> of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for >> Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which Does anyone else here see such a mess made of Humanist postings? Then, as far as I can see, since Humanist 23.40 the headers are no longer being centred. Please be patient while we investigate. Reports on the problem(s) would be welcome in the next day or so. 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 Wed May 27 05:02:13 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 A3480254E; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55F6C253E; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090527050211.55F6C253E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.44 Wikipedia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 44. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:22:16 +0200 From: "Hladnik, Miran" Subject: Re:[Humanist]Wikipedia Referring to the [Humanist] 23.37 post on Wikipedia (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2009-May/000473.html), I am using the opportunity to point to my report on using Wikipedia and Wikisource in the university seminar (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Slovene_student_projects_in_Wikipedia_and_Wikisource); I would appreciate comments. --- Miran Hladnik _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 05:02:49 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 98B88258A; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74E322583; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090527050248.74E322583@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.45 job as RA at University College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 45. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:25:16 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Research Assistant in the use of Virtual Research Environments and Social Networking applications Dear Colleagues, Please circulate this job advertisement to anyone you think may be interested, thanks! Melissa Research Assistant in the use of Virtual Research Environments and Social Networking applications Applications are invited for the full-time post of Research Assistant in the UCL Department of Information Studies to work on LinkSphere: a joint research project with the University of Reading, funded by the JISC Virtual Research Environment 3 programme. The project will develop a virtual research environment which will allow cross-repository searching across various digital collections and archives, producing a useful user interface to various disparate digital collections. The project will study the way that social networking technologies are used by academics and how they might be integrated into a VRE. Development of the technologies will be undertaken at the University of Reading, with user analysis and usability from the team at UCL. The post will involve: conducting qualitative studies and recording, analysing and writing up the results as part of a research team at UCL, collaborating with the team at Reading University, and with the wider academic community utilizing the system. We aim to discover how researchers are using advanced technology, virtual research environments, and web 2.0 and social networking applications. We wish to design the virtual research environment to ensure that the needs of both actual and potential users are represented. Further information on the LinkSphere project will be available shortly from the project website (https://linksphere.org/). The duration of this full-time appointment will be 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2011 and the salary will be at UCL Grade 6, spine point 24, £24,877 per annum plus £2,781 per annum London Allowance. Applications must be emailed to Kerstin Michaels, Departmental Administrator, UCL Department if Information Studies k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk in two PDF files:- 1. a covering letter, CV and contact details of three referees to be submitted together in one file called X_LinkSphere.pdf (where X is the applicant's surname). 2. the completed UCL form, including equal opportunities monitoring form, to be submitted as one file called X_UCL.pdf (where X is the applicant's surname). Interested candidates can also contact Dr Claire Warwick (c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk, tel: 020 7679 2548) or Dr Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk, tel: 020 7679 7206). Further information, including the job description and UCL form, can be downloaded from: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/ Interviews will be held on Tuesday, 7 July 2009. UCL Taking Action For Equality. The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 10th June 2009. -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE MBCS FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 05:04:58 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 93A4C26EF; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CEF8B26E8; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090527050457.CEF8B26E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.46 events: culture & technology; e-science; social sciences, arts, humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 46. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (78) Subject: 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" [2] From: "Dunn, Stuart" (28) Subject: FW: AHM2009: Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities [3] From: "Lauer, Gerhard" (79) Subject: CfP IEEE eScience Conference Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:07 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" [This message is being re-sent for the benefit of those whose copy of it was mangled in yesterday's Humanist. -WM] We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which in its name links up consciously with an international video conferencing seminar which has been in place for two years now, is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians and technical assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the target audience of the courses. The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities, who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems they develop by arts and humanities-related data. The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges presented by technological developments and by the integration of the Humanities and ICTs. Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a place in a specific workshop will be made on the Portal of the Summer School. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their expectations from the Summer School with good arguments. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and accommodation costs. Important dates: 31.05.2009 last day for the expression of interest by setting up a personal account with ConfTool 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application via ConfTool (accessible from the portal of the Summer School) 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of registration fees 27.07.2009 Summer School starts For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue, registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:27:07 +0100 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: FW: AHM2009: Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Apologies for cross-postings. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2009 Past, Present and Future Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th December 2009, Oxford, UK http://www.allhands.org.uk/ Abstracts are invited for the 2009 All Hands Meeting theme, 'Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities'. Not least by virtue of their diversity of research orientations, methods and practices, the social science, arts and humanities present distinctive challenges for the exploitation of e-Infrastructure. In order to identify these challenges more clearly and determine how we might respond to them, we invite contributions from members of the social science, arts and humanities research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new, e-Infrastructure-enabled methods and practices to advance social science, arts and humanities research and practice; and 2) studying issues impacting on their wider take-up. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Advances in social sciences, arts and humanities research and practice enabled by e-Infrastructure * Innovations in research methods, practices and tools in social science, arts and humanities * Computational methods which encourage and foster interdisciplinarity across the social sciences, arts and humanities * Challenges and solutions for the development of advanced research data infrastructure in social science, arts and humanities * Case studies of barriers and enablers in the adoption of e-Infrastructure in social science, arts and humanities Full details of the AHM conference, and instructions on how to submit an abstract, may be found at http://www.allhands.org.uk/. ----------------------- 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:05:51 +0200 From: "Lauer, Gerhard" Subject: CfP IEEE eScience Conference Oxford IEEE eScience Conference Oxford eHumanities Track Call for Papers Researchers in the Humanities have embraced digital technologies for decades and are continuing to do so in increasing numbers. Two workshops at earlier IEEE eScience conferences, along with numerous other events, have given interesting insights into these activities. However, advances in the digital humanities have been rather fragmented, and have been tailored to specific research questions and methodologies. In an attempt to connect the digital islands that have thus emerged, this event will focus on applications and infrastructures for re-usability, integration and interoperability of research data for e-Humanities, addressing such issues as the interoperability of existing tools to enable more complex workflows, and shared virtual research environments for typical work environments of Humanities scholars. A multiplicity of large initiatives have already started addressing the these issues, among them ANDS in Australia (http://ands.org.au/), Project Bamboo in the USA (http://projectbamboo.org/), as well as the ESFRI-projects CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) and DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) in Europe, to name but a few. All these initiatives are facing the huge problem of fragmentation and heterogeneity in research in the Humanities, which has repercussions on formats and encodings for datasets, the ways of analyzing phenomena and the traditions of scholarly discourse. Not surprisingly these initiatives in particular try to get a deeper understanding of layers of abstractions required which might address the goal of harmonization on the one hand, without ignoring the specificities of the various Humanities disciplines on the other hand. This e-Humanities track aims to showcase projects that contribute to e-Humanities, whether by providing integrated and interoperable infrastructures, or by offering new types of applications making use of such infrastructures and connecting the digital islands. At the same time this track aims to trigger critical discussion and to move us forward in our goal to establish an international e-Humanities debate. Submission of papers is invited from all stakeholders: humanities researchers, technologists, as well as cultural heritage institutions and e-Humanities/e-Infrastructure researchers. Submission Papers submitted for presentation on the workshop should report original research that has not been published elsewhere. The submission guidelines can be found at the official conference web-site: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers. Acceptance and Publication All papers submitted for presentation in the workshop will be reviewed. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in pre-conference proceedings published by IEEE. Selected excellent work may be eligible for additional post-conference publication as extended papers in selected journals, such as FGCS. The organizers of the e-Humanities track are negotiating with publishers to take care that all accepted papers will be published in a suitable journal. Important dates Deadline for submission of papers: Friday, 31st July 2009 Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday 1st September 2009 Final submission of camera-ready papers: Friday 18th September 2009 Conference and Workshop: 9-11 December 2009 Organizers Chad Kainz Bamboo, Univ. Chicago Heike Neuroth DARIAH, SUB Göttingen Peter Wittenburg CLARIN, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Martin Wynne CLARIN, Oxford Text Archive PC Jost Gippert, Gerhard Lauer, Fotis Iannides, Erhard Hinrichs, Heike Neuroth, Andreas Aschenbrenner, Claus Zinn, Gerhard Heyer, Peter Wittenburg (Germany), Paul Doorenbosch, Peter Doorn, Marc Kemps-Snijders (Netherlands), Nuria Bel (Spain), Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy), Chad Kainz, Sue Ellen Wright, Helen Dry, Neil Fraistaat (USA), Stelios Piperidis (Greece), Sheila Anderson, Tobias Blanke, Martin Wynne (UK), Bente Maegaard (Denmark), Marko Tadic (Croatia), Tamas Varadi (Hungary), Gerhard Budin (Austria), Bruna Franchetto (Brazil), Sven Strömquist (Sweden), Key-Sun Choi (Korea), Sadaoki Furui (Japan), Laurent Romary (France), Chu Ren Huang (China), Linda Barwick, Steven Bird (Australia), Susan Schreibman (Ireland) ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie Kaete-Hamburger-Weg 3 D-37073 Goettingen Tel. +49-551-39 75 27 Fax +49-551-39 19 556 sekretariat.lauer@phil.uni-goettingen.de http://www.gerhardlauer.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 Thu May 28 05:20:01 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 D833D960C; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D26AA94FC; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090528052000.D26AA94FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.47 PhD studentship in textual studies; Summer Institute scholarships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 47. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: siemens (10) Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute tuition scholarships [2] From: Willard McCarty (85) Subject: PhD studentship at CTS, De Montfort --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:33:41 +0100 From: siemens Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute tuition scholarships Tell your friends! (if you'd like to ;). Thanks to generous sponsorship, we're pleased to announce several new tuition scholarship spots, available in [5] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journal Systems and [6] Using SEASR: The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research. If you'd like to be considered for one of these spots, be in touch with us at institut@uvic.ca. http://www.dhsi.org/ All best, Ray --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 06:15:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship at CTS, De Montfort PHD STUDENTSHIP at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester, www.cts.dmu.ac.uk Among the following general advertisement is a competitive PhD bursary with focus on 19-20C textual studies. Please enquire with Andrew Thacker, AThacker@DMU.AC.UK. ----- Up to seven fully funded sponsored PhD studentships are available to candidates. Each of the studentships is available for three years full-time study and provides a bursary of £13,290. Candidates should hold a good first degree (First Class, Upper-Second Class or equivalent) in a relevant subject area. Building on DMU’s excellent RAE outcomes, bursaries will be awarded to exceptional students who will work alongside experienced research teams in the following areas: Art and Design: Digital media Architecture and community cohesion Business & Law: Multinationals, regional governance and human resources Politics and policy of community cohesion Technology: Printable systems for electronic devices including biological sensors Intelligent sensor networks for assisted living Ethical implications of ICT in personal health monitoring Health and Life Sciences: Development of a sporicidal disinfectant to help combat hospital acquired infection Pharmaceutical manufacturing - roller compaction using on-line terahertz measurements Faculty of Humanities: Feminism and adaptations; Media discourse; Scholarly editing; British cinema - international connections; Oral history and ethnic minority experiences of consumption; Movement and modernity; ElectroAcoustic resources and pedagogy Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development: Festivals and sustainability Modelling of vegetation and it applications in green roofs, walls and urban spaces Post-occupancy evaluation of low-energy schools Institute of Creative Technologies: Creative uses of locative media Data interoperability in digital mapping Human factors in digital heritage Applications are welcome from citizens from the EU and those with overseas status. Please quote ref: DMU Studentships 2009 EPSRC SPONSORED PHD STUDENTSHIP One fully funded EPSRC sponsored PhD studentship is available to suitably qualified UK students. The studentship is available for three years full-time study and provides a bursary of £15,000 per annum. Candidates should hold a good first degree (First Class, Upper- Second or equivalent) in a relevant subject area. We would welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates to study in the following areas: • Real time web-based presentation of energy consumption for SMEs • The effects of open shop-fronts on carbon emissions and customer perceptions • The refurbishment of buildings to carbon neutral standards • Fabrication of Electronic Devices on Flexible Substrates • Evolutionary Computing for Data Mining • Visual Management Infrastructure Design for Sustaining Lean Improvements within the NHS For successful applicants who are a citizen of the EU but not resident in the UK, the studentship covers tuition fees ONLY. Applications from outside the EU are NOT eligible for funding under DTA EPSRC rules. Please quote ref: DTA Studentship 2009 Enquiries should in the first instance go to the Research Degrees Office, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Tel: (0116) 250 6309. www.dmu.ac.uk Applicants are requested to contact the office to receive an admission pack and will need to provide a full CV with two supporting references. Please email: researchstudents@dmu.ac.uk or call (0116) 250 6309 to receive further details. Note: Information on the regulations governing EPSRC Research Grants is available at: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/default.htm Closing date: 5 June 2009. -- 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 May 28 05:20:27 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 C6A417379; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C9FF736A; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090528052025.9C9FF736A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.48 problems with Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 48. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 06:17:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: problems with Humanist Thanks to those who reported problems. Those directly pertaining to Humanist are being investigated. The RSS feed is not, as this was a service offered, alas briefly, by someone else. 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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: "Galton, Antony" (93) Subject: FOIS2010 call for papers [2] From: Shawn Day (17) Subject: DHO Geospatial Methods Workshop Illuminates Place [3] From: Gerhard Brey (128) Subject: cfp: Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s); Pittsburgh, 18 Oct 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:42:10 +0100 From: "Galton, Antony" Subject: FOIS2010 call for papers +------------------------------------------+ | | | FOIS 2010 | | Sixth International Conference on | | Formal Ontology in Information Systems | | http://www.formalontology.org | | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | +------------------------------------------+ CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy, in June 1998, which was followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008. The sixth FOIS conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, during 11-14 May 2010, and we are now calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in the conference. Ontology began life in ancient times as a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry concerned with the analysis and categorisation of what exists. In recent years, the subject has taken a practical turn with the advent of complex computerised information systems which are reliant on robust and coherent representations of their subject matter. The systematisation and elaboration of such representations and their associated reasoning techniques constitute the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is now being applied to such diverse domains as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, GIS, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the Semantic Web. Researchers in all these areas are becoming increasingly aware of the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, to provide a solid foundation for their work. FOIS is intended to provide a meeting point for researchers from these and other disciplines with an interest in formal ontology, where both theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Conference chair: Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Program chairs: Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Local organisation: Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) TOPICS COVERED We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entity: particulars vs universals, continuants vs occurrents, abstracta vs concreta, dependent vs independent, natural vs artificial * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Identity and change * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) * Ontology of artefacts, functions and roles * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...) * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) * Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) * Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition Methodologies and Applications * Top-level vs application ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontology-based application systems * Requirements engineering * Knowledge engineering * Knowledge management and organization * Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling * Computational lexicons; Terminology * Information retrieval; Question-answering * Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing * Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ... DEADLINES AND FURTHER INFORMATION Submissions: 23 October 2009 Notification of acceptance: 18 December 2009 Final camera-ready submission: 15 January 2010 Conference: 11-14 May 2010 Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Details of the submission process, and formatting guidelines, will be provided on the conference web page at http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca. Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:34:44 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Geospatial Methods Workshop Illuminates Place The DHO, along with experts from the Discovery Programme and the UCD School of Archaeology, conducted an exciting workshop providing humanities scholars from throughout Ireland with an opportunity to meet, learn, discuss and share experiences in geospatial methods. The workshop featured lectures demonstrating real world application of geospatial techniques in the disciplines of archaeology, history, literary studies, and classics. During subsequent sessions, attendees were introduced to the various standards, tools, and issues in the field and attendees discussed how these could be applied to their own work. This oversubscribed event event provided Irish researchers with the foundations for adding a geospatial component to their research. It also provided the opportunity for attendees to expand their understanding of tools such as Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS, Many-Eyes and Yahoo Pipes. The course materials are now available at the Geospatial Workshop event site (http://dho.ie/geospatial). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:11:06 +0100 From: Gerhard Brey Subject: cfp: Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s); Pittsburgh, 18 Oct 2009 > From: James Sumner > Date: 27 May 2009 07:35:38 BST > To: mersenne@jiscmail.ac.uk > > Pittsburgh, 18 Oct 2009 > > (Crossposted from SIGCIS-Members. European and other international > perspectives are more than welcome.) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s) > > SIGCIS History of Computing Workshop in Memory of Michael S. Mahoney > > Sunday, October 18, 2009, Hilton Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA > > The Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group > for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS - www.sigcis.org) > welcomes submissions for "Michael Mahoney And The Histories of > Computing(s)," a daylong workshop on the history of computing in > memory of historian Michael S. Mahoney. In keeping with Mahoney's > broad historical perspective, we encourage submissions not only > about computers themselves but also about the technologies and > knowledge systems into which computers have been embedded as well as > the societies in which they are used. Contributions directly related > to Mahoney's work are welcome but not required. > > The keynote speaker, William Aspray, will discuss Mahoney's > contribution to the development of the history of computing. > > The workshop will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on > Sunday, October 18, 2009. It will occur on the final day of the > annual SHOT meeting with sessions in the morning and afternoon. > > SHOT has reserved that day for SIG events and therefore the workshop > will not overlap scheduled sessions and most other SHOT functions. > It will be held at the same site as the SHOT meeting. > > SIGCIS encourages scholars of all levels and affiliations to > participate. > > Organized sessions and individual papers are both welcome. In > keeping with the conference theme contributions that address > historiographic issues or situate work within a particular history > of computing are particularly welcome. Individual contributions can > fit one of a variety of formats. > > 1. Traditional 20 to 25-minute presentations followed by a question > and answer session with the SIGCIS community. In this case a one- > page abstract (maximum 400 words) will be reviewed and included in > the electronic conference program. Abstracts should address the > paper's topic, argument, evidence used, and contribution to the > existing literature. A full version of the paper should be sent to > the session commentator at least a week prior to the meeting. > > 2. Dissertation proposals. We hope to include a dissertations in > progress session, in which individuals will present their ongoing > dissertation work and seek feedback from the history of computing > community. In this case submit an abstract of your dissertation > proposal. The full proposal will be included in the electronic > conference program if accepted. Participants will be encouraged to > read this prior to the session. You will have five to ten minutes to > introduce the material, leaving the bulk of time available for > discussion. > > 3. Works in progress. This is your chance to receive informal and > expert discussion of draft dissertation chapters, journal articles, > or book chapters. Submit a one-page abstract (maximum 400 words) > including discussion of the current state of the work and any > specific kinds of feedback you are seeking. If your proposal is > accepted you will need to supply the draft for discussion by 1 > October for inclusion in the electronic program for the workshop. > You will have five to ten minutes to introduce the material, leaving > the bulk of time available for discussion. > > 4. Proposals in other formats are also welcome. For example round > table discussions, demonstrations of software of interest to > historians of computing, or "author meets critics" sessions. > > SHOT presenters are encouraged to apply but must present material > significantly different from that presented in the main conference > program. > > Submission Procedures > > Individual submissions should be made at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop09a > , and must include: > > 1. an abstract or dissertation proposal as described above. Paste > this text into the web submission form. > > 2. a one-page curriculum vitae, including current e-mail addresses > as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. Upload this via the web > submission system. Use the filename AuthorLastName_vita. For example > Smith_vita. > > Proposals for complete sessions should be made at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop09b > , and must include: > > 1. The name of the session and the names, email addresses and > paper titles of the presenters, organizer, chair and commentator (if > applicable) > > 2. a one-page description (maximum 400 words) of the session that > explains how individual papers contribute to an overall theme > > 3. an abstract for each presenter in the form described above > > 4. for the each presenter and other participants (including > commentator if used) a one-page curriculum vitae. Compile as one > Word or PDF document and upload via the web submission system. > > Questions should be addressed to Joseph November > [november(at)sc.edu] who is serving as program committee chair for > the workshop. > > The deadline for proposals is June 22, 2009. Notifications will be > sent by June 29, 2009. If you are a graduate student seeking travel > funding please submit ASAP for expedited review because the SHOT > deadline for funding is June 1. > > Workshop Organizers > > Joseph November, Program Committee Chair > Jeffrey Tang, Local Arrangements Chair > Brent Jesiek, Internet Infrastructure > Thomas Haigh, SIG Chair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 05:18:14 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 E1B048467; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FD1F845B; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529051812.3FD1F845B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.50 automata and distraction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 50. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (28) Subject: in defense of distraction [2] From: "Sharon K. Goetz" (9) Subject: more on automata --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:49 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: in defense of distraction In Defense of DistractionTwitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation. - By Sam Anderson http://nymag.com/nymag/sam-anderson http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/ I. The Poverty of Attention I’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions out of your system now. Check the score of the Mets game; text your sister that pun you just thought of about her roommate’s new pet lizard (“iguana hold yr hand LOL get it like Beatles”); refresh your work e-mail, your home e-mail, your school e-mail; upload pictures of yourself reading this paragraph to your “me reading magazine articles” Flickr photostream; and alert the fellow citizens of whatever Twittertopia you happen to frequent that you will be suspending your digital presence for the next twenty minutes or so (I know that seems drastic: Tell them you’re having an appendectomy or something and are about to lose consciousness). Good. Now: Count your breaths. Close your eyes. Do whatever it takes to get all of your neurons lined up in one direction. Above all, resist the urge to fixate on the picture, right over there, of that weird scrambled guy typing. Do not speculate on his ethnicity (German-Venezuelan?) or his backstory (Witness Protection Program?) or the size of his monitor. Go ahead and cover him with your hand if you need to. There. Doesn’t that feel better? Now it’s just you and me, tucked like fourteenth-century Zen masters into this sweet little nook of pure mental focus. (Seriously, stop looking at him. I’m over here.) -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:24:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: more on automata In-Reply-To: <20090528052000.D26AA94FC@woodward.joyent.us> Richard Garriott, probably best known for designing and publishing the Ultima computer games, has a collection of automata; the gaming blog Kotaku has a few pictures: http://kotaku.com/5271603/the-many-automata-of-richard-garriott/gallery I'm not convinced that each of the figures shown count as "automata" in the senses recently discussed on Humanist, but the pictures may be of interest nevertheless. Best, Sharon Goetz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 05:19:02 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 1B4BD8AE2; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:19:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBC1E8632; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529051859.EBC1E8632@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.51 postdoc in digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 51. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:41:21 -0700 From: ETCL University of Victoria Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on Information Management (2009-10, renewable) Hello all-- The ETCL has a new job posting that may be of interest to you, or someone you know. You can read the posting on the ETCL website < http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/05/28/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-digital-humanities-with-a-focus-on-information-management-2009-10-renewable/#more-323 >*. *The job ad is posted below, as well. Thanks! *Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on Information Management (2009-10, renewable) *The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in information management. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate will work closely with team members at U Victoria, the Digital Humanities Observatory, U Toronto, U Montreal, Nipissing U, U Alberta, McMaster U, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with production-focused and experimental corpora, datastores, and analytical technologies, collaborating with those associated with INKE’s information management team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, corpora, datastores, and computational analysis tools, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related INKE 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 and similar 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 computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to . The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Interviews are anticipated to take place in June at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. * *Electronic Textual Cultures Lab University of Victoria web: http://etcl.uvic.ca/ email: uvic.etcl@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 May 29 05:20:53 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 0F0F0745A; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33E77744A; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529052051.33E77744A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:20:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.52 events: ESF Research cfp; computational creativity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 52. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ana Boa-Ventura (55) Subject: ICCC X - 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity -Lisbon, 7-9 January 2010 [2] From: Arianna Ciula (16) Subject: ESF Research Conferences 2011 - Call for Conference Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:10:35 -0500 From: Ana Boa-Ventura Subject: ICCC X - 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity -Lisbon, 7-9 January 2010 In-Reply-To: <20090528052337.3D713876F@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC X - First International Conference on Computational Creativity Lisbon, Portugal - 7 - 9 January 2010 http://plone.dei.uc.pt:8888/icccx/ Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity, including but not limited to: • computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and re-representation; • metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems; • perspectives on creativity, including philosophy of computational creativity, models of human behavior, intelligent systems, and creativity-support tools; • the role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and other pursuits; • factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity, knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies; • social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and simulating creativity in social settings; • specific applications to music, language and the arts, to architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education and to entertainment; • detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts produced, and applications of the system. The conference will include traditional paper presentations, will showcase the application of computational creativity to the sciences, creative industries and arts, and will incorporate a "show and tell" session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of computational systems exhibiting behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans. In addition the conference will provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research on [computational] creativity and promising practices concerning the development of creative computational systems. Important Dates September 21, 2009 Submission deadline October 30, 2009 Authors' Notification November 22, 2009 Deadline for final camera-ready copies Conference Organizers General Chair: Geraint A. Wiggins (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Program Committee Chair: Dan Ventura (Brigham Young University, UT, USA) Local Organisation Chair: Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Publicity Chair: Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK) Local Organization: Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Luís Macedo (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Finance Paulo Pires (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Sponsoring Jorge Ávila (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Secretariate More information at: http://plone.dei.uc.pt:8888/icccx/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:22:48 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF Research Conferences 2011 - Call for Conference Proposals In-Reply-To: <20090528052337.3D713876F@woodward.joyent.us> From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:11 PM Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that the Call for Proposals for ESF Research Conferences to take place in 2011 is open and accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/call. The deadline for submissions is 15th September 2009. Kind regards, Corinne Corinne Wininger Communications Officer - ESF Conferences Please note that I am not in the Office on Wednesdays European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 29 08:40:45 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 4D72F924A; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DB5C917C; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090529084043.5DB5C917C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.53 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 53. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:39:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: world-making and markup Let's consider markup, for example, as a kind of world-making. Consider, then, Nelson Goodman's observation in Ways of Worldmaking (1978): > Truth, far from being a solemn and severe master, is a docile and > obedient servant. The scientist who supposes that he is > single-mindedly dedicated to the search for truth deceives himself. > He is unconcerned with the trivial truths he could grind out > endlessly; and he looks to the multifaceted and irregular results of > observations for little more than suggestions of overall structures > and significant generalizations. He seeks system, simplicity, scope; > and when satisfied on these scores he tailors truth to fit. He as > much decrees as discovers the laws he sets forth, as much designs as > discerns the patterns he delineates. (p. 18) One commonplace way around our undeniable ignoring of some aspects of the infinitely complex world is to claim that we are striking for the essence of whatever it is. We idealise the neuron as a binary device, for example, in order to get at the law-like essence of neural activity, its calculus. This works much less well for human artefacts, such as literary texts or paintings, of course, so what we digital humanists do these days (correct me if I am wrong) is to go for structural abstractions that are relatively safe from interpretative disagreement -- though textual editors such as Randy McLeod (alias Random Cloud et al) demonstrate otherwise, annoyingly but cogently. Is not the cost of sticking to what is safe confinement to the trivial aspects of a text, say, forcing one to derive the value of what one does from its utility to other people, who presumably will validate the work, or not. There's an ongoing debate centred on the ethics of engineering, and with it an argument that (to simplify) engineers do what they're told, getting their satisfactions from technical achievements. The use of the words "engineer" and "engineering" suggest that society as a whole doesn't think much of real engineers taking their back seat to the architects and designers. How many of us keep our world-making in mind, I wonder? How many of us who mark-up texts as scholars, rather than as people who work for scholars, do not think on some level that we're identifying *the* structure of it, *the* essence of what it has to say? How slippery is the slope from the fashionably plural but reified "ontologies" to the singular name of the *study* of what is (NOT the list)? In The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science (2000), Jean-Pierre Dupuy notes the parallel slide down another slippery slope. He notes that "As time went by, zealots and ideologues began to assert ever stronger and more imprecise versions of the Turing thesis" -- the assertion of the mathematical computability, by a Turing Machine, of every intuitively computable function. "It came to be presented as something *proven*" (p. 39), as a result of which rash predictions were made, by such luminaries as Herbert Simon (e.g., in 1965, "Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of any work that a man can do.") -- who went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Dupuy comments: "It is easy to mock vain and presumptuous predictions of this sort, which were to be scathingly refuted during the intervening years. But we should not be too harsh", he says forgivingly. "The Turing thesis, in spite (or rather because) of the ideological distortions to which it so readily lent itself, was what it took to rally the resources of energy and intelligence needed to bring about the birth of a mechanistic and materialistic science of mind" (39-40). Presuming that is a Good Thing, we have another out: essentially an ends-justify-means argument. But how unsatisfactory this is. Can we do better? 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 May 30 06:39:27 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 95C4FF9E7; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:39:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC708F9DB; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:39:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530063926.BC708F9DB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.54 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 54. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:04:59 +0100 From: "Lopez, Tamara" Subject: world-making and markup Dear Willard, I don't think Dupuy's argument is quite as dire as you suggest.  Scholars need to have ways of talking about the texts, around the texts, and through them in the context of digital methods, and markup serves this purpose. The best terms in which I can state why I think this are in my notes to you of last week - namely that: In the introduction to "By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies". Vol. 28, History of Technology, (Sumner and Gooday eds.), the editors note that standards are interesting because they help mediate the boundaries between humans and technologies (p.1), and they also contend that their highest value is in replacing "some process of negotiation, formerly ongoing and mutable, with a settled understanding." (p.3). The way these historians speak of standards, they sound quite different than your models: "temporary states in  a process of coming to know rather than fixed structures of knowledge" (your piece in the Blackwell companion). However, in the quote above, the editors are describing something of an ideal, because as they note some standards described in other essays 'succeed', while others, "undergo so much conceptual change that the question [of success] becomes...meaningless" (p.3).  These standards, like your models, have arcs, in which there are moments of stability, but also moments of mutability.  In the work to which you refer, Goodman suggests that this stasis, this settling on a World is necessary, because while "readiness to recognize alternative worlds may be liberating, and suggestive of new avenues of exploration, a willingness to welcome all worlds builds none.... provides us with no map of the motions of heavenly bodies...produces no scientific theory or philosophical system... paints no pictures." (I.6) Humanities scholars need handles, reifications, shared models- flawed and incomplete as they are. They will be wrong in how they characterise the significance of what they are achieving sometimes, but isn't that (part of) scholarship? I do wonder however, and maybe this is what you are getting at- do we know what world is being built? Is it the world that the scholars and digital humanists think we are building with markup, or is it something else? Do we know where the world we are building resides? Is it in the tags or is it in the software that processes the tags, or is it in the discussions about the tags that surround the texts around which our world is ostensibly centred? Goodman begins his text with: "This book does not run a straight course from beginning to end. It hunts; and in the hunting, it sometimes worries the same raccoon in different trees, or different raccoons in the same tree, or even what turns out to be no raccoon in any tree." (Foreward) Indeed. Tamara Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 06:41:02 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 7E5399B36; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A5259B27; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530064100.6A5259B27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.55 Canada Research Chair at Saskatchewan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 55. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:25:41 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: Canada Research Chair in Digital Textuality (Tier 1) *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1243621546_2009-05-29_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_5663.2.pdf Dear Humanists, Feel free to circulate this advertisement widely. And please note that this position is not restricted to Canadian citizens. *Canada Research Chair in Digital Textuality (Tier 1)* To complement the University of Saskatchewan’s growing strengths in Digital Humanities, the Department of English is seeking applicants for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in digital textuality. The Canada Research Chairs Program is part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries for research and development. 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X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 56. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:50:47 -0400 From: "Jennifer Dekker" Subject: John Calvin Would anyone know of an on-line tool that is a concordance to the works of John Calvin? A professor requires a lemmatized concordance and would prefer it be available on-line, but if necessary could use one in CD form or in book form ... Thank you! Jennifer Jennifer Dekker Librarian / Bibliothécaire Bibliothèque Morisset Library jdekker@uottawa.ca Tél. | Tel.: 613 562-5800 ext. 3107 65 University Private Ottawa ON Canada K1N 6N5 www.uOttawa.ca Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa L'Université canadienne / Canada's 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 May 30 06:42:16 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 A441EF9D6; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C44C6F482; Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530064215.C44C6F482@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.57 events: TEI Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 57. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:29:39 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: TEI Summer School: Time running out for 25% Discount! Just a reminder that there is a 25% discount if you pay before 1 June! ====== The TEI@Oxford team is pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for our annual summer school. Dates: Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July Venue: Oxford University Computing Services Full information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/index.xml This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines 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 digital text or metadata, this course is for you. You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon. At the end of the course we hope to have given you: 1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular; 2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative; 3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations; 4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages. 5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with practical experience in: * using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant schema * using XML editing software to o create new encoded texts o standardize existing digital texts * using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and analyse TEI documents The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI experts. -- 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 Sat May 30 08:27:58 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 EF34F5342; Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 865B05333; Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090530082756.865B05333@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.58 mutual failures, wonderful rewards X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 58. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 09:26:53 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mutual failures Reading around in what at first seemed a distant hinterland to the main action of literary computing in its early years, I ran into the thrilling work of Warren McCulloch and through him cybernetics. (Here I do not exaggerate; though McCulloch's work has been largely left to gather dust -- his collected works remain unavailable after their minor publisher fell into bankrupcy -- the intellectual passion and vision of his project are breathtaking.) Jean-Pierre Dupuy's history of the first wave of cybernetics, The Mechanization of the Mind (Aux origines des sciences cognitives), derives its inspiration largely from McCulloch, though this does not make Dupuy less critical of the failure of cybernetics to connect with, among others, people like us. It's that failure I want to note here. One cannot help but wonder about the lack of interest from the humanities at the time, esp from those who were, like us, involved with computing and so encountering strangers. Perhaps most of this can be explained simply by lack of opportunity, by the constraints of busy lives and so forth. But there are signs here and there in the literature (e.g. the complaints of Louis Milic, the reachings out of Margaret Masterman, the paranoia -- or should we call it justifiable fear -- of F. R. Leavis) more of refusals to stretch the mind rather than forbidding conditions. The pressures of professional life that reward keeping the head down are very real, as many of us know. But, still, at least from among the tenured class, from the professoriate, one would expect more curiosity. Even just that. Dupuy, in considering failures from the other side, from the cyberneticians, notes Norbert Wiener's early abandonment of any attempt to reach from physical to social systems and the poor showing from the social scientists involved in the project. What he says about the latter is indicative of the greater problem. "As for the others, Warren McCulloch included," he writes, "their training in the human and social sciences was not extensive enough to enable them to appreciate how much they might have profited from deeper exposure to these disciplines, still less to suspect the inspiration they might have taken from them." (156) Recently I found myself at an alumni/ae gathering put on here in London by my greatly respected and admired alma mater, Reed College. Us Reedies, young and old, were grouped around tables to discuss inter alia what we might change about the College. An idea that emerged from my table was to augment one of the two or three central features of Reed's pedagogy -- the mandatory 1st-year course in the humanities from Archaic Greece to the 17C -- with a strong emphasis on the sciences. I may be inclined to disagree with Dupuy's assessment of McCulloch's interdisciplinary depths, but I do think he is exactly right about the pernicious effects of enforced relocation to this or that disciplinary ghetto without first the kind of highly intense training that Reed's humanities programme gives. In my opinion Reed needs to extend this to the sciences, and so become even more intense (if that is possible), but the broader point is the important one here. THe risk-taking implied by the exercise of such curiosity is great, as risks in academia go. But what rewards! Can we afford not to be changed by them? 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 Sun May 31 06:49:49 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 0C61A60DB; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB5E260C8; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090531064946.CB5E260C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.59 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 59. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 19:04:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.53 world-making and markup In-Reply-To: <20090529084043.5DB5C917C@woodward.joyent.us> from "Humanist Willard, Of a Friday, you invited us to consider mark-up as a kind of world making (or rather markup as world-making). I am more tempted by an analogy of travel. Mark-up is way of traversing a world. I have in mind the now familiar adage that map is not territory. Of course, I am drawn to this via the distinction made in semantics between possible and actual worlds. And so I come back to the question you raise and mark it out for consideration: How many of us keep our world-making in mind, I wonder? How many of us who mark-up texts as scholars, rather than as people who work for scholars, do not think on some level that we're identifying *the* structure of it, *the* essence of what it has to say? How slippery is the slope from the fashionably plural but reified "ontologies" to the singular name of the *study* of what is (NOT the list)? Is this another way of asking the perhaps more technical question: can a given textual instance give rise to more than one possible world? And how am I to markup the parenthetical "NOT the list"? Is it to be read in apposition to the reified "ontologies" i.e. as a phrase synonymous? In which case, is this (contrasting a "what is" with a set of "maybes") a bit like the game of asking how many children had Lady Macbeth? Reading the evidence of what is not there is being sensitive not to the unsaid but to the what is shown. For example, a form of mark-up links the emphasized _the_ (2x) in the paragraph cited above (localized to the one sentence) with the _study_ (to be found in the next sentence) and both exert a pressure on the seemingly unmarked *the* in the shout-like "NOT _the_ list" (our emphasis on the _the_). The slope may be slippery and its sliding may very well be in its designation as _the_ slope. Trust a machine to read all the mark-up and you might miss what is not rendered in the enclosures. It is what is missed by machine translation (rendering) that makes rereading entertaining -- even of born-digital texts. To markup is an activity akin to re-reading and it produces mark-up that is the traces that bridge (hyphenate) spaces in a given world. Mark-up is inherently vectorial. To markup is to query magnitude and direction. The thing and the activity are potentially tied up in recursive loops. Which leads me to my question: are recursive structures necessary for world-making? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 31 06:53:58 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 33044622B; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:53:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 319246224; Sun, 31 May 2009 06:53:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090531065357.319246224@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.62 postdoc in the history & future of the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 62. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 16:26:26 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2009-10, renewable) [with apologies for x-posting] Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2009-10, renewable) The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in textual studies. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Victoria, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of historical textual features, collaborating with those associated with INKE's textual studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related INKE projects are as follows: TEI P-5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience in some or all technologies in use in INKE-related project and similar 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 computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to etcl-apply@gmail.com . The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Interviews are anticipated to take place in June at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, and other venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. http://etcl.uvic.ca/2009/05/30/job-posting-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-histor y-and-future-of-the-book-2009-10/#more-328 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 1 06:45:24 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 2C6D294DF; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D44B294C3; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:45:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090601064521.D44B294C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.63 new publication: Cognition & the Arts Abstracts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 63. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:40:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition & the Arts Abstracts Cognition & the Arts Abstracts Vol 1, No 4: 1 June 2009 MARK TURNER, EDITOR Institute Professor, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science mark.turner@case.edu Table of Contents Making Sense of (Non)Sense: Why Literature Counts Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1400234 Fictive Motion in Milton Mark Bruhn, affiliation not provided to SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1291328 Foundations of Branding: Cognitive and Historical Andrew J. Sutter, Lyra Pacific Group, Sutter International Law Office http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1365885 Slave Artists as Powerful Reality Creators: Taking Responsibility and Rejecting Race Consciousness Kimberly Alderman, affiliation not provided to SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1349177 COGNITION & THE ARTS ABSTRACTS "Making Sense of (Non)Sense: Why Literature Counts" Free Download NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, Grzegorz Szpila, eds., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 MARGARET H. FREEMAN, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA Email: freemamh@lavc.edu We can't help ourselves. We have, in Meir Sternberg's phrase, 'a rage for meaning.' Our brains are constructed in such a way that human cognition is a peculiar anomaly, existing in a never-ending dynamic tension that balances on the one hand the dangers of absolute objectivism and on the other the dangers of subjective relativism. Both positions reduce to failure in empathic understanding and moral action. In their extreme forms, absolute objectivism leads to rigidity of thought and a closing down of alternate perspectives; subjective relativism to indecisive waffling and inability to achieve closure. (In the United States, the Bush administration is a perfect example of the one, the current Democratic leadership a perfect example of the other.) The two main problems identified as the theme of this IALS volume explore the nature of this tension in human cognitive processing as expressed through the varied interpretations of literary texts. Rather than ask whether literary semantics should 'strive after an interpretation of all [literary] texts at all costs,' I ask why do we strive after interpretation in the first place, and what are the consequences of doing so? Rather than ask 'to what degree we are able to keep literary semantics autonomous,' I ask why would we want to, and what are the consequences of doing so? If we are, 'by any chance, fascinated by nonsense,' we need to ask what does nonsense 'mean'? Exploring these questions from a literary linguistic perspective sheds light on the role that literary experience plays, not merely in furthering our understanding of human cognitive processes but in developing and maintaining the dynamic tension of seeking coherence and meaning without falling into the swamps of absolute objectivism or the quicksands of subjective relativism. Literature, as is true of all the arts, resists as it reveals. It is, in the American philosopher Susanne K. Langer's words, the semblance of felt life, works of art images of the forms of feeling. In its attempts to model the forms of feeling in literary works, recent work in cognitive poetics traces the dynamic tensions that result from the embodied nature of the human mind and that are reflected in literary interpretation. "Fictive Motion in Milton" 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, & Language (CSDL9) MARK BRUHN, affiliation not provided to SSRN Email: mbruhn@regis.edu This paper analyzes two fictive motion (FM) constructions from Paradise Lost that can help to focus research concerning 1) the principles and processes supporting the selection and transformation of the spatial reference frame in FM constructions; 2) the functional differences between entrenched and novel FM conceptualizations; and 3) the cognitive subsystem(s) supporting veridicality assessments. Talmy suggests that the degree of subjectivity in experienced FM may correlate with the reference frame cued by the FM construction. In Milton's examples, the form is ambiguous, prompting a conceptual reframing from an intrinsic (or allocentric) to a relative (or egocentric) reference frame, or vice versa (Levinson). Milton's constructions thus provide crisp models for theoretical reflection and experimental design-along the lines of Richardson and Matlock, for example, with the hypothesis that eye movements correlate not merely with FM, but primarily with the reference frame in which FM is conceptualized. Because they also reverse the direction of FM, Milton's examples are genuinely novel FM constructions, soliciting processing functions that more entrenched constructions, through automatization, may bypass (Coulson and Oakley). Such novel examples could be crucial for understanding the extent to which entrenched FM conceptualizations do without productive functions. Because FM is typically a one-way affair, its reversal should generate conceptual conflict and thus a strong activation of the underlying functions, as well as their neural correlates. Milton's examples could likewise be revealing with respect to Talmy's hypotheses concerning the neural subsystems supporting visual perception and language, especially the notion that their image-schematic products are experienced as being less veridical...relative to the products of...other neural systems. Because Milton's constructions are bistable in terms of reference frame and FM-on either hand, there is a conflict of elements generated from the same schematic subsystem(s)-they to some degree complicate or frustrate veridicality assessments. The reconceptualizations (Langacker, Matlock) involved may therefore help to determine whether or not the veridicality subsystem inheres in the schematic subsystem(s) supporting the competing fictive representations. Specifically, fMRI scans targeting the left posterior middle temporal cortex during the construal of novel Milton-like FM constructions are predicted either to strengthen the findings of Wallentin et al., providing converging evidence for Talmy's hypothesis, or to restrict them to the case of automatized FM constructions. "Foundations of Branding: Cognitive and Historical" Free Download Nikkei Businesss Management, Winter 2008 ANDREW J. SUTTER, Lyra Pacific Group, Sutter International Law Office Email: ajsutter@lyrapacific.com If the value of a brand comes from the impression in a consumer's mind, can the trademark owner truly be said to own this value? And has this locus of the brand remained consistent throughout history? These questions are explored through a review of, first, the proceedings volume from an interdisciplinary trademark and branding symposium at Cambridge University, and then of a pair of books about Sixteenth Century Italian imprese. A slightly shorter version of this review appeared in Japanese in the "Branding" theme issue (Winter 2008) of Nikkei Business Management [Nikkei Bijinesu Manejimento] under the title " 'Monshou' kara himotoku burando no 'genten'" (Y. Sunada, trans.). "Slave Artists as Powerful Reality Creators: Taking Responsibility and Rejecting Race Consciousness" Free Download Thurgood Marshall Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008 KIMBERLY ALDERMAN, affiliation not provided to SSRN Email: kimberly@lawyerbird.com This article critiques the race conscious thinking inherent in Critical Race Theory ("CRT") and offers an alternative to structuralism and determinism. It reviews the colonial origins of race consciousness, and argues that advocating race conscious remedies perpetuates the very racism CRT decries. The article focuses on powerful reality creators of the past to create a more empowering framework of individual responsibility and personal reality construction. The article makes a case study of David Drake, a slave potter from 1800s South Carolina. Slave artists like David Drake show us that, no matter how strong the forces of oppression, a marginalized individual has the authority and power to decide who he or she becomes. Solicitation of Abstracts A publication dedicated to the artful mind and its relationship to the full range of higher-order human cognition. All scientific approaches are welcome, including developmental, evolutionary, linguistic, and comparative. Cognition and the Arts construes artistic behavior broadly, to include not only the various recognized genres of the arts but also design, style, and performance, throughout the lifecourse. To submit your research to SSRN, log in to the SSRN User HeadQuarters, and click on the My Papers link on the left menu, and then click on Start New Submission at the top of the page. 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Distributed by: Cognitive Science Network (CSN), a division of Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP) and Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Advisory Board Cognition & the Arts HANNA DAMASIO Dana Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of Southern California - Department: Neuroscience Psychology, Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies DAVID FREEDBERG Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University - Department of Art History and Archaeology SEMIR ZEKI Professor of Neurobiology, Head, Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London -- 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 Jun 1 06:46:05 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 3CBCD955F; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:46:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A6629558; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:46:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090601064604.0A6629558@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:46:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.64 events: Cultural Heritage Online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 64. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:03:58 +0100 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: CULTURAL HERITAGE on line From: Promozione FRD [mailto:promozione@rinascimento-digitale.it] Sent: May 28, 2009 6:52 AM To: promozione@rinascimento-digitale.it _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 2 04:45:23 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 3F789968C; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB1959684; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:45:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090602044521.BB1959684@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.65 ACH mentoring programme at DH2009 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 65. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:53:32 -0400 From: Matt Zimmerman Subject: ACH mentoring programme at DH2009 To the Digital Humanities Community The following message is about the ACH mentoring activities at DH2009. Please read it and consider participating in it: 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 College Park, MD 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 2009 conference in College Park, MD. 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. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 2 04:48:04 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 9D9539B31; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1A5F9B27; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090602044802.C1A5F9B27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.66 HASTAC Scholars 2009-10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 66. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:04:44 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: Nominations for 2009-10 HASTAC Scholars open today An announcement from HASTAC.org HASTAC SCHOLARS PROGRAM WELCOMES NOMINATIONS FOR 2009-2010 The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. The HASTAC Scholars act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC’s virtual network. In the wake of the crisis facing traditional news media, the HASTAC Scholars are Citizen Journalists exploring the next-generation possibilities for intellectual dialogue imaginable through digital technology. The HASTAC Scholars report on the work happening on their campuses and in their region to an international audience by blogging, tweeting, vlogging, podcasting and other forms of networking with the online HASTAC community and with their local communities. The Scholars also facilitate a series of discussion forums on www.hastac.org. Open to all, these expansive forums initiate rich insights and meaty exchanges on timely issues related to digital media and learning and the digital humanities more broadly. See www.hastac.org/scholars for more about the program. After an incredibly successful 2008-2009 pilot year for the HASTAC Scholars Program, the HASTAC Steering Committee has voted to expand the program for 2009-2010, and invites any HASTAC member who is faculty or staff at an institution of higher education to nominate a HASTAC Scholar. Here is how the nomination process and the program work: Nominations The official nomination form will be available online beginning June 1 (the link will be available via the HASTAC homepage at www.hastac.org). A complete nomination form will require the following information from both the Scholar/ nominee and the Mentor/nominator: * Name * Title/Year (ex. Associate Professor/4th Year Graduate Student/Senior) * Program/Department * Institution * Preferred E-mail Address * Mailing Address * Telephone Number * HASTAC User Name Additionally, the nominee will need to provide a brief bio paragraph of no more than 250 words that includes what and where they are studying. They may want to mention their dissertation or other research topic(s) if applicable, and should speak to their HASTAC-related interests and work. All nominations must be received by July 31, 2009. Requirements for Nominators Any HASTAC faculty or staff member at a post-secondary institution may nominate an undergraduate or graduate student to be a HASTAC Scholar. Making such a nomination puts the nominator in the official category of "mentor" and the Mentor will be responsible for the following: * Completing the online nomination form by July 31, 2009. * Subsidizing each HASTAC Scholar nominee with a $300 fellowship paid by the Mentor's institution. The payment process is entirely decentralized; the Mentor and the Scholar need to work out this procedure. * Checking in with their HASTAC Scholar(s) throughout the year, suggesting material/events to blog about or post on the HASTAC website, helping to promote the HASTAC Scholar within their institution. If more than 5 scholars are nominated from any one institution, then the Mentor (s) at that institution will be responsible for nominating a local HASTAC Scholars director to help guide this group in concert with the Director of the HASTAC Scholars Program. Requirements for HASTAC Scholars While HASTAC Scholars may be asked to meet face to face with a local cohort or do other work on their home campuses, their primary responsibility is to the HASTAC virtual community. HASTAC Scholars are expected to: * Represent their home institution on the HASTAC website by posting or reporting on any HASTAC-related events or work taking place on their campus. * Post to the HASTAC website on a weekly basis. These posts may take many forms: tweets, blogs, comments on blogs, vlogs, forum postings, etc. These posts may report on relevant HASTAC-type events on one's campus, in one's region, or in one's professional gatherings; can comment on new technologies or social networking sites or other relevant digital affordances; can provide critique or creative expression; or can speak to anything that advances the HASTAC mission: to ensure that humanistic and humane considerations are never far removed from technological advances; and to push education and learning to the forefront of digital innovation. * Contribute to HASTAC Scholar Discussion Forums. HASTAC Scholars will be invited to propose topics for and facilitate Forums that will occur approximately once a month. Collaborative forums are encouraged. Other scholars will contribute to these forums, will be asked to solicit responses from scholars in the field, and will be called upon to get the word out about the Forum. It is expected that not all scholars will have an opportunity to host a Forum but all should have an opportunity/ responsibility to participate in their colleagues' work. * Spread the word about HASTAC events. Scholars will be regularly asked to help get the word out about online discussions and other HASTAC events to their institutional communities. HASTAC@ As part of extending HASTAC programming into other professional conferences and events, HASTAC Scholars and Nominators will be notified of opportunities to arrange/participate in meet ups at various events throughout the year. For example, "HASTAC@ MLA" or "HASTAC@SXSW" might involve an opportunity to microblog or blog an event, to meet face to face with others, to arrange a formal presentation, etc. Inquiries For questions or concerns, please contact Erin Gentry Lamb, Director of the HASTAC Scholars Program, at erin.gentry@duke.edu. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 2 05:25:20 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 441BF8B5E; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:25:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED1E68B4D; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:25:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:25:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:22:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fear itself In the course of my historial readings into what was happening with humanists and computers I am paying close attention to any expressions of anxiety which surface in the literature. I'm reading around quite widely, as far afield as, say, Time Magazine, the Globe and Mail (Toronto) and the New Yorker, with the conviction that humanist-researchers were also ordinary people, who not only read Goethe, Donne, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Mandelstam et al., listened to Bach, Debussy, went to art galleries etc etc but also read the newspaper, watched the television when that became widely available and so forth. I'm also convinced they had children, some of whom got interested in the digital computer kits of the 1950s and 60s, built electronic devices, studied calculus and physics and so forth. I am assuming that these humanists therefore knew what was going on, though perhaps in a vague sort of way, in other intellectual neighbourhoods than their own, that they were affected by the whole range of things being said in the popular media, and that the effects of all such influences had something to do with what they thought when they were being humanists. Expressions of anxiety relating to computing are not difficult to find. I'm paying attention to these because I suspect that these are telling clues to the cultural assimilation of computing, or more precisely, into what people thought was happening and why those who took an active role did what they did -- and did not do what they didn't do. For the purposes of this note, however, I want to fast-forward to our own time and ask about what fears are still troubling us as humanists. The ongoing "On the Human" project of the National Humanities Center (www.onthehuman.org, be there or be square) is sufficient to illustrate one bundle of fears that are very much alive -- of the sciences invading the humanities and taking possession, so it is alleged, of questions formerly only ours to deal with. Since there's simply no denying that computers are technoscientific instruments, we're affected professionally -- and, yet again, along with everyone else who thinks beyond the next beer and BBQ. I find it particularly curious that in the scholarly literature to this day, where one might expect to find open curiosity about the technoscience which the computer carries into our studies and libraries, one finds instead the garlic and crucifixes hung. So my question: is the oppositional relationship we still maintain with technoscience a healthy one? Is it a clue to a Gilgamesh-Enkidu relationship that will make us stronger? What is the fear all about? 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 Jun 4 12:33:57 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 E3CEDEBCB; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:33:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D14E7EBC3; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:33:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090604123355.D14E7EBC3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.68 fear itself X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 68. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Liu (80) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? [2] From: Haines Brown (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? [3] From: Elijah Meeks (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 03:32:29 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? In-Reply-To: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I am hijacking your thread in what seems to me a necessary antithetical direction: As one of the participants in the National Humanities Center's "On the Human" project you mention (http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/about/index.php), which began with its "Autonomy, Singularlity, Creativity" series ( http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/asc/), I would say that what is also needed as an antithetical complement to your query about techno-computational anxieties among humanists is a project with a similar cast of participants titled "On the Humanist." My brief weeks at the NHC were cut short by a death in the family, so I was not able to share notes with you, Kate Hayles, and others during that first year of the NHC initiative as much as I would have liked. But what I saw indicated some non- or mis-comprehension about what humanists do and why they have anything new to say about the "human" relevant to folks from the cog-sci, neuro-psych, evolution-science, and other tremendously interesting science- or techno-oriented rethinkers of the human. There was similar non- or mis-comprehension at a brave but discordant conference I participated in some years ago on "rational choice theory and the humanities" at Stanford, where I was struck not just by the famous rational-choice theorist (whom I much admire) who denounced the humanists as not having a clue about rational choice, but perhaps even more forcibily by a friendly economist who sat down with me at lunch and after fifteen minutes of conversation finally smacked his forehead and said (approximately): "Now I get it. I didn't know that when you talk about 'the humanities' you are talking about humanities scholars in the university. I thought you were talking about things like literature, theater, art, and Shakespeare." Willard, I note that in your characterization of humanists as ordinary people who indulge in media and children, etc., there is an undecidable slide between the terms "humanist" and "humanist-researcher." I put it to you that from the point of view of many parts of society today, the "humanist-researcher" is a stitched-together Frankenstein's monster that is the mirror image of the more familiar, if now largely obsolete, Frankenstein complex about sci-tech. (Apple or Steve Job is the new Dr. Frankenstein. When was the last time you heard someone express horror as opposed to "cool!" about their iPhone?) While humanists may or may not be anxious about computational-tech (I'm seeing fewer who are, except in terms of their competence; this may be a non-issue), there are folks in other academic disciplines and in society at large who are anxious about the "humanist-researcher" monster. This monster has been stitched to the hulking creature of the modern research institution and its government-funded sci-tech emphasis (when was it, actually, that humanists acceded to calling what they do "research"?). The "humanist-researcher" monster is also allegedly politically correct, which is a way of characterizing the academic humanities as a Golem mechanized by a humanities-specific (and social-science-specific) program. There is some kind of "strange loop" problem at play here, as Douglas Hofstadter might say. Humanist-researchers are anxious about sci-tech-computation. But the rest of the world is anxious about humanist-researchers. (However, this is not to mention the interior frictions between "science" and "engineering" in the "sci-tech" formulation.) I have myself taken a page from your own Humanities Computing book, which I assign my students in my various "Literature+" courses. (See my article about these courses in Currents in Electronic Literacy, http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu/Spring08/Liu). We humanist-researchers are going to have to open up our hoary notions of "interpretation" and "critique" so that they overlap with such notions as building and modeling (but also adaptation, translation, migration, performance, rendering, simulating, etc.) Only so will humanities-research seem less monstrous, more a partner, in the great sci-tech-computational adventure of our society. It is to be hoped that we can be a partner able to contribute value-added "humanist" emphases. By the way, since I became chair of my department, and thus enslaved to the great institution of humanities-research, I have been hindered in participating in Humanist discussions. Sorry to have been so silent in the company of your own tremendously fertile intellectual seed-thoughts for the Humanist list; and sorrier still that I will likely again be absent in future. --Alan Liu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:45:52 -0400 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? In-Reply-To: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, you ask such a broad and non-technical question that perhaps you will allow me to reply in kind. Let me start by saying that I personally do not feel the anxiety ("technoscience" vs. humanities) that you express. Although I taught history for thirty years and currently do research in history and theory, I also have a technoscience background and continue to some extent being a technogeek. So the first issue I must raise is whether such a gap or tension actually exists. I think it does, but in limited ways. For example, I encounter many a fellow historian who is technically sophisticated, who finds TeX a better way to produce papers than Word, who makes use of SQL databases, set up a WordPress site for papers, etc. Furthermore, much of the issue may reduce to a generation gap. My wife uses a computer, but is endlessly frustrated and frequently begs for help; my four year old g-grandchild has no problem at all using my wife's computer to play games on the Disney site. However, despite qualifications such as these, I suppose the tension you point to does exist, and it raises interesting issues. I'd like to mention two possibly contributing factors, one less speculative than the other. The first looks to inadequacies in our education. When we were exposed to the natural sciences, it was in the form of a now defunct positivism. We were told about the laboratory and the "scientific method" without any hint regarding the artificiality of the first and contentious nature of the second. What is really odd is that the broader implications of natural science that should be conveyed in general education is still couched in positivist terms, and I suspect there are reasons for this. The positivist outlook did indeed contradict that of the humanities, but it should no longer be taken seriously. The points so far relate to personal shortcomings and possible educational reform, but more interesting and less amenable to possible rectification would be any intrinsic contradictions between the humanities and the natural sciences, should they exist. I could go on at quite some length to argue that the conception of the world that prevails in the natural sciences today (among more reflective scientists and among philosophers of science who today are able to communicate much more effectively with the scientific community than in the past), is entirely compatible with that of historians (or at least reflective historians before the linguistic turn). That is, I believe that any possible gap or tension needs to be shown to be true rather than presumed and be articulated in specific terms that can be explored and debated. My other point is more controversial. As we know, anxiety about vague universal threats from the outside are likely to arise from inadequacies or insecurities coming from within. That is, I wonder if this tension or gap is might not be primarily an effect of historians having lost any legitimate or useful social function. Indeed, there seems a good deal of empirical evidence that the profession is in decline. My word "social" is important here because historic consciousness can satisfy a wide range of needs, and not all are in jeopardy. Historic consciousness can do useful things for the individual: it can be entertaining, it can expose one to the Other; it can stimulate the emotions (which, incidentally, may be a source of danger). There's no doubt that popular writers of history continue to enjoy success. Historic consciousness can also do useful things in terms of our personal relation to the past: we can acquire a richer definition of Self through a study of our roots; we acquire an attachment to nation and empire (which might help account for the persistence of positivism in our education because positivism systematically excludes outside factors such as social and moral values). But we are also social beings, and so what function can historic consciousness have for that aspect of our being? This becomes particularly important if our social existence contributes much more to the development of our capacities than our private existence. There are certainly precedents for an important social function for historic consciousness. With the development of class contradictions in the 19th century, we have spokesmen for the dominant class such as Lord Acton suggesting that historic conscious is a cornerstone of human liberty (I can't actually pin this down in Acton, and would appreciate being told where he says something to this effect), and Marx held much the same position regarding the emerging working class. For a variety of reasons, class consciousness atrophied in the 20th century, and so in place of the old class function of historic consciousness we instead see vague suggestions that an awareness of history fortifies a belief that history is an open ended process that in turn lends support to a confidence that we can shape our own future. This sounds good, at least until we begin to think about it critically. although I am unaware of anyone who has done so, except Nietzsche. I suspect the idea is really empty of any real content and might persist merely because of its ideological function, much as consumerism serves to convey the illusion of democracy, of having meaningful choices. In parallel with the history of print media from the 18th century until today's crisis, there seems to be a loss of social function in terms of our social existence as citizens. Just what is the social function of historic consciousness today? Has it atrophied because our sense of having some control over our future has declined? The position of North Americans in relation to the rest of the world is changing; our economy is not serving us well; detrimental environmental forces are at work over which we have little real control. Is this lack of confidence that we are in command of our future related to the growth of a critical skepticism in the profession that reduces historic consciousness to a highly privatized function that presumes a passive relation to the world? I do not wish to divert the thread away from the original question, but I suspect that when we look for the deeper reasons for the gap between natural science and the humanities, it is because the humanities, unlike the natural sciences, no longer supports the expectation that consciousness represents any significant force for change. I believe historic consciousness could perform that function, but not in its present form and not separated from real social forces. Haines Brown emeritus --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:44:49 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.67 fear itself? In-Reply-To: <20090602052517.ED1E68B4D@woodward.joyent.us> Do you not think it's a bit of a mistake to focus on the machine-like aspect of the computer? When we associate the computer with the host of electronic and digital equipment that has bubbled forth in the past half-century, we neglect, I think, a critical difference between early electronic devices and modern computers. While obviously computers are technological marvels and to understand the inner workings of the CPU, the frontside bus or I/O interface would require a depth of techincal training, the actual systems that run on these machines are based in a much more humanistic realm: Logic. When I studied logic in my undergraduate, it was not in the engineering or mathematics department, but in philosophy. Creating modern software is not an interaction with the machine--or to use your language, the technoscience aspect of the computer--but an interaction with a particularly formalized language and rhetoric, be it ActionScript, C++, R or PHP. When coders write about creating software, they speak in terms of linguistic precision and logical elegance. Electrical and mechanical engineers are not going to take over the humanities, just as they haven't taken over biology. But the pervasive and inclusive nature of software means that software engineering is different, and it's a bit of a misnomer to refer to it as engineering (You might as well, then, refer to every person skilled at creating complex works as an engineer--for instance, 18th Century French Language Engineers). It's a shame that many humanities scholars can only deal with software as a metaphor, and that we do little to distinguish it from hardware or even within itself. 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 Sat Jun 6 15:28:40 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 B419EFD00; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:28:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 95673FCEF; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:28:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090606152838.95673FCEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:28:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.69 fear itself X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 69. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:17:03 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.68 fear itself In-Reply-To: <20090604123355.D14E7EBC3@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I wonder if your historical readings into the anxieties expressed at the interface of the humanities and computing uncovered a concern for property and economies. I ask because recently one of the major themes of such discussions, whether expressed as fear or hope, is sustainability. For example, in the Going Digital issue of IDEA+S The point is not to argue that openness is a panacea or to call for open everything. Rather, this phenomenon deserves our attention because of the important social and cultural ways in which it marks the turn to the digital, in particular, the way in which it opens up space along the continuum between public and private property. Gale Moore “The Phenomenon of Openness” (IDEA+S 4:2) http://www.ideasmag.artsci.utoronto.ca/issue4_2/moore.pdf In this article, Moore describes a publishing experiment (surrounding Yochai Benkler’s 2006 book, _The Wealth of Networks_) and then asks: “Would you still buy the book?” “Buying a book” is a simple act but a complex phenomenon: Consider book as product, book as experience. Or books as markers in an economy that supports institutions. I raise this here to inquire if some of the discourse regarding the impact of computers on the practice of humanities research is not also about pressures on a habitat of relations and modes of exchange. To what extent in your historical readings does the name “humanities” stand in for “culture of the book”? 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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, 5 Jun 2009 17:25:14 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: HASTAC is seeking a program coordinator; apply by June 10th An announcement from HASTAC.org HASTAC is looking for a Program Coordinator. Please forward to anyone who might be interested or apply yourself via the Requisition Number below. Position Title: Program Coordinator Requisition Number: 400303348 (to apply, visit hr.duke.edu, click "Jobs," and search by Requisition #400303348) Location: Duke University, Durham, NC Closing date: Please submit all resumes by June 10, 2009. This position is 40 hours a week (including full benefits) and is fully funded until June 30, 2011 and may be extended beyond that time contingent on grant funding opportunities and/or partnership opportunities with other units within Duke University. Description: * Manage and maintain all budgets, files, correspondence, grants, calendar, appointments, travel arrangements, agendas, meetings, weekly conference calls, compliance rules, and special requests for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) Professor and HASTAC co-founder * Answer promptly and professionally all inquiries about organization and the Digital Media and Learning Competition (http:// www.dmlcompetition.net); make referrals, answer calls and e-mails for FHI Professor, HASTAC, and the Digital Media and Learning Competition * Master all university financial and grant reporting systems; maintain budgets for FHI Professor, HASTAC, Digital Media and Learning Competition, and any additional grants in compliance with sponsors' requirements * Plan events, coordinate activities, and maintain budgets for major public, university, and HASTAC events, both at Duke and off-site with partnering institutions and sponsors * Act as team communicator and networker for 11 member Digital Media and Learning Competition grant team, providing organizational, communications, and administrative support to Digital Media and Learning Competition Senior Program Coordinator and team; co-author periodic financial and narrative reports to sponsoring institutions * Author and edit correspondence for FHI Professor, proofread and correct articles, blog entries, book chapters; follow up on correspondence as requested * Consult with grant applicants and all others in person, by phone and e- mail; establish and implement communication system for project participants * Initiate plans for both live and online (webcast, podcast, and other forms of new media broadcasts) events, add and moderate information to website and online newsletter * Consult with HASTAC and Digital Media and Learning Competition grant team, including national and international competition winners, to develop and implement projects, secure travel, and resolve infrastructure, communication, and grant management issues * Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein Experience: * Work requires analytical, communications and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program. * At least 1 year experience in administrative support, with significant budget oversight/accounting responsibilities is required; 3 years or more strongly preferred. 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To apply, visit hr.duke.edu, click "Jobs," and search by Requisition #400303348. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 6 15:30:26 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 D2F3AFE00; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDA15FDEE; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090606153024.BDA15FDEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.71 new on WWW: TL Infobits for May X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 71. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:58:48 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- May 2009 TL INFOBITS May 2009 No. 35 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 at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Are Lower Grades Linked to Facebook Use? Learning in Virtual Worlds IP Policies and E-Learning New Journal on Higher Ed Information Literacy New Journal on Digital Culture Helping Computer-Literate Students Become Research-Literate Two Views of Online Instruction Recommended Reading ...................................................................... ARE LOWER GRADES LINKED TO FACEBOOK USE? When doctoral student Aryn Karpinski's unpublished study connecting students' heavy Facebook use and lower grades was presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association in April it created a "media sensation" both in the press and among academic blogs. Not everyone found her conclusions convincing. Three researchers attempted to replicate Karpinski's findings using three datasets: (1) a large sample of undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Chicago, (2) a nationally representative cross sectional sample of American 14– to 22–year–olds, and (3) a longitudinal panel of American youth aged 14–23. They report (in "Facebook and Academic Performance: Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data," by Josh Pasek, Eian More, and Eszter Hargittai, FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 5, May 4, 2009) that "[i]n none of the samples do we find a robust negative relationship between Facebook use and grades. Indeed, if anything, Facebook use is more common among individuals with higher grades." The article is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2498/2181 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/ See also: "Study Finds Link between Facebook Use, Lower Grades in College" http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/05/facebook.html Poster of Karpinski's study http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/facebook2009.jpg ...................................................................... LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS "Virtual worlds as educational spaces--with their three-dimensional landscapes and customizable avatars--seem so similar to video games that educators may assume . . . that students will become as motivated by virtual worlds as they are by video games. However, these same similarities may also lead students to perceive virtual worlds as play spaces rather than as innovative educational environments. If students feel that learning opportunities offered in such spaces are not valid, they are likely to feel that they are not learning." -- Catheryn Cheal, "Student Perceptions of a Course Taught in Second Life" The June/July 2009 issue of INNOVATE (vol. 5, issue 5) focuses on the theme of virtual worlds and simulations in education. The papers reflect the maturing of the study of virtuality in education that grew out of early discussions and the formation of the League of Worlds, a conference whose mission is to "stimulate and disseminate research, analysis, theory, technical and curricular developments in the creative, educational, training-based and social use of role-playing, simulations and virtual worlds." The journal is available http://innovateonline.info/ 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/ For more information about the League of Worlds, go to http://www.ubiqlab.org/low/ ...................................................................... IP POLICIES AND E-LEARNING "When we contrast the face-to-face learning environment with the online (e-learning) environment, nearly all assumptions about IP [intellectual property] and copyright are called into question. Virtually all materials that contribute to e-learning are (or can be) digitized, retained, archived, attributed and logged. This single fact raises questions about IP [intellectual property] ownership, responsibility, policies, and procedures that are newly on the table." In "Intellectual Property Policies, E-Learning, and Web 2.0: Intersections and Open Questions" (ECAR Research Bulletin, vol. 2009, issue 7, April 7, 2009), Veronica Diaz discusses how online learning has necessitated revising IP policies that were created for face-to-face instructional settings. She notes that higher education IP policies need to go beyond the assumption that "e-learning is contained within an institutional system" as Web 2.0 technologies and social networking expand the reach of the learning environment. The report is available online to members of ECAR subscribing institutions at http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/erb/ERB0907.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 JOURNAL COVERS HIGHER ED INFORMATION LITERACY The NORDIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION LITERACY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, published by the University of Bergen, is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal created to encourage "research-based development of information literacy teaching within the educational programmes of universities and higher education colleges" and to establish "a forum for the investigation and discussion of connections between information literacy and general learning processes within subject-specific contexts." Papers in the inaugural issue include: "A New Conception of Information Literacy for the Digital Environment in Higher Education" by Sharon Markless To provide an information literacy (IL) framework for a virtual learning environment, the author considered the "relevant principles of learning, the place of student reflection when learning to be information literate, what IL in higher education (HE) should encompass, the importance of context in developing IL, and the influence of the digital environment, especially Web 2.0." "Google Scholar compared to Web of Science. A Literature Review" by Susanne Mikki According to the author, "Google Scholar is popular among faculty staff and students, but has been met with scepticism by library professionals and therefore not yet established as subject for teaching." In her paper, Mikki makes a case for including Google Scholar as a library resource by comparing it favorably with the more-highly-regarded Web of Science database. The journal is available at https://noril.uib.no/index.php/noril Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL) [ISSN 1890-5900] is published biannually by the University of Bergen Library. For more information, contact: Anne Sissel Vedvik Tonning, University of Bergen Library, Psychology, Education and Health Library, PO Box 7808, N-5020 Bergen, Norway; tel: +47 55588621; fax: +47 55884740; email: anne.tonning@ub.uib.no; Web: https://noril.uib.no/index.php/noril ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL ON DIGITAL CULTURE DIGITAL CULTURE & EDUCATION is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to analyzing the "impact of digital culture on identity, education, art, society, culture and narrative within social, political, economic, cultural and historical contexts." Readers can interact with the authors by posting online comments on the journal's website. Paper submissions can include scholarly reviews of books, conferences, exhibits, games, software, and hardware. Papers in the first issue include: "Revisiting Violent Videogames Research: Game Studies Perspectives on Aggression, Violence, Immersion, Interaction, and Textual Analysis" by Kyle Kontour, University of Colorado at Boulder "Look at Me! Look at Me! Self-representation and Self-exposure through Online Networks" by Kerry Mallan, Queensland University of Technology "Playing at Bullying: The Postmodern Ethic of Bully (Canis Canem Edit)" by Clare Bradford, Deakin University Digital Culture & Education (DCE) [ISSN 1836-8301] is published as an ongoing journal with content added to the journal's website as papers are accepted. For more information, contact: Christopher Walsh, Editor; email: editor@digitalcultureandeducation.com; Web: http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/ ...................................................................... HELPING COMPUTER-LITERATE STUDENTS BECOME RESEARCH-LITERATE "While college students may be computer-literate, they are not, as a rule, research-literate. And there's a huge difference between the two." In "Not Enough Time in the Library" (THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 14, 2009), Todd Gilman, librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, offers faculty suggestions for partnering with their campus library staff to help their students become research-literate learners. Some of his tips include: -- have a librarian conduct a session on effective search strategies that help students "avoid frustration and wasted time." -- provide an assignment that applies what the students have learned in the session, one that will "incorporate a component that challenges students to evaluate the quality of information they find." -- schedule library tour that takes students beyond the study areas and into the reference and stack areas The article is available at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/05/2009051401c.htm?utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en (Online access may require a subscription to the Chronicle.) 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/ ...................................................................... TWO VIEWS OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION "The Excellent Inevitability of Online Courses" By Margaret Brooks THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION May 29, 2009 http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i38/38a06401.htm?utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en "Within our lifetimes, technology has fundamentally changed the way we get the news, make purchases, and communicate with others. The Internet provides a platform for learning about and interacting with the world. It should be no surprise that students line up for courses that make the best use of technologies that are so integral to their lives. It's not just the economy. It's not just the convenience. It's the integration of technology within society that's driving the development of online courses." "I'll Never Do It Again" By Elayne Clift THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 29, 2009 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i38/38a03302.htm?utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en "I trained for it, I tried it, and I'll never do it again. While online teaching may be the wave of the future (although I desperately hope not), it is not for me. Perhaps I'm the old dog that resists new tricks. Maybe I am a technophobe. It might be that I'm plain old-fashioned. This much I can say with certainty: I have years of experience successfully teaching in collegiate classrooms, and online teaching doesn't compare." ...................................................................... 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. "How People are using Twitter during Conferences" By Wolfgang Reinhardt, et al. http://lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~i203/ebner/publication/09_edumedia.pdf (Draft version. Originally published in: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION COMPETENCIES ON THE WEB, Hornung-Prahauser, V., and M. Luckmann, (Ed.), pp. 145-56.) "Microblogging at conferences seems to be an additional way of discussing presented topics and exchanging additional information. It is not limited to the face-to-face audience or the location of the conference. Microblogging rather allows virtually anyone to actively participate in the thematic debates." ...................................................................... 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 Sat Jun 6 15:31:18 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 29BEA110B2; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:31:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BED7110AB; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:31:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090606153117.3BED7110AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:31:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.72 DHO wins collaborative grant X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 72. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:23:35 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DHO wins NEH grant with U.S. Collaborators A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). The project, Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) will over two years develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. Dot Porter, DHO's Metadata Manager, will lead the team at the DHO. TILE will be based primarily on the Ajax XML Encoder (AXE) developed by project co-PI Douglas Reside (MITH; http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/?id=19). During the course of this project AXE will be extended to allow the following: *Semi-automated creation of links between transcriptions and images of the materials from which the transcriptions were made. Using a form of optical character recognition, our software will recognize words in a page image and link them to a pre-existing textual transcription. These links can then be checked, and if need be adjusted, by a human. * Annotation of any area of an image selected by the user with a controlled vocabulary (for example, the tool can be adjusted to allow only the annotations "damaged" or "illegible"). * Application of editorial annotations to any area of an image. * Support linking for non-horizontal, non-rectangular areas of source images. * Creation of links between different, non-contiguous areas of primary source images. For example: * captions and illustrations; * illustrations and textual descriptions; * analogous texts across different manuscripts The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, the DHO will be seeking additional projects from the HSIS community to test the usability and functionality of the software; there will also be a small amount of funding available. 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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: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" (54) Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 [2] From: "Willard McCarty" (87) Subject: cfp: Philosophy for Science in Use [3] From: Susan Schreibman (53) Subject: DRHA Registration Open [4] From: Willard McCarty (3) Subject: CTS symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 11th June [5] From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" (65) Subject: events: Balisage 2009: The markup conference [6] From: iswc2009publicity (628) Subject: ISWC 2009: 2nd Call for Papers [7] From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" (53) Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 [8] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (34) Subject: Seminar: Onomastics and Entity-Recognition in Graeco- Egyptian Papyri [9] From: Daniel Pitti (14) Subject: [IATH-Fellows] Rare Books and Manuscripts -- ALA preconference inCharlottesville, June 17-20 [10] From: OKELL E.R. (55) Subject: CFP Body, Mask & Space: The State of the Art - deadline 10th June -on behalf of Margaret Coldiron --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:34:27 -0400 From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1243996581_2009-06-03_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_12875.2.ms-tnef I received this from another list. I think it might be of interest to Humanists (especially the Lev Manovich workshop). Jean-François Vallée FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 >From now on FILE Labo will be part of the FILE Exhibition with a special space dedicated to a reflexive and practical view about the digital art media field. This initiative coincides with the foundation of workshops with important artists and theoreticians from the digital art and new media field inside the exhibition gallery of FILE 2009. The goal of bringing FILE Labo close to the visitors is show a unknown fact for most of the people that attend the Festival: the programming and the creation of the pieces are a hard work that involves a deep technological comprehension combined with a strong debate about the state of art and its contemporary developments. ++ WORKSHOPS: LOCATIVE MEDIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) & Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 07/28 | 9am - 1pm The workshop will introduce basic concepts about locative media art. People will learn how to create content for cell/mobile phones using art & technology ideas and the walkingtools.net project as the feature to deploy the content. DATA VISUALIZATION José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) & Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 07/29 | 9am - 1pm Workshop that will introduce the main concepts related to data visualization and also discuss the importance and the aesthetics of data processing and image generation. CULTURAL ANALYTICS Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 07/30 & 31 | 9am - 1pm Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web. The workshop will provide the tools for the participants create their own analysis of the data and also to create their own visualization of the collected data. ++ LECTURERS: Brett Stalbaum : coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a walking artist. His latest project in locative media is the Walking Tools project at www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : associate researcher at CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts) and coordinator of the Software Studies Initiative Brazil. Irma Vilá: digital media researcher and artist. José Luis de Vicente : writer and curator in the digital media and art & technology field. Since 2001 he is curator of ArtFutura, co nsidered the first art & technology festival in Spain. Nowadays he is working in research projects as “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) and “Atlas del Espacio Radielétrico”. He teaches Interaction Design and New Media culture and theory at several universities and Design Schools in Barcelona, mainly at Elisava School of Design Lev Manovich : recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world, Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries. The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far reaching theorization of the subjec t" (CAA reviews); "it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis). Manovich frequently lectures on new media around the world, having delivered around two hundred in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia since 1999. His latest book is Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). Manovich is director of the Software Studies Initiative at CALIT2, UCSD. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki Cologne University, and a number of other institutions. ++ subscriptions (read carefully the terms and conditions) PORTUGUÊS FILE LABO WORKSHOP 2009 O FILE Labo começa a partir de agora a fazer parte das exposições do FILE, com um espaço dedicado à reflexão e produção de conteúdos na área de artes e mídias digitais. Essa iniciativa coincide com a criação de workshops com artistas e teóricos do campo da arte e da tecnologia, além de pesquisadores do campo da arte digital no espaço expositivo do Festival. O objetivo de trazer o FILE Labo para mais próximo dos visitantes e do público em geral é mostrar um fato até então desconhecido da maioria dos freqüentadores do FILE: a programação e a criação das obras é fruto de um árduo trabalho de manipulação tecnológica, aliada a uma profunda reflexão sobre o estado da arte e seus desdobramentos na contemporaneidade. ++ WORKSHOPS MÍDIAS LOCATIVAS: TEORIA E PRÁTICA com Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) e Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 28/07 | 9h - 13h O workshop introduzirá conceitos básicos sobre arte em mídias locativas. Os participantes aprenderão como criar conteúdo para celulares utilizando idéias advindas do campo da arte e da tecnologia. O conteúdo será lido e produzido com as ferramentas do sistema walkingtools.net . VISUALIZAÇÃO DE DADOS com José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) e Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 29/07 | 9h - 13h Workshop que introduzirá conceitos fundamentais relacionados à visualização de dados e também discutirá a importância e a estética do processamento de dados e da geração de imagens. ANALÍTICA CULTURAL com Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 30 e 31/07 | 9h - 13h Atualmente as ciências, negócios, governos e outras agências estão baseadas em análises computacionais e na visualização de grandes quantidades de dados e fluxos de informação. Empregam análise de dados estatísticos, visualização da informação e visualização científica, visualização analítica e simulação. Acreditamos que é tempo de aplicarmos essas técnicas aos dados culturais. Grande parte desse conjunto de dados culturais já está disponível: resultado dos esforços de digitalização realizadas por museus, livrarias e companhias ao longo dos últimoas dez anos (pense na digitalização de livros realizada pelo Google e pela Amazon) e no explosivo crescimento de conteúdos culturais disponibilizados na web. O workshop ensinará as ferramentas para os participantes criarem suas próprias análises dos dados e também ensinará como podemos criar visualizações a partir dos dados coletados. ++ PALESTRANTES: Brett Stalbaum : coordenador do curso Interdisciplinar em Computação e Artes na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD) e um artista andarilho. Seu último projeto na área de mídias locativas é o walkingtools em www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : pesquisador associado ao CRCA e coordenador do grupo de Software Studies no Brasil. Irma Vilá: Artista e pesquisadora na área de mídias digitais. José Luis de Vicente : escritor, curador especializado em cultura digital, arte & tecnologia e criador do blog elástico.net. É especializado em sociedade, cultura e artes digitais. Desde 2001 é diretor do ArtFutura, o festival de arte & tecnologia mais antigo da Espanha. Formou parte da equipe do RESFEST, o festival itinerante de cinema digital (2002-2006) e desde 2004 faz parte do conselho de programação do SONAR, o festival de música avançada e arte multimídia de Barcelona, fazendo a curadoria, junto com Oscar Abril Ascaso e do Advanced Music, de suas três últimas exposições. Atualmente desenvolve diversos programas de pesquisa como o “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) ou o "Atlas del Espacio Radioeléctrico". É profesor de teoria dos meios interativos no mestrado de Digital Media na Escuela Elisava de Barcelona. Lev Manovich : é autor de Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005) e The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), que foi considerado como “a mais sugestiva e ampla história da mídia desde Marshall McLuhan”. É autor de mais de 90 artigos que foram reproduzidos mais de 300 vezes em vários países. Manovich é professor no Departamento de Artes Visuais da Universidade da Califórnia em San Diego (UCSD), Diretor do Grupo de Software Studies no California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) e Pesquisador Visitante no Godsmith College (Londres) e no College of Fine Arts, Universidade of New South Wales (Sydney). Manovich tem sido requisitado para proferir palestras ao redor do mundo, tendo realizado até o momento mais de 270 conferências, palestras e workshops fora dos Estados Unidos nos últimos 10 anos. Editou recentemente o livro Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). ++ inscreva-se (leia atentamente os termos e condições de participação) -- Cicero Silva coordinator / coordenador www.filelabo.com.br --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:27:23 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: cfp: Philosophy for Science in Use ESF Research Conferences 2011 - Call for Proposals is now open Submission deadline: 15 September 2009 (midnight CET) More information at www.esf.org/conferences/call Contact: conferences-proposals@esf.org - Call for Applications - ESF-LiU Conference Philosophy for Science in Use Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden 28 September - 2 October 2009 www.esf.org/conferences/09272 Chaired by: Matthias Kaiser, National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology, NO & Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics, UK This conference is to discuss how current philosophy of science can be brought more in line with the need to understand, analyze and contribute to scientific endeavours in its various practical and socially relevant uses. It follows a call from Philip Kitcher (in Science, Truth and Democracy, 2001) for aiming at a well-ordered science, i.e. a science that produces the right answers to the right questions in the right ways. Implicit in this call is the insight that value judgements are intertwined with methodological issues. Nancy Cartwright (in Philosophy of Science, 2006 vol.72, #5) has followed up by making the claim that epistemological warrants (evidence) are in large parts also use- and context-specific, contrary to the prevailing tradition in philosophy of science. Hitherto the major philosophical attention has been directed towards justifications of theoretical claims to establish stable unambiguous results, while the justificationary demands on contextual and specialized uses of theoretical insights has been largely neglected. However, it is also in regard to these uses of sciences that value dilemmas affect the practice of science in a very direct way, and where science needs to reflect on its social and ethical justification. The conference will ask for contributions that explore in greater detail philosophical aspects of science and evidence in practical use, and in particular contributions that can provide frameworks of analyses that move philosophy of science closer to policy issues of managing scientific knowledge. In general, the task of the conference is to discuss a re-orientation of current philosophy of science towards what Kitcher called well-ordered science. The conference specifically addresses young European researchers, both from within philosophy of science and related fields, and encourages them to participate and possibly present a poster on their current work. Invited Speakers will include (more speakers to be confirmed) · Nancy Cartwright - London School of Economics, UKEvidence, causal models and evidence-based policies – new insights · Matthias Kaiser - National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT), NO Evidence for precaution · Philip Kitcher - Columbia University, US Well-ordered science – the challenges for philosophy of science · Eleonora Montuschi - London School of Economics, UK On relevant evidence · Thomas Potthast - Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, DE Hybrid judgements: integrating scientific and ethical evidence · Felix Reed-Tsochas - Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK t.b.a. · Julian Reiss - Erasmus University, NL Causation for use · Matti Sintonen - Helsinki University, FI Understanding, explaining and prediciting · Jeroen van der Sluijs - Utrecht University, NL Knowledge quality asessment: tools for reflexive science Full conference programme and application form accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/09272 Some grants available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form. Closing date for applications: 12 July 2009 ESF Contact: Jean Kelly - jkelly@esf.org Kind regards,Corinne Wininger Communications Officer - ESF Conferences European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:38:06 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DRHA Registration Open REGISTRATION NOW OPEN www.dho.ie/drha2009 DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (DRHA) 2009 CONFERENCE DYNAMIC NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE: CONTEXTS, CRISES, FUTURES 7 - 9 September 2009 Queens University Belfast The conference aims to establish new digital communities of knowledge exchange Keynote Speakers: PROFESSOR STEVE BENFORD (University of Nottingham) Trajectories Through Mixed Reality Performance DR ANDREW GREEN (National Library of Wales) Big Digitisation: Where Next? PROFESSOR JANE OHLMEYER (Trinity College, Dublin) MARIE WALLACE (IBM) Dealing with Dirty Data: Theory and Practice WORKSHOPS Three pre-conference workshops will take place across 5-6 September 2009. We are offering discounted places to those delegates who also register for the DRHA Conference on or before 31 July 2009. Please note workshops are limited to a maximum of 15 participants so book early to avoid disappointment. For more details visit www.dho.ie/drha2009/programme/workshops The conference will address the following themes: * the impact of data on scholarship and wider society * how innovations become mainstream through mutation and imitation * digitisation of scholarly editions and cultural heritage * digital representation of time, space and locality * digital preservation and sustainability * user engagement and social participation * the impact of narrative and design in the Arts and Humanities on ICT and vice versa * education and the digital humanities and arts ABOUT DRHA For more than a decade Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) has been a key UK meeting place for all those affected by the digitization of cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital resources as an aid to learning; the artist seeking to engage with digital technologies in new and creative contexts; the publisher finding new ways to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship; the information scientist seeking to apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation, exploitation and management of digital resources.the theory and practice of creating and documenting digital arts HOSTS This conference is co-hosted by Queen's University Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy, and Swansea University in partnership with the National Library of Wales. For more information visit the conference website: www.dho.ie/drha2009 -- 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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CTS symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 11th June Dear Colleagues, Please find [below] a full schedule for this year's CTS symposium to be held on the 11th June. There is no fee for participation in the event but those wishing to attend are asked to register their details via the CTS website: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/index.php?q=conference_registration Any requests for further information may be addressed to either myself (aliceruthwood@yahoo.co.uk) or Andrew Thacker. We hope to see you on the 11th. Best Wishes, Alice Wood CTS SYMPOSIUM 11 June 2009 Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester Programme 9.00-9.30 Registration and Coffee, Ground floor foyer 9.30-10.30 Lecture, Room 0.01 Chair: Takako Kato (Leicester) Tony Edwards (DMU), ‘Disintegrating the Text: The Career of Otto Ege’ 10.30-10.45 Refreshment Break, Room 0.03 10.45-12.45 Panel 1: Book History, Room 0.01 Chair: TBA Clare Hutton (Loughborough), ‘The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century’ Claire Squires (Oxford Brookes), ‘Not Waiting for Posterity, or the History of the Contemporary Book’ Henry Woudhuysen (UCL), ‘Bibliography and the History of the Book: A Companionable View’ 12.45-1.45 Lunch, Room 0.03 1.45-3.15 Panel 2: Periodicals, Room 0.01 Chair: Phil Cox (DMU) Jim Mussell (Birmingham), ‘From Textual Codes to Visual Modes: The Importance of the Visual when Digitizing Journalism’ Deborah Mutch (DMU), TBA Nick Hayward, Federico Meschini and Andrew Thacker (DMU), ‘The Modernist Magazines Project’ 3.15-3.30 Refreshment Break, Room 0.03 3.30-4.30 Lecture, Room 0.01 Chair: Joe Phelan (DMU) John Woolford (Sheffield), ‘Tennyson’s Day-Dreams’ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:13:42 -0600 From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: events: Balisage 2009: The markup conference Readers of Humanist may be interested in the announcement below and in the Balisage conference; this year's program includes meditations on the nature of documents by Allen Renear, a discussion of markup technology as a nomic game by Wendell Piez, and several reports on systems of markup for overlapping structures, a perennial favorite both at digital humanities conferences and at Balisage. I hope to see you in Montreal this August! --Michael Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC ................................................................ Balisage 2009 Program Announced [FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE] Rockville, Maryland. The organizing committee has released the program for "Balisage 2009: The Markup Conference" to be held in Montreal from 11 to 14 August, 2009. The program can be found in two forms: Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2009/At-A-Glance.html Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2009/Program.html Topics include: design of tools for writing XML and ways to hide XML from authors; XML processing pipelines; encoding multiple versions of documents, theory of document versioning, and change management in a complex XML environment; creating XSD schemas from UML; linking, namespaces, vocabularies, and a variety of XML-related specifications including Schematron, XSLT, XPath, & XForms and a host of others. Several slots have been left open for late-breaking news. Speakers from business and government include representatives of: Appolux, Mark Logic, Saxonica, National Archives and Records Adminstration, Mulberry Technologies, Electronic Commerce Connection, Black Mesa Technologies, Ramsey Systems, XML Solutions, Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales), Xerox Research Centre Europe, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Fujitsu America, Document Engineering Services, and Oracle. Speakers from the academic world include people from: Université de Montréal, W3C, University of Bergen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bielefeld University, Technische Universität München, Institute for the German Language (Mannheim), University of Bologna, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Jacobs University Bremen , Université de Lyon , Queensland University of Technology, Acadia University, University of Warsaw, and University College Cork. Balisage 2009: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/), sponsored by Mark Logic (http://www.marklogic.com), and co-sponsored by: - the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/) - the XML Guild (http://xmlguild.org/) - W3 Quebec (http://www.w3qc.org/) - OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org/) - the TEI Consortium (http://www.tei-c.org/) - the Philadelphia XML Users Group (http://www.xmlphilly.org/) - the DC XML Users Group (http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/) -- ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 mailto:info@balisage.net August 11-14, 2009 http://www.balisage.net Processing XML Efficiently: August 10, 2009 Montreal, Canada ====================================================================== -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net **************************************************************** --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:32:06 +0100 From: iswc2009publicity Subject: ISWC 2009: 2nd 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, Nova Spivack, Radar Networks and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie-Mellon University. ISWC 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, ISWC 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, and Tutorials (Workshops is now closed). 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 ISWC 20009 for conference details and http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/wiki/index.php/ISWC_2009_Calls for specifics on calls for papers. [...] --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:34:27 -0400 From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" Subject: FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1243996581_2009-06-03_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_12875.2.ms-tnef I received this from another list. I think it might be of interest to Humanists (especially the Lev Manovich workshop). Jean-François Vallée FILE LABO WORKSHOP SERIES 2009 >From now on FILE Labo will be part of the FILE Exhibition with a special space dedicated to a reflexive and practical view about the digital art media field. This initiative coincides with the foundation of workshops with important artists and theoreticians from the digital art and new media field inside the exhibition gallery of FILE 2009. The goal of bringing FILE Labo close to the visitors is show a unknown fact for most of the people that attend the Festival: the programming and the creation of the pieces are a hard work that involves a deep technological comprehension combined with a strong debate about the state of art and its contemporary developments. ++ WORKSHOPS: LOCATIVE MEDIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) & Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 07/28 | 9am - 1pm The workshop will introduce basic concepts about locative media art. People will learn how to create content for cell/mobile phones using art & technology ideas and the walkingtools.net project as the feature to deploy the content. DATA VISUALIZATION José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) & Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 07/29 | 9am - 1pm Workshop that will introduce the main concepts related to data visualization and also discuss the importance and the aesthetics of data processing and image generation. CULTURAL ANALYTICS Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 07/30 & 31 | 9am - 1pm Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web. The workshop will provide the tools for the participants create their own analysis of the data and also to create their own visualization of the collected data. ++ LECTURERS: Brett Stalbaum : coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a walking artist. His latest project in locative media is the Walking Tools project at www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : associate researcher at CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts) and coordinator of the Software Studies Initiative Brazil. Irma Vilá: digital media researcher and artist. José Luis de Vicente : writer and curator in the digital media and art & technology field. Since 2001 he is curator of ArtFutura, co nsidered the first art & technology festival in Spain. Nowadays he is working in research projects as “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) and “Atlas del Espacio Radielétrico”. He teaches Interaction Design and New Media culture and theory at several universities and Design Schools in Barcelona, mainly at Elisava School of Design Lev Manovich : recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world, Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries. The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far reaching theorization of the subjec t" (CAA reviews); "it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis). Manovich frequently lectures on new media around the world, having delivered around two hundred in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia since 1999. His latest book is Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). Manovich is director of the Software Studies Initiative at CALIT2, UCSD. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki Cologne University, and a number of other institutions. ++ subscriptions (read carefully the terms and conditions) PORTUGUÊS FILE LABO WORKSHOP 2009 O FILE Labo começa a partir de agora a fazer parte das exposições do FILE, com um espaço dedicado à reflexão e produção de conteúdos na área de artes e mídias digitais. Essa iniciativa coincide com a criação de workshops com artistas e teóricos do campo da arte e da tecnologia, além de pesquisadores do campo da arte digital no espaço expositivo do Festival. O objetivo de trazer o FILE Labo para mais próximo dos visitantes e do público em geral é mostrar um fato até então desconhecido da maioria dos freqüentadores do FILE: a programação e a criação das obras é fruto de um árduo trabalho de manipulação tecnológica, aliada a uma profunda reflexão sobre o estado da arte e seus desdobramentos na contemporaneidade. ++ WORKSHOPS MÍDIAS LOCATIVAS: TEORIA E PRÁTICA com Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) e Cicero Silva (Software Studies) 28/07 | 9h - 13h O workshop introduzirá conceitos básicos sobre arte em mídias locativas. Os participantes aprenderão como criar conteúdo para celulares utilizando idéias advindas do campo da arte e da tecnologia. O conteúdo será lido e produzido com as ferramentas do sistema walkingtools.net . VISUALIZAÇÃO DE DADOS com José Luis de Vicente (Visualizar) e Irma Vilá (Visualizar) 29/07 | 9h - 13h Workshop que introduzirá conceitos fundamentais relacionados à visualização de dados e também discutirá a importância e a estética do processamento de dados e da geração de imagens. ANALÍTICA CULTURAL com Lev Manovich (UCSD/Software Studies) 30 e 31/07 | 9h - 13h Atualmente as ciências, negócios, governos e outras agências estão baseadas em análises computacionais e na visualização de grandes quantidades de dados e fluxos de informação. Empregam análise de dados estatísticos, visualização da informação e visualização científica, visualização analítica e simulação. Acreditamos que é tempo de aplicarmos essas técnicas aos dados culturais. Grande parte desse conjunto de dados culturais já está disponível: resultado dos esforços de digitalização realizadas por museus, livrarias e companhias ao longo dos últimoas dez anos (pense na digitalização de livros realizada pelo Google e pela Amazon) e no explosivo crescimento de conteúdos culturais disponibilizados na web. O workshop ensinará as ferramentas para os participantes criarem suas próprias análises dos dados e também ensinará como podemos criar visualizações a partir dos dados coletados. ++ PALESTRANTES: Brett Stalbaum : coordenador do curso Interdisciplinar em Computação e Artes na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD) e um artista andarilho. Seu último projeto na área de mídias locativas é o walkingtools em www.walkingtools.net . Cicero Silva : pesquisador associado ao CRCA e coordenador do grupo de Software Studies no Brasil. Irma Vilá: Artista e pesquisadora na área de mídias digitais. José Luis de Vicente : escritor, curador especializado em cultura digital, arte & tecnologia e criador do blog elástico.net. É especializado em sociedade, cultura e artes digitais. Desde 2001 é diretor do ArtFutura, o festival de arte & tecnologia mais antigo da Espanha. Formou parte da equipe do RESFEST, o festival itinerante de cinema digital (2002-2006) e desde 2004 faz parte do conselho de programação do SONAR, o festival de música avançada e arte multimídia de Barcelona, fazendo a curadoria, junto com Oscar Abril Ascaso e do Advanced Music, de suas três últimas exposições. Atualmente desenvolve diversos programas de pesquisa como o “Visualizar” (Medialab Matadero Madrid) ou o "Atlas del Espacio Radioeléctrico". É profesor de teoria dos meios interativos no mestrado de Digital Media na Escuela Elisava de Barcelona. Lev Manovich : é autor de Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005) e The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), que foi considerado como “a mais sugestiva e ampla história da mídia desde Marshall McLuhan”. É autor de mais de 90 artigos que foram reproduzidos mais de 300 vezes em vários países. Manovich é professor no Departamento de Artes Visuais da Universidade da Califórnia em San Diego (UCSD), Diretor do Grupo de Software Studies no California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) e Pesquisador Visitante no Godsmith College (Londres) e no College of Fine Arts, Universidade of New South Wales (Sydney). Manovich tem sido requisitado para proferir palestras ao redor do mundo, tendo realizado até o momento mais de 270 conferências, palestras e workshops fora dos Estados Unidos nos últimos 10 anos. Editou recentemente o livro Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). ++ inscreva-se (leia atentamente os termos e condições de participação) -- Cicero Silva coordinator / coordenador www.filelabo.com.br --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:55:45 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Onomastics and Entity-Recognition in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri (Apologies for cross-posting--please circulate this announcement to anyone who may be interested.) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Friday June 5th at 16:30 *Bart Van Beek (Leuven)* *Onomastics and Entity-Recognition in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri* Several research projects at the University of Leuven currently draw on the interdisciplinary platform ‘Trismegistos’ (www.trismegistos.org), which collects metadata about Greek, Latin, Egyptian and other ancient texts. For Greek papyri, we use the XML-encoded full-text corpus of the Duke Database of Documentary Papyri as a basis for data input and analysis. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at , where fuller abstracts of all papers are available (and slides and audio will be posted after each event). -- 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/ --[9]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:28:33 +0100 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: [IATH-Fellows] Rare Books and Manuscripts -- ALA preconference inCharlottesville, June 17-20 The Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association is holding its 50th annual meeting in Charlottesville, June 17-20. For those interested in library special collections, this is a unique opportunity to meet with and hear from both local and visiting archivists, librarians, and scholars who specialize in rare books or manuscripts. For more details, please see http://www.rbms.info/conferences/preconferences/2009/ There are a number of talks that cover matters relevant to digital scholarship. It will also be a wonderful opportunity to cross paths with Terry Belanger and wish him well in his retirement. --[10]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:53:34 +0100 From: OKELL E.R. Subject: CFP Body, Mask & Space: The State of the Art - deadline 10th June -on behalf of Margaret Coldiron Please forward to any interested parties and send any inquiries to mcoldiron@mac.com CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE JUNE 10 Body, Mask and Space: The State of the Art An interdisciplinary conference at King's College London July 9-10, 2009 This conference is being organised by the AHRC-funded project "The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space", a research collaboration between King's Visualisation Lab at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London and the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University. The project concerns ancient masked performance - specifically in terms of spatial environments, intercultural performance and perceptual experience. This conference will examine the work of the project to date (see below), addressing issues raised by this work from the following perspectives: Methodologies and Technologies of Mask making Applications of 3D technologies for art history, archaeology, theatre and performance studies Facial recognition and Principle Components Analysis-is a mask a face? The Mask and Body in Space: Directing and Performing for the Virtual World Theatre Historical Approaches to Masked Performance: Classical and Intercultural We invite scholars with interests in the areas of Classics, Archaeology, Theatre History, Masks, Performance, 3D and Digital Technologies to submit proposals for papers or presentations relating to these themes for inclusion in the conference. Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and a brief biography; presentations should be no more than 20 minutes long. Please send proposals or enquiries to the conference organiser: Dr Margaret Coldiron (mcoldiron@mac.com) by 10 June. The work of the project to date Using leading-edge 3D technologies the AHRC-funded project "The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space" addresses fundamental questions concerning the conditions and actualities of the ancient theatre: What can be inferred of the actor's technique and use of mask and body and how does their semiosis relate to other performance traditions and to constants of human perception? How can one productively integrate the study of practice and of the surviving iconography in this research process, and how can 3D technologies be brought to bear at their interface? How does perception of masks compare with that of living human faces, and how far can methodologies concerning visual perception inform an understanding of the ancient mask? How is perception of body and physical movement related to how the mask is "read"? The work of the project includes the creation of full-sized masks for performance based upon terracotta miniature artefacts, complemented by other sources of material evidence, and the use of 3D motion-capture and Chromakey video to record movements of performers and place them in virtually-realised ancient theatre spaces. In addition the research team is collaborating with artists from Asian and European mask theatre traditions whose insights into the use of masks help to illuminate expressive aspects of these ancient mask artefacts. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:30:01 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 DA7F0148D1; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 806FB148C7; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:29:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615032959.806FB148C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:29:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.74 world-making and markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 74. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.59 world-making and markup Willard, There is in the book On the Origin of Objects by Brian Cantwell Smith a passage that has fascinated me and which relates to the thread on markup and world-making. It is a description that deserves to be read slowly. World-directedness takes many forms. [...] subjects (their experiences, representations, documents, intentions, thoughts, etc.) point or are directed towards the transcendent-but-immanent world that surrounds them. A symmetrically realist account per se supplies two of the requisite ingredients in this pointing: (i) the fact that subjects are in an enveloping world, which gives them a place to point from; and (ii) the fact that they are made of that same enveloping world, which gives them the wherewithal to point with. What a theory of intentionality needs to add is the far-from-obvious third ingredient: (iii) a way for subjects to orient towards that enveloping world, the world of which they are constituted and in which they live. What fascinates me is the way in which "from" is paired with "in" and "with" is paired with "made" and that "towards" remains unpaired. The trio of prepositions reminds me of the experience of modeling content or a way of writing in/with structured forms such as those offered by the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. Marking from.... marking with... marking towards. In a very fundamental fashion, writing is about how to segment and how to align. Pick a point. From that point there stem a before and an after. Pick another point and observe that part of one point's after is part of another point's before and observe a between that emerges with its own before and its own after. Place a mark in a given space and with the given mark, place another mark [erasing is a type of marking] or stop. Now I see "towards" in Smith's phrase "orient towards" could be read sous rature. Peeking out of those italics is the phrase "a way for subjects to orient [...] that enveloping world" which gives a hint of agency to acts of world-directed intentionality. This where I want to graft story telling as a way of orienting a world. A way of connecting the actual to the possible. Smith does not extensively treat the ontological status of the hypothetical, the counterfactual, the fictional. Yet the trio of ingredients in the theory of intentionality he sketches can offer a topological insight into the relations between the actual and possible worlds. And allows us to nuance his assertion that “You can hardly cook for dinner something that is fictional [...] “ with the indication that with every cook hovers a hallucinatory body. You cannot eat a story but a story can within limits alleviate the pangs of hunger. You cannot drink a sonorous sequence but within limits a sonorous sequence can quench thirst. You cannot but imagine and that is different from and not the same as the list of things you can do with fictional things that is offered by Smith: "refer to it, wonder about it, or entertain it in a hypothetical". To be fair, one can hardly imagine without reference, wonder or entertainment. In, with, towards the virtual... In, with, towards the textual... In, with, towards the interactive... A story can eat you. [Mark-up is but a little bite.] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:31:57 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 0ABA414DC4; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:31:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1838814D3D; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:31:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 23.75 digital humanities fellowships at HumLab, Umeå From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615033156.1838814D3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:31:56 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 75. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:30:02 +0100 From: Patrik Svensson Subject: Five international digital humanities fellowships at Umeå University (deadline June 18, 2009) Dear HUMlab friends, Many of you may already have seen the below announcement. Sorry about this late forward, but I would be very appreciative if you send it to any good candidates for international postdoctoral fellowships (five new ones advertised) at HUMlab. The application procedure is fairly simple (electronic and applicants do not need to send any publications etc.). The deadline is soon - June 18, 2009. Just a brief update: The new part of HUMlab was inaugurated on May 14, and the whole event (which is included an international symposium the following day) turned out really well. We had more than 100 participants including the heads of several national funding agencies, the county governor, international guests, the head of municipality of Umeå etc. This short video shows the new part of the space on the day before the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oUm3p-yJk. Among other things, the new part is equipped with 10 screens, one of which is a very large 4K resolution multitouch backprojection screen. The idea is to create a rich multiplex studio space for the humanities and information technology with excellent affordances for working with rich historical and cultural materials, art installations, physical computing and different kinds of exhibitions and projects. Also, the plans for the new creative campus have progressed considerably, and the new School of Architecture is currently being built. By the end of 2011, the campus will hopefully have been finished, including the new HUMlab-X. Best regards, Patrik ----------------------------------------------- Five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2009 or January 15, 2010. The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of "religion and the digital", "digital journalism", "architecture and the digital", "next generation digital humanities tools" and/or "visualization in the digital humanities". HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. Much of the work takes place in a 5,300 square feet studio space at the center of the university and in different kinds of digital and hybrid environments. A new part of the lab was inaugurated on May 14, 2009. This video shows the new space the day before the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oUm3p-yJk. For archived seminars (which use the other part of the lab) please see http://stream.humlab.umu.se/. By the end of 2011, a new HUMlab-X on the Creative Campus (a 10-minute walk from the main campus) will be in place. HUMlab is based on a double (or triple) affiliation model where much of the work is done in close collaboration with the humanities (or other) departments. HUMlab offers an open, friendly, creative and intellectually rich milieu for doing work in the humanities and information technology. The fellowships are for one year. Another year may be possible based on a review as well as the availability of funding. Collaboration is a central part of the ethos of HUMlab and among our strategic partners are Kulturverket (local award-winning culture organization), Lund University (the Humanities Laboratory), King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities) and the University of California (UC Humanities Research Institute). Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline. In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. Applications should include a description of an envisioned postdoctoral year-long project. Please see http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs for more information. Applications should be submitted electronically by June 18, 2009. We look forward to receiving your application. Patrik Svensson Director, HUMlab Umeå 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 Mon Jun 15 03:32:43 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 39BFC14F7A; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9ED514F65; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:32:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615033241.D9ED514F65@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.76 new Digital Humanities Manifesto X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 76. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:29:04 -0700 From: David Shepard Subject: Digital Humanities Manifesto Version 2.0 All, Version 2.0 of our Digital Humanities Manifesto, which was presented at the Mellon Digital Humanities Symposium, is now available in two different forms. A CommentPress version, which is open for comment, has now been posted at http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/, while the PDF version remains available at http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/. As before, we are actively seeking your critical engagement with the manifesto. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 15 03:33:28 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 5D7711268E; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:33:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A1DD712683; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:33:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090615033326.A1DD712683@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.77 disabilities and publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 77. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:06:52 -0600 From: "George Kerscher" Subject: Persons with disabilities and future books Hello, Please consider persons with disabilities in your research. Three good links are: http://www.daisy.org --Which is the site for organizations developing standards for digital publishing. These are the libraries who currently provide accessible information. In Canada, the CNIB is an example. http://www.idpf.org --Which is the standards organization for commercial ebooks. Note that this is primarily focused on the mainstream, consideration is being made for persons with disabilities in the specifications; content is fully accessible. http://www.readingrights.org --Which is the coalition of orgs that are fighting to have TTS turned on for the Kindle and for other books in the future. Best George George Kerscher Ph.D. In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. Secretary General, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) http://www.rfbd.org Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C http://www.w3c.org/wai Board Representative to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org Phone: +1 406/549-4687 Email: kerscher@montana.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 Jun 15 03:36:09 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 AB5AC12B2B; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98A6612B24; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090615033608.98A6612B24@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.78 events: structured knowledge; jobs; summer school; deduction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 78. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (41) Subject: 2nd call for 1. European Summer School "Culture & Technology",27.-31.07.2009, University of Leipzig [2] From: Stéfan Sinclair (20) Subject: Special Jobs Event during the ACH Annual General Meeting at DH09 [3] From: Carsten Schuermann (85) Subject: CADE-22 - Call for Participation [4] From: Tania Tudorache (114) Subject: CFP: ISWC 2009 Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Managementand Linking of Structured Knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:37:14 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: 2nd call for 1. European Summer School "Culture & Technology",27.-31.07.2009, University of Leipzig Second call for the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. All the necessary information can be found on the Web-Site of the Summer School: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/, which is available in German and English. Please, read the information carefully. Please note, that the application phase for the 1. European Summer School “Culture & Technology” will close the 15th of June 2009. Application is done by handing in a curriculum and a letter of motivation via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2009/. Email-attachments are not accepted. During the Summer School there will be space for project presentation. If you would like to present a project, please register with ConfTool and submit a proposal. People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the University (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ESU_1/en/accommodation.html) are asked to contact the organizers at esu2009@uni-leipzig.de urgently as rooms cannot be reserved for very much longer. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation we can offer a good number of scholarships. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2009@uni-leipzig.de. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:15:58 -0400 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Special Jobs Event during the ACH Annual General Meeting at DH09 Dear colleagues who will be attending DH2009, Will you be in the academic job market in the next few months? Do you have an academic job to fill in the next few months? If you've answered yes to either of these questions and you'll be at Maryland for DH2009, then please contact me about a special Jobs Event during the ACH Annual General Meeting. Hope to hear from you, 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/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:40:05 +0100 From: Carsten Schuermann Subject: CADE-22 - Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - Student awards: 16 June 2009 - Early Registration: 25 June 2009 PROGRAMME: The conference features - 3 invited talks - 32 contributed papers of which 5 are system papers - the presentation of the Herbrand Award to Deepak Kapur - a two-day programme of workshops, tutorials and meetings - 2 system competitions INVITED TALKS: - Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester) Instantiation-Based Automated Reasoning: From Theory to Practice - Martin Rinard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Integrated Reasoning and Proof Choice Point Selection in the Jahob System - Mechanisms for Program Survival - Mark Stickel (SRI International) Building Theorem Provers WORKSHOPS: - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) and The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) - Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) - Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) - Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) TUTORIALS: - Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories with Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans - Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover with Osman Hasan and Sofiene Tahar - Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT Solvers with Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer - Logics with Undefinedness with William M. Farmer SYSTEM COMPETITIONS: - The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories Competition (SMT-COMP) MEETINGS: - The 6th TPTP Tea Party SOCIAL EVENTS: - Welcome reception at the McCord Museum of Canadian History - Squash tournament at McGill Sports Centre - Walking or biking tour excursion through Old Montreal - Conference banquet at the elegant Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal's Museum of Archeology and History at the Old Port MONTREAL: Montreal is an bustling, cosmopolitan and affordable city with a charming Francophone culture. It is easily accessible from the US, Europe and world-wide with direct flights to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL) from all major cities. REGISTRATION: On-line registration is now open at: https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/registration/2009/cade/ The early registration deadline is June 25. Please refer to the conference website for registration, accommodation, travel and visa information. STUDENT AWARDS: Travel awards are available to enable selected students to attend the conference. Please refer to the conference website for details. The application deadline is June 16. SPONSORS: CADE-22 is supported by o The McGill School of Computer Science o McGill University Faculty of Science o Microsoft Research ORGANIZERS: o PC Chair: Renate Schmidt (The University of Manchester) o Conference Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) o Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) o Publicity Chair: Carsten Schürmann (IT-Universitetet i København) o Local Organizers: Maja Frydrychowicz (McGill University) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:53:39 +0100 From: Tania Tudorache Subject: CFP: ISWC 2009 Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Managementand Linking of Structured Knowledge This message was originally submitted by tudorache@STANFORD.EDU to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. 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CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ==================================================================== Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA Paper submission: 10 August 2009 http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ==================================================================== Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports Submission guidelines --------------------- Papers submitted to the workshop must follow the same submission guidelines of the ISWC'09 conference. Submissions must be in PDF format in Springer format (for instruction see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0) We solicit in this workshop two types of contributions: 1. Research papers analysing the process of collaborative construction, management and linkage of structured knowledge; the requirements for supporting technologies and the field of exploitation of such knowledge. Formatted papers must not be longer than 10 pages. 2. Demos papers describing relevant tools and prototypes. Formatted papers must not be longer than 2 pages. Important dates ---------------- Paper submission: 10 August 2009 Notification : 31 August 2009 Workshop : 25 October 2009 Organizing committee --------------------- Tania Tudorache (co-chair), Stanford University Gianluca Correndo (co-chair), University of Southampton Natasha Noy, Stanford University Harith Alani, University of Southampton Mark Greaves, Vulcan inc. Program Committee ------------------ Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Ken Baklawski, Northeastern University, US Simone Braun, FZI, Germany Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Vinay Chaudhri, SRI international, USA Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France Sean Falconer, University of Victoria, Canada Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy John Graybeal, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA Peter Mika, Yahoo Research, Spain Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR, Italy Marta Sabou, Knowledge Media Institute, UK Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Gerd Stumme, Universität Kassel, Germany Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Germany Anna Zhdanova, FTW, Austria ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Jun 16 04:03:52 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 958731B92D; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DE361B8F8; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 79. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:14:59 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: programming for poets In-Reply-To: <4A35E31C.6020705@mccarty.org.uk> dear colleagues: help me ponder the need for teaching computer programming/scripting to students in the digital humanities; i am assuming the audience(s) is upper-level, under-graduate and graduate students who would benefit from a strong does of computational problem solving and algorithmic thinking as applied to texts; i am also assuming that a textbook project would be interdisciplinary, that is, *not* another programming book written with abstract pattern-matching problems but rather a book filled with the types of problems confronted by experimental groups that work in this space (cf. our previous work to teach biologists to program by focusing on examples relevant to their domain: ‘Perl for Exploring DNA’, Oxford, 2007); perhaps co-authored by problem domain? Questions (your wisdom greatly desired): (1) Is there a market/need for a textbook that teaches programming using examples from text analysis? If so, what do you consider the audience(s)? (2) We currently teach an introductory programming course for the humanities called ‘Computing for Poets’; do you teach such a course? If so, what language do you use? What text are you using? (3) perhaps this should be done online rather than thru a traditional publisher? thanks for pondering, Mark D. LeBlanc, Professor of Computer Science Wheaton College (Norton, MA, USA) http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/mleblanc http://lexomics.wheatoncollege.edu Note: I know of these existing textbooks: * Practical Text Mining with Perl (Bilisoly, Wiley) -- quite good, but this does not teach a novice *how* to program; * Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers (Hammond, Wiley) – more can be done here; needs interdisciplinary influence * Natural Language Processing with Python (O’Reilly, 2009); i’m looking forward to this, however, O’Reilly books tend not to address the novice, especially the novice outside computing _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 16 04:04:35 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 1ED511B9C7; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:04:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49AD61B969; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:04:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090616040433.49AD61B969@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:04:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.80 events: storytelling; European Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 80. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (29) Subject: European Summer School Culture & Technology - Deadline extension [2] From: Ido Iurgel (28) Subject: CfP ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling. Extended deadline --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:25:16 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: European Summer School Culture & Technology - Deadline extension In-Reply-To: <20090615033326.A1DD712683@woodward.joyent.us> Deadline extension 1. European Summer School Culture & Technology, hosted by the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ We are pleased to announce that following numerous requests the deadline for applications has been extended to the 30th of June 2009. Application is done by handing in a curriculum and a letter of motivation via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2009/. Application by Email cannot be accepted. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation we can offer a good number of bursaries. People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the University (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ESU_1/en/accommodation.html) are urged to make their choice via ConfTool as soon as possible as the number of rooms available is decreasing rapidly. All the necessary information can be found on the Web-Site of the Summer School which is available in German and English. Please, read the information carefully. Notwithstanding the extension of the deadline, the selection process starts the 16th of June as planned to give those who have already applied the chance to organize their journey. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2009@uni-leipzig.de. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:01:09 +0100 From: Ido Iurgel Subject: CfP ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling. Extended deadline In-Reply-To: <20090615033326.A1DD712683@woodward.joyent.us> ------------------------------------------------------------ Extended Submission Deadline July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS *** ICIDS -- Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling – Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange. ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center of the historical city of Guimares, the birthplace of Portugal. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 17 08:03:55 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 5872F1CEBF; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D8D6A1CEA9; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090617080353.D8D6A1CEA9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.81 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 81. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Crombez (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? [2] From: Doug Reside (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? [3] From: Stephen Ramsay (72) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? [4] From: Willard McCarty (61) Subject: programming for poets and students of poetry --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:11:00 +0200 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> In my experience, students from literature & linguistics are indifferent if not hostile to computer programming. However, that only makes the problem of finding a course that appeals to them even more interesting. First, I would chose the most elegant and simple language available -- as close to pseudo-code as possible. That's Python, in my opinion. (Although Processing would make an interesting candidate too -- for textbooks, see "Visualizing Data" by O'Reilly, and "Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists"). I believe that beginning a course with an interactive Python session, demonstrating the simple Python objects (strings, lists, dictionaries) and what you can do with them (e.g. compiling a wordcount dictionary from a digital string of text) can be very illuminating, even for absolute beginners. Maybe a good approach for a course like this would be to work your way through a number of interesting examples. In that way, students (even digibetes and digiphobes) learn to acknowledge the power of simple programming tools. For example, one could lead them through building a simple spell-checking script that contacts the Google API, or a script that crawls a website and indexes its contents, or a word-counting script ... A new kind of book (between textbook and cookbook) that does a very good job in this regard is "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Segaran, also from O'Reilly. That brings me to the question of textbooks. There's a beautiful online tutorial called "Programming for Historians" by William Turkel and Alan MacEachern, which is really suitable for everybody, including the absolute beginners. And it includes a lot of natural language processing, too. The NLTK book (which "Natural Language Processing with Python" will be based on) is also available online, and a very good resource, if more tailored to strictly linguistic aims. Is the title of your course by accident inspired on "Unix for Poets"? -- that's an interesting document that (I believe) can still be found online, also a very quick and nice introduction to programming for linguists, although it uses a toolset that is today most definitely outdated and (even if powerful in its own right) a little too abstruse for beginners (the typical Unix tools such as awk, sed, etcetera). As for Perl -- I know it's the language most popular among linguists, and although it's probably very powerful, it makes for incredibly ugly and unreadable code. As Larry Wall himself once said: "I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?'" Once you've compared that to a few lines of Python's pseudo-English, there's no going back. Best, Thomas Crombez website zombrec ••• flemish theatre reviews 1919-1939 corpustoneelkritiek.org ••• performance art register belgium is happening ••• corpus pieter t'jonck theatre and dance reviews ••• boek het antitheater van antonin artaud --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:14:47 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> I teach such a course, but have mostly made up my own material. The course notes, created with little thought for design and still containing some errors, are at http://mith.info/eng428v Recently, though, students have expressed a desire for a paper text. I bet they still want an online component for copying and pasting code snippets, though. Doug --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:10:42 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090616040350.8DE361B8F8@woodward.joyent.us> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: help me ponder the need for teaching computer programming/scripting to > students in the digital humanities; I have taught a course like the one you describe for about seven years. The audience has varied a bit over the years, but mostly consists of students in English and History. > Questions (your wisdom greatly desired): > > (1) Is there a market/need for a textbook that teaches programming > using examples from text analysis? If so, what do you consider the > audience(s)? I think there will be a market as computing becomes more and more a part of general education (as I think it will). I've known plenty of humanities students who have taken courses in CS programs. Their biggest complaint is that all of the examples are oriented toward mathematics (compute the factorial, generate the Fibonacci sequence, etc.). I don't get the sense that this is a showstopper for them; they would simply prefer to encounter what they don't know with some mooring in what they already do. All of my examples and exercises use textual problems, and there's much greater emphasis on things like string types, XML, and regular expressions. Of course, you wouldn't be the first to propose this. There's a suprisingly long history of books entitled "[Some language] for Humanities Computing." The latest (and most innovative) in this genre is Bill Turkel's superb online monograph, *The Programming Historian* ( http://niche.uwo.ca/programming-historian/index.php/Main_Page). (2) We currently teach an introductory programming course for the > humanities called ‘Computing for Poets’; do you teach such a course? > If so, what language do you use? What text are you using? First, let me say that I hope your course is not literally called "Computing for Poets." If so, I think your faculty should consider the ways in which this title demeans your students' abilities and assists not only in the balkanization of the academy, but in the highly questionable -- if not, in some cases thoroughly essentialist -- idea that disciplines correspond to irrefragable elements of gender, race, personality type, or some other attribute. You would never dream of having a course called "Logic for Girls" or "Poetry for Frat Boys." Five minutes of considered thought on the subject should convince you that you are in similar territory. (I'm assuming that the course is not literally concerned with generative poetics -- a subject that is considerably older than computer science). Certainly, there is no reason to suppose that computing courses geared toward humanists (on analogy with the computing for biologists courses you suggest above) would have to be radically simplified. No one in my university's CS program will dispute the fact that my courses are considerably more advanced than the lower-division courses for majors in computer science. I use Ruby as the language and *Programming Ruby* as the book (I'm considering an alternative to the latter this summer). I like Ruby because it is easy to get started with it and it supports a number of different programming paradigms, but I think you could make a compelling case for any of the scripting languages (or even for the Lisp dialects). Some of my students have gone on to Java and a few have (for various reasons) gone on to C/C++. There are a handful of concepts in those languages that I am unable to illustrate with Ruby, but by the time I'm done with them, my more highly motivated students have acquired enough of the foundational concepts of computing to grasp whatever new thing is set before them. I also regularly point out the ways in which different languages handle different concepts -- in part, to reinforce the point that the concepts don't vary widely from language to language. When I first taught the course years ago, I had three (very nervous) English graduate students. Now I teach split-level courses to graduate and undergraduate students from a wide range of humanities disciplines, and every semester I end up having to turn people away. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:59:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: programming for poets and students of poetry Mark LeBlanc's question about a course in programming for humanists is timely. I wouldn't call it "programming for poets" because in a U.S. context that tends to carry the pejorative implication of a watered-down course given for those without the inclination if not abilities to learn the subject. But it is worth reflecting on Margaret Masterman's attempts in the 1960s and 70s to persuade us that the computer is analogous to a new musical instrument, but for all creative artists, at the time poets in particular, to adapt for their purposes. Thus in the Times Literary Supplement for Thursday, 6 August 1964 (directly opposite an open letter in support of the publication of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch): > To some people a digital computer is a mark of doom: a symbol of > Man's increasing servitude to the Machine. To others it is a gigantic > multiple switch which, under favourable conditions, operates with the > speed of light, but which often, e.g. when it gets too hot, will not > operate at all. To others again it is a puzzle-solving work of the > most exhausting possible kind, punctuated by frustrations when the > programs fail or 'get bugs' -- which is normally. > > To all of those, however, the computer is undoubtedly Science. I want > to advocate a gayer and yet more creative use of it which is, by > definition, Art: a use which, in the hands of a master, might indeed > become Art itself. > > This use is making toy models of language.... (p. 690) For us students of poetry and other cultural artifacts I'd think one of the main things, if not the main thing, would be attention to examples. Those of us with mathematical training have no difficulty getting fascinated by abstract problems (e.g. "find all Canadian postal codes in the following list of addresses, separate these addresses from the rest and write them into a separate file"). But usually students in the humanities need to have the connection between such manipulation and their interest in real-world literary problems, say, made rather more obvious. This, then, raises the question of what such problems might look like -- not an easy task to answer. That's not all. If we want to make the case that must be made, we have to get beyond problem-solving to problematizing, from providing evidence for interpretation (that happens somewhere and somehow else) much closer to the interpretative act itself. In "The Computer in the Orwellian Year" (Reflections on America, 1984: An Orwellian Symposium, ed. Mulvhill), Joseph Weizenbaum argued that, > The computer [has] introduced the concept of "problem solving" > massively-into modern consciousness--not that it wasn't present > before, say, 1950. Of course it was. But the computer was hailed as > the great problem solver, the machine to which one gave one's > problem, an algorithm for solving problems and which, once the > start-button was pushed, produced a solution to one's problem.... (p. 131-2) If programming is to appeal intellectually to students of the humanities, then the image of computing, its con-figuration as that which can put an end to all questions one can pose to it, has to be put into the context of scholarly questioning. To return to Masterman's point: why would we want to make toy models of language? Wouldn't it be better to understand how the toy fails us, how language goes beyond our constructs? Isn't this the point of all theories of language, literature, indeed of anything at all, from the perspective of 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. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 17 08:10:44 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 918FF1D1FD; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EB821D1ED; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090617081043.0EB821D1ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.82 45th anniversary celebration in Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 82. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:08:27 +0100 From: John Dawson Subject: Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre 45th Anniversary University of Cambridge Computing Service Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre 45th Anniversary Celebration Friday 2 October 2009 You are invited to participate in this day of celebrations, which are to commemorate: --The 45th anniversary of the establishment of the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre (LLCC) by Roy Wisbey at the University of Cambridge in 1964 -- John Dawson's 35-year service as Manager of the LLCC -- 20 years of the LLCC being part of the University Computing Service -- John Dawson's retirement on 9 October 2009 The event will be held at Downing College, Cambridge, in the West Lodge. An approximate timetable is as follows: -- 10:30-11:00 Gather for coffee and chat -- 11:00-11:20 Opening and introduction by Roy Wisbey -- 11:20-12:25 Talks by people associated with the LLCC -- 12:25-14:00 Lunch in Downing College -- 14:00-16:20 Talks by people associated with the LLCC -- 16:30-18:00 Party There will be a small charge of 20 GBP per person to cover the cost of lunch and refreshments. Please send a cheque (drawn on a British bank) for GBP 20, payable to R. J. Stibbs, with your postal address and details of any dietary requirements, to: Dr John Dawson Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre Raised Faculty Building Sidgwick Site Cambridge CB3 9DA UK If you wish to pay by credit card, the cost will be =A322 per person. Please email LLCC@ucs.cam.ac.uk to arrange this, giving your email address, full postal address, and your dietary requirements, and a PayPal invoice will be sent to you. Please send or arrange your payment by 13 September 2009. On receipt of your payment, a formal invitation will be sent to you with details of travel and parking. Note that no accommodation is arranged for this event; if you wish to stay overnight in Cambridge, please make your own arrangements (and bear in mind that Cambridge is a very popular tourist destination, so hotels and guesthouses are expensive and often full). If you have any questions, please email LLCC@ucs.cam.ac.uk John Dawson & Rosemary Rodd _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 17 08:24:12 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 C2C7C1DC63; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 798711DC5B; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.83 on language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 83. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:23:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language The following for your florilegium. It is from the meditations of Kilgore Trout, one of the two main characters in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1973), after a long conversation with a truck driver with whom he had hitched a ride: > Trout sat back and thought about the conversation. He shaped it into > a story, which he never got around to writing until he was an old, > old man. It was about a planet where the language kept turning into > pure music, because the creatures there were so enchanted by sounds. > Words became musical notes. Sentences became melodies. They were > useless as conveyors of information, because nobody knew or cared > what the meanings of words were anymore. > > So leaders in govemment and commerce, in order to function, had to > invent new and much uglier vocabularies and sentence structures all > the time, which would resist being transmuted to music. (Vintage, 2000, p. 110) 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 Jun 18 03:59:06 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 668BD1BEBB; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:59:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AAE11BEAB; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:59:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618035905.3AAE11BEAB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.84 on language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 84. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language [2] From: Alan Liu (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:22:30 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting, but definitely science fiction. Linguists tell me that typical human speech never sounds out of tune to a speaker of the same language. Sterling Fluharty Sent from my iPhone --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:47 -0700 From: Alan Liu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> One of the most interesting students in my recent digital humanities classes created a project that analyzed phrasal and syntax structures in Shakespeare's sonnets and mapped them over a musical tonal system--the hypothesis being that this would allow us to experiment with whether the human mind cognitively recognizes complex linguistic structures more quickly or deeply if those structures, ironically, are freed of language. An early, crude attempt at the acoustic modeling is online here: http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/Textones, along with Shaun's good essay, "Textones: Tonal Models of Shakespearean Sonnets," http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/Shaun-Sanders,-%22Textones:-Tonal-Models-of-Shakespearean-Sonnet%22. Shaun has since worked the project up into a senior thesis project with a much more advanced (but not yet online) acoustic modeling scheme (sensitive to complexities of phrasing). As a further experiment, he ran it on Hopkin's "Windhover" with interesting results--making me think that Hopkin's poetry naturally renders as music rather than language. Incidentally, one consistent result of many of the student projects in my Literature+ courses (which require students to take a literary work and use digital tools to do anything with it other than standard critical interpretation) is what might be called, for lack of a better phrase, a meta-aesthetic effect. This occurs when an aesthetic artifact is submitted to "data"-oriented analytical operations (e.g., text-analysis, graphing, etc.) that, when rendered, unexpectedly release a secondary aesthetic quality. Thus Shaun's recent, more advanced musical models of Shakespeare are quite haunting. So, too, there is a compelling meta-aesthetic effect in a short film produced by another group of students who mapped parts of speech in a short Borges story over a system of discrete film/camera techniques: http://english149-w2008.pbworks.com/Borges:%20An%20Exploration%20in%20Modeling I wonder if this meta-aesthetic effect of data modeling has been discussed by others? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:04:56 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 A8FA91B27A; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F0971B26B; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040455.0F0971B26B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.85 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 85. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:17:04 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: 23.79 programming for poets? In-Reply-To: <20090617080353.D8D6A1CEA9@woodward.joyent.us> Were I looking for such a course, I would wish it to teach me how to program my text editor using its e-lisp language. The editor I have used for the last 15 years is XEmacs. Before that for about two decades I used Emacs and micro-based versions. I believe that for a person who studies and works with text it is sensible to rely on a program that was designed to manipulate text in meaningful units. I believe such programs are analogous to spreadsheet programs for those who work with numbers. I would also want a robust and relatively simple, but mature language as an external processor. I depend on perl; it was easy to learn the basics, having gone through BASIC, Franz Lisp, and C before it. I maintain a small web site for a non-profit organization. I find that when I need it to create dynamic content, provide automated updates to databases, &c. that a perl application is either already available for it or something I can code for myself. I am constantly seeing break-in attempts for other popular web-enabled languages (notably PHP) which makes me wary of using those scripting languages and which makes me suspect that they may teach new programmers poor habits (certainly possible with perl). -- 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 Thu Jun 18 04:06:27 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 3CC661B33B; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:06:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E5FF1B332; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:06:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040625.7E5FF1B332@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:06:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.86 postdoc in high-performance computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 86. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:50:23 -0400 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC) Dear colleagues, I would be very grateful for your help in distributing this job ad to interested individuals and relevant lists. – Thanks, Stéfan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications are invited for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing (HPC), under the supervision of Dr. Stéfan Sinclair from Communications Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University. The focus of the research will be large-scale, on-demand text analysis, and especially the development of HPC modules that can operate in a web-based context. McMaster University is internationally recognized as a leader in digital humanities scholarship and tool development. This position is made possible in large part by Sharcnet, an HPC consortium in Ontario, as well as McMaster Libraries. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the supervisor (Sinclair), Sharcnet, and the Libraries. Successful candidates will have experience working on textually oriented projects, strong Java and system administration skills. We are seeking an individual who can bring strong interest and enthusiasm to an area of research ripe for innovation, and someone who will be able to integrate well into a larger team. Salary: $45,000 plus benefits By July 31, 2009, applicants should send a full Curriculum Vitae, letters from two referees and a cover letter highlighting their prior achievements and a brief summary of their statement of their interest and experience in this area. Electronic submissions will be accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Sinclair as early as possible to express interest and to ask any questions. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and welcomes applications from all qualified applicants, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. Dr. Stéfan Sinclair (sgs [at] mcmaster.ca) Communication Studies & Multimedia McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M2, Canada -- [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 Thu Jun 18 04:09:08 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 876021B556; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D1BA71B54D; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040907.D1BA71B54D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.87 research on text & maps? mss edn in TEI? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 87. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Oyvind Eide (52) Subject: Input for PhD project: Texts and maps [2] From: Marion Lamé (10) Subject: digital edition of manuscripts in TEI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:00 +0200 From: Oyvind Eide Subject: Input for PhD project: Texts and maps A few weeks ago, I started a PhD project at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. The project is titled "The area told as a story. An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information." A short description of the project: "In modern European societies, maps are seen as the natural way to communicate about geography. This is different in other historical periods. In the project description I show some examples of historical periods in which maps are not used very much, although they are known. In my opinion, this lack of use is not based on a lack of cartographic tools or knowledge only. I think there are other reasons why people choose to use verbal texts to communicate about geography, reasons that may be difficult to see for people living in a modern map based society. In the proposed PhD project, I will look for such reasons by trying to find examples of verbal texts being superior to maps. The source material for the project will be a document from the 18th century: Major Schnitler's border examination protocols. The digitally available, TEI encoded textual version of this material will be used as the source for a database. This database will represent a model of the geographical information I read from the text. This model will be a version of the geographical information in the source text, expressed in a formal language. The model will also store contradictory facts if and when they exist. Possible contradiction can be found using rules of calculation that will be developed on top of the model. The model will be used to investigate my hypothesis by trying to express the information in the model as maps. Based on the results of this research, I will discuss the possible existence of geographical structures and features found in the model that can not be expressed on maps without significant loss of meaning. This way, I hope to gain new knowledge about how people express themselves in verbal texts about geography, as opposed to map based expressions. In the longer term, I hope this will help us understanding more about the reasons why some cultures are very map oriented, whereas others know about maps, but only use them in very limited areas." The project will have to cover several research fields, and could have covered even more. I will use Lessing's work on the relationship between poetry and painting (Laokoon, 1766), and I will use modeling as a tool. Anthropology, geography, history, narratology and linguistics are among the other areas relevant for this work. Maybe the question should be what is not relevant. In order to help me covering as much as possible of the research I should relate to, it would be most helpful if anyone has references to works, or research areas, addressing specifically the relationship (differences) between maps and verbal texts as means of expressing geographical information. It is probably best to do this off-list, then I will collect what I get in a single email to the list. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide PhD student Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:25:27 +0100 From: Marion Lamé Subject: digital edition of manuscripts in TEI In-Reply-To: <4A38B12F.50103@kcl.ac.uk> Hi everybody, Does anybody have a list a few projects (+ links) of digital manuscripts edition that are working with TEI (or adapted TEI) please? Best regards, Marion Lamé Carnet de recherche sur «Hypothèse»: «Épigraphie en réseau http://eer.hypotheses.org » http://eer.hypotheses.org (plateforme «Hypothèse http://hypotheses.org/ » du CLEO) Page web Centre Camille Julllian http://sites.univ-provence.fr/ccj/spip.php?article65 Digital Clacissist http://digitalclassicist.org/ , Projects page: Epigraphie en réseau = _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 18 04:09:54 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 AC2391B778; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19DDD1B764; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618040953.19DDD1B764@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.88 Twittering resistance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 88. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:42:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Twittering resistance Students of online social networking may find the following story from the Washington Post useful. I've exerpted the first few paragraphs only. WM ------------------ Twitter Is a Player In Iran's Drama State Dept. Asked Site to Keep Running By Mike Musgrove Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 17, 2009 The State Department asked social-networking site Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets to protest Friday's reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The move illustrates the growing influence of online social-networking services as a communications media. Foreign news coverage of the unfolding drama, meanwhile, was limited by Iranian government restrictions barring journalists from "unauthorized" demonstrations. "One of the areas where people are able to get out the word is through Twitter," a senior State Department official said in a conversation with reporters, on condition of anonymity. "They announced they were going to shut down their system for maintenance and we asked them not to." A White House official said "this wasn't a directive from Secretary of State, but rather was a low-level contact from someone who often talks to Twitter staff." The official said Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted, according to news reports. "Twitter is simply a medium that all Iranians can use to communicate," the official said. [...] -- 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 Jun 18 04:11:51 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 C9B541B846; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F9FC1B83F; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090618041150.4F9FC1B83F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.89 seminar in London on ancient texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 89. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:10:50 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Linking and Querying Ancient Texts Digital Classicist/ICS seminar Friday June 19th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Mark Hedges and Tobias Blanke (King’s College London)* *Linking and Querying Ancient Texts: A multi-database case study with epigraphic corpora* ALL WELCOME LaQuAT investigates technologies for providing integrated views across heterogeneous ancient documentary text collections, including relational databases with different schemas and an XML corpus. These structurally diverse datasets overlap geographically, chronologically, and prosopographically, and so a mechanism for querying an integrated set of them is of considerable potential value to the researcher. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where audio and presentation slides will be uploaded a few days after the seminar. All seminars will also be discussed in the Digital Classicist forum at http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist -- 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 Jun 19 06:48:25 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 96ED51D08E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F9321D038; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090619064824.1F9321D038@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.90 twittering resistance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 90. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:16:23 -0500 From: William Allen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.88 Twittering resistance In-Reply-To: <20090618040953.19DDD1B764@woodward.joyent.us> The State Department diminution of Twitter's impact on the world stage is most likely a wish. The power of citizen-to-citizen and people-to people communication on important issues of the day have the power to move decision from state departments to people in the street. Given the poor performance of state departments in advancing issues important to human beings, I applaud the earlier decision and dismiss the later one. I follow with great interest Twitters' #iranelection. The entertainment media have no hold on the ground; Twitter is the only place for information--and yes, it is up to the reader to decipher what is happening. Thank goodness we have one medium close to the events. As one tweet told us today, "140 characters is a novel when you are being shot at." _____ William Allen Prof. Art History On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 88. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:42:39 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:48:56 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 8C45D1D103; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FCFD1D0FC; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619064856.0FCFD1D0FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.91 a "Turing Machine in brass"? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 91. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:38:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a Turing Machine in brass Hugh Kenner, in his magnificent book The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy, attributes to Alan Turing the remark that Babbage's Engine was "a Turing Machine in brass" (p. 152), or something to that effect. Does anyone here know where exactly Turing connected his abstract machine with his predecessor's metal one? Thanks. 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 Jun 19 06:49:27 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 740121D21E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:49:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F20E31D1BD; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:49:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090619064925.F20E31D1BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 92. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:08 +0100 From: Harvey Quamen Subject: programming for digital humanists Hi all: I'm glad to hear that others have been thinking about ways to get humanities students to program more. I've been teaching such a course for the University of Alberta's Humanities Computing program for the last few years and am happy to share some ideas. Hope these can generate some good conversation. (Feel free to reply on- or off-list, but I'm on the road right now, so may be a bit slow in reply....) My course focuses on web delivery technologies -- specifically, a MySQL database with some kind of HTML + CSS front end. I use PHP as a scripting language, only because it's so readily available on various host servers. I like how PHP accommodates both old-style "procedural" programming as well as object-oriented coding. It's a language that accommodates the students as they grow. I'm more or less language- agnostic (and am leaning increasingly towards Ruby), although I used to teach Perl, but didn't really like the "line noise" it generates. Students have a hard time reading it. Students these days feel quite at home on the web, of course, and have some curiosity about how it works. Consequently, I find that web scripting is an easier sell than, say, text analysis or algorithms. The other popular draw is game design, and our computer science department offers such a course (open to non-computer-science majors, too!). I've eliminated almost all math from my web scripting course. Right away, I show the students examples of HTML and XML and convince them that computers today are all about texts, not numbers. (I often cite Danny Hillis's claim at the end of "The Pattern on the Stone" that -- bad paraphrase follows -- "if the original computer scientists labeled the two states X and Y, we'd say that computers do everything with texts, not numbers.") Consequently, about 90% of the built-in PHP functions I teach my students are string functions. I tell my students that they'll soon be able to "slice and dice" texts with ease, and that that skill will be foundational for the digital humanist scholar of the next few decades. For students who have "math phobia," this is welcome news. We spend a few beginning weeks on HTML + CSS (with some XML thrown in, depending on the audience and time), followed by about three weeks on MySQL (learning just enough SQL to squeak through) and then spend the remainder of the semester on PHP. We meet in a lab, so every student has a computer. Typically, I'll give a lecture explaining the concepts, then we'll do an in-class work-along exercise or two, and then I'll send them off with some homework. They have a weekly script to write, plus they have to do a certain number of "5-Minute Exercises" (10 for an "A," 8 for a "B," etc.) which emphasize the concepts they've been learning -- simple things like printing an array as an HTML table, or reading from a file or even doing a very simple web scrape. (Some are online but most are in a course packet.) My favourite exercise -- and one that gets them over the introductory hump, so to speak -- is checking to see if a set of strings are palindromes or not. Cruelly, I don't clue them in to some of the functions that would make that easier, so they solve it on their own and even start comparing their various algorithms' efficiency, though they don't quite have the vocabulary to do it. In the end, each student produces a message board to which visitors may post and read previous postings. Each student needs to add one self-chosen "special feature" to his or her board -- maybe having a membership login or allowing certain HTML in postings (via either a whitelist or a blacklist), or offering up different skins depending on user preference, etc. The scripting makes sense to them in this context as a problem-solving step, or as the "glue" that holds the web interface to the database. And since there isn't just one script, the students don't think in terms of a "killer app" but rather in a series of small, concrete, solvable scripting problems. It's been difficult to find a good textbook and even PHP + MySQL books are typically not pitched correctly for my students. Fortunately, O'Reilly has a great series for beginners called "Head First." I recently served as a technical editor for the "Head First PHP & MySQL" book and it has some terrific material in it, including chapters on some sophisticated stuff like regular expressions and programming to the YouTube API. It'll likely serve here on out as the textbook for my class. Have no fear -- I get no royalties from it ... :-( One year a few students banded together and we did a second semester of more advanced topics as an independent study. There, I covered some object-oriented concepts and we wrote some web scrapers. I have some online materials from the last course offering at . I'd be quite happy to help start collecting some resources -- even putting together an online wiki or something so we can share ideas. I'm on the road for another 10 days, though, so have no fear if I reply slowly. -- Harvey Quamen Humanities Computing 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 Fri Jun 19 06:52:47 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 495361D31A; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF66B1D313; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:52:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619065245.EF66B1D313@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:52:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.93 new publications: JSP; DHQ; DDQ; Baudrillard Studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 93. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Gerry Coulter" (24) Subject: Baudrillard Studies (Volume 6-2, July 2009) is now on the web [2] From: Julia Flanders (79) Subject: DHQ issue 3.2, now available [3] From: "H.M. Gladney" (9) Subject: DDQ 8(2) is available 14 [4] From: UTP Journals (38) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40:4, June2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:27:28 -0400 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: Baudrillard Studies (Volume 6-2, July 2009) is now on the web Volume 6-2 (July, 2009) of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies) is now available on the Internet. IJBS is an open access publication of thougth and ideas which intersect with those of Jean Baudrillard. Volume 6-2 includes: Obitaries for J. G. Ballard, Harold Pinter, Betty Goodwin An Interview with Australian Baudrillard scholar Alan Cholodenko Selections from Baudrillard's book Radical Alterity (recently in English translation) Articles consider: Baudrillard and the media, hyperreality, and the Gulf War Book reviews include recent books on the arts and bodies and code. There is also a review essay considering Olafur Eliasson. http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol-6_2/v6-2-index.html Gerry Coulter Founding Editor, IJBS http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:33:04 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 3.2, now available I am very happy to announce that issue 3.2 of Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/) is now available. As we head towards the fourth anniversary of the journal's inception, I would like to thank the entire DHQ team for all of their hard work, creativity, and sense of adventure. Thanks as well are due to all those who have contributed to the reviewing and have given the authors such thoughtful feedback and advice. Finally, we all thank the authors for the excellent material they have enabled us to publish, and the journal's readers for their attention. Best wishes and thanks to all--Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-chief, DHQ Brown University **************************************** Spring 2009: v3 n2 _______________________ Special Cluster: Done: Finishing Projects in the Digital Humanities Matthew G.Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland Large-Scale Humanities Computing Projects: Snakes Eating Tails, or Every End is a New Beginning? William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., University of Georgia It’s For Sale, So It Must Be Finished: Digital Projects in the Scholarly Publishing World David Sewell, University of Virginia Press Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research Susan Brown, University of Guelph; Patricia Clements, University of Alberta; Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta; Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta; Jeffery Antoniuk, University of Alberta; Sharon Balazs, University of Alberta _______________________ Special Cluster: Data Mining Editor: Mark Olsen Words, Patterns and Documents: Experiments in Machine Learning and Text Analysis Shlomo Argamon, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature Shlomo Argamon, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1950-2006: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters Shlomo Argamon, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Charles Cooney, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Sterling Stein, Linguistic Cognition Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Robert Voyer, Powerset Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie Russell Horton, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago; Robert Morrissey, University of Chicago; Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Glenn Roe, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago; Robert Voyer, Text Minding: A Response to Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters Sean Ross Meehan, Washington College, Chesterton, MD _______________________ Articles Communitizing Electronic Literature Scott Rettberg, The University of Bergen Dept. of Literary, Linguistic, and Aesthetic Studies Teaching and Learning from the U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Case Study of Southern Spaces and Southcomb Sarah Toton, Emory University; Stacey Martin, Emory University Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Attention Eric Gordon, Emerson College; David Bogen, Rhode Island School of Design _______________________ Reviews A Review of Matthew Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination Cambridge, MA and London, UK: MIT University Press, 2008 Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:02 +0100 From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: DDQ 8(2) is available 14 The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 8 number 2 is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_8_2.htm. Its table of contents is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm#Y2009. The number of digital archiving and preservation publications seems to be decreasing We speculate that novel possibilities have been exhausted, and that practical implementations are slow to appear because of insufficient public interest. This DDQ number includes more reading recommendations than usual because I have encountered a great many interesting works. Best wishes, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D., http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:23:40 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 40:4, June2009 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Volume 40, Number 4 / June 2009 of Journal of Scholarly Publishing is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/mp27547344h1/. This issue contains: Why Books Still Matter JOHN DONATICH Motivations for Web-Based Scholarly Publishing: Do Scientists Recognize Open Availability as an Advantage? JI-HONG PARK Library Publishing as a New Model of Scholarly Communication http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m18104664798570k/ JINGFENG XIA How Scholars Credit Editors in Their Acknowledgements ROBERT BROWN The University of Minnesota Press PAM WERRE Writing a Series of Best-Selling Research Reference Books YAN PIAW CHUA Characterizing the Top Journals in Strategic Management: Orientation, Style, Originality, and Readability TERESA GARCI´A-MERINO, VALLE SANTOS-A´LVAREZ Online Review of Manuscripts: More haste, less speed? STEPHEN K. DONOVAN Reviews http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/8004768457475482/ Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For 36 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. The journal has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitalization, copyrights, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing and pricing models. For submissions information, please contact Journal of Scholarly Publishing University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 Fax Toll Free in North America 1-800-221-9985 email: journals@utpress.utoronto.ca http://www.utpjournals.com/jsp/jsp.html posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:54:31 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 44DA11D44E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 942111D444; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619065429.942111D444@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.94 programming; language; mss in TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 94. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language [2] From: Devin Griffiths (17) Subject: RE: [Humanist] mss edn in TEI? [3] From: Michael Fraser (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.85 programming for poets --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:22:30 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.83 on language In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting, but definitely science fiction. Linguists tell me that typical human speech never sounds out of tune to a speaker of the same language. Sterling Fluharty Sent from my iPhone On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 83. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:23:13 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:56:03 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] mss edn in TEI? In-Reply-To: <20090617082411.798711DC5B@woodward.joyent.us> Off the top of my head, here are a few that are influential here in the states: The Women Writer's Project http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ The Dickinson Electronic Archives http://www.emilydickinson.org/index.html The MONK Project http://www.monkproject.org/ Hope that helps. Sincerely, Devin Griffiths --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:06 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.85 programming for poets In-Reply-To: <20090618040455.0F0971B26B@woodward.joyent.us> Were I looking for such a course I would wish it to teach me how to write software code enwrapped in poetic form. How to communicate, through my code, beauty, rhythm, metre and a meaning deeper than the superficially functional. A quick google search finds http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/studentacm/codepoetry07/ (though alas the code was not required to have any functional purpose) and http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html , for example. I have seen single lines of perl with almost haiku-like properties in its elegance and concision. But poetic code is not just about form and structure, it's also about the imagery, emotion, and ambiguity conveyed in the choice of expressions even if the intended function is perfectly clear. Of course, most users never see the code, simply executing the compiled binary, so please also consider the implied reader of such poetry. All that source code in repositories like Sourceforge -- surely there are examples there of already 'found poetry'? Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 19 06:56:11 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 E16091D4F4; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 797BB1D4E9; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090619065611.797BB1D4E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.95 new software: Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 95. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:45:54 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: CATMA 1.0 release - Tagger & Analyzer software for Windows 09:34 18.06.2009 Remember TACT? CATMA (Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis) is a new stand alone software with a focus on textual markup and analysis inspired by TACT's lean and transparent design and functionality. It was developed at the University of Hamburg as a tool for literary scholars, students and other parties with an interest in literary research. Emulating parts of the well known program "Usebase" (from the TACT suite) and extending these CATMA provides a variety of tagging and analyzing functionalities contained in its two components: the Tagger and the Analyzer. CATMA places a strong emphasis on usability and is designed for users with little experience in digital text analysis. CATMA key features include: • a visual interface to mark up and analyze texts • the ability to define analyses by the use of a basic query language • a set of predefined statistical and non-statistical analytical functions • a GUI that reflects the logical steps in a textual analysis workflow • a log and status component displaying the system processes • keyboard shortcuts and tooltips for better usability CATMA supports collaborative efforts by adhering to relevant standards (XML, TEI) and producing reusable output. CATMA 1.0 is a stable beta currently implemented for Windows only. CATMA 2.0 will be released towards August 2009 as a platform independent JAVA© version, including a TextGrid workbench interface. CATMA is now available for download at www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/catma Evelyn Gius, Marco Petris and Chris Meister from the CATMA development team will be present at the DH 2009 - feel free to contact us there, or via our website. ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie) Universität Hamburg Department SLM I - Institut für Germanistik II Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Mail: jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de Office: +49 - 40 - 42838 2972 Cell: +49 - 0172 40 865 41 Web: www.jcmeister.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 Jun 20 05:15:35 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 A991021693; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C41121682; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090620051534.6C41121682@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.96 programming for poets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 96. 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 (48) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets [2] From: Martin Holmes (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:11:57 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets In-Reply-To: <20090619064925.F20E31D1BD@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I'm quoting from Harvey Quamen's mail: I've eliminated almost all math from my web scripting course. Right >> away, I show the students examples of HTML and XML and convince them >> that computers today are all about texts, not numbers. (I often cite >> Danny Hillis's claim at the end of "The Pattern on the Stone" that -- >> bad paraphrase follows -- "if the original computer scientists labeled >> the two states X and Y, we'd say that computers do everything with >> texts, not numbers.") Consequently, about 90% of the built-in PHP >> functions I teach my students are string functions. I tell my students >> that they'll soon be able to "slice and dice" texts with ease, and >> that that skill will be foundational for the digital humanist scholar >> of the next few decades. For students who have "math phobia," this is >> welcome news. >> > Okay, I like that. That might be a neat way to lure in a number of my colleagues in the field into some computing. But what I wonder about: is it really a 'math phobia'? Sure, I know throwing in a series of numbers and statistics will set most of them running like mice from a cat. But also, I'd assume there's a more abstract 'phobia' involved; one for trying to describe and solve problems in a more formalized way. Addressing textual problems with computation does at some point involve trying to express those problem in the formal expressions of a computer language or model. I tend to find that much of my colleagues just don't like this kind of formalization (or any methodological formalization for that matter). It seems, to me, because they value the aesthetics of 'free text'. Which is why the maximum amount of formalization they seem to be willing to put up with, is the logic expressed through human language - which is ambiguous most of the time to say the least. XML of course is a neat trick here because it balances exactly on the borders between formalization and non-formalization. But once you start computing on strings with PHP or Ruby... So, I guess I'm just asking Harvey: any experience with your students that you might relate to such a more general 'phobia'? Kind regards, Joris On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:07:56 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.92 programming for poets In-Reply-To: <20090619064925.F20E31D1BD@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I'd like to put in a word for the much-maligned JavaScript as a first language for coders to learn. It's fairly simple, there's a ready-made IDE on every computer (Web browser + text editor), a good debugger (in Firefox), and no need to run a server on your computer, or connect to one. I use the usual combination of languages in my daily work, from XSLT to Object Pascal, but I always find it a great pleasure to get back to JavaScript. Its natural data target is the document (which humanists understand), and teaching it also leads naturally into other related, easy-to-learn languages such as XHTML and CSS. If I were teaching an introductory programming course for humanities students, I'd teach basic XHTML document construction, and move to document interactivity and manipulation through JavaScript. Then CSS, then (eventually) something like PHP, that requires server support. 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 Sat Jun 20 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 87C1221743; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C24221734; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:19:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090620051915.5C24221734@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:19:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.97 Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 97. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:14:45 +0100 From: david zeitlyn Subject: launch of JASO Online I am pleased to announce that JASO (Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford) has been relaunch as a free online journal Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford online with a new ISSN (2040-1876) and volume numbering to mark this. The intention is for the new version to exploit the flexibilities of web publication while maintaining a continuity with the precedent set by JASO. A retrospective conversion of the back issues is planned in due course. Notes for contributors and the first issue of JASOo is available from http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/journal-of-the-anthropological-society/ correspondence about JASOo should be sent to jaso at anthro.ox.ac.uk on behalf of the editorial team davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/dz/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 20 05:21:49 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 A889A217E2; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1205217D3; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090620052147.C1205217D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.98 events: ambient intelligence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 98. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:55:15 +0100 From: "list@ami-09.org" Subject: AmI-09: 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI-09: Roots for the Future of Ambient Intelligence November 18th-21st, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ami-09.org 4th Call for Contributions AmI-09 will bring keynotes, technical papers, workshops, industrial case studies, posters & demos and panels. As new categories this year we feature landscapes and ambient visions to review the current status and to look into the next decade of Ambient Intelligence. Prof. Emile Aarts (Philips Research) has agreed to be one of the AmI-09 keynote speakers. AmI-09 will feature a 10 years anniversary since the term Ambient Intelligence started to fly around. We explicitly intend to look back what has been achieved, review existing solutions and identify what will come. The conference should provide a forum to establish new roads for the future of Ambient Intelligence. We are working on special issues in dedicated ambient intelligence related journals for selected papers from the conference which will be invited to be published in an extended version after the conference. Please visit the website for updated information on this. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 22 05:51:47 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 D7D9621FB6; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 356D721FA4; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:51:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090622055146.356D721FA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 99. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:01:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why some fear programming I'd like to get us to pay more attention to the question of why students of the humanities often find programming less than attractive as a subject for study -- why the fear of doing it. I think that the beginnings of a useful response require us to recognise that fear is real psychologically and useful biologically but that our task is to investigate what it points to. How is the translation of programming into the interpretation of poetry involved? Presuming I can understand what a formalization of an essentially non-formalizable phenomenon is saying, I tend to react first by feeling intellectually claustrophobic, then (presuming I'm sufficiently alert) with curiosity for what lies beyond it. If the formalization is complete, then I lose interest in what, after all, has been shown to be routine, mechanizable. If I am being taught by someone who is clearly assuming that the non-formalizable residue is unimportant, then I'm apt to grow impatient and decide to spend my time elsewhere. I'm sure it's satisfying to make a parser that's 98.6% successful at handling "natural" language. But as a humanist I want to know about the 1.4% that cannot be handled. For me the appeal has to be that a particular skill in capturing things will help me get closer, sense more keenly the fleeting transcendence of these things. We say something is important or significant but fail to say what it imports or signifies. Similarly with the assertion that programming is a useful skill. For what, exactly, is it useful? If *all* we want is to finish our homework so we can go out to play at something else, then we should be devoted to that something else, no? If that something else proves on closer inspection or with real devotion to it to be boring, then the question is still about the fleeting something. What are we chasing or being chased by? 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 Jun 22 05:52:22 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 C703621004; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:52:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCE8421FF3; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:52:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090622055220.DCE8421FF3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.100 events: ubiquitous computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 100. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:59:39 +0100 From: "Artur R. Lugmayr" Subject: Academic MindTrek 2009 EXTENDED DEADLINE: shortpapers, poster presentations CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era Ambient Media *** Social Media *** Digital Games September 30th – 2nd October, 2009, Tampere, Finland confirmed speakers (more are to come): - Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips Design - Ignacio Correas, CEO, eBox Technologies - Peter Cheng, Open Source Camp, Hihoo.org; - Jani Penttinen, CTO, XIHA - Francesca Rosella, Co-Founder, Cute Circuit EXTENDED Submission Deadlines: - EXTENDED TILL 21st 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 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 23 05:14:52 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 BCCDE1ED68; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:14:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AB461ED55; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090623051451.7AB461ED55@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.101 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 101. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? [2] From: Joris van Zundert (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:00:28 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? In-Reply-To: <20090622055146.356D721FA4@woodward.joyent.us> I was an almost 4.0 undergrad student, Willard -- got As in math (up to first year calculus), the sciences, English, statistics, etc. Received one grade of B+ in four years of college. I'm not afraid of programming. It's just drudge work. Mental digging. There's some gratification to seeing an end product working well, but the sheer boredom leading up to that end product isn't worth it. I understand that those who love writing lines of code can see "poetic" qualities (broadly defined -- really, I suspect all that's really being referred to here is simplicity) in writing code, but this is all hidden to everyone but programmers checking the code. All that matters, really, is the functionality of the end product. An awkwardly written code supporting a stable system is more important than a poetically written code that crashes. Perhaps that's the problem with PCs. They have poets writing their code. So I wouldn't assume "fear" on the part of anyone uninterested in programming. Some of us feel we have more rewarding work to do. Jim R > I'd like to get us to pay more attention to the question of why students of > the humanities often find programming less than attractive as a subject for > study -- why the fear of doing it.  I think that the beginnings of a useful > response require us to recognise that fear is real psychologically and > useful biologically but that our task is to investigate what it points to. > How is the translation of programming into the interpretation of poetry > involved? > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:35:23 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.99 programming: the fear of it? In-Reply-To: <20090622055146.356D721FA4@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, But as a > humanist I want to know about the 1.4% that cannot be handled. For me the > appeal has to be that a particular skill in capturing things will help me > get closer, sense more keenly the fleeting transcendence of these things. > Totally agree. But I'd say formalization is not about just doing the homework of distinguishing between the 98.6% that's normal or regular or non significant and the 1.4% that's supposedly beyond formal comprehension. Formalization, I think, is a method (not more and not less) to get a focused grip on the properties of the object of study. Formalization allows one to build models; either by algorithm, statistics or if need be pen and paper - it's the formalization that's key, not specifically that it might be computable or not. The nice thing of a *formalized* model is that it's testably descriptive. So if I have a model that I think describes adequately a phenomenon of text, the formal part of it means that I can repetitively test the model by letting it be a description of another text that according to human reader judgment shows the same phenomenon. If the model holds (i.e. judges the same as the human reader) the model is still adequate. If not, we can refine the model (or ultimately design a new one) to obtain a model that apparently is a better descriptor of the phenomenon. That's all just basic model theory and Turing etc. Now, I'm certainly not suggesting that modeling should supplant our existing methods, not at all. I just think formalization and modeling are nice additional instruments that usher in repeated scientific testing, thereby allowing us to build descriptive models that we can iterate into adequate theories of textual phenomena. The nice thing being that the theory would be formally falsifiable as a general principle. That general principle then allows for evolving the model further until the point that it might even be descriptive of parts of that 1.4%. I think it would actually result in intellectual poverty if we just stopped at sort of 'grasping' the 1.4% with our intellects, just pondering on it in our research papers. I'd rather try to venture beyond: do we have methods that allow us to really explain what's happening within that 1.4%? I don't feel that's claustrophobic intellectually, I find it challenging. For the moment though we're not much further than some grammar parsing, some stylistic statistics and a faint hint of semantics of course. There's actually a huge intellectual challenge to be found here. Yes, it might be a different mode of intellectual challenge, specifically not one to everyone's liking. But an intellectual challenge nonetheless. Kind regards -- Joris _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 23 05:16:58 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 ACAF21EDE6; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB4091EDDE; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090623051657.DB4091EDDE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.102 events: automated deduction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 102. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:50:11 +0100 From: Carsten Schuermann Subject: CADE-22 - Second Call for Participation CADE-22 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 2-7, 2009 http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/cade22/ PLEASE REGISTER NOW! The deadline for affordable hotel-style university accommodation is this week Thursday and the early registration deadline is coming Monday. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - Hotel-style University 25 June 2009 (3 days from now) accommodation - Early Registration 30 June 2009 (8 days from now) CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction. PROGRAMME: The conference features - 3 invited talks - 32 contributed papers of which 5 are system papers - the presentation of the Herbrand Award to Deepak Kapur - a two-day programme of workshops, tutorials and meetings - 2 system competitions INVITED TALKS: - Konstantin Korovin (The University of Manchester) Instantiation-Based Automated Reasoning: From Theory to Practice - Martin Rinard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Integrated Reasoning and Proof Choice Point Selection in the Jahob System - Mechanisms for Program Survival - Mark Stickel (SRI International) Building Theorem Provers WORKSHOPS: - Automated Deduction: Decidability, Complexity, Tractability (ADDCT) and The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) - Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP) - Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants (MLPA) - Proof Search in Type Theories (PSTT) - Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) TUTORIALS: - Hierarchical and Modular Reasoning in Complex Theories with Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans - Probabilistic Analysis Using a Theorem Prover with Osman Hasan and Sofiene Tahar - Precise, Automated and Scalable Verification of Systems Software Using SMT Solvers with Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer - Logics with Undefinedness with William M. Farmer [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 24 07:29:56 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 95BEC23ADF; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 958B623ACD; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090624072954.958B623ACD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 103. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:03:58 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.101 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090623051451.7AB461ED55@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > I was an almost 4.0 undergrad student, Willard -- got As in math (up > to first year calculus), the sciences, English, statistics, etc. > Received one grade of B+ in four years of college. I'm not afraid of > programming. It's just drudge work. Mental digging. There's some > gratification to seeing an end product working well, but the sheer > boredom leading up to that end product isn't worth it. > > I understand that those who love writing lines of code can see > "poetic" qualities (broadly defined -- really, I suspect all that's > really being referred to here is simplicity) in writing code, but this > is all hidden to everyone but programmers checking the code. All that > matters, really, is the functionality of the end product. An > awkwardly written code supporting a stable system is more important > than a poetically written code that crashes. As a fellow genius, I couldn't agree more. I have always been outstanding at everything I've ever done. I did get one B+ (in some gut course called "logical reasoning") but that's really it. But the object of my disdain is really English literature. It's drudge work. Mere mental digging. There's some gratification to finally getting the "information" from the book, but the sheer boredom leading up to that end point -- the extremely roundabout way in which most authors get to the point . . . It's just not worth it. I understand that those who love literature see "poetic" qualities (broadly defined -- really, I suspect all that's being referred to here is how easy it all is to understand), but this is hidden to everyone but copy editors. All that matters, really, is the information. Bad writing that supports a stable, unambiguous message is way more important that poetic language that ends up being obscure. So let me just close by saying that I couldn't agree more. Fear has nothing to do with the anti-intellectualism of our students. It's just that . . . well, it's all just so, you know . . . boring. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-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 Jun 24 07:30:29 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 DB87E23BB4; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6547323BA3; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090624073028.6547323BA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.104 events: digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 104. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Reimer, Torsten" (10) Subject: virtual DH conference [2] From: Dot Porter (23) Subject: Open Invitation to Association for Computers and the Humanities AGM --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:53:32 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: virtual DH conference Dear Humanists, Those of you who could not make it to this year's Digital Humanities conference might be interested to hear that there is a lively virtual conference taking place on Twitter. Have a look at the conference page there http://twitter.com/dh09 and search for posts tagged as #dh09 to follow the debate. We are also doing some blogging on the conference on arts-humanities.net: http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 Regards, Torsten -- Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ http://www.arts-humanities.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:07:58 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Open Invitation to Association for Computers and the Humanities AGM In-Reply-To: <96f3df640906232059i7831b6dej4159c001dc67464f@mail.gmail.com> We warmly invite you all to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the ACH, on Wednesday, June 24, from 1:00 to 2:00 in the Benjamin Banneker Room in the University of Maryland Stamp Student Union. The meeting takes place as part of the Digital Humanities 2009 Conference (complete conference schedule: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/?page_id=89). Please feel free to bring your lunch. The AGM will feature a roundtable discussion on the issue of jobs in the digital humanities, with time for followup discussion and a question and answer session. There will also be a short business meeting, reporting on the previous year's ACH work and activities ACH members, prospective members, and non-members are all welcome. Please join us for what we hope will be a lively discussion! -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Thu Jun 25 05:35:48 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 05E9B22F90; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:35:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5B7E22F86; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:35:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090625053546.D5B7E22F86@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:35:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.105 events: Greek texts; masks; modelling; medieval studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 105. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: MOCA'09 (140) Subject: CfP: MOCA'09 - Fifth Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components and Agents [2] From: Margaret Hoegg (68) Subject: cfp: Third International Margot Conference [3] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (19) Subject: BODY & MASKS Conference, Thursday 9th-Friday 10th July 2009 [4] From: "Mahony, Simon" (38) Subject: Seminar: Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:43:02 +0100 From: MOCA'09 Subject: CfP: MOCA'09 - Fifth Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components and Agents MOCA'09 Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/moca09/ Hamburg, Germany, 11th September 2009 organised by the "Theoretical Foundations of Informatics" Group at the University of Hamburg Contact e-mail: moca09@informatik.uni-hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ The workshop is co-located with MATES 2009 The Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Home and CLIMA-X 2009 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/CLIMA/Home __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: July 17, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2009 Deadline for final papers: August 28, 2009 Workshop: September 11, 2009 __________________________________________________________________ Scope Modelling is THE central task in informatics. Models are used to capture, analyse, understand, discuss, evaluate, specify, design, simulate, validate, test, verify and implement systems. Modelling needs an adequate repertoire of concepts, formalisms, languages, techniques and tools. This enables addressing distributed, concurrent and complex systems. Objects, components, and agents are fundamental units to organise models. They are also fundamental concepts of the modelling process. Even though software engineers intensively use models based on these fundamental units, and models are the subjects of theoretical research, the relations and potential mutual enhancements between theoretical and practical models have not been sufficiently investigated. There is still the need for better modelling languages, standards and tools. Important research areas are for example UML, BPEL, Petri nets, process algebras, or different kinds of logics. Application areas like business processes, (Web) services, production processes, organisation of systems, communication, cooperation, cooperation, ubiquity, mobility etc. will support the domain dependent modelling perspectives. Therefore, the workshop addresses all relations between theoretical foundations of models on the one hand and objects, components, and agents on the other hand with respect to modelling in general. The intention is to gather research and application directions to have a lively mutual exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints, and experiences. The multiple perspectives on modelling and models in informatics are most welcome, since the presentation of them will lead to intensive discussions. Also the way objects, components, and agents are use to build architectures / general system structures and executing units / general system behaviours will provide new ideas for other areas. Therefore, we invite a wide variety of contributions, which will be reviewed by the PC-members who reflect important areas and perspectives for the Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA). __________________________________________________________________ [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:24:41 +0100 From: Margaret Hoegg Subject: cfp: Third International Margot Conference In-Reply-To: <7E39BB35B7F344958E223BD9286CCB43@QosmioC> THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES: TEACHING AND RESEARCH JUNE 16-17, 2010 BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, USA Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches – Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. SCHOLARLY FOCUS During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to: - digital paleography - translation and dictionary projects - digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.) - text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.) - encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols) - management and preservation of digital resources - information design and modeling - the cultural impact of the new media - software studies - the role of digital humanities in academic curricula - funding and sustainability of long-term projects PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL: We welcome three types of submissions: 1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations 3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/ four presenters) Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title 2. Session type – Regular or Project Demonstration 3. 250 word abstract 4. Contact information and bio paragraph The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009. For information about the conference, including proposal submissions, registration, and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010. The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu. We look forward to your participation. The Conference Committee: Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo) Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University) Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo) Helen Swift (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University Regards, Christine McWebb Associate Professor Associate Chair Graduate Studies ML333 Department of French Studies University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada Fax: 1-519-725-0554 Phone: 1-519-888-4567x32465 e-mail: cmcwebb@uwaterloo.ca http://margot.uwaterloo.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:04:38 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: BODY & MASKS Conference, Thursday 9th-Friday 10th July 2009 In-Reply-To: <7E39BB35B7F344958E223BD9286CCB43@QosmioC> *** ANCIENT THEATRE *** MASKS *** 3D LASER-SCANNING *** MOTION CAPTURE *** VISUALISATION *** The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space: The State of the Art Two-day interdisciplinary conference, Thursday 9th – Friday 10th July 2009 King's College London, Strand Campus www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks/july2009.html A conference organised by the project 'The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space' funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is a research collaboration between King's Visualisation Lab at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London and the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University. The project concerns ancient masked performance - specifically in terms of spatial environments, intercultural performance and perceptual experience. Using leading-edge 3D technologies it addresses fundamental questions concerning the conditions and actualities of the ancient theatre. Speakers: Drew Baker, Richard Beacham, Carlota Bérard-Knitlová, Martin Blazeby, Margaret Coldiron, Matthew Delbridge, Hugh Denard, Malcolm Knight, Fiona MacIntosh, Barbara May, Boris Rankow, Stuart Robson, David Saltz, James Shippen, Tiffany Strawson, James Sutherland, Michael Takeo Magruder, Chris Vervain and Richard Williams. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AND BOOKING INFORMATION are available at http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks/july2009.html ***Early booking discount available until 30 June 2009*** ----- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel King's Visualisation Lab Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:57:06 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Seminar: Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts In-Reply-To: <7E39BB35B7F344958E223BD9286CCB43@QosmioC> Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009 Friday June 26th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig)* *Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works* ALL WELCOME We will discuss the technical realisation and efficiency of several dimensions of detecting citations and apply them in the field of the Plato's aftermath. Central parts of this presentation are graph based approaches. Based on substantial experience of an ongoing collaboration between researchers of Classical Studies and Computer Science we shall also reflect on the different approaches to working with text. A full abstract along with the series programme can be found at: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html -- 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 25 05:36:51 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 601C022029; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4E1D22019; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:36:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:36:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 106. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it [2] From: Mark Wolff (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:20:22 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090624072954.958B623ACD@woodward.joyent.us> Funny, but without content, and essentially meaningless as a response to my point, which was that it's possible for people to have -no- interest in programming, the ability to do it, and not be motivated by fear. I don't blame math people if they don't enjoy reading poetry. I see the value in programming and am reaping the benefits of it as I type this email. Actually writing it bores the hell out of me. Very sorry you can't understand other points of view, and no, writing good lines of code is not the same as writing a good poem. To much of it has really already been written. Jim R > So let me just close by saying that I couldn't agree more.  Fear has nothing > to do with the anti-intellectualism of our students.  It's just that . . . > well, it's all just so, you know . . . boring. > > Steve --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:42:31 -0400 From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090624072954.958B623ACD@woodward.joyent.us> On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> All that matters, really, is the functionality of the end product. >> An >> awkwardly written code supporting a stable system is more important >> than a poetically written code that crashes. > > All that matters, really, is the information. Bad writing that > supports a > stable, unambiguous message is way more important that poetic > language that > ends up being obscure. As much as I appreciate Steve's satirical comment (that was satire, right?), I think there is an important distinction between poetry and code that stems from textual ambiguity. An interesting poem resists easy interpretation, but an interesting program has to at least provide instructions a machine can follow. Computers do not like ambiguity. What you do with the machine that follows the instructions can resist easy interpretation, but you don't need to be a programmer to do that. There can be interesting code that does not execute on a machine: it is interesting because it suggests a new way to do something. The potentiality of code is interesting, but that's different than code itself. Many people do not care about the potential of code (and should not have to): show them functional code and then they'll talk to you. Do we expect students of literature to be able to write poetry? Why do we expect (or hope) they can write code? Actually, I think students should learn both, because both involve disciplined thinking: if you can write a sonnet, you can write a program. Such practical skill makes you a better reader and user. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Modern and Classical Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 26 05:14:41 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 A22B7232C2; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC5D223270; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 107. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it [2] From: Martin Holmes (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it [3] From: Alan Corre (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:38:17 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, Mark's point is a very good one. Even students of poetry aren't necessarily able to write good poetry, but it does indeed help to try. I think most students of literature would be better students of literature if they had four years of calculus simply for the mental discipline that study imposes. That being said, I had fun with geometry and trig, hated Algebra, and was grateful to get out of calculus when I finally did. I'd like to emphasize that I don't think programming is an -inherently- boring activity, just an activity that is boring -to me- (at least on the low level I've attempted it). My main response was to the assumption that those who dislike programming or seek to avoid it are motivated by fear. I would say that when fear really is present, it's probably fear of a lack of mathematical competence proceeding largely from lack of recent practice. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:58:22 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.106 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> I'd just like to pick up one of Mark Wolff's comments: > An interesting poem resists > easy interpretation Poems that "resist" interpretation are not the better for it, surely? I usually think of poetry that is "hard" as flawed in that particular respect, although it may be rich in other aspects and reward the work put into reading it. The best poetry is surely both accessible and rich. 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:44:12 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.103 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090625053649.B4E1D22019@woodward.joyent.us> I do not care for crossword puzzles, but I enjoy programming because apart from solving a problem you are left with a usable product. I also feel it encouraged me to think more logically, but I cannot prove that. I suspect however that the bulk of humanity does not, and will not ever, care for programming. I think two languages indicate this. COBOL was designed as a business language in which the boss could look at the program, and figure out what the programmer was up to. It did not work out that way. Programmers started abbreviating the commands in such a way that COBOL became full of gobbledygook just like other languages. I suspect too that the bosses were only interested in the end product anyway. Another example was Bill Atkinson's Hypercard for the Apple Computer, which has been described as "a software erector set." In 1990 I wrote a book of original Jewish children's stories with this medium which showed a book on the screen, and the child could turn the pages. I got a student to draw sets of pictures as illustrations, which I displayed in quick succession so that they were animated. It was published, and sold quite well. Black and white only in those days. But Apple stopped supporting Hypercard years ago. But this is just an introduction to a plug for my forthcoming (free!) e-book on Icon Programming for Humanists. In spite of it all, I am still an optimist. Stay tuned. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee corre@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~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 Fri Jun 26 05:16:42 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 91CBC2339B; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C289A2337B; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090626051640.C289A2337B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.108 poetry and cybernetics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 108. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: poet's encounter with cybernetics In-Reply-To: <20090531064946.CB5E260C8@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Your interest in machine-human analogies and a mention of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers" in an essay by Guy Davenport which mentions a link with Norbet Weiner's work on cybernetics has led me to send you this excerpt from the 1949 poem: [...] not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is / the law [...] Around an appearance, one common model, we grow up / many. [...] / We can be precise. The factors are / in the animal and/or the machine the factors are / communication and/or control, both involve / the message. And what is the message? The message is / a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time [...] / This very thing you are [...] I thought the parrallelism between communication/control and animal/machine might be of interest to your and the Humanist readers. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 26 05:17:53 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 E686623426; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23E4B23417; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090626051752.23E4B23417@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.109 new on WWW: Ubiquity on writing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 109. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:48 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: June 23 - 29, 2009 How to Generate Reader Interest in What You Write by Phil Yaffe Who has not discovered to their dismay that no one wants to read their most carefully crafted, meritorious, compelling, and passionate writings? Think of all the proposals you have written that no one is interested in. Or the web pages, the blog posts, or the company brochures. Chances are, your failures are linked to an inability to connect with what your readers would be interested in reading. Our intrepid writer about writing, Phil Yaffe, offers some valuable insight into how to get people to read your stuff. He says you need to adopt the "expository writing challenge": that no one is interested in what you are inclined to write, therefore you must discover what they want to read. Only then you can get started, and only then you can succeed. Peter Denning 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 Fri Jun 26 05:18:59 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 52B4623493; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEC0823481; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090626051857.BEC0823481@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.110 events: modelling; ethnography and language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 110. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mahony, Simon" (89) Subject: Conference: MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES [2] From: kcl - ldc (11) Subject: Registration now open - Exploration in Ethnography, Language and Communication, Friday 11th September, Aston University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:08:35 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Conference: MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES Forwarded from Cristina Vertan (Hamburg) Please forward as appropriate. Simon ----------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS * * * REMINDER Call for Papers - Deadline approaching MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES 8- 9 October 2009, university of Hamburg, Germany http://beta.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/IT-Workshop Over the last few years a lot of effort went into collecting digital data relating to historical objects (manuscript digitisations, critical editions, watermark collections), and into making these available to specific scientific communities as well as to a broader public. Despite targeted standardisation actions, one of the major problems encountered was the heterogeneity of data to be modelled. This heterogeneity often steers researchers to local solutions which, in the longer term, are an obstacle to the integration of different repositories. Other prevalent problems include the impossibility of applying OCR software to hand-written texts and the difficulty of applying language technology methods and tools that are usually developed with modern languages in mind. The present workshop aims at discussing these problems and presenting solutions, and at bringing together researchers from different areas of the Digital Humanities. We are looking for original contributions describing completed work in one of the following areas: - models for heterogeneous data in repositories - semantic based information retrieval - text technology for historical languages - visualisation of heterogeneous data - image processing for accessing textual data in manuscripts - standards for data collection - digital edition - user scenarios Submissions should exceed 10 A4 pages - Please follow the llncs formatting -style. Formatting templates for Word and TEX are given below. - Submission should be ANONYMOUS. Please pay attention when converting to PDF that Author's name are not saved into the file. Please avoid to make excessive self citation. - Only PDF files are accepted. - Submissions should be sent no later than 28th june 2009 (GMT+1) via our conference management system under: http://www.conftool.net/workshop2009/ Any registration and announcement of a possible submission before this date will help us in setting up the review process. In case you need a few extra day after the deadline please contact Cristina Vertan at cristina.vertan@uni-hamburg.de Accepted papers will be published in a conference Volume Important Dates =========== - Papers due to 28th June 2009 - Notification of acceptance 30th July 2009 - Final papers due 23rd August 2009 - Workshop – 8th-9th October 2009 Programme Committee ================= Christian Brockmann (University of Hamburg) Gregory Crane (Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering) Dieter Harlfinger (University of Hamburg) Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) Fotis Jannidis (University of Würzburg) Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht) Anke Lüdeling (Humbodt University, Berlin) Jan Cristoph Meister (University of Hamburg) Bernd Neumann (University of Hamburg) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athenns) Organisation Committee ================ Daniel Deckers (University of Hamburg) Lutz Koch (University of Hamburg) Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:42:36 +0100 From: kcl - ldc Subject: Registration now open - Exploration in Ethnography, Language and Communication, Friday 11th September, Aston University REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Second Annual Conference Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Focus on Data Friday 11th September 2009, Aston University This one-day conference will explore the possibilities and problems of employing ethnographically sensitive approaches to language and communication research across a wide range of disciplines and topics (including health, education, social and political processes, culture and identity). Plenary speakers are Professor Jan Blommaert (Department of Languages, University of Jyvaskyla) and Professor Martyn Hammersley (The Open University). Conference registrants are also invited to attend additional data-focused interactive workshops on the afternoon of Thursday 10th September (2pm - 5pm). Workshop facilitators include Professor Ben Rampton and Professor Celia Roberts (King’s College London), Dr Adam Lefstein, Dr Jeff Bezemer and Dr Carey Jewitt (Institute of Education University of London) and Dr. Sara Shaw (University College London / The Nuffield Trust). Registration for the conference is now open. A registration form and further details (including a draft programme and information on travel and accommodation) can be found at http://elc.ioe.ac.uk/aston.html. The one-day conference fee is £35, including a buffet lunch, tea and coffee, with a reduced rate of £15 for students. There will be a charge of £10 for the optional data-focused workshop. Places for the data workshop will be limited so early registration is advised. For further details and queries, please email explorations09@googlemail.com. The conference is organised by Dr. Fiona Copland ( School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University ), Dr. Julia Snell (Institute of Education University of London) and Dr. Sara Shaw (Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London / The Nuffield Trust). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 27 08:24:50 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 8336A2630F; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0407262FF; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:24:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 111. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elijah Meeks (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it [2] From: Joris van Zundert (30) Subject: Programming and writer's block [3] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:59:12 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> I'm not quite sure what kind of software you guys are describing. There's a great deal of code out there that produces highly ambiguous, non-goal oriented results with or without user input and not as a result of flawed programming or design. It almost sounds as if the only software you've all had exposure to is linear business applications. It's a bit disingenuous to compare poetry to Microsoft Excel, you should be comparing poetry to something equally abstract and equally disentangled from stuffy business models, like NetHack. Otherwise, one might as well take a strange, quirky, random number-obsessed piece of software like NetHack and compare it to a John Deere manual and claim that software is obviously creative, metaphoric, weird and ground-breaking and that text is stuffy, linear and uninspired. It's the technical limitations that hamstrung software creators for so long that instilled this sense of "elegance" in programming to mean "efficiency". That and the large teams of software engineers taking part in collaborative efforts to produce code meant that the actual design and implementation of software grew ever more techne-oriented, but with the raw processing power of a modern computer and the ludicrously convenient new languages that continue to pop up (Which aren't nearly as "efficient" as programming in assembly, but who cares when you're running the software on your 2ghz laptop?) I think that the old barriers to entry for programming are fading away. I've written scads of strange, rambling pieces of software that serve no useful purpose and only exist as an attempt for me to approximate, whether to myself or others, some bit of poietic understanding. I've also processed raw data to produce numerical arguments in spatial and graphical form, and the two activities are as dissimilar as writing a novel and writing a technical paper. As for HyperCard, I fondly remember using it many years ago, and I'd recommend anyone that loved Hypercard look to vector graphics packages such as Inkscape to soon provide you with your animated toolkit. It's not there, yet, but given some time, it will be. Until then, you can make do with Flash, but ActionScript still requires some formal understanding of programming conventions. As I'm fond of pointing out, whenever you create animations in PowerPoint, you are coding, so we're all becoming coders slowly, it's just a matter of the literacy and the toolset meeting somewhere in between. Still, despite the primitive nature of modern programming languages, it would be a shame to point to the product of them all and lump them together. For a time, no one wrote stories in cuneiform, but that didn't mean that writing was only suitable to accounting and only interesting to accountants. Elijah Meeks PhD Candidate University of California, Merced emeeks@ucmerced.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:18:40 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Programming and writer's block In-Reply-To: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> Now that we have a thread that crosses the boundaries between Humanities/poetry and programming anyway, this might fit in for fun: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | How To Get Out of Developer's Block? | | from the how-do-you-feel-about-get-out-of-developer's-block dept.| | posted by timothy on Thursday June 25, @19:08 (Programming) | | http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/25/2247216 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Midnight Thunder writes "I have spent the past six months working on a software project, and while I can come up with ideas, I just can't seem to sit down in front of the computer to code. I sit there and I just can't concentrate. I don't know whether this is akin to writer's block, but it feels like it. Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it? It is bothering me since the project has ground to a halt and I really want to get started again. I am the sole developer on the project, if that makes a difference." Discuss this story at: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/25/2247216 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Interestingly the not-that-funny-but-funny meant comments in the discussion show a complete cluelessness to genuine writer's block. Best -- Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute IT R&D Team Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://snipurl.com/jvz_hi_en ---- A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, cf. http://snipurl.com/discl_en --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:10:25 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090626051439.AC5D223270@woodward.joyent.us> Martin -- Among those who study literature professionally, generally those poems which resist a single, readily grasped, clearly accessible meaning are the least interesting. Simplistic poetry that gets awards and attention usually does so because it's saying the right thing about the right topic -- it's politically correct somehow. A great deal of bad poetry gets published for this reason. Otherwise, poems generally need to be of a certain level of difficulty to merit study and attention. One reason for preference for difficulty is that a poem is usually not written simply to convey a single, clear idea -- if you want to do that, write prose -- but to convey a complex of ideas which interrelate values, mood, emotion, concepts, a phenomenology, and an environment in a very compact form which unites both the sound and rhythm of the words used with their meaning. Jim R > I'd just like to pick up one of Mark Wolff's comments: > >> An interesting poem resists >> easy interpretation > > Poems that "resist" interpretation are not the better for it, surely? I > usually think of poetry that is "hard" as flawed in that particular > respect, although it may be rich in other aspects and reward the work > put into reading it. The best poetry is surely both accessible and rich. > > Cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 27 08:25:41 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 B708C26361; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C67726353; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090627082540.7C67726353@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.112 open call for applications in the Humanities at ESF X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:46:56 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Open Call for applications For wide dissemination: Call for applications in the Humanities at ESF We are pleased to inform you about the following open Calls in the Humanities: v The ‘Philosophy for Science in Use’ programme has now been published. Full information is available from www.esf.org/conferences/09272. Closing date for applications is the 12th of July. v The Call for Proposals for ESF Research Conferences to take place in 2011 is open and accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/call. The deadline for submissions is 15th 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 Sat Jun 27 08:26:30 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 EC9382641D; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F2C4526416; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:26:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090627082628.F2C4526416@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:26:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.113 new publication: Future of Learning Institutions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 113. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:10:45 -0400 From: jonathan.tarr@duke.edu Subject: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age report now available from MIT Press An announcement from HASTAC.org As we mentioned on the HASTAC blogs last week, you can now download or purchase a copy of the report entitled The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, co-authored by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, with assistance from Zoe Marie Jones, our former colleague extraordinaire. Here are the details from MIT Press: Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg in an abridged version of their book- in-progress, The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, argue that traditional institutions must adapt or risk a growing mismatch between how they teach and how this new generation learns. Forms and models of learning have evolved quickly and in fundamentally new directions. Yet how we teach, where we teach, who teaches, and who administers and serves have changed only around the edges. This report was made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in connection with its grant making initiative on Digital Media and Learning. Key Findings Young people today are learning in new ways that are both collective and egalitarian. They are contributing to Wikipedia, commenting on blogs, teaching themselves programming and figuring out work-arounds to online video games. They follow links embedded in articles to build a deeper understanding. They comment on papers and ideas in an interactive and immediate exchange of ideas. All these acts are collaborative and democratic, and all occur amid a worldwide community of voices. Universities must recognize this new way of learning and adapt or risk becoming obsolete. The university model of teaching and learning relies on a hierarchy of expertise, disciplinary divides, restricted admission to those considered worthy, and a focused, solitary area of expertise. However, with participatory learning and digital media, these conventional modes of authority break down. Today's learning is interactive and without walls. Individuals learn anywhere, anytime, and with greater ease than ever before. Learning today blurs lines of expertise and tears down barriers to admission. While it has never been confined solely to the academy, today’s opportunities for independent learning have never been easier nor more diverse. The full The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age report is now available for free online from MIT Press. A print version of the report can also be ordered from the Press. For more information please visit the MIT Press website: mitpress.mit.edu To order print copies of this report, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/ item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11841 ISBN: 978-0-262-51359-3 | Price: $14.00 To view the report online, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/ Future_of_Learning.pdf The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning are available here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/ browse.asp?btype=6&serid=178 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 29 06:00:03 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 0A5B627426; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD6FD2741E; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090629060001.CD6FD2741E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.114 programming: fears and blocks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 114. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks [2] From: Ms Mary Dee Harris (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:04:42 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks In-Reply-To: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> Elijah -- can you get specific? What exactly are you talking about, and why would anyone use this except for personal projects? And is this code that someone shy of a professional programmer would conceivably write? We're talking about code for dummies (I mean, humanists): HTML, PHP, XML. Jim R > I'm not quite sure what kind of software you guys are describing. > There's a great deal of code out there that produces highly ambiguous, > non-goal oriented results with or without user input and not as a > result of flawed programming or design. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:33:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ms Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.107 programming: the fear of it In-Reply-To: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> I consider myself a humanist in some ways, despite having spent much of my career teaching Computer Science and now working in the tech industry designing software. I was trained in both literature and the sciences, however. I started out my career as an assembly language programming and moved into other languages along the way. I always found programming to be fascinating, in the sense that I was solving a puzzle. Much like a jigsaw puzzle requires lots of tiny, seemingly unrelated pieces to finally show the picture, writing a program requires putting together many tiny functional parts to create a working product. 'Boring' is the last word I would use to describe the process. Back in the late 1980s, I taught a course at Georgetown University called Literary Theory Using Computers. I didn't expect the students to learn programming so I gave them assignments to analyze texts with a common collation program of the day. I gave them lots of examples of how it worked and what to do with the results. Surprisingly to me, it was largely a disaster for the majority of undergraduate English majors. They had no concept of thinking through a process or analyzing the data. I could hardly understand the reports than many of them wrote because they were so disjointed and had so little correlation with the assignment. I learned from that experience that the average English major in that class (I will restrict my observation severely) had not learned logical thinking, in the sense that I knew it. I never had the opportunity to try that experiment again so I'm not sure how I could have led them into a better understanding of the process. And I must say that there were some in the class who did understand and enjoyed the approach. My conclusion is that some people get it and some don't! I'm sure that it has something to do with one's life experience and general education, as well as one's university courses. My family talked about science at the dinner table and read books. I found out at school that talking about science at dinner was not the norm, in my community, but I carried that tradition into my own family. I guess some of us think with both sides of our brains! Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. Chief Language Officer Catalis, Inc. Austin, Texas _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 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 1263123ED2; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BF0423EBE; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.115 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 115. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elijah Meeks (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.114 programming: fears and blocks [2] From: Tamara Lopez (24) Subject: programming: another perspective on blocks [3] From: Martin Holmes (1) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks [4] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (22) Subject: Code for coders --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:07:26 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.114 programming: fears and blocks In-Reply-To: <20090629060001.CD6FD2741E@woodward.joyent.us> I was specific. I pointed out NetHack, which is a 22-year old game, with freely available source code for perusal and is as strange, random and complex as any high gothic novel (You can check it out on Wikipedia, though the synopsis will only hint at the strangeness and subtlety of the gameplay). Games are analogous to fiction in writing, whereas operating systems, spreadsheets and metadata collation software is analogous to technical writing. So if you're looking for interesting coding, you should look to the right genre. I'm sure there are some great turns of phrase to be found in the corpus of lawnmower assembly manuals, but I don't think they're a good indication of the state of Western literature. Granted, most modern, big budget games are as interesting as big budget movies and books, but there's a real wealth of quirky, strangely programmed and functioning games out there. The art of writing a game, most especially the older and smaller games, with their connection to random numbers to represent chance, is clearly similar to the creation of prose and poetry. There are entire sections of code in some of these games that never get performed except under the most esoteric of circumstances, and there are interesting emergent properties of the interacting game world that capture the imagination of players and coders, regardless of user input. And yes, you can dip your feet into it with only a knowledge of XML or Perl. The game modification community has grown so large and the modification of games has grown so pervasive that many companies create specific entry points into modifying game content through creation of XML files or writing simple scripts. I'm not sure how you mean the question, "why would anyone use this except for personal projects?" though. What is the "use" of poetry or literature? How is a collection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson more useful than the aforementioned lawnmower manual? It's drudge work writing a lawnmower manual, or an academic paper, but we don't claim that therefore people shouldn't learn to write. If, however, one feels that the writing of literature is of value and its structures should be analyzed (And therefore understood to some meaningful extent) then it would seem the same would apply to creative software and there would be an incumbent need to be literate enough to analyze and understand it. You wouldn't blame a software engineer for not liking poetry, but you'd likely think him an idiot if he claimed poetry did not have the ability to pass along complex truths in the way that software does and therefore that he didn't need to learn how to read. This is a rather long and scattered response, but it's no longer clear to me your exact criticism. Is it that you think that low-level programming languages don't allow for the creation of nuanced, complex thought, or is it that you feel that code is goal-oriented and utilitarian or is it simply that software is inherently boring? I believe I've addressed the first two and, as for the third, I think that the all-pervasive nature of software militates against treating it as an ignorable subject. We have a basic expectation of literacy due to the pervasive nature of writing, and I think that we should have an equal expectation of software literacy. So, whereas Dr. McCarty's originally framed the question of software literacy (A term I've used without defining, but which I assume involves a working knowledge of creating software) in terms of fear, I feel it's more related to underestimating the scope and value of software as metaphor, creative work and tool. Elijah Meeks UC Merced > Elijah -- can you get specific?  What exactly are you talking about, > and why would anyone use this except for personal projects?  And is > this code that someone shy of a professional programmer would > conceivably write?  We're talking about code for dummies (I mean, > humanists): HTML, PHP, XML. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:40:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Tamara Lopez Subject: programming: another perspective on blocks In-Reply-To: <20090629060001.CD6FD2741E@woodward.joyent.us> Hi everyone, I've been reading this and the parent thread with great interest, and it has been wonderful to see voices popping up from distant Humanist lands to share their perspectives. It leaves me wondering though where the code got to in the discussion. It has been categorised, compared to, extemporised about, with attendant expressions of our own love, fear, and loathing toward languages and tools (by my lurking self too). However, I've not seen compelling examples of the structures themselves that make code and the doing of it scary (leaving aside the early number vs. string tributary) or worthy of love or loathing (ignoring the boredom tributary). We seem to me like birds on the shore - a little flapping here and some squawking there, while we settle back down to a comfortable (safe) distance from it.. But enough of my own squawking and pecking at the ground... Recently I was reading through Dijkstra's oral history at the CB Institute (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=320), and several sections of it came back to me when I read Mary's notes about teaching literary theory with computers. In Djikstra's interview, the interviewer quotes an earlier series of papers or reports: Frana: You said “The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.” Dijkstra: Yes. Frana: And then, in another place, you said, to take a different tack, “As long as we regard computers primarily as tools we might grossly underestimate their significance. Their influence as tools might turn out to be but a ripple on the surface of our culture.” Are you talking here about the whole cybernetic gaze that they have lent to society? Have we become like - - do we think like our machines? Dijkstra: No, no no no. His perspective, he explains, was formed by working with a student who was taking an oral exam in which he had to talk through the design of a program to solve a problem. The student couldn't solve it, because the language he had been taught to program in (Fortran) didn't have the concepts required to build the recursive construct he had in mind. The influence of the language on his ability to speak about programming was stronger than his true understanding of the issue. In an earlier section of the interview, he says: "There is an enormous difference between one who is monolingual and someone who at least knows a second language well, because it makes you much more conscious about the phenomenon of language structure in general. You will discover that certain constructions in one language you just can’t translate." Dijkstra definitely advocated for a strong grounding in math and science for budding programmers, but here he is adressing the experience of wrestling with the work of programming that doesn't compute, and the importance it lends to the experience as a whole. He also suggests that in teaching a student the skills for abstraction necessary to solve a problem like the one described, more than logical skills are required, hinting at some relationship between effective abstraction and the power of language. Are we back to poetry yet? Tamara Tamara Lopez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (UK), t: +44 (0)20 78481237 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:02:08 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.111 programming: fears and blocks In-Reply-To: <20090627082447.F0407262FF@woodward.joyent.us> > From: James Rovira >Martin -- Among those > who study literature professionally, generally those poems which > resist a single, readily grasped, clearly accessible meaning are the > least interesting. Simplistic poetry that gets awards and attention > usually does so because it's saying the right thing about the right > topic -- it's politically correct somehow. A great deal of bad poetry > gets published for this reason. Otherwise, poems generally need to be > of a certain level of difficulty to merit study and attention. One > reason for preference for difficulty is that a poem is usually not > written simply to convey a single, clear idea -- if you want to do > that, write prose -- but to convey a complex of ideas which > interrelate values, mood, emotion, concepts, a phenomenology, and an > environment in a very compact form which unites both the sound and > rhythm of the words used with their meaning. Jim R Hi Jim, You've just captured perfectly why I stopped studying literature and became a common reader. I'll take Al Purdy or Larkin over Eliot and Pound any day. :-) Cheers, Martin >>> I'd just like to pick up one of Mark Wolff's comments: >>> >>>>> An interesting poem resists easy interpretation >>> >>> Poems that "resist" interpretation are not the better for it, >>> surely? I usually think of poetry that is "hard" as flawed in >>> that particular respect, although it may be rich in other aspects >>> and reward the work put into reading it. The best poetry is >>> surely both accessible and rich. >>> >>> 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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Code for coders In-Reply-To: <20090531064946.CB5E260C8@woodward.joyent.us> Orthogonal to the thread on coding (fear, loathing and boring), I quote here from a posting by Wendell Piez reminds the TEI discussion list in a posting of July 31, 2006 [I]n view of the last exchange on editing software. You recall that one of the most tantalizing things we know (of the little we know) of the mysteries at Eleusis is that they involved not just what was said (ta legomena) but what was shown (ta deiknymena) and what was performed (ta dromena). http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607&L=TEI-L&T=0&F=&S=&P=6967 I quote this snippet to suggest that the triplet "talk, show, do" forms the basis of what is taught and assessed in Humanities Computing. Whatever the degree and nature of coding/programming practice, it is important for students and teachers to be able to engage the uninitiated. Such an assertion makes sense if one is willing to grant that Humanities Computing is a bridging discipline. And furthermore grant that the performative has a place in this bridging. I suggest that the value of any given pedagogical activity is both intrinsic to the activity itself and extrinsic -- how the teaching and assessment of the activity leads to discourse with others. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 06:11:17 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 65C3923FD8; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A42023FC9; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630061115.6A42023FC9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.116 presenting computers to the public in the 1950s & 60s X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 116. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:58:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: presenting computers to the public Those interested in the early history of computing may enjoy three films collected by The Historical Archive, described at www.thehistoricalarchive.com/products/computers.html. The movie entitled "Logic by machine" (1965) features Richard W. Hamming and Earnest Nagel. "On Guard! The Story of SAGE" (1956) is as frightening as it should be. What particularly interests me in "The Information Machine" (1958) is the developmental story of humankind, from inability to cope with life, because of insufficient tools to handle information, to command of a complex urban world. A Whiggish history to be sure, but note what's left when the human is seen through the notion of information-processing. 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 Jun 30 06:12:09 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 8ABA82A020; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E97552A018; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630061207.E97552A018@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.117 last call: European Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 117. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:02:16 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Last call for 1. European Summer School "Culture &Technology", 27.-31.07.2009, University of Leipzig Last call for the 1. European Summer School „Culture & Technology“, to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31, 2009. http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Please note, that the application phase for the 1. European Summer School “Culture & Technology” will close the 30th of June 2009. Application is done by handing in a curriculum and a letter of motivation via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2009/. Email-attachments are not accepted. During the Summer School there will be space for project presentation. If you would like to present a project, please register with ConfTool and submit a proposal. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation we can offer a number of scholarships. If you have any questions please contact the organizers at: esu2009@uni-leipzig.de. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Organizer of the European Summer School University of Leipzig ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 10:41:19 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 E1C23216E3; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27250216D2; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090630104117.27250216D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.118 presenting computers: movies in the Internet Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 118. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:18 +0900 From: Anthony Martin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.116 presenting computers to the public in the 1950s& 60s In-Reply-To: <20090630061115.6A42023FC9@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I notice that the films The Historical Archive are offering for sale are also available from the Internet Archive, for free download and use under a Creative Commons license. The Prelinger Archive, which includes these films, can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger It was difficult to tell the provenance from The Historical Archive website; perhaps they have better copies of the films? However, a quick browse of their other offerings seems to show that a lot of their products are also part of the Prelinger Archive. Best wishes Anthony Martin On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 116. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:58:23 +0100 >        From: Willard McCarty >         _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 30 10:43:10 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 C4D5821764; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C8B52175C; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090630104309.9C8B52175C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.119 reports of our death greatly exaggerated X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 119. 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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: David Golumbia (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming [2] From: James Rovira (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming [3] From: robert delius royar (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:42:23 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming In-Reply-To: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> I need to weigh in because, as I suspected, there appears to be a kind of figure-ground problem in the discussion between Elijah and Jim, one we see often in these sorts of discussions. Jim's point was that *code* cannot be ambiguous or fuzzy to work (with some very minor exceptions around the edges--"standoff markup" and the like, things rarely used in practice though sometimes dicussed in theory). I will soften his thesis even more: programming code tends strongly toward unambiguous structures and statements, because for the most part it must be interpreted or compiled and then run, and the interpreters and compilers will not accept *code* that is ambiguous. Elijah appears to be talking about *software* that can function in/handle ambiguous input and actions. I do not believe Jim was doubting that this exists; on the contrary, nearly every software program has "emergent properties," "strange behaviors" and so on, and most applications must be able to handle ambiguity of input (to some extent) if it's going to interact with human beings. Let me, then, reframe Jim's question: the challenge is to provide a significant snippet of code, say, a JavaScript function or isolated object from Java or C++ or so on, in which the operating part of the code is ambiguous (the compiler could produce multiple correct interpretations) or fuzzy (the compiler can produce no clearly correct interpretation), but the software can be compiled and run. Furthermore, because I am interested in tendencies and not so much in absolutes, the challenge is to proivde examples of such code that are regularly used in everyday applications. Personally, I do not know of compilers that can actually handle statments that are ambiguous at the level of the program--that is exactly one of the kinds of statements on which a compilers and interpreters are supposed to choke, and it would also violate the definition of the Turing machine out of which all computers are built (for which unambiguous *operations* -- not input -- are required)--but I am eager to learn. David --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:43:31 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming In-Reply-To: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks much for your response, Elijah. I would like particularly to focus upon this paragraph here: <> You answered my initial question about "esoteric" uses of coding through your description of types of lines of code in gaming programs. However, I don't completely believe your response, you seem to make some equivocations without being aware of them, and you seem to be confusing categories. First, since we're talking about someone who is primarily a humanist writing code to present works of art or literature in electronic formats, I don't think the probably millions of lines of sophisticated code necessary to make a video game work is quite equivalent. We're talking about something much smaller, simpler, and more straightforward. XML modifications to video game coding isn't quite the same either. Furthermore, being someone who has played these games before, I don't ever see the code itself. It's simply not necessary for me to do so. I only think about the code, in fact, when it fails. I don't care how sophisticated, elegant, or esoteric the code itself is. I do care than when I toggle right my character moves right and moves right immediately and consistently. This is your main point of either confusion or deliberate equivocation. When you read poetry, the lines of a poem are themselves what the reader interacts with. When you play a video game, the code itself is almost never what the player interacts with. In fact, the player should never be aware of the code that creates the visual appearance of the character and environment. The only coding involved by the user should be modifications (which you enter and then play), or issuing simply written commands that are part of game play. This is perhaps your silliest comment: <> Coding itself does not "pass along complex truths," and even if it did, no one would have access to these truths except programmers. Coding issues commands -to a machine-, which creates an interface with a user. Equating "coding" with "software" is a serious confusion of terms in this case. Software is the interface, coding is what makes it work. The interface itself may look no different from a literary product: every poem you read on a computer screen is there because of coding, but it's the poem, not the coding, that communicates complex truths. Now you may be calling the coding itself "complex truths" because it is complex (or can be), but it hardly communicates "truths" of any meaningful sort. If our entire world was a vast computer and our minds a system of computer codes, then yes, I -might- agree with you. But we don't live in the Matrix and the majority of people who are alive and have ever lived have no need of computers, much less coding, yet still manage to communicate meaningful truths to each other. I believe there could be a phenomenology of coding, in which programmers write in a "style" that reveals habits of thought, but again, the coding itself is not designed to do this. It's just designed to create a usable interface with a machine, not a person. I hope you're not confusing those two terms: machines and persons. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:15:39 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.115 programming In-Reply-To: <20090630060715.2BF0423EBE@woodward.joyent.us> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:07:26 -0700 Elijah Meeks wrote > There are entire > sections of code in some of these games that never get performed > except under the most esoteric of circumstances, and there are > interesting emergent properties of the interacting game world that > capture the imagination of players and coders, regardless of user > input. You might also look at the source (in C) for programs such as Lamda MOO and the whole MUD/MOO family. It provides an interpreter for designing interactive spaces and scenarios, so you may also find the language for creating objects and actions interesting. -- 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 Thu Jul 2 07:28:42 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 146462AC7B; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:28:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB93E2AC67; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:28:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090702072839.AB93E2AC67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:28:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.122 job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 122. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:30:10 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Oxford University: IT Support Officer for the Online EgyptologicalBibliography The appended job opportunity may be of interest to you or colleagues. Mike -------- Original Message -------- Griffith Institute in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford Information Technology Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography University Grade: 8, stages 01–04, Salary in the range £36,532 – £39,920 per annum pro rata to 40%, 16-month fixed-term The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint from late 2009 an ICT Officer to provide support for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), which will be moved from Amsterdam to a server in Oxford in late 2009 and will be further developed and migrated to a new software platform over the next year. This is a major database project that involves integrating material from diverse sources, including other databases that are to be incorporated into the OEB, as well as designing new input and search modules for use in a Unicode-compliant system. The successful candidate will have a professional knowledge of database systems, including Microsoft Access and MySQL with complex SQL statements and queries, as well as web-based systems, notably ASP, PHP, internet technologies such as (X)HTML and JavaScript, and general web design. She or he will also manage integrity, security, and online subscriptions to the OEB. This is a challenging position that will suit particularly a specialist in computing for the humanities. Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, tel. 01865 288202, email orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk, to whom applications should be sent not later than Friday 24 July 2009 The University is an equal opportunities 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 Jul 2 07:34:15 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 0D2212ADE4; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 808D42AD98; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090702073413.808D42AD98@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.123 new on WWW: TL Infobits for June X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 123. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:29:03 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- June 2009 TL INFOBITS June 2009 No. 36 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 at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Educating the Net Generation Student Computer Skills: Perception and Reality New Online Journal on Instruction Critique of E-Learning in Blackboard Google Book Search Bibliography Recommended Reading ...................................................................... EDUCATING THE NET GENERATION "A number of authors have argued that students who are entering the higher education system have grown up in a digital culture that has fundamentally influenced their preferences and skills in a number of key areas related to education. It has also been proposed that today's university staff are ill equipped to educate this new generation of learners -- the Net Generation –- whose sophisticated use of emerging technologies is incompatible with current teaching practice." EDUCATING THE NET GENERATION: A HANDBOOK OF FINDINGS FOR PRACTICE AND POLICY (Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 2009, ISBN: 9780734040732) reports on a collaborative project that began in 2006, between staff at the University of Melbourne, the University of Wollongong, and Charles Sturt University. Some of the findings of the study included: "The rhetoric that university students are Digital Natives and university staff are Digital Immigrants is not supported." "[E]ven though young people's access to and use of computers and some information and communications technologies is high, they don't necessarily want or expect to use these technologies to support some activities, including learning." "The use of publishing and information sharing tools, such as wikis, blogs and photo sharing sites, positively impacted on many students' engagement with the subject material, their peers and the general learning community." "[M]any Web 2.0 technologies enable students to publicly publish and share content in forums hosted outside their university's infrastructure. This raises complex questions about academic integrity including issues of authorship, ownership, attribution and acknowledgement." The handbook is available at http://www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/ The Australian Learning and Teaching Council works with 44 Australian higher education institutions "as a collaborative and supportive partner in change, providing access to a network of knowledge, ideas and people." For more information, contact: Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 4-12 Buckland St., Chippendale, Sydney NSW 2008 Australia; tel: 02 8667 8500; fax: 02 8667 8515; email info@altc.edu.au; Web: http://www.altc.edu.au/ ...................................................................... STUDENT COMPUTER SKILLS: PERCEPTION AND REALITY "The ubiquitous use of computers in homes and schools has aided the perception that more students are computer literate than past generations. There is a potential 'perfect storm' manifesting between students' perceived proficiency of computer application skills and the actual assessment of those skills." By administering survey and assessment instruments to over 200 business school students, researchers Donna M. Grant, Alisha D. Malloy, and Marianne C. Murphy compared students' perceived proficiencies in three computer skills areas -- word processing, presentation graphics, and spreadsheets -- with their demonstrated skills. Their research results showed "some differences in the students' perception of their word processing skills and actual performance, no difference in perception and performance for their presentation skills, and a significant difference in perception and performance for their spreadsheet skills. The study led to a redesign of an introductory business school course to remedy students' deficiencies. The paper, "A Comparison of Student Perceptions of their Computer Skills to their Actual Abilities" (JITE, vol. 8, 2009, pp. 141-60), is available at http://jite.org/documents/Vol8/JITEv8p141-160Grant428.pdf The peer-reviewed Journal of Information Technology Education (JITE) [ISSN 1539-3585 (online) 1547-9714 (print)] is published in print by subscription and online free of charge 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/ [Editor's note: At the time this article was written, the JITE website and this paper were accessible; at the time of this mailing, they are not. I have notified the JITE webmaster of the problem in the hope that the site will soon be back online.] ...................................................................... NEW ONLINE JOURNAL ON INSTRUCTION The first issue of the online peer-reviewed JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTIONAL PEDAGOGIES [ISSN: 1941-3394], published by the Academic and Business Research Institute, is available at http://aabri.com/jip.html Papers in this issue that are related to instructional technology and e-learning include: "Student Perceptions of How Technology Impacts the Quality of Instruction and Learning" by Thomas Davies, et al. "The Effects of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies and System Satisfaction Regarding Learner's Performance in E-Learning Environment" by Jong-Ki Lee "Student Performance in Online Quizzes as a Function of Time in Undergraduate Financial Management Courses" by Oliver Schnusenberg "Student Satisfaction in Web-enhanced Learning Environments" by Charles Hermans, et al. The Academic and Business Research Institute supports the research and publication needs of business and education faculty. For more information about the journal, contact: Raymond Papp, Editor; email: jip@aabri.com ...................................................................... CRITIQUE OF E-LEARNING IN BLACKBOARD "Just as utopic visions of the Internet predicted an egalitarian online world where information flowed freely and power became irrelevant, so did many proponents of online education, who viewed online classrooms as a way to free students and instructors from traditional power relationships . . ." In "A Critical Examination of Blackboard's E–Learning Environment" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 6, June 1, 2009), Stephanie J. Coopman, professor at San Jose State University, identifies the ways that the Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6 platforms "both constrain and facilitate instructor–student and student–student interaction." She argues that while the systems have improved the instructor's ability to track and measure student activity, this "creates a dangerously decontextualized, essentialized image of a class in which levels of 'participation' stand in for evidence of learning having taken place. Students are treated not as learners, as partners in an educational enterprise, but as users." The paper is available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2434/2202 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://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ ...................................................................... GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has just published the 4th version of the "Google Book Search Bibliography." "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." The bibliography is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm Links to Bailey's other extensive publications, including "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" and the "Open Access Webliography," are available 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. OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook By Alma Swan and Leslie Chan http://www.openoasis.org/ "OASIS aims to provide an authoritative 'sourcebook' on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies." _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 2 07:34:57 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 4BE6F2AF9F; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7B7B2AF90; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090702073455.D7B7B2AF90@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.124 events: watermarks; storytelling; codicology & palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 124. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ido Iurgel (13) Subject: cfp: ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling [2] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (31) Subject: Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (30) Subject: Conference: "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age",Munich, Juli 3-4, 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:54:18 +0100 From: Ido Iurgel Subject: cfp: ICIDS 2009 - Interactive Storytelling *** ICIDS – Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling – Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange. ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center of the historical city of Guimarães, the birthplace of Portugal. ***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. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:01:06 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009 Friday July 3rd at 16:30 Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)* *Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification* ALL WELCOME Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event. Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml -- 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/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:34:05 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Conference: "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age",Munich, Juli 3-4, 2009 Just a short reminder for the International Conference on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", taking place in Munich 03.07.2009 - 04.07.2009 The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. The presentations will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes), (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools. A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the “digital age”. The conference is open to the public. There will be no fee for the audience. Further information is available here: http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal Best, Torsten Schaßan - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 3 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 1EF442EC86; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 253912EC33; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:15:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090703051513.253912EC33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:15:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.125 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:25:19 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.120 programming In-Reply-To: <20090702072632.9B28C2AB6E@woodward.joyent.us> I think the concern that I'm equivocating or confusing code with software comes from a basic prejudice on my part that the software user is interacting with code, that there is no difference between what the programmer wrote and what the user is interacting with, whether it went through a compiler or not. I think it becomes clear that we're living in different worlds based on the following statement: > Furthermore, being someone who has played these games before, I don't > ever see the code itself. It's simply not necessary for me to do so. > I only think about the code, in fact, when it fails. I don't care how > sophisticated, elegant, or esoteric the code itself is. I do care > than when I toggle right my character moves right and moves right > immediately and consistently. When you play a game, especially a game that is of interest to humanities scholars, such as Civilization, you see the code all the time. It's the same when you play a less complicated game (Like, I don't know, Arkenoid, which seems to be the example you're alluding to). Civilization or my previous example, Nethack, or Zork, or really any game that pretends to simulate an environment and beings in that environment does so by creating abstractions within the code that are often written in such a way so that events are declared by the coder to occur at random or partially randomized points. Since, obviously, you are not interacting with a virtual world that responds to your speech and actions, you see the code in interfaces, in abstactions of interactivity, in abstractions of combat, trade, movement, growth, death, et cetera. From this perspective, I see little to distinguish between code and software, whether you read that code in a line-by-line format or whether you interact with its expression in the software. You should be able to recognize bounding boxes and icons and do/while statements within code based simply on how the software responds. It doesn't matter whether the guys who programmed Nethack or Civilization did so in a way that was efficient, but that they provide elements that interact between other elements and the player in a compelling way. Now, granted, something like Arkenoid isn't going to have had much added by its programmers to foster emergent properties, and neither is Excel--so when coders claim that they wrote Excel in a sophisticated or elegant manner, they're just saying they made it run real smooth and you can get your work done. But content within games, especially larger and older games, has a randomized nature to it that is coded in from the beginning. I realize this doesn't fulfill David's requirement that the software compile ambiguous statements but I can't think of how we could make demands on code that we don't make on literature and poetry. The fostering of a randomized nature must be done, as David rightly pointed out, unambiguously (The various RAND operators, which generate random numbers, exist and are well-documented for every software language) but the resultant activity of the software, the order in which functions are called, the transformation of data, all of that is unpredictable enough, I would argue, to claim ambiguity. So, while nearly all software may have emergent properties, there is software that is created specifically to better foster those emergent properties. > First, since we're talking about someone who is primarily a humanist > writing code to present works of art or literature in electronic > formats, I don't think the probably millions of lines of sophisticated > code necessary to make a video game work is quite equivalent.  We're > talking about something much smaller, simpler, and more > straightforward.  XML modifications to video game coding isn't quite > the same either. Who are we talking about and when did we constrain that person's ability? I've written games in Flash over the course of an afternoon that were 2000 lines in length and contained randomized content. I wish I was bragging, but it's only because Flash and Actionscript have gotten so easy and so visually-oriented that anyone could do it. You could, too, if you didn't find it so boring. While there are multi-million dollar entertainment software projects that are absolutely huge, the barriers to individuals creating interesting software have significantly lowered. > Coding itself does not "pass along complex truths," and even if it > did, no one would have access to these truths except programmers. Isn't that a very good reason to better understand how programming works? Of course, if you understand how programming works, you don't always need to see the code to understand how the abstractions function. If you think it's just a giant black box, though, then it's magic. > Coding issues commands -to a machine-, which creates an interface with > a user. Equating "coding" with "software" is a serious confusion of > terms in this case.  Software is the interface, coding is what makes > it work.  The interface itself may look no different from a literary > product: every poem you read on a computer screen is there because of > coding, but it's the poem, not the coding, that communicates complex > truths. You seem to have a limited understanding of what software is capable of, and of what it is. > Now you may be calling the coding itself "complex truths" because it > is complex (or can be), but it hardly communicates "truths" of any > meaningful sort.  If our entire world was a vast computer and our > minds a system of computer codes, then yes, I -might- agree with you. > But we don't live in the Matrix and the majority of people who are > alive and have ever lived have no need of computers, much less coding, > yet still manage to communicate meaningful truths to each other. I believe you're rambling here, so I'll assume you didn't actually mean that a majority of people alive have no need of computers. I don't think anyone would argue that. I assume what you meant is that a majority of people have no need of computers (Amended to coding) to relay meaningful truths to each other. Sure, that's true. But that doesn't mean that coding can't relay meaningful truth, otherwise it would stand that in highly illiterate societies the written word also doesn't communicate meaningful truth. > I hope you're not confusing those two terms: machines and persons. Who knows, maybe I'm a hard determinist and I think we're all biological machines. Frankly, I think you're too quick to think others are confused. Elijah _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 3 05:18:24 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 CCEA12ED10; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4BD6D2ECFF; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090703051823.4BD6D2ECFF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.126 studentship in imaging X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 126. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:23:08 +0100 From: "K ( Pepi ) Vacharopoulou" Subject: [Fwd: 3D Imaging in Museums - PhD opportunity] With apologies for cross-postings Dear all, You may be interested in this opportunity for a PhD studentship at Kingston University to work on 3D reconstructions fo artefacts, buildings and/or landscapes at Fishbourne Roman Palace. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Kalliopi Vacharopoulou ----- CENTRE FOR EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (CEESR) Title: 3D interactive technology and the museum visitor experience Project Outline: 3D visualisation of objects and physical phenomena linked to their geographical location and provenance is emerging alongside other application areas, for example urban design and street scene visualisation, as an area of applied research in GIS and associated 3D technologies. This PhD research would explore the use of 3D interactive technologies for enhancing the experience of visitors to museums, using Fishbourne Palace Museum as a case study and test bed. The project involves collaboration with members of the Media Studies group at Kingston University and with the Sussex Archaeological Trust through the Fishbourne Palace Museum. There are three core aspects to the research: • A technical evaluation of software tools capable of enabling visitors to click/touch on a display screen to explore interactively virtual objects representing ‘real-world’ objects that could not be disassembled and/or reconstructed (e.g. sarcophagi, temples and human remains). • Locating such virtual objects in their geographical and historical context using freely available mapping tool. • Volunteers recruited from the museum’s visitor base would participate in focus groups to evaluate prototype systems which would be used to inform the development of Beta demonstrator systems. The project’s central research question seeks to discover the extent to which 3D interactive technologies can be combined with GIS tools in a way that enhances the experience of visitors to museums and potentially to similar collections held in public buildings (e.g. art galleries). Candidates with experience of GIS interested in developing the 3D visualisation aspects of this technology in innovative ways are encouraged to apply. For further information or an informal discussion on the project, please contact: Professor Nigel Walford (020 8417 2512; N.Walford@kingston.ac.uk). Applications Studentships are full time (3 years for PhD subject to satisfactory progress and 1 year for MSc by Research) and include a stipend of £14,000 per annum and tuition fees for a Home/EU student (£3,500 per annum). Applicants eligible for overseas fees would have to cover the difference between the Home/EU tuition fee and the tuition fee for an overseas student (£10,350 per annum). The appointee will be expected to support teaching (maximum of 6 hours per week), which will be additionally funded. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 3 05:21:13 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 578F62EE8D; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:21:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4A5A2EE86; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090703052112.A4A5A2EE86@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.127 editing medieval English laws; ESF research networking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 127. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jenny Benham" (31) Subject: Editing the Laws of Medieval England [2] From: Humanities (22) Subject: Launch of 2009 Call for Research Networking Programmes --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:04:33 +0100 From: "Jenny Benham" Subject: Editing the Laws of Medieval England Dear Colleague, The Early English Laws project is pleased to announce its next event: Editing the Medieval Laws of England Date: 24 October 2009 Location: Institute of Historical Research Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws. The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age. Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham , Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Kind regards, 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 Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:14:03 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Launch of 2009 Call for Research Networking Programmes For wide dissemination: Call for applications ESF Research Networking Programmes - 2009 Call for Proposals An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science. Key objectives include: * creating interdisciplinary fora; * sharing knowledge and expertise; * developing new techniques; * training young scientists. A successful Programme proposal must show high scientific quality and also demonstrate added value by being carried out at a European level rather than by individual research groups at the national level.. Proposals may be submitted in any scientific field. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 22 October 2009 (16:00 CET).. Full details at http://www.esf.org/programmes. _________________________________________ Valerie Allspach-Kiechel Senior Administrator, ESF Exploratory Workshops & Corporate Calls Corporate Science Operations Unit European Science Foundation 1, quai Lezay-Marnésia BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Tel:+33 (0)388 76 71 36 Fax:+33 (0)388 37 05 32 vallspach@esf.org http://www.esf.org/workshops _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 4 09:37:18 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 8E936885D; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC9BD884D; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090704093716.BC9BD884D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.128 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 128. 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 (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.120 programming [2] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.125 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:11:21 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.120 programming In-Reply-To: <20090702072632.9B28C2AB6E@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, JIm R. wrote: > Coding itself does not "pass along complex truths," and even if it > did, no one would have access to these truths except programmers. > Coding issues commands -to a machine-, which creates an interface with > a user. Equating "coding" with "software" is a serious confusion of > terms in this case. Software is the interface, coding is what makes > it work. The interface itself may look no different from a literary > product: every poem you read on a computer screen is there because of > coding, but it's the poem, not the coding, that communicates complex > truths. > Code is written in computer language. It's called computer *language*, because that's exactly what it is: language, semiotics, a bunch of signs to convey meaning. As with any other language you can make it stylish, raw, express dumbness or elegance. The one difference is that it has strict grammar. (You can expand vocabulary, no difference there: making a new word is just defining another function.) Strict grammar allows interpretation by a compiler or any other formal interpreter that may create worlds out of the code by visualization, gui etc. In those worlds anything can happen that we can imagine, because we can express that in code. Yes, also ambiguity and uncertainty can be *modeled*. They're approximations, simulations of ambiguity, but it would be hard, if not impossible, for humans to tell the difference when not knowing they were toying with a computer. This is what makes computer code/language a double treat to me. It may be poetry by itself for the initiated (like the beauty of an elegant equation may only be in the eye of the mathematician). As an interpreted language (by computers) it may convey or visualize poetry in other (human) languages, simulate worlds, allow for creative human human interaction, inspire, provoke thought... really anything. So, I'd say it's actually more 'powerful' than human language. I can see no logical reason why at least some parts of the complex truths Jim is talking about, shouldn't be exactly expressible by code. Apparently Jim would find that kind of expression boring, but that's really a question of taste, not of capabilities and functions of code. Just a thought. Cheers, Joris PS I 'True ambiguity' in software code exist, it's just not loved by coders generally because in the end code is about clearness and logic to construct and build. But yes, one can make a data class -bad idea, but that's another discussion- 'Circle'. That would be a highly ambiguous class. It might contain the names of users that I trust, or it might contain information on just a geometrical circle. I can imagine that this class would have a function '.rotate()'. If the class was to represent a 'bunch' of users, this would mean the order would change, if it was a geometrical circle, well you know the routine. The ambiguity could go as far as me as a coder only realizing that I was fooled when calling the function '.display()', only then it would become apparent to me that I was using a class that I didn't mean to use. Now, as said, generally coders don't like this sort of unclearnes, because it slows down there productiveness. So they would call the former 'CircleOfTrust', having functions like '.reorder()', '.in( user )', '.out( user )', etc. The order one would probably be 'CircleXY( x, y, r )'. And if you want to go *really* ambiguous: you can have the class CircleXY generate visual rectangles, which would only occur to the developers when users started to call in something strange was happening. The point of doing that (apart from questionable levels of fun) however, escapes me. PS II Hard core Informatics have been playing around with ambiguity/uncertainty down to the hardware level. The famous bit can only represent two values. But there are ways to hardwire uncertainty. One is that flipflops can have ambiguous state (neither 0 or 1, just 'uncertain'). As far as I know there's not a practical application for that yet - but I'm certainly no expert here. Other ambiguities come in play of course in quantum computing. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:37:39 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.125 programming In-Reply-To: <20090703051513.253912EC33@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, the following paragraph does get to a root difference in our outlooks: > I think the concern that I'm equivocating or confusing code with > software comes from a basic prejudice on my part that the software > user is interacting with code, that there is no difference between > what the programmer wrote and what the user is interacting with, > whether it went through a compiler or not. I agree the software user is interacting with code when using software. The point is that s/he is not usually interacting -directly- with code. Most software users know nothing about code and, as you say, the computer is a magic black box that just does things when you type or touch the screen. And yes, I probably am rambling, but I do mean this: <> The majority of people alive today do not live in fully industrialized countries, do not have computers, and probably never will. They all do have language, whether it is written or not. In the history of technology, written language was considered grossly subordinate to spoken language, writing inferior to speech, and really unnecessary to communicate meaningful truths. But the parallel you attempt to draw between coding and language on this point still doesn't work. We don't think in code. Our major philosophical, religious, and literary texts were not written in code. Our major works of art are not painted in code. Code itself does not communicate the truths these works communicate. It simply reproduces a visual equivalent of these works in electronic form. Saying code communicates meaningful truth is roughly equivalent to saying pens and paper communicate meaningful truth. 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 Jul 4 09:37:46 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 7E06F88C0; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 193F38891; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090704093745.193F38891@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:37:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.129 from 'as if' to 'is'? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 129. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:34:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: from 'as if' to 'is' At the beginning of his remarks leading off the 8th Macy Conference on Cybernetics, 23 March 1950, Ralph Gerard observed as follows: > It seems to me, in looking back over the history of this group, that > we started our discussions and sessions in the "as if" spirit. > Everyone was delighted to express any idea that came into his mind, > whether it seemed silly or certain or merely a stimulating guess that > would affect someone else. We explored possibilities for all sorts of > "ifs." Then, rather sharply it seemed to me, we began to talk in an > "is" idiom. We were saying much the same things, but now saying them > as if they were so. I remembered a definition of pregnancy: "the > result of taking seriously something poked at one in fun," and > wondered if we had become pregnant and were in some danger of > premature delivery. ("Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions > in the Central Nervous System", in Heinz von Foerster, Margaret Mead > and Hans Lukas Teuber, eds., Cybernetics: Circular Causal and > Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems (New York: > Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951, p. 11) This slippage from 'as if' to 'is' must be among the most common conceptual errors we make. I wonder, given the essential instability of all computational models, are we any better off than we once were? I suppose not, actually, since the basic problem is not with the things we make but in how we look on them. Or does that computational instability feed back into our reasoning processes and so helps to keep them in motion? 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 Sun Jul 5 07:14:25 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 3C86F655B; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15E03654A; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090705071423.15E03654A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.130 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 130. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming [2] From: John Carlson (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:19:29 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming In-Reply-To: <20090704093716.BC9BD884D@woodward.joyent.us> Joris -- thank you for the response. You said something very interesting that I'd like to address. But first, about this: <> Yes, you are absolutely right, and that is the position from which I started. I initially responded to a post implying that those who do not want to write code fear it. My response was that I don't fear it; I find it boring. But that's just my preference. I understand and respect that my math professor friend does not like poetry. My wife is a history person. She doesn't like poetry either. Most of the rest of what you say validates the points I've been making -- yes, you can write somewhat ambiguous code, but why? Now this was what I found particularly interesting: <> Do you really believe that programming code is not a human language? I would say you don't believe this. You do believe programming code is a human language (of course it is; it was created by human beings). But you speak of it in the sentence above as if it weren't because programming code is -not a language human beings use to speak to other human beings, but to machines-. So you speak as if programming code is a machine language, not a human language. Now, my question is, what difference does it make that programming code itself -can- communicate complex truths (about human existence) when the language is designed to talk to a -machine- that's only looking for a command to turn on or off a series of complex switches which can only occupy two positions, on and off? If a human being writes code, of course the code -can- communicate complex, meaningful truths to other human beings. My point is that code is not designed to do this, though. I think you run away with yourself a bit here: > This is what makes computer code/language a double treat to me. It may be > poetry by itself for the initiated (like the beauty of an elegant equation > may only be in the eye of the mathematician). As an interpreted language (by > computers) it may convey or visualize poetry in other (human) languages, > simulate worlds, allow for creative human human interaction, inspire, > provoke thought... really anything. So, I'd say it's actually more > 'powerful' than human language. as you elide the fact that computer code overlaps normal human spoken languages, and where it communicates meaningful human truth it must rely upon normal human spoken languages. Coding elements can add nuance to these normal human spoken languages, but cannot replace them. This is roughly equivalent to Wittgenstein including symbolic logic in his Tractatus. It supplements otherwise quite normal human speech, but does not replace it. What I envision from your paragraph above is an elegantly written string of code that is simultaneously functional for a machine and communicates meaningful human truth. My question is, how much of the thousands of billions of lines of code out there even begins to resemble this description? A millionth of one percent? And how often would anyone really want to write something like this? The best programmers usually aren't interested in poetry, and the best poets probably do fear programming. Thanks much for raising the level of this discussion by including direct reference to code elements and how they may be used. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:30:36 -0400 From: John Carlson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.128 programming In-Reply-To: <20090704093716.BC9BD884D@woodward.joyent.us> "But the parallel you attempt to draw between coding and language on this point still doesn't work. We don't think in code." First, all language is code; the images we produce (in mind or on canvas) are code, too. The reality is, we can't think except in code. Second, it seems to me that much of humanities computing is predicated on the notion to exploring one type of code (language) using another type of code (markup) can be enlighten us by either by revealing patterns and/or features that were previously obscure or focusing attention those things that remain obscure after translation - features that resist expression in a new code. -- John Ivor Carlson Digital Production Editor Yale 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 Sun Jul 5 07:14:53 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 2B35B65A1; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 642CA6591; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090705071451.642CA6591@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 131. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:21:47 -0700 From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.129 from 'as if' to 'is'? In-Reply-To: <20090704093745.193F38891@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting question. For me, as a non-computationalist, the as-if gallops right through all of the as-ises as a kind of ontological principle. There could be no "is" without the "as-if," since the latter opens possibility. I tend to run this through the Kant (als-ob), Husserl, Derrida, Deleuze machine(s). Happy 4th! Gray Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD Professor: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Director: Center for University Studies and Programs University of Washington, Bothell Fulbright Scholar in General Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong America Center 2009-10 -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 2:38 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 5 08:13:49 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 631F86CF8; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod7mx227.postini.com [64.18.2.180]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F6BD6CE8 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:13:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from source ([81.187.30.51]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7mx227.postini.com ([64.18.6.14]) with SMTP; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:13:47 PDT 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 1MNMr1-00071b-H8 for humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:13:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4A5060AA.4010801@mccarty.org.uk> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:13:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Organization: King's College London User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) 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:97.53101/99.90000 CV:99.9000 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 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: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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 No argument from me against Gray Kochhar-Lindgren's galloping as-if. But I ask again: does computing speed the journey, make it harder for us to think that one of the waystations is the end of the road? There's no question that we're incapable of construing some state of the machine as final (e.g. as if putting up a static website were basically the same as publishing a book on paper, however cheaper and less prestigious). But the physical characteristics of the form we use affect us; they constitute a difference that makes a difference. Is our grip on finality loosening as a result? Let me ask a further question. If our grip is loosening, then how now are we going wrong? Yours, WM Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 131. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:21:47 -0700 > From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.129 from 'as if' to 'is'? > In-Reply-To: <20090704093745.193F38891@woodward.joyent.us> > > Interesting question. For me, as a non-computationalist, the as-if gallops > right through all of the as-ises as a kind of ontological principle. There > could be no "is" without the "as-if," since the latter opens possibility. I > tend to run this through the Kant (als-ob), Husserl, Derrida, Deleuze > machine(s). > Happy 4th! > Gray > > Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD > Professor: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences > Director: Center for University Studies and Programs > University of Washington, Bothell > Fulbright Scholar in General Education > University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong America Center > 2009-10 > -- 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 Jul 6 09:02:27 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 EB07A1FC7E; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B54791FC76; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090706090225.B54791FC76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.132 from 'as if' to 'is' X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 132. 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" (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' [2] From: James Rovira (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:35:08 -0800 (AKDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' In-Reply-To: <4A5060AA.4010801@mccarty.org.uk> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Willard McCarty wrote: > No argument from me against Gray Kochhar-Lindgren's galloping as-if. But I ask > again: does computing speed the journey, make it harder for us to think that > one of the waystations is the end of the road? > > There's no question that we're incapable of construing some state of the > machine as final (e.g. as if putting up a static website were basically the > same as publishing a book on paper, however cheaper and less prestigious). But > the physical characteristics of the form we use affect us; they constitute a > difference that makes a difference. Is our grip on finality loosening as a > result? > > Let me ask a further question. If our grip is loosening, then how now are we > going wrong? > > Yours, > WM As the inventor of eBooks I must heartily challenge "finality," as a goal in electronic publications, and I wish paper printing has less of an attachment to it as well, as I tire of reading a series of errors again and again in later editions, that should have been corrected if the publishers would make the effort. "A grip on finality" presumes perfection. "How now we are going wrong?" is presuming that finaily lacking is a wrong that should be corrected. In my own professional opinion, since that first eBook in 1971, I refused to engage Project Gutenberg in this behavior, with an elementary series of editions from 0.1 to 0.9 before the eBooks were even considered as finished in a "first edition." Yes, some people complained that the early works, done by hand, needed too many revisions to get them up to proper levels of an acceptable accuracy, but this is obviously true of any invented process as it gets started, and no one seems to complain that a "finality" doesn't exist when new versions of other items come. [Well, not "no one," but they are generally accepted.] Why, in this age when it would be so easy and simple to correct errors, add notes and commentaries, etc., should be not? What is this fixation on "finality" as a goal, in the face of a most absolute knowledge that our previous work is imperfect? There is absolutely no reason electronic editions should pass a standard set by paper editions, give the ease with which a host of readers can simply send in a note with an error, suggestion, or what have you. We would/shold/could get closer to perfection. However, I say it is hubris to say we have achieved it. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks 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 Tollbooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . If you ever do not get a prompt response, please resend, then keep resending, I won't mind getting several copies per week. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:24:34 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 23.131 from 'as if' to 'is' In-Reply-To: <4A5060AA.4010801@mccarty.org.uk> If a grip on finality is a bad thing, how can you possibly ask this question? How is it possible to "go wrong" so long as you continually change. So much of this discussion reminds me of Kierkegaard's critique of German Romanticism in On the Concept of Irony and Either/Or 1 and 2. In the former work, Kierkegaard compares Socratic irony to German Romantic irony. Socratic irony makes space for a self differentiated from her environment but is still oriented toward some notion of the "good" as an absolute. German Romantic irony is ironic for irony's own sake, so there is no sense of "finality" or even the remote possibility of it, just a series of waystations on a road that ultimately leads nowhere. Postmodern thinking tends to indistinguishable from the thinking of German Romantics as Kierkegaard described them. It's this fundamental assumption about finality vs. progress that needs to be questioned first. Jim R On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Willard McCarty wrote: > > Let me ask a further question. If our grip is loosening, then how now are we > going wrong? > > 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 Jul 6 09:02:54 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 E77221FD53; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D3231FD42; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090706090252.4D3231FD42@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:02:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.133 hindsight on future gazing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 133. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:59:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: hindsight on future gazing Willard, You and the readers of Humanist might be intrigued by this passage in D.F. McKenzie's _Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Timewise it is a bit outside the period of the cybernetic-influenced discourse you have been examing. However it provides a neat formulation for the evolution of the application of computing power to text processing. It should also be remembered that it was not the sophistication of computing in its early stages which biased its use towards science, but its limited memory and therefore its inability to handle the complexity and range of verbal language as distinct from combinations of the numbers 0 to 9. Only as its memory systems have grown has the computer changed its nature from blackboard to book. It has at long last become literate and qualified to join other textual systems. In time, I suppose, as it now learns to speak, it will constitute an oral archive as well. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 09:03:22 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 DC4001FD9D; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09F271FD95; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090706090322.09F271FD95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.134 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 134. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:18:08 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.130 programming In-Reply-To: <20090705071423.15E03654A@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the response, John. Redefining the terms of the discussion does not invalidate my point, however. I could simply rephrase my statement to say that we do not think in one type of code (computer code) but do think in another type of code (human language). This is a response you may have anticipated. I tend to think in terms of a distinction between mathematics and verbal languages, and see computer code as a hybrid that largely follows math conventions. We use mathematics to talk to other human beings about physical interrelationships between material objects, computer code to talk to a machine (a computer), and verbal language to talk about everything else. Computer code provides the interface between the other two languages and a machine but does not provide the content of the other two languages, and when it may do so, it is very reliant upon these other two languages. We can read coding tendencies and draw conclusions about the person writing code, just like we can read complex mathematical equations and do the same, or look at how a building is designed, or was physically built, or how a transmission is repaired, and do the same. That we can make inferences from patterns of behavior in all these instances does not mean that, say, the act of repairing a transmission is inherently meaningful psychologically, all the more so since most of the time when we watch someone fix a car, we don't make these inferences. I usually infer how annoying it is to repair cars, but I'm probably just projecting onto others my own feelings. Jim R > "But the parallel you attempt to draw between coding and language on > this point still doesn't work.  We don't think in code." > > First, all language is code; the images we produce (in mind or on canvas) > are code, too. The reality is, we can't think except in code. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 09:04:07 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 213EB1FE35; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:04:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE9841FE27; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:04:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090706090405.EE9841FE27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:04:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.135 events: markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:40:14 -0400 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: [ANN] Complete Balisage 2009 Program posted The complete Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 program, including late-breaking news, has just been posted. * Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2009/Program.html * Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2009/At-A-Glance.html Balisage 2009 is the place to come to think about XML, and about markup. The Balisage program varies from the practical to the theoretical, with a little heresy mixed in: * Practical - pipelines - creating XML schemas from UML - editing tools - version control for XML documents - checking and validating XML documents * Real-world Uses of XML - healthcare - large humanities datasets - archives * Overlap and complex documents - TEI feature structures - encoding non-hierarchical structures in RDF - tagging and manipulating structures that are not well managed as trees * Proposed changes - to XML Namespaces - extensions to XPath * Theoretical - nature of documents - analysis of marked-up texts - the process of marking up documents * Future - XML in the browser - visual designers - XML and open data Balisage is the place for data modelers, software engineers, librarians, ontologists and taxonomists, document managers, standards developers, system architects, archivists, markup theoreticians and practitioners, and kindred spirits to talk with each other. Indulge your inner markup geek at Balisage 2009 this August in Montreal. -- ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009 mailto:info@balisage.net August 11-14, 2009 http://www.balisage.net Processing XML Efficiently: August 10, 2009 Montreal, Canada ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 6 15:58:25 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 B27311ECA9; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1AF0E1EC99; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090706155824.1AF0E1EC99@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.136 events: humanities and computer science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 136. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:57:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: InterFace 2009 InterFace 2009: International symposium to bring humanities and technology closer 9 — 10 July 2009 University of Southampton A symposium which will provide a forum through which researchers can learn about the latest developments in both technology and the humanities will be hosted by the University of Southampton [Wednesday and Thursday this week]. InterFace, the first annual international symposium aimed at improving the cross-fertilisation between technology and the humanities, which will be hosted by the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the School of Humanities on 9-10 July 2009, has invited delegates involved in both disciplines to come together to share ideas. The submissions, a third of which are from an international audience, will be presented in Lighting Talks and poster sessions and fall broadly into a number of themes One theme is hypermedia technology for traditional media, which looks at the technology needed to read ancient manuscripts, with a novel idea being the possibility of digitizing all the surviving materials for the early Gospel of St John in Latin. Another theme looks at automated and assistive translation and considers issues such as machine translations for the Classics and the difficulties of switching alphabets. 'The fact that we have themes like this from a large international audience challenges the Anglo-centricity of the World Wide Web,' said Leif Isaksen at ECS. 'We really need to seriously consider how all of this is used on a global level.' The underlying theme of InterFace generally is how society and technology influence each other and will be the subject of keynotes by Professor Dame Wendy Hall from ECS and Professor Willard McCarty from the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London. This theme will also address the convergence of technologies such as phones, computers and cameras, social networking and privacy, how students use this technology and the fact that elderly people tend to be excluded from these sites due to their inability to embrace the technology. 'We are delighted with the response we have had,' said Leif. 'It really hits a broad range of interesting synergies and should stimulate some interesting discussions.' http://www.interface09.org.uk [Note that summaries of the two keynote addresses are available on AlphaGalileo, www.alphagalileo.org/, under Events for 9 July.] -- 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 Jul 7 05:25:05 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 90DAE1B382; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:25:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ACC721B35F; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:25:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:25:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.137 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 137. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Golumbia (64) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming [2] From: John Carlson (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming [3] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:20:38 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming In-Reply-To: <20090706090322.09F271FD95@woodward.joyent.us> Jim wrote: I could simply rephrase my statement to say that we do not think in one type > of code (computer > code) but do think in another type of code (human language). This is > a response you may have anticipated. > > I tend to think in terms of a distinction between mathematics and > verbal languages, and see computer code as a hybrid that largely > follows math conventions. > To build on what Jim says, because this happens to be a particular interest of mine, and while I won't go into great detail here, the entire idea that the mind or language functions via a "code" that is anything like a logical or mathematical language is just false (which is not to say that *some parts* of mind and language have code-like operations; of course they do. We can talk and think about math. We can talk in and think about logical notation, etc.). Cognitive scientists and linguists have been trying for more than 50 years to find such codes and they have failed, period, and there is broad scientific and especially linguistic consensus that this is a failed idea. I talk about this at some length in the 2-4th chapters of my book,* The Cultural Logic of Computation* (Harvard UP, 2009), and just because the issue keeps coming up, I have some more pointed work in progress addressing the history and cultural contexts of the view. And where did the view come from? Until the 1950s, programming languages were called "codes" and almost nobody (other than some hard-core computationalists) thought they were like human languages. The concern was that everyone but mathematicians were afraid of programming. At a conference at MIT in the 1950s Grace Hopper and others suggested replacing mathematical concepts with English words in some new higher-level languages (you know their names) and calling them "programming languages" so that fewer people would be afraid to use them (see earlier conversation). That didn't make them languages, and nobody in those rooms was looking into the characteristics of human languages in depth to make the comparison (and there were no linguists there). So to say as someone earlier did, and as many people do, "they are called languages and so they are languages" is to give an awful lot of power to a small group of people who were not, in fact, thinking about the question at all. Yet one hears it repeated over and over again, which really shows the power and function of human language and ideology to structure social relations. There are so many reasons the human languages and programming languages are not alike. I will give only a single philosophical argument, which i find especially convincing, although ymmv. Human languages can only be "interpreted" in context, and even then univocal interpretation is the exception, while the rule is ambiguity. That is, almost every utterance appears to be functioning at both more than one level and also at no particularly concrete "level." Do the exchanges in "small talk" in fact mean what they appear to refer to? A strong argument can be constructed that they "mean" things about the social relations between the talkers, and very little about the ostensive speech topics. Programming langauges can only be interpreted via the single direct reference of their terms, which cannot by definition, in that role, be interpreted ambiguously. English sentence, out of context: "go to the store." you may think you know its 'meaning,' but there is no "fact of the matter" about it, and without inserting it into context, you have no idea about its "real" function or meaning. I could place the sentence into a hundred different contexts that would radically change its function and import. Basic sentence: "Goto 14." One "interpretation": go to line 14. human beings can make other things out of it (making it function as human language), but in its role as a line of program, it has a single, unambiguous, univocal "interpretation" that is more like a Fregean "reference" than a "meaning." If the program fails to go to line 14 on reading this statement, it is in trouble. This is absolutely true regardless of the context of the sentence. David --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:21:02 -0400 From: John Carlson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming In-Reply-To: <20090706090322.09F271FD95@woodward.joyent.us> "I could simply rephrase my statement to say that we do not think in one type of code (computer code) but do think in another type of code (human language). This is a response you may have anticipated." Indeed - the second part of my response depends on the tensions exposed or created when moving between different types of code. I do object to the assumption, though, that some things should only be expressed in one type of code/language (very different from more useful observations about whether some things are easier to express in a particular code/language). Every mode of expression, or code, is flawed/limited in some manner - indeed, the quality of "indeterminacy" that provides the richness of meaning to poetic expression could be thought of as a flaw (assuming the transfer of information to be the primary purpose of communication). However, like many apparent limitations in code, this flaw has been turned into a feature over time. The very characteristics you see as limiting programmatic code should also be thought of as flaws with the potential to become features. Finally, I would add that it seems a bit odd to claim that computer code is distinct from "human language" - we're still the ones doing the talking, after all, even if the grammar seems foreign to you. Perhaps, though, my perspective is different because my primary interaction with programmatic code has been through markup languages like TEI XML. Such coding systems carry greater semantic weight than "hard" (true?) programming languages and could perhaps be seen as occupying an intermediary space between strictly linguistic and strictly programmatic code. However, if you can have a programmatic language with strong linguistic tendencies (or vice versa) that would also seem to imply that the hard distinctions you try to draw between different types of code are imaginary. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:42:52 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.134 programming I think the discussion of the difference between computer code and human language has gone off the tracks. The fundamental difference between computer code and human language is that computer code is meant to cause a machine to do something. The closest analogy in human language terms would be the commands of military leaders to their troops. The reason programming is appealing is that you get a chance to absolutely control the actions of a machine. Unlike in the case of human language, where under normal circumstances you can at best hope to sway judgement or influence opinion, in programming the code directly changes the behavior of the computer. Even in the analogy with military orders, you can't be certain that the orders will be carried out exactly as you intended. To describe this type of activity as 'boring' probably has more to do with the goals the programmer has for the code than the actual creation of the code. If you're programming a boring task, then the code may well be a boring thing to write. However, if the task you're programming the computer to perform involves arriving at a new display of information that can reveal hidden properties of data, especially text data, and the techniques being imployed are not certain to work (you can only see so far ahead, much as in a game of chess), then I would find it hard to describe the task of writing such code boring. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 7 05:28:50 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 874E01B49E; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45E961B48F; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:28:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090707052848.45E961B48F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.138 events: storytelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0505575801==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0505575801== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 138. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:36:20 +0100 From: Ido Iurgel Subject: ICIDS 2009 - INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING. Extended Submission Deadline: July 13th] *** ICIDS -- Interactive Storytelling 2009 *** 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimares, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 13th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. It was successfully launched in 2008, superseding the two previous European conference series, TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling -- Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling"). While the venues of these events were traditionally bound to France and Germany, ICIDS is set to overcome also this geographical limitation. The fusion of the previous conferences was most successfully inaugurated in Erfurt, Germany, as ICIDS 2008. In a very inspiring and friendly atmosphere, over 100 international participants have enjoyed high-quality talks and worked together at creative and fruitful workshops, and there were plenty of delightful occasions that gathered the attendees for more informal exchange. ICIDS 2009 aims at setting forth the success of this new beginning. The venue will be the Centro Cultural Vila Flor, an excellent modern conference center that extends a historical palace, at walking distance from most hotels and from the city center of the historical city of Guimarães, the birthplace of Portugal. ***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. *** SUBMISSIONS *** 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. 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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: Elijah Meeks (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [2] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [3] From: John Carlson (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [4] From: "Mark LeBlanc" (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming [5] From: Wendell Piez (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:51:50 -0700 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> David, I find it rather a poor example to refer to the GOTO command as a sign of the draconian specificity of code, given that the GOTO command has been pilloried by the software community for well over a quarter century exactly because of its draconian specificity (Along with making unstructured code unreadable). To take your example into the modern age, any mediocre programmer could develop a go(Store) function and object that had any number of different values depending on where it was called and what the current state of the software. Quality programmers could even throw in fancy pathfinding, neural nets and some multiuser capability to really muddle things up. This discussion has been littered with archaic bits of software-ese, with GOTO, COBOL, FORTRAN and computing hardware/software from seventy years ago. I'd like to repeat a claim I made earlier on a different Humanist thread and say that lessons learned from how hardware and software worked in the 1950s-1970s (And maybe even 80s) have very little bearing on understanding modern coding and software functionality. Issues of processing power, storage, the rise of OO programming--it all adds up to a difference in kind from the world of cassette storage and 64k of memory. For those interested in reading early criticisms of the GOTO command, which perhaps may have some bearing on our current discussion, you can take a look at Edsger Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". It is very short (Less than 3 pages), focuses on just the subject we're discussing, and was written in 1968. Wikipedia has a decent treatment of GOTO, and I'll avoid the obvious pun in favor of another: humanist.discussion_group($GOTO_Article, read, respond, make intellectual hay, 0); I tried to combine as much different programming syntax as possible, so as to appeal to the broadest audience, Elijah Meeks --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:21:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> I also find it odd that computer code would be spoken of as if it weren't a human language, and said so in a previous post. Thanks much for this reply, amsler. > To describe this type of activity as 'boring' probably has more to do with > the goals the programmer has for the code than the actual creation of the > code. If you're programming a boring task, then the code may well be a > boring thing to write. Again, speaking purely out of personal preference, I always find coding boring, even when I find the product of coding quite interesting. But I've never gone very far with it. It doesn't amaze or shock me that others can find coding interesting. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:06:34 -0400 From: John Carlson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: > <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us > "English sentence, out of context: "go to the store." you may think you know its 'meaning,' but there is no "fact of the matter" about it, and without inserting it into context, you have no idea about its "real" function or meaning. I could place the sentence into a hundred different contexts that would radically change its function and import." David, Perhaps I'm being dense, but doesn't this illustrate language functioning as code? You're basically saying that these words act as signs and/or symbols representing some underlying reality and their meaning needs to be decoded within specific contexts (i.e., the environmental variables of an expression). Programming commands also represent an underlying reality and need to be interpreted in context by some processing entity to make sense (indeed, you make this point in your story about Grace Hopper). The underlying reality and processing entity's nature might change, but the basic activity of translation from an abstract representational system to an understanding of what those abstractions represent does not - in other words, there's a formal likeness even if specific functionality and grammars differ radically. --John Ivor Carlson Digital Production Editor Yale University Press --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:09:37 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> >If you're programming a boring task, then the code may well be a >boring thing to write. However, if the task you're programming the computer >to perform involves arriving at a new display of information that can reveal >hidden properties of data, especially text data, and the techniques >being imployed are not certain to work (you can only see so far ahead, >much as in a game of chess), then I would find it hard to describe the task of > writing such code boring. > thanks for this nice comment, refreshing; i have been cutting code (and teaching undergraduates from all disciplines to do the same) for over 20 years and i must say my new collaboration mining the anglo-saxon corpus is some of the most interesting and exciting work i've done (http://lexomics.wheatoncollege.edu); no, the code is not earth-shattering and our analyses are not complex, but writing code to help untangle the web of relationships in an old corpus brings this programmer to the lab with a skip in my step; mark --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:34:23 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.137 programming In-Reply-To: <20090707052503.ACC721B35F@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, David Golumbia writes: >Programming langauges can only be interpreted via the single direct >reference of their terms, which cannot by definition, in that role, be >interpreted ambiguously. > >English sentence, out of context: "go to the store." you may think you know >its 'meaning,' but there is no "fact of the matter" about it, and without >inserting it into context, you have no idea about its "real" function or >meaning. I could place the sentence into a hundred different contexts that >would radically change its function and import. > >Basic sentence: "Goto 14." One "interpretation": go to line 14. human beings >can make other things out of it (making it function as human language), but >in its role as a line of program, it has a single, unambiguous, univocal >"interpretation" that is more like a Fregean "reference" than a "meaning." >If the program fails to go to line 14 on reading this statement, it is in >trouble. This is absolutely true regardless of the context of the sentence. Item for debate: an externally specified, descriptive markup language such as TEI XML is more like "human language" and less like "code" ("programming language"), in the sense David describes. It becomes more like code (more like Fortran, Basic or XSLT) and less like human language (English, Latin or Chinese), if it ever does, only provisionally, when it is embedded in a single particular processing system -- a particular operational context. And its refusal to commit to any single such system -- its capacity to be recontextualized, with its significances adjusted or altered accordingly -- is intrinsic to its value and usefulness. Cheers, Wendell =========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML =========================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 8 05:32:23 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 DF9561D68E; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 28F851D678; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:32:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090708053222.28F851D678@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.140 are we going somewhere? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 140. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:50:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: going somewhere? I recommend to anyone who is feeling bad about the condition of his or her discipline, especially the one we share, reading an article by the psychologist and cyberneticist Heinrich Klüver, "Psychology at the beginning of World War II: Meditations on the impending dismemberment of psychology written in 1942", Journal of Psychology 28 (1949): 383-410 (in JSTOR). In particular his declaration "that psychology has travelled many roads which led nowhere and that it is unique among the sciences in its treasures of *negative* information" (400). Considering Clifford Geertz's passionate description of the struggle to articulate theory in anthropology as well, I wonder if we cannot lay at the door of the positivist conception of science the sense that as one moves from the physical sciences to the humanities negative replaces positive information as one's greatest treasure? Or is the situation more complex, recalculated discipline by discipline? So let me ask, in what disciplines of the humanities is positive knowledge the point of the exercise? Klüver quotes "the greatest of English physicists" (whom he does not name -- Rutherford, perhaps?) "who, when asked what he thought of the respective contributions of speculation and experiment to his science, replied: 'The dogs bark, and the caravan moves on'" (385). That's a very old saying, it turns out. But I wonder further whether we're on that caravan or not? 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 Jul 8 05:33:26 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 4997A1D6F9; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C86AE1D6F2; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:33:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090708053324.C86AE1D6F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:33:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.141 archaeology of the present; twittering the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 141. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (17) Subject: excavating now [2] From: renata lemos (151) Subject: digital humanities@twitter --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:53:35 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: excavating now CONTEMPORARY ARCHEOLOGIES: EXCAVATING NOW http://ow.ly/gFwe Automobile assembly lines. Nevada Peace Camps. Freeze-dried remains from Antarctic expeditions. The archaeology of tigers. With increasing frequency, archaeologists are transferring their toolkit from the study of the ancient world to research the contemporary one. This volume provides many examples of that, and more. "Contemporary archaeologies marry archaeology in the modern world with the archaeology of the modern world" according to the editors, who asked each author to present not only their research on an aspect of today's existence but also to reveal something about the role and practice of archaeology in the contemporary world. The resulting volume, using both traditional articles and experimental texts, challenges the reader to think of archaeology in new and innovative ways. (text from Left Coast Press) http://ow.ly/gFwe -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:57:23 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: digital humanities@twitter ... about why I believe this seminar should be expanded into the twittersphere:Real-time results for *digital humanities* 1. [image: Flag_money_normal] http://twitter.com/USGrants USGrants http://twitter.com/USGrants DFG/NEH Bilateral *Digital* *Humanities* Program: Enriching *Digital* Collections: Modification 0 http://ad.vu/fzrhabout 8 hours ago http://twitter.com/USGrants/statuses/2509068505 from twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@USGrants%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2509068505&in_reply_to=USGrants 2. [image: Fluharty_normal] http://twitter.com/PhDinHistory PhDinHistory http://twitter.com/PhDinHistory Should I be surprised that I can't seem to find anyone in the *digital* *humanities* who has gotten involved with the Berkman Center?about 12 hours ago http://twitter.com/PhDinHistory/statuses/2506257745 from Twitterrific http://twitterrific.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@PhDinHistory%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2506257745&in_reply_to=PhDinHistory 3. [image: N1246184620_30062270_385_normal] http://twitter.com/RilkeGal RilkeGal http://twitter.com/RilkeGal Good Read- *Digital* Literacy Centre: *Humanities*Visualization - http://tinyurl.com/lmjqerabout 13 hours ago http://twitter.com/RilkeGal/statuses/2505594711 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@RilkeGal%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2505594711&in_reply_to=RilkeGal 4. [image: Image01_normal] http://twitter.com/ehvickery ehvickery http://twitter.com/ehvickery DHQ: *Digital* *Humanities* Quarterly: Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Attentionhttp://tinyurl.com/q85yaqabout 21 hours ago http://twitter.com/ehvickery/statuses/2498355191 from diigo http://www.diigo.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@ehvickery%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2498355191&in_reply_to=ehvickery 5. [image: Jeff-drouin-bio_normal] http://twitter.com/jdrouin jdrouin http://twitter.com/jdrouin Important news in textual scholarship / *digital* *humanities*: the newly digitized codex sinaiticus MS:http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/.about 22 hours ago http://twitter.com/jdrouin/statuses/2498072027 from TwitterFox http://twitterfox.net/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@jdrouin%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2498072027&in_reply_to=jdrouin 6. [image: Caroline_stev_mary08_004_normal] http://twitter.com/ckrantz01 ckrantz01 http://twitter.com/ckrantz01 arts-*humanities*.net: *Digital* *Humanities* and Arts | eScience for ...: Gamera is a Optical Music Recognition softw..http://tinyurl.com/kntmyvabout 22 hours ago http://twitter.com/ckrantz01/statuses/2497849430 from twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@ckrantz01%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2497849430&in_reply_to=ckrantz01 7. [image: Ys2n_normal] http://twitter.com/ys2n ys2n http://twitter.com/ys2n @ClumberKim http://twitter.com/ClumberKim Starting Mon. I am Technical Director of SHANTI, promoting *Digital* *Humanities* at UVa. Probably territory familiar to you.1 day ago http://twitter.com/ys2n/statuses/2489633141 from Twitterrific http://twitterrific.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@ys2n%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2489633141&in_reply_to=ys2n 8. [image: Roger-sam-019-738408_normal] http://twitter.com/RogerSPress RogerSPress http://twitter.com/RogerSPress @dediaf http://twitter.com/dediaf That "*digital* *humanities*" is scarcely known points to my/our culture's ignorance. But XML is the fiberoptics betw tech & *humanities*1 day ago http://twitter.com/RogerSPress/statuses/2485678368 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@RogerSPress%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2485678368&in_reply_to=RogerSPress 9. [image: Ghw] http://twitter.com/georgeonline georgeonline http://twitter.com/georgeonline AP reading in Kentucky, *Digital* *Humanities*shenanigans in Fairfax, vacation in Vegas... now I still have 6 weeks or so until semester begins2 days ago http://twitter.com/georgeonline/statuses/2473205121 from Tweetie http://www.atebits.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@georgeonline%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2473205121&in_reply_to=georgeonline 10. [image: Guilloche_p-960_normal] http://twitter.com/rrichard09 rrichard09 http://twitter.com/rrichard09 Wonder why Stanley Katz did not speak at the Nobel digitization conference, http://bit.ly/lzY5W ? He's the expert in*digital* *humanities*2 days ago http://twitter.com/rrichard09/statuses/2473049043 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@rrichard09%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2473049043&in_reply_to=rrichard09 11. [image: Imagelogo_normal] http://twitter.com/rihumanities rihumanities http://twitter.com/rihumanities #followfriday http://twitter.com/search?q=%23followfriday NEH Office of *Digital* *Humanities*:@brettbobley http://twitter.com/brettbobley @jenserventi http://twitter.com/jenserventi @jasonrhody http://twitter.com/jasonrhody 3 days ago http://twitter.com/rihumanities/statuses/2462370361 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@rihumanities%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2462370361&in_reply_to=rihumanities 12. [image: Outsidesquaresmall_normal] http://twitter.com/katharine_b katharine_b http://twitter.com/katharine_b Waiting for T. to get home from the airport. He's been in Nebraska at a *digital* *humanities* meeting this week.3 days ago http://twitter.com/katharine_b/statuses/2459672917 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@katharine_b%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2459672917&in_reply_to=katharine_b 13. [image: Gt_1892_12_31_cover_normal] http://twitter.com/jimmussell jimmussell http://twitter.com/jimmussell Off to symposium in Cambridge on sustaining *digital*resources in the *humanities*. http://bit.ly/7wMzg . Lots of brilliant UK and Ireland bods.3 days ago http://twitter.com/jimmussell/statuses/2454224884 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@jimmussell%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2454224884&in_reply_to=jimmussell 14. [image: Intutedots_bigger_normal] http://twitter.com/intute intute http://twitter.com/intute Cfp All-Hands extended till 10 July. E-science, e-research -*humanities* computing and *digital* arts anyone?http://bit.ly/LPoHd3 days ago http://twitter.com/intute/statuses/2453878593 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@intute%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2453878593&in_reply_to=intute 15. [image: Boomario_normal] http://twitter.com/guidetohistory guidetohistory http://twitter.com/guidetohistory Interesting Article- Are you distracted? *Digital**humanities* article on the commodity of the info age, paying attention. http://bit.ly/sPI7G4 days ago http://twitter.com/guidetohistory/statuses/2446187943 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@guidetohistory%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2446187943&in_reply_to=guidetohistory 16. [image: Photo_booth_normal] http://twitter.com/mrplough07 mrplough07 http://twitter.com/mrplough07 Are you distracted? *Digital* *humanities* article on the commodity of the info age, paying attention. http://bit.ly/sPI7G4 days ago http://twitter.com/mrplough07/statuses/2445316054 from Power Twitter http://83degrees.com/to/powertwitter http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@mrplough07%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2445316054&in_reply_to=mrplough07 17. [image: Jsr-20090701g_normal] http://twitter.com/jimrhiz jimrhiz http://twitter.com/jimrhiz RT @dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital* *Humanities* Research" http://is.gd/1ltwt4 days ago http://twitter.com/jimrhiz/statuses/2443686529 from TwitterFon http://twitterfon.net/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@jimrhiz%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2443686529&in_reply_to=jimrhiz 18. [image: Riki_thompson_normal] http://twitter.com/rikithompson rikithompson http://twitter.com/rikithompson "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital* *Humanities* Research"http://is.gd/1ltwt . Thx 2 @dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen 4 days ago http://twitter.com/rikithompson/statuses/2439350440 from web http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@rikithompson%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2439350440&in_reply_to=rikithompson 19. [image: Pavel1_normal] http://twitter.com/placesense placesense http://twitter.com/placesense RT @dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen : "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital**Humanities* Research" http://is.gd/1ltwt4 days ago http://twitter.com/placesense/statuses/2437012963 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@placesense%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2437012963&in_reply_to=placesense 20. [image: Dan_cohen_orange_background_4_normal] http://twitter.com/dancohen dancohen http://twitter.com/dancohen Worth reading: "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in *Digital** Humanities* Research" http://is.gd/1ltwt4 days ago http://twitter.com/dancohen/statuses/2436870070 from TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://twitter.com/# http://twitter.com/home?status=@dancohen%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2436870070&in_reply_to=dancohen more http://twitter.com/search?max_id=2512347658&page=2&q=digital+humanities&rpp=20 -- 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 Jul 8 05:35:02 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 E81081D7D0; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 339DF1D7C9; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090708053501.339DF1D7C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.142 events: classical philology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 142. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:34:08 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Teuchos - An Online Knowledge-based Platformfor Classical Philology Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday July 10th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)* *Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology* The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform (Teuchos. Zentrum für Handschriften- und Textforschung). ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and audio and slides will be uploaded after the event. Digital Classicist podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml -- 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 Thu Jul 9 05:23:33 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 8BD9E2A3A4; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E900C2A399; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:23:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052331.E900C2A399@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:23:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.143 programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 143. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:24:51 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.139 programming In-Reply-To: <20090708053146.C13AD1D634@woodward.joyent.us> Yes, it may refuse to commit, but is it still fun on a date? I think the language we use to talk about code in itself creates idea about the code that are extrinsic to the code. And our choice of language is a -choice-: a choice we may not be aware we're making, but still a choice. Does code functionally exist until it's been embedded in a single, particular processing system? Jim R > It becomes more like code (more like Fortran, Basic or XSLT) and less > like human language (English, Latin or Chinese), if it ever does, > only provisionally, when it is embedded in a single particular > processing system -- a particular operational context. > > And its refusal to commit to any single such system -- its capacity > to be recontextualized, with its significances adjusted or altered > accordingly -- is intrinsic to its value and usefulness. > > Cheers, > Wendell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 9 05:24:22 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 C45AE2A44A; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:24:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 465622A438; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:24:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052421.465622A438@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:24:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.144 somewhere we are going X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 144. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:34:52 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.140 are we going somewhere? In-Reply-To: <20090708053222.28F851D678@woodward.joyent.us> But what if the digital revolution unveils that the traditional humanities has been littered with "negative information"? This quotation came to mind as I considered whether the traditional humanities and its digital practitioners are on the same "caravan": If you explore the potential of digital history and the problem of > abundance, you realize that it presents a very real challenge to analog > history and the close reading that has been at the heart of graduate work > and the monograph. Digital history and the abundance it tries to address > make many historical arguments seem anecdotal rather than comprehensive. > Hypotheses based on a limited number of examples, as many dissertations and > books still are, seem flimsier when you can scan millions of books at Google > to find counterexamples. I believe it will be possible to marry digital > techniques with close reading and traditional methods, but very soon it will > be perilous to ignore these new techniques ("Interchange: The Promise of > Digital History." Special issue, Journal of American History 95, no. 2 > (September 2008). Available at > http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/interchange/index.html > .) Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 9 05:25:23 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 06EC52A4C8; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:25:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ABE002A4C0; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:25:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052521.ABE002A4C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:25:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.145 job in Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 145. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:00:16 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: Dublin-based programmer position available University of Dublin, Trinity College The Technical Infrastructure Programmer / Implementation Manager will be a key member of the libraries digitisation team, and will provide support and leadership with the planning, development and implementation of the Trinity College Digital Library Collections technical infrastructure. This position will provide programming and technical expertise to the development of an open source Fedora-based digital repository designed to provide new electronic access to the rare and unique Trinity College Library Special Collections and Library Research Resources while ensuring the long term preservation of these unique and valuable digital resources and assets. More information: http://www.tcd.ie/vacancies/CD_nonaca_DRIS_ProgAnlyst_June09.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 Jul 9 05:27:55 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 2312D2A533; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:27:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7C162A52B; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:27:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090709052753.D7C162A52B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 05:27:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.146 events: embodied interaction; language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 146. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Takashi Matsumoto (60) Subject: cfp: TEI'10 - TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIEDINTERACTION [2] From: "Carlos.Areces@loria.fr" (100) Subject: ESSLLI 2010: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:21:05 +0100 From: Takashi Matsumoto Subject: cfp: TEI'10 - TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIEDINTERACTION TEI'10 - THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED, AND EMBODIED INTERACTION January 25-27, 2010 MIT Media Lab - Cambridge, MA, USA http://tei-conf.org/ Submission Deadlines and Categories ----------------------------------- >> Note: different from last year << August 3, 2009: Papers August 3, 2009: Studios October 2, 2009: Explorations October 2, 2009: Student Consortium July 10, 2009: Submission opens January 25-27, 2010: TEI Conference at the MIT Media Lab Keynote speaker announced: Professor John Frazer ------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce that Professor John Frazer of Queensland University of Technology will be giving the opening keynote. Professor Frazer pioneered the use of computers in architecture, created of one of the first tangible construction kits for creating virtual models, and has been an inspiration for much work in our field. We are very excited to have him at TEI! Call for Contributions ---------------------- 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 and the computational augmentation of everyday objects and environments. TEI 2010 will uphold the successful single-track tradition of previous TEI conferences. The new Studios, Explorations, and Graduate Student Consortium forums are aimed to further establish the TEI conference as a unique place for exchanging ideas and advancing the field of Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Submission Topics ----------------- Appropriate topics for submission (in each of the four categories) include but are not limited to: - Novel tangible interfaces, embodied interfaces, or embedded interactive systems including: physical computing application, whole- body interfaces, gesture-based interfaces, and interactive surfaces - Provocative design work and interactive art - Embodied interaction, movement, and choreography of interaction - Programming paradigms and tools, toolkits, and software architectures - Novel enabling technologies (e.g. programmable matter and transitive materials) - Interactive and creative uses of sensors, actuators, electronics, and mechatronics - Design guidelines, methods, and processes - Applied design in the form of concept sketches, prototypes and products - Role of physicality for human perception, cognition and experience - The role of aesthetics in tangibles (e.g. decorative electronic wearables) - Novel applications areas and innovative solutions - Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts - Philosophical, ethical, and social implications - Case studies and evaluations of working deployments - Usability and enjoyment - Teaching experiences, lessons learned, and best practices - Sustainability aspects of the design and use of tangible systems [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:13:20 +0100 From: "Carlos.Areces@loria.fr" Subject: ESSLLI 2010: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as ESSLLI?2009 website: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/. The ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 22nd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science, and the cognitive sciences, structured within the 3 traditional ESSLLI streams: -Language and Computation -Language and Logic -Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these categories. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010, through EasyChair on http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2010, not later than ******* Monday, September 7, 2009 ******* Proposers must hold PhD or equivalent degrees and should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ALL COURSES: Courses are given over one week (Monday-Friday) and consist of five 90 minutes sessions, one per day. Course proposals should give a brief overview of the topic and a tentative content and structure of the course, as well as state the course?s objectives and clearly specify prerequisites, if any. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course, should submit two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. TIMETABLE FOR COURSE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Sep 7, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline Oct 19, 2009: Notification Deadline Jun 30, 2010: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material by the ESSLLI?2010 local organizers FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people who wish to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses should require no special prerequisites, but may presuppose some experience with scientific methods and general appreciation of the field of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to provide an introduction to the (interdisciplinary) field for students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to equip them with a good understanding of the course field's basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competencies of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if any). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. WORKSHOPS: Workshops run over one week and consist of five 90-minutes sessions, one per day. The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop. The proposals for workshops should justify the choice of topic, give an estimate of the number of attendants and expected submissions, and provide a list of at least 15 potential submitters working in the field of the workshop. The organizers are required to give a general introduction to the theme during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for the organization and program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for sending out a Call for Papers for the workshop and to organize the selection of the submissions by the deadlines specified below. The call for workshop submissions must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community and should indicate that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 10 07:00:45 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 EE25031BC5; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 63BBC31B95; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090710070043.63BBC31B95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.147 more of William Blake online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 147. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:01:54 -0400 (EDT) From: William S Shaw Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive 9 July 2009 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of _The Song of Los_ copies C and E, from the Morgan Library and Museum and the Huntington Library and Art Gallery respectively. They join copies A and D from the British Museum and copy B from the Library of Congress, giving the Archive five of the six extant copies of this illuminated book. The eight plates of _The Song of Los_ were produced in 1795; all extant copies (A-F) were color printed in that year in a single pressrun. Divided into sections entitled "Africa" and "Asia," _The Song of Los_ is the last of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" (see also _America_ [1793] and _Europe_ [1794], exemplary printings of which are in the Archive). Blake abandons direct references to contemporary events to pursue the junctures among biblical narrative, the origins of law and religion, and his own developing mythology. Adam, Noah, Socrates, Brama, Los, Urizen, and several others represent both historical periods and states of consciousness. The loose narrative structure reaches towards a vision of universal history ending with apocalyptic resurrection. Plates 1, 2, 5, and 8 (frontispiece, title page, and full-page designs) are color printed drawings, executed on millboards and printed in the planographic manner of--and probably concurrent with--the twelve Large Color Printed Drawings of 1795, which are also in the Archive. Plates 3 and 4, which make up "Africa," and plates 6 and 7, which make up "Asia," were executed first, side by side on two oblong pieces of copper (plates 3/4, 6/7). Initially designed with double columns in landscape format, the texts of the poems were transformed into vertical pages by printing the oblong plates with one side masked. In copies C and E, plates 5 and 8 are differently arranged: 8 follows plate 1 and 5 is placed at the end in copy C; 8 follows plate 3 and 5 follows plate 6 in copy E. Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of _The Song of Los_ copies C and E 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 _The Song of Los_ in the Archive. With the publication of these copies of _The Song of Los_, the Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of seventy 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 Fri Jul 10 07:52:30 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 D2DC131D14; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 215E131D0B; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090710075229.215E131D0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 148. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:51:24 +0100 (BST) From: "Willard McCarty" Subject: digging into whatever The current international funding competition, Digging into Data (www.diggingintodata.org) stirs up in me a question that has been simmering for some time: what's the archaeological metaphor doing for us? Why is it to be found in so many different contexts? One thinks, of course, of Foucault, but The Order of Things has been around for quite some time. The text to be found on the Digging into Data site deepens (one might say) this question by describing a situation in which *breadth*, not depth, is at issue, and the strong tendency exerted by so much from so many disciplines is to drive research outward, not downward. I can understand in Siegfried Zielinski's Deep Time of the Media, for example, the usefulness of taking about digging down to an historical stratum, then going outward to reconstruct what was going on then. But so often the archaeological metaphor seems confused and confusing. Any ideas? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 07:10:08 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 36D5531DD9; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4BD331D96; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090711071002.E4BD331D96@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.149 somewhere X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 149. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:48:44 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.144 somewhere we are going Re: Sterling's comment. It makes more sense to talk about "positive" versus "negative" information in the context of psychology; early psychologists, particularly Freud, saw it as an empirical discipline like any other science. My concern is that, when applied to the humanities, this contrast forces us to frame study in an additive and progressive manner that does not reflect what humanitists do or how they think. Which is not to say that digital humanities won't cause a broad re-orientation of humanistic study, one which will likely embrace a more empirical and additive understanding of what it is we do, as Sterling suggests. But that will take an enormous amount of work -- a sea change in how humanists see themselves -- and I'm betting that this process will end up alienating the non-additive, non-empiricist mindset of earlier humanistic study. We'll go somewhere, but it will be harder to understand where we've been (as perhaps this discussion illustrates). Devin Griffiths Rutgers University -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:24 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 07:12:51 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 077AC31FDC; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A60AB31FCC; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090711071248.A60AB31FCC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.150 why dig X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 150. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: D.Zeitlyn (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (33) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:59:34 +0100 From: D.Zeitlyn Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? In-Reply-To: <20090710075229.215E131D0B@woodward.joyent.us> Willard good question as ever. I would add to the mix the reminder that as well as being a philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood worked as a practical (field) archaeologist in the UK Lake District. What I find appealing about the metaphor is the way in which conclusions are reached on the basis of (sometimes) fragile/incomplete evidence but in ways which allow/encourage the connections between evidence and conclusions to be traced and discussed. best wishes davidz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:59:55 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.148 why dig? I suspect this metaphor has something in common with the oral- and laboring traditions of academically-trained historians. If you spend enough time with them, you will hear them talking about mining footnotes and bibliographies and finding nuggets in the archives. This kinds of expressions rarely make it into print, but they reflect the sense that historians, through quite a bit of laborious sifting, are discovering sources that are relevant for their research. The significance may be that historians, like those who have mined for precious metals, can point with pride to the fruit of their extractive labors. I think this helps explain why historians do not feel a natural affinity for concepts like text mining. Once historians realize that text mining takes away the chance they have to work with their hands to find the proverbial needle in the haystack, since the computer does the sifting digitally, most historians lose interest in these algorithmic possibilities and return to their comfortable pattern of using the machine to direct and carry out their own searching and sorting of sources. So perhaps the NEH has shrewdly retained the digging metaphor in an attempt to make text mining more palatable to traditional historians who are accustomed to controlling and reaping the rewards of their own labor. Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 11 07:13:22 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 F1E2432036; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BD30232026; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090711071320.BD30232026@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.151 Graceful Degradation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 151. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:44:20 -0400 From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: "Graceful Degradation" survey In-Reply-To: <20090710075229.215E131D0B@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Graceful Degradation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects in Times of Transition and Decline First announced at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, the "Graceful Degradation" survey is now open at: http://graceful-degradation.questionpro.com/ This is a survey of the digital humanities community -- broadly conceived -- on project management in times of transition and decline, and what we see as the causes and outcomes of those times. We invite participation by anyone who has worked on a digital project in or related to the humanities. Decline is a pressing issue for digital scholarship because of the tendency of our projects to be open ended. One could argue that digital projects are, by nature, in a continual state of transition or decline. What happens when the funding runs out, or the original project staff move on or are replaced? What happens when intellectual property rests with a collaborator or an institution that does not wish to continue the work? How, individually and as a community, do we weather changes in technology, the patterns of academic research, the vagaries of our sponsoring institutions? "Graceful Degradation" is being conducted by Bethany Nowviskie of the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab in the United States and Dot Porter of the Digital Humanities Observatory in Ireland. The survey will run through September 2009, when initial results will be presented during a poster session at Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts in Belfast. Full summary results will be presented and published in summer 2010. All responses are held confidential, unless specific permission to identify people and projects has been granted. Participants will have the option to grant this permission at the end of the survey. We encourage your participation and look forward to sharing the results of the survey! Please contact degrade.gracefully@gmail.com if you have any questions. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.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 Jul 11 08:21:05 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 2F3243275A; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:21:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DECA3274B; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:21:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090711082103.7DECA3274B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:21:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.153 experimental resonant thinking? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 153. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:19:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: experimental philosophy; thought as modelling In a luminous little book, somewhat deceptively entitled The Nature of Explanation (1943), Kenneth Craik says two things that I think are helpful to us. (O. L. Zangwill's brief biography of Craik is worth looking at, www.answers.com/topic/kenneth-john-william-craik.) The first is on the need for an "experimental philosophy", that is, a philosophy which works through and with experimental procedures, rather than (as he sees it) from a priori non-tautological statements. In 1943, he saw this style of philosophy emerging; whether philosophers now would recognize his description of it as conforming to what they do I'll leave to anyone here who can speak to the point. It would seem to me that much of what Hacking does is in this style, but again I'll call on a proper philospher to say. Anyhow, Craik argues the need for this philosophy based on experimental problems alive at the time, still alive now, that simply cannot be tackled within single disciplines. The kind that concern him lie between psychology and physiology, but the kind we deal with in the digital humanities certainly qualify as well, though we must struggle to get recognition for them in this light. The other thing that Craik talks about, for which he is still known, is his core argument about the nature of thought. In chapter 5 of his book, "Hypothesis on the nature of thought", he does a very fine job of saying what modelling is and then goes on to argue that "thought models, or parallels, reality -- that its essential feature is not 'the mind', 'the self', 'sense-data', nor propositions but symbolism, and that this symbolism is largely of the same kind as that which is familiar to us in mechanical devices which aid thought and calculation" (p. 57). Anyone who knows about the work of Warren McCulloch and about cybernetics will understand immediately how what he was saying (before being tragically killed in a bicycle accident in 1945 at the age of 31) chimes with McCulloch's ideas and anticipates in some sense the ideas Wiener developed. Anyhow, I think it is worth contemplating how the notion that thought models reality might shape our thinking on how computing relates to our artefacts of study. If, for example, a literary text is taken as input to such an internal modelling device, then we might ask what sort of external counterpart (a.k.a. software) would allow us to further the right kind of resonant understanding of that text? Comments? Yours, W -- 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 Jul 13 05:16:32 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 9661A3273A; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BC0B32729; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090713051631.2BC0B32729@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.154 experimental resonant thinking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 154. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:09:15 -0500 From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.153 experimental resonant thinking? In-Reply-To: <20090711082103.7DECA3274B@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, colleagues - as always, enjoying reading your musings and very much appreciate the many insights you pass along. one quick comment re. > > The first is on the need for an "experimental philosophy", that is, a > philosophy which works through and with experimental procedures, rather > than (as he sees it) from a priori non-tautological statements. In 1943, > he saw this style of philosophy emerging; whether philosophers now would > recognize his description of it as conforming to what they do I'll leave > to anyone here who can speak to the point. It would seem to me that much > of what Hacking does is in this style, but again I'll call on a proper > philospher to say. Anyhow, Craik argues the need for this philosophy > based on experimental problems alive at the time, still alive now, that > simply cannot be tackled within single disciplines. The kind that > concern him lie between psychology and physiology, but the kind we deal > with in the digital humanities certainly qualify as well, though we must > struggle to get recognition for them in this light. > As I suspect at least some HUMANIST readers are aware, this is more or less the notion of philosophy endorsed by at least many of the philosophers involved in what were originally the Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences in the United States, starting in 1986 - a movement of sorts that defines itself in terms of "the computational turn." I've described this briefly as "referring to ways in which computing technologies have given philosophers new kinds of laboratories for testing and refining classical debates and hypotheses" (Ess, "'Revolution? What Revolution?' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion," in Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, John M. Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), p. 133). For a somewhat more extensive overview, see Jon Dorbolo's "Distributing the Computational Turn," APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Fall, 2000: http://www.apaonline.org/publications/newsletters/v00n1_Computers_13.aspx . Nicely enough, CAP has grown into IACAP - the International Association of Computing and Philosophy, which sponsors a lively and productive series of conferences in North America, Europe and Asia, with plans for additional conferences still elsewhere in the world, as the global growth and diffusion of ICTs thereby brings more and more philosophical traditions from around the world within these computational spheres of influence. A listing of conference topics might be useful: Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science Artificial Life / Computer Modeling in Biology Information and Computer Ethics Computer-Mediated Communication Culture and Society Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy Electronic Publishing Logic Metaphysics (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc.) Online Resources for Philosophy Philosophy of Information Philosophy of Information Technology Robotics Virtual Reality (see http://www.ia-cap.org and related pages) "One of these days" - I think it would be instructive and fruitful for us to attempt to map out the epistemological and disciplinary territories and domains that make up "digital humanities," on the one hand, and the various philosophical topoi and approaches characteristic of IACAP, on the other. As I read Willard and occasionally other philosophically-minded contributors on this list, it is clear that there are important points in common, parallel and occasionally resonant interests, as well as important (but perhaps complimentary) differences. That is, while I'm sure there's some overlap between the membership of HUMANIST and the other mailing lists IACAP philosophers are likely to participate in - I've largely had the impression that the two domains are largely separate, the equivalent of two philosophical ships passing in the night, disconnected except for the occasional ship-to-ship transmission. Stated positively, so it seems to me that there is considerable room for more explicit dialogue and discussion between our otherwise largely separate provinces. Maybe a joint conference one of these days? In all events, continued gratitude to Willard and his cohorts who consistently throw out such interesting and suggestive philosophical lifelines. Cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Professor MSO (med særlige opgaver), 2009-2012 Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark President, Association of Internet Researchers Co-editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://ijire.net/ Co-chair, CATaC conferences Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 13 05:17:29 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 CEB9C327C2; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:17:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19DB2327B2; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:17:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090713051728.19DB2327B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:17:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.155 why dig X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 155. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:26:29 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.150 why dig In-Reply-To: <20090711071248.A60AB31FCC@woodward.joyent.us> I would like to add here a comment about documentary editors in the field of history and mining. I think on some level that is what the research connected to documentary editing is all about: digging into a document with a kind of depth and connectedness that is not always undertaken for history of the 19th and 20th century -- the information-rich areas of history. I would love to hear ideas from anyone out there for how they might wish to reap the benefits of these editions in ways that would bring data together through innovative techniques. Holly Shulman, Founding Director, Documents Compass and Editor, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, University of Virginia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 14 05:43:30 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 49B131F6AF; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:43:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 11C5B1F6A7; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:43:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090714054329.11C5B1F6A7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:43:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.156 new publication: ISR 34.2-3 on collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 156. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:40:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.2-3 I take great pleasure in announcing the publication of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.2-3, "Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage: Multidisciplinary collaborative research between computer science and heritage studies", guest-edited by Professor Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg, The Netherlands, http://ilk.uvt.nl/~antalb/). This issue documents the progress of Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage (CATCH, http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5XSKYG_Eng), a Dutch project funded by the the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). CATCH is characterized by an intense and superbly organized collaboration between computer science and several disciplines of the humanities concerned with cultural heritage. In each article the researchers concerned describe their CATCH project and reflect on the nature and accomplishments of that collaboration. 1. Digital Discoveries in Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Computer Science Meets Cultural Heritage (Guest editorial) Antal van den Bosch, Jaap van den Herik, and Paul Doorenbosch pp. 129-138(10) 2. Cultivating Personalized Museum Tours Online and On-Site Wang, Yiwen; Stash, Natalia; Sambeek, Rody; Schuurmans, Yuri; Aroyo, Lora; Schreiber, Guus; Gorgels, Peter pp. 139-153(15) 3. Modelling Folksong Melodies Wiering, Frans; Veltkamp, Remco C.; Garbers, Jorg; Volk, Anja; van Kranenburg, Peter; Grijp, Louis P. pp. 154-171(18) 4. Automatic Annotation Suggestions for Audiovisual Archives: Evaluation Aspects Gazendam, Luit; Wartena, Christian; Malaise, Veronique; Schreiber, Guus; de Jong, Annemieke; Brugman, Hennie pp. 172-188(17) 5. Digital Support for Archaeology Boon, Paul; van Der Maaten, Laurens; Paijmans, Hans; Postma, Eric; Lange, Guus pp. 189-205(17) 6. Weaving a New Fabric of Natural History van den Bosch, Antal; Lendvai, Piroska; van Erp, Marieke; Hunt, Steve; van der Meij, Marian; Dekker, Rene pp. 206-223(18) 7. Where are the Search Engines for Handwritten Documents? van der Zant, Tijn; Schomaker, Lambert; Zinger, Svitlana; van Schie, Henny pp. 224-235(12) 8. Easy Listening: Spoken Document Retrieval in CHoral Heeren, Willemijn; van der Werff, Laurens; de Jong, Franciska; Ordelman, Roeland; Verschoor, Thijs; van Hessen, Arjan; Langelaar, Mies pp. 236-252(17) 9. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Unlocking Television Broadcast Archives Hollink, Laura; Schreiber, Guus; Huurnink, Bouke; van Liempt, Michiel; de Rijke, Maarten; Smeulders, Arnold; Oomen, Johan; de Jong, Annemieke pp. 253-267(15) 10. Information Retrieval in Cultural Heritage Koolen, Marijn; Kamps, Jaap; de Keijzer, Vincent pp. 268-284(17) 11. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future Strathern, Marilyn pp. 285-286(2) -- 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 Jul 14 09:22:00 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 EED5632732; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15C153272A; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:21:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 157. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:20:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why so dull? Recently at a synmposium for the digital humanities a colleague remarked to me that she found a distressing number of conference papers at our gatherings to be dull -- competent yet lacking any sign of intellectual excitement or any provocation that would stir it up. I agreed, having witnessed the same dull reports-on-things-done, with ontologies, XML or whatever (or what another colleague, long gone off to make money by applying such things, used to call "me, my dog and my project" papers). We wondered why, and how the situation might be changed. This morning, as it happens, I was reading one of Jacob Bronowski's last lectures, "The Imaginative Mind in Science", in The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science (MIT Press, 1978). (Bronowski was a poet, literary critic, biologist, mathematician and gifted popularizer, whose work all by itself could form the basis for a good education; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski.) In this lecture Bronowski is considering the common experience of people who "do not find it as pleasurable to read a theorem as to read a poem", though they are capable of both. In other words, those who find science dull. > They have been taught science at school, they have tried from time to > time to keep up with it, but now they find that the processes of > scientific reasoning do not engage their deep interest. They may > still like to read about a new discovery, but they no longer follow > how it was made. > > "They no longer follow how it was made": that clause reveals to us > how it happens that people who want to be interested in science find > it dull. They gape at the discovery from the outside, and they may > find it strange or marvelous, but their finding is passive; they do > not enter and follow and relive the steps by which the new idea was > created. But no creative work in art or in science, truly exists for > us unless we ourselves help to recreate it.... > > It is not possible to appreciate the deep conceptions that science > has created, and the beautiful discoveries which express them, unless > we do something to recreate them for ourselves. This is a hard > saying, but it is true. If a theorem in science seems dull to you, > that is because you are not reading it with the same active sense of > participation which you bring to the reading of a poem. No poem comes > to you ready-made -- you have to help to remake it for yourself; and > no theorem comes to you ready-made either -- you have to help to > remake it for yourself. (23f) Where, my colleague asked a few days ago, is the questioning in these reports-on-things-done, the evidence that in asking questions of well-polished solutions an attempt to recreate something fundamental has turned up something new, anomalous, disturbing? I recall an anecdote told by the anthropologist Margaret Mead, who in May 1946 attended the first meeting of what later became the Macy Conferences on cybernetics. What made this meeting significant for the later development of cybernetics, and so human-computer interaction and much else, was a paper by the Mexican physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth, who presented a model that drew strong parallels between what organisms do and what certain analogous machines do. Steve Heims, in Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group, 1946-1953, quotes Mead on her reaction to this paper: "Mead later recalled the excitement it produced among the social scientists, with the comment, 'I had not noticed that I had broken one of my teeth until the Conference was over'" (15). Perhaps we humanists are a less excitable lot. Perhaps we never break our teeth. But it is worth considering how (and, of course, in Mead's case, historically why) excitement at such a level could be found in the work we do. It does seem to me that potential for it is *everywhere*. 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 Jul 15 08:13:05 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 4D79B32E2E; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9DAD932E1D; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090715081303.9DAD932E1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:13:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.158 beware empty subject-lines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 158. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:12:25 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: empty subject lines Dear colleagues, Please be aware that at the moment any message to Humanist that comes with an empty subject-line cannot be processed through the software. I will ask that this (shall we say) feature is altered somehow, but for the moment, inspect your subject-lines before sending messages to Humanist. 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 Jul 15 08:16:09 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 E88EE321B4; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B825321A2; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090715081607.4B825321A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.159 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 159. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Warwick (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [2] From: Hartmut Krech (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [3] From: James Rovira (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [4] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (27) Subject: In defense of dullness [5] From: "David L. Hoover" (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? [6] From: "Gerry Coulter" (3) Subject: Conference Papers why so dull? [7] From: Sterling Fluharty (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:54:23 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I think we all know the problem. What Susan Hockey used to call 'Me and my database' papers, or what I recently heard called the 'I done good!' talk. I think it's partly because they are just an easy option. It's simpler to talk about what your digital application does than to think about how it makes a contribution to intellectual debates in the area. However, speaking as the chair of this year's PC for DH 2009, I think it's a matter of making expectations clear. When we wrote the reviewer guidelines (which we encouraged all those submitting papers to read) we were careful to make it very clear that we expected analysis, reference to other literature, evaluation etc and not just a project report. As a result we received a large number of excellent submissions, and most of papers at DH were also of high quality in terms of their evaluative focus. For project reports we simply used the poster session. So I'd encourage anyone running any kind of DH conference or seminar politely to make their expectations clear. It seems to me that our community is perfectly capable of high level analytical thought, it just needs to be encouraged! Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Reader, UCL Department of Information Studies --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:15:16 +0200 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Impressive and deeply moving -- a scene from Jacob Bronowski's TV series "The Ascent of Man," filmed at Auschwitz a year before his death: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mIfatdNqBA&hl=de It very certainly has relevance for computer science and practice. Thank you. Hartmut Krech http://ww3.de/krech --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:44:16 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I think this is a useful observation, but I don't think it's useful if we make it a broad generality -- so that we think most people are not interested in science because they've only been taught the findings and not the methods. Most people here in the US are required to take science with lab in both high school and college. We are taught the methods and how to follow them. Some people are more interested in people, some people are more interested in things, some people are more interested in concepts. Most people are most interested in people. Just follow magazine sales. The concept people and the thing people tend to be minorities, especially those who can follow their interests at any level of sophistication. Jim R >> "They no longer follow how it was made": that clause reveals to us >> how it happens that people who want to be interested in science find >> it dull. They gape at the discovery from the outside, and they may >> find it strange or marvelous, but their finding is passive; they do >> not enter and follow and relive the steps by which the new idea was >> created. But no creative work in art or in science, truly exists for >> us unless we ourselves help to recreate it.... --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:32:04 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: In defense of dullness In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, A constant offering of presentations in the genre of "people, their dogs and their projects" may be less than entertaining. But isn't it part of the cost of the privilege of being an academic? The wheat fields of the plain may appear monotonous but from the correct perspective appear to possess the sublimity of waves. Sown a while ago was this remark: In _L'invention intellectuelle_ Judith Schlanger suggests that noise, the sheer mass of popularisation which the French call "vulgarisation" contributes to significant breakthroughs. Each rearticulation of current knowledge is a displacing repetition and affects however slightly the paths open and opening to thinkers. And I offer another bit from a review of _Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind_ by Patricia Meyer Spacks: Boredom raises a frightening spectre because "readers' capacity to declare themselves uninvolved threatens the writer's project as it menaces their own pleasure. Criticism, Spring, 1997 by Karen A. Weisman Paying attention, even a distracted attention, to the tedious is an important intellectual function full of its pleasure and danger. One danger: missing the moment of novelty due to the slipping of attention. Francois, Scholar-at-large http://berneval.blogspot.com --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:57:51 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Or, Rather, Not so dull. The DH2009 conference at the University of Maryland was anything but dull. I broke no teeth, but I do remember feeling, by 5:00 pm entirely spent from the high intellectual level of the presentations I attended. Though I can't speak for the conference as a whole, there was an extraordinary wealth of provocative and thought-provoking papers in the stylistics and authorship attribution thread of the conference. So, perhaps you've been attending the wrong papers... David Hoover --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:26:20 -0400 From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: Conference Papers why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I feel sorry for the woman -- good thing for her well being she has also not been reading this website the past 2 months Dull is dull, scientists have no monopoly on it. --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:08:28 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> I can't say I have ever seen someone break a tooth at a humanities conference. But it sure felt like a lot of humanists (myself included) cut their teeth at THATCamp last month. In fact, every tweet I saw coming out of THATCamp indicated that the participants were genuinely excited and engaged in the sessions. But perhaps it unfair to compare an "unconference" like THATCamp to the apparently dull conference you and your friend attended. ;-) On a more serious note, this and other recent posts have got me wondering about the extent to which the digital humanities wants or needs a scientific method and research method. At what point, if ever, will we become interested in carrying out experiments and publishing results that can be reproduced? Will our text mining ever lead us to test and compare algorithms? Will the peer review of code become a widespread practice in the digital humanities? Will we someday reach the point where our code becomes worthy of publication? Are digital humanists doing enough to help others understand how our projects are made? Is it enough to write open-source code that allows people to peer under its hood if traditional humanists still regard our digital tools as black boxes? How long will our digital tools and projects remain perceived as new discoveries and cutting-edge research, assuming they are now, if other people never have a hand in recreating them for themselves? Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 15 08:16:46 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 E3F723259B; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D3BA3258A; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090715081646.0D3BA3258A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.160 new publication: Informatica Umanistica 1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 160. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:41:46 +0200 From: "Massimo Parodi - informatica umanistica" Subject: Informatica Umanistica n. 1 The first issue of the Italian review “Informatica Umanistica” is online. We need your best wishes. >From the presentation of the first issue: “The relationship between humanities and computers seems sometimes to pose a new form of the old problem: the relationship between the ‘two cultures’ (remembering Charles P. Snow). But perhaps the technological revolution of our years, for the first time, is also an humanistic revolution. It doesn’t compare anymore the logic of scientific knowledge with the rhetoric of the literary, philosophical or legal knowledge, the demonstration typical of the real knowledge with the argumentation typical on the contrary of the everyday human way of sharing ideas often uncertain, undefined, vague. It can teach the humanists to provide more order to their own ideas, to give more attention to the structure of their arguments, but, at the same time, it ought learn from humanists that order and structure are not technical data, merely formal elements; order and structure are theory, results of a choice, sometimes ideology, ultimately concepts deeply affected by literary, philosophical, legal thought. We interviewed some scholars and experts in various areas in which the computer science has become an important partner for the humanities and we have tried to organize the answers in ordered but especially problematic speeches.” http://www.ledonline.it/informatica-umanistica/ Massimo Parodi (Università degli Studi di Milano) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 15 08:17:51 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 4101F3266D; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 639673265E; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090715081749.639673265E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.161 events: books online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 161. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:26:38 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: BooksOnline'09 Workshop ECDL 2009 Workshop: BooksOnline'09, October 2, 2009, Corfu, Greece, Call for papers - Deadline July 31, 2009 We would like to invite you to submit an extended abstract (max 2 pages) to the BooksOnline http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/booksonline09/ '09 Workshop, presenting your views and insights into important issues and opportunities around large collections of on-line books. Goals Building on the success of the First BooksOnline Workshop http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline08/ , organized at CIKM 2008 http://www.cikm2008.org/ , the BooksOnline'09 Workshop at ECDL 2009 aims to provide continuity and to ensure further progress in addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media. The workshop aims to foster the BooksOnline professional network and build support for joint initiatives in research, design, and technology. The objectives are to connect researchers and practitioners from libraries, archives, academia, publishers, and on-line services in order to facilitate discussion and promote collaboration around: * Key research and innovation issues, leveraging and extending the outcome of the BooksOnline'08 Workshop, * Proposals for projects and initiatives that the BooksOnline community could take forward, and * Strategies for project implementation and funding. The outcome of the workshop will comprise a set of formulated projects and dedicated committees that will facilitate progress over the following year. Future BooksOnline Workshops will follow the community progress and present an opportunity to share results, revisit the issues, and evolve the research and innovation agenda. Workshop Format The one day workshop will include selected project presentations and proposals for new initiatives, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and implementation strategies, and a panel discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions. The day will start with a summary by the organizers, introducing projects and proposal that were submitted to the Workshop for discussion. Selected projects and proposals will be presented by the authors in more detail. The core activity will be the breakout sessions around the proposals for joint initiatives. We expect that the results of these sessions will include an outline of the implementation strategies, the mechanisms for managing the initiatives, and the plan for increasing visibility and creating relevant partnerships. The outcomes will be discussed during the panel session. All the relevant reports, proposals, and presentation abstract will be included in the workshop proceedings and distributed to the participants. A detailed workshop report will be published after the workshop. Participants will be invited to contribute to the post-workshop report by reviewing the organizers' write up and providing additional supporting material if needed. Topics of interest Participants of the BooskOnline'09 are invited to submit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) describing pressing issues, opportunities for innovation, case studies of ongoing efforts, or ideas for initiatives involving digital books. Papers reflecting and expanding on the topics that have been identified through position papers and panel discussions during the First BooksOnline'08 Workshop are also welcome. These include, but are not limited to: * Fundamental issues: o Understanding new paradigms for books, social aspects of on-line book services, and contrasting evolutionary vs. revolutionary approach to innovation, paper vs. electronic media, digitized vs. born digital content. o Enabling business and research models, identifying collaboration strategies, fostering community driven innovation, identifying enabling technologies, and addressing legal issues. * Enriched digital collections: o Virtual learning environments and eBooks; eBooks in teaching; eBooks as integrated content, data, and media. o From books to discovery of knowledge; cross-referencing, sense making, and knowledge sharing; community interests and social context. * Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services: o Affordances of physical books and the difference from electronic media. o Social navigation and annotations; diverse user profiles and content types; searching, gathering, annotating, and authoring scenarios. o Personalization and context sensitivity; ubiquitous access; and emersion in the user experience. o Evaluating eBooks, interface and interaction designs for active reading, features for collection browsing, etc. * Content representation and discovery: o Indexing and content representation. o Scalability and interoperability; technologies for search, browsing, filtering, and information extraction. o Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata. o Integration of complementary content and services. Paper Submission and participation Participants of the workshop are expected to contribute a 2 page extended abstract describing critical issues and challenges, current projects, or proposals for joint initiatives related to large digital book repositories. Submissions must be written in English, following the submission guidelines set by Springer: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 To submit a paper, please go to the BooksOnline'09 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=booksonline09 Easychair submission site. Please note that you may need to create an account in order to submit your paper. Contributions will be reviewed by the organizing and the programme committee. Authors of selected topics will be invited to give a presentation or facilitate a brainstorming session at the workshop. As with BooksOnline'08, we shall aim to attract researchers and practitioners from industry, libraries, and archives who can bring to the discussion the insights and experience of working with large digital book collections and services. Authors will be notified by August 17, 2009 of the outcome of the review process. Camera ready copies of accepted papers will be due by September 6, 2009. One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the workshop. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 16 08:29:07 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 B8ACA31F63; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:29:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E489D31F5B; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090716082905.E489D31F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.162 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 162. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (16) Subject: Re: Humanist 23.157 why so dull? [2] From: Paolo Rocchi (32) Subject: dull and sharp [3] From: Willard McCarty (68) Subject: dull --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:22:04 -0500 From: Alan Corre Subject: Re: Humanist 23.157 why so dull? My favorite English poet, Alexander Pope, does not give us much hope for abolishing dul(l)ness: In eldest time, ere mortals writ or read, Ere Pallas issued from the Thunderer's head, Dulness o'er all possessed her ancient right, Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night: Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave, Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies... Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:07:51 +0200 From: Paolo Rocchi Subject: dull and sharp I find extraordinary Jim's remark: "Some people are more interested in people, Some people are more interested in things, Some people are more interested in concepts." My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things than on tenets and knowledge. In particular 'utilitarism' seems overwhelming in computer science where wisdom and operations progress at different speeds. Hardware/software products have changed the life in the world but the inner nature of computing is still rather mysterious. The latest systems pervade firms and organizations but the principles of those machines date back to half a century ago: an incommensurable span of time respect to the rate of technology. Cultural movement in informatics turns out to be dramatically late in front of the feverish advance of technology, as a consequence ?They gape at the discovery from the outside, and they may find it strange or marvelous, but their finding is passive; they do not enter and follow and relive the steps by which the new idea was created?. I believe the responsibilities are of ?some [culture] people more interested in things' than in ideas and concepts. Yours. Paolo Rocchi IBM SWG Research and Development via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA phone: 39-6-5966-5213 fax : 39-6-5966-3618 url : http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/software/bit/eauthor.html --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: dull Another approach to the question. I quote from Walter Kintsch, Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition (Cambridge, 1998), page 2. The passage that follows doesn't address dullness, rather gives an example of something that misses the kind of opportunity which keeps technical discourse from being dull. > The terms *understanding* and *cognition* are not scientific terms but > are commonsense expressions. As with other such expressions, their > meaning is fuzzy and imprecise. To use them in scientific discourse, > we need to specify them more precisely without, however, doing undue > violence to common usage. First, understanding and comprehension are > used as synonyms here. The choice of one or the other term is thus > purely a matter of linguistic variation. Now Kintsch's basic question is hardly either dull or irrelevant to the concerns of people like us. Inter alia, he is saying, let's pay attention not to text-analysis (words on the page, as if they were sufficient) but to what happens in the mind when we read, between the time our eyes focus on the page and the time when we are aware of reading something or other. Nor is Kintsch an unskilled writer. But in the above paragraph he quickly brushes aside the concerns of the literary reader without even seeming to notice: he identifies the two terms he targets as "commonsense", hence "fuzzy" and "imprecise" -- attribution of those two qualities being by implication derogatory; accepts without question the idea that two quite different words can be simply "synonyms" (from another point of view a "commonsense" notion); and makes the choice between the words he targets "purely" (i.e., merely) a matter of "linguistic variation", i.e. of no particular significance. Now you might say that given his intended audience, all of this is unproblematic. Indeed, it is. But by jumping without pause from *as-if* to *is*, he leaps over the fullness of language to a denuded understanding of what language can do, in fact does. With a couple of sentences -- let's be demanding and ask for a whole paragraph -- he could have indicated to the majority, non-technical audience of people like me how to situate his own work into the much larger landscape of human discourse. Hence his book may seem quite DULL, e.g. to those who cannot forget they are lover-readers of poetry. Recently I had the misfortune of listening to a paradigmatically DULL academic performance -- not a paper, since the speaker had not written anything out but was merely speaking anecdotally off the top of her head. The clear intention of the performance was to exhibit to us how brilliant she thinks she is, how famous, how distinguished. The intention was, I'd say, not to communicate but to announce, to show off. Her words seemed like (small-denomination) coins thrown to the poor as her glittering carriage speeded past. In other cases I have listened to DULL papers in which the person in question was exhibiting not his or her narcissism and self-constructed superiority, rather how tightly the bolts had been fastened down in the object he or she had built, how smoothly it operated etc. Now it's hard to find fault with a beautifully made object -- who does not love well-made things? But is it asking too much to ask the maker to ponder if not merely to point out the questions raised by that object and the making of it? The opportunities for further research -- and why we should care? The tentativeness of it all? The interesting failures? The matters problematized that we assumed previously were unproblematic? These days I am paying much attention to what people in the early days of computing found fearful. Such fears provide very powerful clues for an understanding of what was happening at the time. Similarly, I'd think that what people find DULL might prove quite useful, if for no other reason than it gives the speaker/writer evidence of an opportunity missed, and so of an opportunity that next time might be grabbed. 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 Jul 16 08:30:42 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 6CA1A31FCC; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 03BD231FC4; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090716083041.03BD231FC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.163 new publications: theses & dissertations; D-Lib for July/August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 163. 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." Subject: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (66) Subject: The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:01:19 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 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. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt) from the University of Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. (This document is especially useful if one of the mirrored Digital Scholarship servers is down.) http://digital-scholarship.com/cwb/dsoverviewx.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverviewx.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 4 http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 75 http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (Paperback) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyearsbrief.htm ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:01:22 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available Greetings: The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains three articles, seven conference and workshop 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 East Carolina University's Joyner Library Digital Collections, courtesy of Gretchen Gueguen, East Carolina University. The articles include: Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness: Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive Simon Tanner and Trevor Munoz, King's College London; and Pich Hemy Ros, Digital Divide Data 21st Century Shipping: Network Data Transfer to the Library of Congress Michael Ashenfelder, Library of Congress Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile Irene Lourdi and Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University; and Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas The Conference and Workshop Reports are: Report on the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Austin, Texas June 15-19, 2009 Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University JCDL 2009 Workshop Report: Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians Michael Khoo, Drexel University; George Buchanan, City University, London; and Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009) Frank McCown, Harding University; and Hannes Kulovits and Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity 2009 Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University Doing So Much More: The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09) Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies Elena Giglia and Paola Galimberti, Universita degli Studi di Torino Report on the 2nd African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference Martie van Deventer, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); and Heila Pienaar, University of Pretoria 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 July/August 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 Thu Jul 16 08:32:35 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 3248932081; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7339A32071; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090716083233.7339A32071@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.164 events: Roman spolia in 3D; modelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 164. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (44) Subject: Seminar: Roman Spolia in 3D [2] From: MOCA-09 (141) Subject: CfP/deadline extension: MOCA'09 Modeling of Objects, Componentsand Agents --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:15:16 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Roman Spolia in 3D Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday July 17th at 16:30 British Library Centre for Conservation, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB *Christine Pappelau (Berlin)* *Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building structures* ALL WELCOME Rome: a city with a long history to be read on the structures of its buildings. Precious materials were taken from ancient monuments and re-used for early Christian, medieval or Renaissance buildings. An high resolution laser scanner creates 3D models with exact measurements-- identification of spolia by newest scientific means. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and the audio recording will be posted after the event. -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:49:48 +0100 From: MOCA-09 Subject: CfP/deadline extension: MOCA'09 Modeling of Objects, Componentsand Agents MOCA'09 Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/moca09/ Hamburg, Germany, 11th September 2009 organised by the "Theoretical Foundations of Informatics" Group at the University of Hamburg Contact e-mail: moca09@informatik.uni-hamburg.de __________________________________________________________________ The workshop is co-located with MATES 2009 The Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Home and CLIMA-X 2009 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/CLIMA/Home __________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: July 22, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2009 Deadline for final papers: August 28, 2009 Workshop: September 11, 2009 __________________________________________________________________ Scope Modelling is THE central task in informatics. Models are used to capture, analyse, understand, discuss, evaluate, specify, design, simulate, validate, test, verify and implement systems. Modelling needs an adequate repertoire of concepts, formalisms, languages, techniques and tools. This enables addressing distributed, concurrent and complex systems. Objects, components, and agents are fundamental units to organise models. They are also fundamental concepts of the modelling process. Even though software engineers intensively use models based on these fundamental units, and models are the subjects of theoretical research, the relations and potential mutual enhancements between theoretical and practical models have not been sufficiently investigated. There is still the need for better modelling languages, standards and tools. Important research areas are for example UML, BPEL, Petri nets, process algebras, or different kinds of logics. Application areas like business processes, (Web) services, production processes, organisation of systems, communication, cooperation, cooperation, ubiquity, mobility etc. will support the domain dependent modelling perspectives. Therefore, the workshop addresses all relations between theoretical foundations of models on the one hand and objects, components, and agents on the other hand with respect to modelling in general. The intention is to gather research and application directions to have a lively mutual exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints, and experiences. The multiple perspectives on modelling and models in informatics are most welcome, since the presentation of them will lead to intensive discussions. Also the way objects, components, and agents are use to build architectures / general system structures and executing units / general system behaviours will provide new ideas for other areas. Therefore, we invite a wide variety of contributions, which will be reviewed by the PC-members who reflect important areas and perspectives for the Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA). [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 17 05:00:56 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 B480E1FFB5; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A68D31FF9D; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090717050055.A68D31FF9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.165 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 165. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:39:57 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.162 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090716082905.E489D31F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Paulo: > I find extraordinary Jim's remark: > "Some people are more interested in people, > Some people are more interested in things, > Some people are more interested in concepts." > > My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced > that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions > changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things > than on tenets and knowledge. Why do you find my remark extraordinary? I find it obvious and simplistic. Yes, if you've studied the classics, you will be studying the works of those who believed culture is the ultimate authority in society. But even then, that belief was probably not true of most people, just those educated enough to read and write. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 17 05:03:07 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 C3D932306E; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA37023063; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090717050306.DA37023063@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.166 fears of computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 166. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:28:43 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.162 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090716082905.E489D31F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Your last paragraph caught my attention. Are you saying that you are looking for someone who might be thought of as Michael Crichton's predecessor of the 1950s? Or is it not the fears expressed about computers in early science fiction that interests you? I have done some analysis of book sales in history to figure out when history became boring for the public. From what I can tell, history had a golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, and has become increasingly dull for the public since then. I hadn't considered whether there was a connection between the popularity of history and the heady days of early computing during those golden years. Perhaps you have some thoughts on the matter. Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 06:57:22 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 CC03A1ED47; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:57:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A1951ED2C; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:57:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718065720.1A1951ED2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:57:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 167. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:03:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: trying to repeat it We all know the philosopher George Santayana's famous statement, from The Life of Reason, vol 1, that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Clearly he had disasters in mind. But there are cases in which an historical exemplar begs to help us repeat in one area of human endeavour what happened earlier in another. Surely we in literary computing need all the help we can get. And that's my motivation for labouring to be historical. Here's an instance. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins, 2002), David Mindell makes a very strong case for the historical complexities of human-machine interaction as this developed under conditions of warfare. In particular he shows how (as in the case of Sperry Gyroscope), > control systems reined in machinery, adding precision to bring > technological power into the range of human perception and reaction. > Aboard ships, the company's controls closed a feedback loop between > the gyrocompass and the ship's wheel, leaving the helmsman to adjust > its parameters, monitor its performance, or exchange control, > depending on the circumstances. In aircraft, Sperry established a > similar feedback loop between gyroscopic instruments and the > airplane's control surfaces. Here the human operator was a newer > breed, and automatic controls extended pilots' range by reducing > their fatigue. In both cases the military services valued the > regularity the feedback loops provided, and Sperry built automated > aiming systems around the stabilized vehicles. In antiaircraft fire > control, the human operators became part ofthe feedback loops, > amplifying and interpreting data at each stage in a complex > computation. (103) Thus in a report in 1942, Sperry declared, > There has come into being a whole new field of scientific accessories > to extend the functions and the skill of the operator far beyond his > own strength, endurance, and abilities.... The cyborgian argument must be a familiar one. It was certainly in public (as well as highly classified) circulation about that time, for example in the pages of Life Magazine in an article in 1944, "Mechanical Brains: Working in Metal Boxes, Computing Devices Aim Guns and Bombs with Inhuman Accuracy", which featured the startling drawings of Alfred Crimi, showing a human turret-gunner at one with his machine. (See the drawings held in the digital archive of the Hagley Museum and Library, http://tinyurl.com/nfm8ne.) Crimi also, as far as I can determine, did the famous drawing of Vannevar Bush's Memex as this appeared in Life the following year -- but don't hold me to this quite yet. (Anyone with further information on Crimi please comment!) In other words, we know that devices called at the time "computer" (devices were called that by 1930 at the latest) were doing for warfare what we often claim they are doing for scholarship. But the historical precedent isn't just a passive connection. It has bite. These devices were cybernetic systems long before Wiener called them that. As Mindell notes, in the 1930s "the 'computer' was neither the machine nor its human operators but rather the assemblage of the two" (98). Time we went back to the 1930s for our future? 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 Jul 18 06:59:05 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 B23441EDB6; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:59:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE21A1ED9C; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:59:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718065902.CE21A1ED9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:59:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.168 ESF bursaries for TEI-2009 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 168. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:19:12 -0700 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: TEI-2009: European Science Foundation bursaries for emerging scholars The European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) is funding a bursary program to support the attendance of early career European researchers at the 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium. The TEI Conference program committee will use this funding to make up to six grants of at least €500 (reimbursed in US dollars). To be eligible for this funding you must be * an "emerging scholar," which is defined by the ESF as someone who has not been in an established position for more than five years, with exceptions for parental, medical, and national service leaves. The ESF notes that "students, post-doctorate researchers and lecturers within 5 years of appointment would be amongst those included in this definition." * actively participating in the conference: through workshop attendance or by present a paper, poster, or tool demo. * affiliated with one of the 80 member organisations of the ESF (see http://www.esf.org/about-us/80-member-organisations.html). If you think you fit these criteria and would like to apply for consideration for a bursary, please send a brief CV showing your career history, affiliation with an ESF member institution, and a short statement describing your planned involvement in the 2009 Conference and Members' Meeting and/or a pre-conference workshop to tei-meeting-2009@umich.edy by 31 August 2009. For more information, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/bursaries.html ____________ 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 07:00:58 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 9964B1EE53; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A39C1EE40; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718070056.5A39C1EE40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.169 publications: possible & actual X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 169. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (18) Subject: Have you a book proposal regarding a subject in digital classics? [2] From: I-CHASS (2) Subject: Book co-authored by NCSA/ICHASS Alan Craig now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:38:18 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Have you a book proposal regarding a subject in digital classics? In-Reply-To: <96f3df640907160817p196bc280p61609bed321c521e@mail.gmail.com> Hi Everyone, An announcement from Gorgias Press (who are going to publish the DHQ volume on classics and cyberinfrastructure up as a book: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/index.html). They are starting up a new series on classics and computing, and are looking for new proposals, which may be of interest to some of you! best, Melissa --------------- Gorgias Press is expanding its interest in technology and classics and welcomes book proposals regarding digital classics research, for both monographs (including revised dissertations) and edited collections (based on conference sessions or otherwise). Proposals should be no more than 4 pages pdf and include contact details and a biography of the author(s), an overview of the topic and its importance, a brief description of all chapters, and a summation of how this text will relate to other texts in the field. This is an open call. Please send proposals to submissions@gorgiaspress.com. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:18:46 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Book co-authored by NCSA/ICHASS Alan Craig now available In-Reply-To: <96f3df640907160817p196bc280p61609bed321c521e@mail.gmail.com> NCSA/ICHASS staffer Alan B. Craig has co-authored a book on virtual reality, "Developing Virtual Reality Applications," that is now available. The book, co-authored by William R. Sherman and Jeffrey D. Will, details several virtual reality applications and how they are used in a variety of fields. The authors examine what makes the applications workable and how principles and theories of virtual reality are applied. Craig, who has worked for NCSA for more than 20 years, is the associate director of human-computer interaction for the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS). Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | 1205 W. Clark St., MC 257 | Urbana, IL 61820 | US _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 07:01:55 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 C68C11EFD7; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:01:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B6071EFBB; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:01:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718070154.1B6071EFBB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:01:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.170 events: Fall Institute X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 170. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:14:56 -0300 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities Announcing: FIDLH 2009 – the second annual Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities FIDLH 2008 was held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, September 25th, 26th, and 27th thanks to the support of the Electronic Text Centre at UNB Libraries http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts, the Digital Culture Observatory at Acadia University, and the University of New Brunswick and Acadia University. More than 30 librarians, library staff, humanists, and students attended FIDLH 2008, and all reported a very positive and collegial learning experience. FIDLH 2009 will be held at Acadia University, in Wolfville, NS, September 24th, 25th, and 26th. This year, as last the cost will be $300.00 per employed participant and $100.00 per student. Acadia’s Office of Graduate Studies and Research has offered to help defer the cost of student participation, so depending on the number of students who register student costs will be slightly or significantly less than the $100.00 posted rate. One day participation will also be available at a rate of $100.00. Each of the three days will begin with a plenary talk on a topic of interest to those in attendance, followed by a morning and an afternoon workshop in which participants will choose from among the following offerings: using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) for electronic journal management, XML encoding for journal articles, Data Conversion and Digital Imaging, Tools for Text Analysis, Concepts in Text Analysis, Designing and Implementing Usability Tests, and Using Computer Games in Teaching. Participants should plan to bring their own laptop or netbook computer. A limited number of laptops will be available to rent. Registration for FIDLH 2009 will open July 24, and is accessible through our website at http://etc.hil.unb.ca/fidlh2009/ We look forward to seeing you this fall in the beautiful Annapolis Valley. Richard Cunningham & Erik Moore Associate Professor, Director of the ETC English & Theatre UNB Libraries Director, ADCO Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Acadia University Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 18 09:50:10 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 65D681E561; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:50:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E38D1E52A; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:50:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090718095003.6E38D1E52A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:50:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.171 new publications: Google Books or Great Books? Fate of the Disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 171. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (63) Subject: Critical Inquiry 35.4: The Fate of the Disciplines [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: books then and now --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:02:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Critical Inquiry 35.4: The Fate of the Disciplines Several here will be interested in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry 35.4 (Summer 2009), www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/current, as follows: Introduction: Doctrines, Disciplines, Discourses, Departments James Chandler What Is a Discipline? Debating Disciplinarity Robert Post Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity Judith Butler Case Studies I Science Studies Science Studies and the History of Science Lorraine Daston Postdisciplinary Liaisons: Science Studies and the Humanities Mario Biagioli Religious Studies Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide? Saba Mahmood Saint Paul and the New Man Amy Hollywood Case Studies II Cinema Studies The Core and the Flow of Film Studies Dudley Andrew Carnivore or Chameleon: The Fate of Cinema Studies Gertrud Koch Philology Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World Sheldon Pollock The Double Fate of the Classics François Hartog The Disciplinary System The General Enters the Library: A Note on Disciplines and Complexity David E. Wellbery The Conflicts of the Faculty Marshall Sahlins The Disciplines and the Arts Project Statement Helen Mirra Art, Fate, and the Disciplines: Some Indicators W. J. T. Mitchell Counting (Art and Discipline) Bill Brown -- 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: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:48:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books then and now Many here will be interested in Peter Green's review, "Google Books or Great Books? The enduring value of the Republic of Letters, in all its forms", Times Literary Supplement for 15 July, reviewing Anthony Grafton's Worlds Made by Words and Roger Martin's Racing Odysseus. See entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/, where the review is online in its entirety. 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 Jul 19 06:30:54 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 E840732722; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F23932711; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090719063051.4F23932711@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.172 at one with the machine X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 172. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine [2] From: Sara Schmidt (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine -- Alfred D. Crimi --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:11:50 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine In-Reply-To: <20090718065720.1A1951ED2C@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Have you read PW Singer's _Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and 21st Century Conflict_ (Penguin, 2009). You might find it interesting for your historical study. And it may raise some interesting philosophical questions for computing in the humanities. Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:26:13 +0100 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.167 at one with the machine -- Alfred D. Crimi In-Reply-To: <20090718065720.1A1951ED2C@woodward.joyent.us> Footnote # 11 on the following google books page might be of interest: http://tiny.cc/dOtlc In addition, Crimi seems to have written at least two books... Crimi, Alfred D. Crimi: A Look Back--a Step Forward : My Life Story. Staten Island, N.Y.: Center for Migration Studies of New York, 1988. Crimi, Alfred D. Alfred D. Crimi. New York: Selected Artistis Galleries, 1960. Sara _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 19 06:31:38 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 324B932773; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 354473275D; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090719063136.354473275D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.173 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 173. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:11:31 +0200 From: Paolo Rocchi Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.165 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090717050055.A68D31FF9D@woodward.joyent.us> >Paulo: > >> I find extraordinary Jim's remark: >> "Some people are more interested in people, >> Some people are more interested in things, >> Some people are more interested in concepts." >> >> My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced >> that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions >> changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things >> than on tenets and knowledge. > >Why do you find my remark extraordinary? I find it obvious and simplistic. > >Yes, if you've studied the classics, you will be studying the works of >those who believed culture is the ultimate authority in society. But >even then, that belief was probably not true of most people, just >those educated enough to read and write. > >Jim R Hi Jim Recently Milan Zeleny (*) introduced a pretty scheme to illustrate the challenging pathway toward full scientific understanding. The scheme includes four steps: Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW). Zeleny points out how *Data* is the set of measurements about an invention. Initial elaboration of those data generates *Information* that adds context to the invention. Scientists are able to describe the earliest discovery after the first two stages and to answer a question like "'What'?. Researchers become more aware of a find through successive studies, namely they gain *Knowledge* that is composed of the insights, the values and the judgments which make individuals capable of replying a query about the origins of the novel phenomenon (= 'How?'). *Wisdom*, the ultimate comprehension of a matter that answer a question like 'Why?', and is reached as long as scientists obtain the solid conceptualization of the entire context which rings the initial discovery. Whereas researchers made efforts to cover the entire pathway in the past centuries, present day researchers take two steps with ardor in order to obtain immediate return of investments. The third step is rather tardy and the fourth step involves a very few people. I find your aphorism may be used to sum up the sociological experience of those (like me) who work around the principles of computer science: - people more interested in people and in things, say over 99%, - people more interested in concepts, say less 1%. It is evident how the incomplete course DIKW - say the incomplete culture on computer systems - impairs the progress of technology and science as von Bertalanffy argued decades ago. And frequently we go around randomly. (*) Zeleny M. - Management Support Systems: Towards Integrated Knowledge -Management, Human Systems Management, 7(1), (1987). Yours. Paolo Rocchi IBM SWG Research and Development via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA phone: 39-6-5966-5213 fax : 39-6-5966-3618 IBM Italia S.p.A. Sede Legale: Circonvallazione Idroscalo - 20090 Segrate (MI) Cap. Soc. euro 400.001.359 C. F. e Reg. 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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: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:16 +0300 (EEST) From: dobreva@math.bas.bg Subject: Planets Training Event in Digital Preservation in Sofia, Bulgaria,16-18 September 2009 PLANETS TRAINING EVENT, SOFIA, BULGARIA, 16-18 SEPTEMBER 2009: BURSARY PLACES AVAILABLE Deadline for applications extended to Wednesday 29 July 2009 ‘Digital Preservation – The Planets Way’: Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe Outreach and training event organised by Planets project (http://www.planets-project.eu) Date: 16-18 September 2009 Venue: Arena di Serdica hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria Website: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/sofia-2009/ Contact: sofia-grants@planets-project.eu Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services) will host a three-day outreach and training event at the Arena di Serdica hotel in Sofia on 16-18 September 2009. The project has joined forces with the Central European Initiative to offer 15 bursary places to participants from nine countries to attend the event. Participants from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine are eligible for this support. This will be the first major specialist digital preservation event targeted at information and preservation professionals from Eastern and Central Europe, and is designed for CEOs, Heads of IT, and preservation / curation / IT staff from collection, education, memory and heritage institutions across the Central and Eastern European region. ‘Digital Preservation – the Planets Way’ will explore the case for preservation of digital objects, the actions required, and the Planets solutions to the issues. The first day of the event will focus on the challenges of digital preservation and introduce the Planets tools and services. On days two and three delegates will gain hands-on experience of working with Planets and a scenario (sample collection) to develop a preservation plan and preserve digital objects. The event will include plenty of opportunity for discussion and the sharing of ideas and best practice. Lectures, workshops and discussions will be provided by distinguished experts from the EU: we anticipate the team of lecturers and workshop leaders will include specialists from the British Library, HATII at the University of Glasgow, National Archive of the Netherlands, Vienna University of Technology, University of Cologne, and the Austrian National Library. You can see full details about the bursary scheme at: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/sofia-2009/cei-bursary/. You should submit your completed application by 17:30 CET on Wednesday 29 July. If you have any questions about the scheme, please e-mail us at: sofia-grants@planets-project.eu. We hope you will join us to experience how the tools and methods developed by the Planets project can assist in developing and sustaining your long-term digital preservation strategy. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 19 06:43:06 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 B37BD32978; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E9B83295F; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:43:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090719064304.3E9B83295F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.175 at one with the machine (footnote) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 175. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:42:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: footnote to Crimi As it happens, James Nyce and Paul Kahn, in their essay "A Machine for the Mind: Vannevar Bush's Memex" (in their book, From Memex to Hypertext, 1991), did the homework on Crimi (pp. 58-9). As it happened Crimi was commissioned for the work by Allan McNab, Art Department, Life Magazine, not by Bush. In retrospect we can put Crimi's drawings of the gunner in the turret and of the innards of the Memex side by side, but the connection isn't a simple one. "A Machine for the Mind" makes that clear. 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 Jul 21 08:31:27 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 416B032B7C; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71E9632B73; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090721083125.71E9632B73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.176 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 176. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:17:34 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.159 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090715081607.4B825321A2@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Claire and all, I hope it doesn't surprise you if I say that I found lots on methodologies and analysis in the posters at DH2009, and I was rather upset to see them fragmented throughout the conference and relegated to the coffee breaks when people are busy doing what you go to conferences for: socialising. I think posters in the digital humanities community have become more and more important, and usually innovative and thoroughly planned, while papers - except for particularly inspiring talks and established branches of the DH archipelagos - claim to aim high but can indeed let down whom is longing for novelty beyond buzz words. Don't get me wrong: I expect a lot from this community...may be too much? Best, Arianna == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 21 08:32:03 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 9394832C0D; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC01132BF9; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090721083202.AC01132BF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.177 new text-analytic macros; transcription system X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 177. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "David L. Hoover" (17) Subject: Excel Text-Analysis [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: new transcription system --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:34:16 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Excel Text-Analysis As some of you already know, I've been developing some Excel spreadsheets and macros to perform text analysis. Partly to prepare for my text-analysis class at this summer's DHSI (http://www.dhsi.org/), I updated and improved my Delta Spreadsheets and my Zeta and Iota Spreadsheet. Since than, I have added some additional text-analysis spreadsheets. The spreadsheets, along with detailed instructions, are now freely available on a new web site at https://files.nyu.edu/dh3/public/The%20Excel%20Text-Analysis%20Pages.html Enjoy, David Hoover -- 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) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:28:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new transcription system Many here will be interested in State, developed by the Computational Perception and Learning Research Group in the Computer Languages and Systems Department at the Universitat Jaume I, in collaboration with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. State "is a transcription system that integrates a series of tools with which images can be processed in order to remove noise and clean up the original image". "[T]he page structure can be detected, the text can be recognised and mistakes can be quickly and easily edited with interactive tools such as an electronic pen applied directly on the text." See http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=59622&CultureCode=en for more. Thanks to Dot Porter for alerting me to 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 Jul 21 08:32:41 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 C393F32C6C; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DFE732C5B; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090721083239.7DFE732C5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:32:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.178 events: DigitalWorld 2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 178. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:30:19 +0100 From: DigitalWorld 2010 Subject: 1st CfP: DigitalWorld 2010, February 10-15, 2010 / St. Maarten,Netherlands Antilles INVITATION Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following federated events. Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. ===== Call for Submissions ======= DigitalWorld 2010, February 10-15, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles DigitalWorld 2010 is a federated event focusing on advanced topics concerning all digital aspects in our society. Nowadays, most of the economic activities and business models are driven by the unprecedented evolution of theories and technologies. The impregnation of these achievements into our society is present everywhere, and it is only question of user education and business models optimization towards a digital society. Submission (full paper) deadline: September 10, 2009. Submissions must be electronically done using the "Submit a Paper" button on the entry page of each conference. For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers. Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged. All topics are open to both research and industry contributions: theories, systems, standards, projects, initiatives, commercial systems, studies, or visionary ideas. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in the Journals mentioned on the conferences' sites. -- ICDS 2010, The Fourth International Conference on Digital Society http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICDS10.html -- CYBERLAWS 2010, The First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CYBERLAWS10.html -- ICQNM 2010, The Fourth International Conference on Quantum, Nano and Micro Technologies http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICQNM10.html -- GEOProcessing 2010, The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/GEOProcessing10.html -- eTELEMED 2010, The Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eTELEMED10.html -- eKNOW 2010, The Second International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eKNOW10.html -- eL&mL 2010, The Second International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eLmL10.html -- ACHI 2010, The Third International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ACHI10.html -------------------------------- IARIA Publicity Board DigitalWorld Advisory Committees _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:50:10 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 0C7B832633; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ACBFE32623; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055007.ACBFE32623@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.179 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 179. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:40:30 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.173 dull and sharp In-Reply-To: <20090719063136.354473275D@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the response, Paolo. I think your estimates are probably more correct than mine :) Do you think putting wisdom at the end of a process beginning with "data" is a move that can be questioned? What leads us to decide what constitutes data to begin with? Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:50:34 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 7043B3266F; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 772683265C; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055032.772683265C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.180 Stibitz's Zeroth Generation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 180. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:29:56 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Zeroth Generation Does anyone here know whether George R. Stibitz's memoirs, The Zeroth Generation, privately published in 1993, has been digitized -- or exists anywhere outside of the few N American libraries that admit to having a copy? 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 Wed Jul 22 05:51:01 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 544D3326D3; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4E20326CB; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055100.A4E20326CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.181 new publication: word and image X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 181. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:06:57 +0100 From: "Customer-services@rodopi.nl" Subject: New_publication: Elective Affinities Elective Affinities Testing Word and Image Relationships Edited by Catriona MacLeod, Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass Amsterdam/New York, NY 2009. 421 pp. (Word & Image Interactions 6) ISBN: 978-90-420-2618-6 Paper ISBN: 978-90-420-2619-3 E-Book Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=WI+6 This volume presents the impressive range of scholarly affinities, approaches, and subjects that characterize today’s word and image studies. The essays, a selection of papers first presented in 2005 at the seventh international conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies/Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Rapports entre Texte et Image that took place in Philadelphia, are case studies of the diverse configurations of the textual and the iconic. “Elective affinities” - a notion originally borrowed by Goethe for his 1809 novel of the same title from eighteenth-century chemistry - here refers to the active role of the two partners in the relationship of the pictorial and the verbal. Following the experimental modalities opened up by Goethe, the present volume is divided into three sections, which explore, respectively, how words and images can merge in harmony, engage in conflicts and contestations, and, finally, interact in an experimental way that self-consciously tests the boundaries and relations among verbal and visual arts. New perspectives on word and image relationships emerge, in periods, national traditions, works, and materials as different as (among many others) an installation by Marcel Duchamp and the manual accompanying it; the impact of artificial light sources on literature and art; nineteenth-century British illustrations of Native Americans; the contemporary comic book; a seventeenth-century Italian devotional manuscript uniting text, image, and music; Chinese body and performance art. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 22 05:51:49 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 C29073274A; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30FCD32735; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055147.30FCD32735@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.182 DHO (Dublin): digital research database X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 182. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:23:25 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DHO's Digital Research and Projects database launched The DHO's Digital Research and Projects database (DRAPIer) was launched at the Royal Irish Academy on 13 July 2009 during the first evening of the annual DHO Summer School . DRAPIer is a bibliographic database gathering together the rich and varied work being carried out by the Higher Education sector throughout the island of Ireland in the area of digital humanities. RIA Humanities Secretary Professor Jane Conroy introduced DRAPIer, hailing it as "a significant element in the concept conceived by the Humanities Serving Irish Society consortium." The database currently lists 30 projects from virtually all institutions across the island. Projects can be browsed by discipline, institution, temporal periods, geographic range, amongst others. It can also be browsed by methods used in creating the digital resource, such as text encoding or scanning; metadata formats, such as Dublin Core or TEI; and content types, such as images or audio recordings. The controlled vocabularies used by DRAPIer are based on those developed for ICT Guides and currently implemented by arts-humanities.net at the Centre for eResearch, King's College London. Refinement of the vocabularies is ongoing, and the DHO is actively contributing to this work. These fields provide a roadmap to the range of digital humanities activities in Ireland across disciplines, formats, and methodologies. It is also intended that DRAPIer be used as a resource: as the basis for future collaborations between projects; as a conduit for peer learning; and location that documents expertise in the area of digital humanities in Ireland. -- 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 Jul 22 05:52:39 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 ED0E3327C8; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 19E12327BF; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090722055237.19E12327BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.183 events: language; geospatial scholarship; digital classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 183. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bethany Nowviskie (37) Subject: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship [2] From: Carlos Areces (26) Subject: cfp: ESSLLI 2010 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals [3] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (30) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: Linking Archaeological Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:52:35 -0400 From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library is now accepting applications for an NEH-funded "Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship," to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia in November 2009 and May 2010. http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/ This program will bring together humanities scholars, software developers, and librarians and other cultural heritage professionals to discuss and develop geospatial tools, content, methods, policies, and infrastructure, in the context of open source and open access. Thirty-one leading academics, developers, and higher-ed administrators serve on the faculty and advisory board of the Institute. The National Endowment for the Humanities will support travel, working meals, and lodging for 40 attendees as well as Institute faculty members. Special funding is available for graduate students. The University of Virginia Library will also fund up to 5 short-term scholar- and developer-in-residencies at the Scholars' Lab to complement the Institute's focus on humanities GIS. Three four-day Institute tracks are planned: 15-18 November 2009: Track 1: Stewardship (for library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals) Track 2: Software (for Web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists) 25-28 May 2010: Track 3: Scholarship (for humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, and post-docs) Application DEADLINES are September 1st (for Tracks 1 and 2) and December 1st (for Track 3). Special consideration will be given to those who apply as part of an institutional team, as the curriculum is designed to foster robust technical and social infrastructure, at a local level, for geospatial scholarship in the digital humanities. Apply to attend at the URL above, and please help distribute this message widely! Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:49:51 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: cfp: ESSLLI 2010 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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. For more information, visit the FoLLI website, as well as ESSLLI’2009 website: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/. The ESSLLI 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 22nd annual Summer School on important topics of active research in the broad interdisciplinary area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science, and the cognitive sciences, structured within the 3 traditional ESSLLI streams: -Language and Computation -Language and Logic -Logic and Computation We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these categories. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals should be submitted, using a prescribed form that will be available soon on the ESSLLI 2010 website www.hum.ku.dk/esslli2010, through EasyChair on http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2010, not later than ******* Monday, September 7, 2009 ******* Proposers must hold PhD or equivalent degrees and should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that do not conform with these guidelines may not be considered. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:39:19 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: Linking Archaeological Data Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday July 24th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Leif Isaksen (Southampton)* *Linking Archaeological Data* The Port Networks Project, a joint venture between a wide range of archaeological institutions, is using innovative computational methods known as Semantic Web technologies in order to synthesise the large volume of excavation data available from harbour excavations around the Mediterranean. This presentation focuses on the human-computer interface. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract is online, and audio recording and slideshow will be posted after the event. -- 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 Sat Jul 25 08:19:05 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 AA09431DF7; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 04C1E31DEE; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725081904.04C1E31DEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.184 dull and sharp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 184. 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" (3) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.179 dull and sharp [2] From: Melissa Terras (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 173. > > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:11:31 +0200 > > From: Paolo Rocchi > > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.165 dull and sharp > > In-Reply-To: <20090717050055.A68D31FF9D@woodward.joyent.us> This sounds as if it is a reduction from Kipling's oft quoted: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. which may have, in turn, been a reference to similarly quoted passages from the ancient Romans and Greeks. The point _I_ am making here is that the wider, not narrower, contextual points of view should be used, to include a reason why it was done when and by whom, which could include how the tools evolved, were learned, etc., to answer the question why it was done when it was, etc. Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks PS The "people, things, concepts" quote is great. Perhaps should be extended to stem from and through: Feeling, thought, idea, concept, model, prototype, product to the final stage of become part of our culture. > > > > >Paulo: > > > > > >> I find extraordinary Jim's remark: > > >> "Some people are more interested in people, > > >> Some people are more interested in things, > > >> Some people are more interested in concepts." > > >> > > >> My initial background stems from classical studies and I was convinced > > >> that culture was the ultimate authority in society. Unfortunately fashions > > >> changes and I find high-culture representatives more concerned on things > > >> than on tenets and knowledge. > > > > > >Why do you find my remark extraordinary? I find it obvious and simplistic. > > > > > >Yes, if you've studied the classics, you will be studying the works of > > >those who believed culture is the ultimate authority in society. But > > >even then, that belief was probably not true of most people, just > > >those educated enough to read and write. > > > > > >Jim R > > > > Hi Jim > > > > Recently Milan Zeleny (*) introduced a pretty scheme to illustrate the > > challenging pathway toward full scientific understanding. The scheme > > includes four steps: Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW). > > Zeleny points out how *Data* is the set of measurements about an > > invention. Initial elaboration of those data generates *Information* that > > adds context to the invention. Scientists are able to describe the > > earliest discovery after the first two stages and to answer a question > > like "'What'?. Researchers become more aware of a find through successive > > studies, namely they gain *Knowledge* that is composed of the insights, > > the values and the judgments which make individuals capable of replying a > > query about the origins of the novel phenomenon (= 'How?'). *Wisdom*, the > > ultimate comprehension of a matter that answer a question like 'Why?', and > > is reached as long as scientists obtain the solid conceptualization of the > > entire context which rings the initial discovery. > > > > Whereas researchers made efforts to cover the entire pathway in the past > > centuries, present day researchers take two steps with ardor in order to > > obtain immediate return of investments. The third step is rather tardy and > > the fourth step involves a very few people. I find your aphorism may be > > used to sum up the sociological experience of those (like me) who work > > around the principles of computer science: > > - people more interested in people and in things, say over 99%, > > - people more interested in concepts, say less 1%. > > > > It is evident how the incomplete course DIKW - say the incomplete culture > > on computer systems - impairs the progress of technology and science as > > von Bertalanffy argued decades ago. And frequently we go around randomly. > > > > (*) Zeleny M. - Management Support Systems: Towards Integrated Knowledge > > -Management, Human Systems Management, 7(1), (1987). > > > > Yours. > > > > Paolo Rocchi > > > > IBM > > SWG Research and Development > > via Shanghai 53, 00144 ROMA > > phone: 39-6-5966-5213 > > fax : 39-6-5966-3618 > > > > IBM Italia S.p.A. > > Sede Legale: Circonvallazione Idroscalo - 20090 Segrate (MI) > > Cap. Soc. euro 400.001.359 > > C. F. e Reg. Imprese MI 01442240030 - Partita IVA 10914660153 > > Società soggetta all?attività di direzione e coordinamento di > > International Business Machines Corporation > > > > (Salvo che sia diversamente indicato sopra / Unless stated otherwise > > above) > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:51:49 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.157 why so dull? In-Reply-To: <20090714092159.15C153272A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I broke my front tooth at SDH/SEMI 2006. just thought I would share that with you! (I noticed later in the hotel room)! m _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 25 08:20:08 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 A738A31F18; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FF5231F0F; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725082007.8FF5231F0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:20:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.185 IT support job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 185. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:37:28 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: IT Support Officer the Online Egyptological, Bibliography - deadline extended Please note that the deadline for applications for the following post has now been extended to 31st July. Griffith Institute in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford Information Technology Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography University Grade: 8, stages 01-04, Salary in the range £36,532 - £39,920 per annum pro rata to 40%, 16-month fixed-term The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint from late 2009 an ICT Officer to provide support for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), which will be moved from Amsterdam to a server in Oxford in late 2009 and will be further developed and migrated to a new software platform over the next year. This is a major database project that involves integrating material from diverse sources, including other databases that are to be incorporated into the OEB, as well as designing new input and search modules for use in a Unicode-compliant system. The successful candidate will have a professional knowledge of database systems, including Microsoft Access and MySQL with complex SQL statements and queries, as well as web-based systems, notably ASP, PHP, internet technologies such as (X)HTML and JavaScript, and general web design. She or he will also manage integrity, security, and online subscriptions to the OEB. This is a challenging position that will suit particularly a specialist in computing for the humanities. Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, tel. 01865 288202, email orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk, to whom applications should be sent not later than Friday 31st July 2009 The University is an equal opportunities 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 Sat Jul 25 08:21:40 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 4684D31F93; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA4DE31F84; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:21:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725082137.DA4DE31F84@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:21:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.186 what difference? digital editions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 186. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (38) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? [2] From: Peter Anderson (13) Subject: Digital editions/commentaries --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:13:03 +0100 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? In-Reply-To: <4A698E49020000CF000366C9@gvsu.edu> The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a friendly, but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this digital stuff made an important difference. It is still a good question. In the domain of text-based scholarship, classical philology (broadly construed) is an important test case. It is the only discipline of substantial generic, linguistic, and diachronic scope of which it can be said that all or most of the relevant documents exist in fairly good and moderately interoperable form. There is no TLG or anything like it for English, German, or any other language. There is All of Old English and All of Old Norse, but those are boutique operations. Thus Classical philology on the face of it is a discipline where you could no longer blame the absence of a good enough cyber infrastructure for the lack of scholarly 'progress' (always a problematical word) or at least significant difference. If it has not mattered much in Classics, it is unlikely to matter much elsewhere. If there is good evidence about significant and worthwhile change in Classics, it has deep implications for other disciplines where the digital documentary infrastructure is still much more fragmentary. Where is that difference and what do we know about it? I don't think that significant change is necessarily measured in dramatic breakthroughs. It is more likely to happen in slow, subtle, and pervasive ways. But it ought to be measurable in some fashion. The TLG has now been around almost 30 years and for close to 20 years access to it has been within technical and financial reach of anybody who care. What difference has it made? What kinds of inquiry are possible now that were not practicable then? How do books and articles benefit from changed modes of access to the documentary base of classical philology? (I am not talking here about changed modes of access to secondary literature, because that is a phenomenon that applies with more or less equal force to all disciplines). I am inclined to believe that it has made a difference. But does anybody have evidence good enough to persuade my hard-nosed colleague that my belief is well grounded? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:48:11 +0100 From: Peter Anderson Subject: Digital editions/commentaries In-Reply-To: <4A698E49020000CF000366C9@gvsu.edu> [This query forwarded from the Digital Classicist. --WM] Dear colleagues, I am a relative newcomer to the issues that many of you have been addressing for years, and so I am writing with no small measure of humility (or anxiety :) ). I'm in the planning stages of an xml edition and commentary (on Seneca's De Constantia Sapientis), working with a colleague in our school of computing, who will lend his expertise to construct the user interface. I have not yet found any projects that are yet working on establishing, for instance, tags for the different elements one would find in a "traditional" commentary; I can see that there are likely many existing descriptions from a range of other projects (e.g. variant readings). I am most interested in creating a wheel that other philologists will happily use and, of course, not recreating one where a good one exists. I shall be very grateful for any comments/wisdom, on or off list. Peter J Anderson Department of Classics 267 Lake Huron Hall Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 616.331.3611 (office) 616.331.3775 (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 Sat Jul 25 08:26:18 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 B2AE430085; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1CF930037; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090725082616.C1CF930037@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:26:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.188 events: resources; language; digital humanities; DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 188. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: saggion (233) Subject: Brazil: 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human LanguageTechnology - Call for Participation [2] From: Susan Schreibman (37) Subject: DRHA09 Registration now open [3] From: Shawn Day (13) Subject: DHO Summer School wins praise from participants [4] From: Mark Olsen (137) Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers and Publication of the 2008Proceedings --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:03:54 +0100 From: saggion Subject: Brazil: 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human LanguageTechnology - Call for Participation 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology STIL 2009 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09 September 8-11, 2009 São Carlos, Brazil First Call for Participation 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. For all information about the conference (programme, registration, conference fees, accommodation, travel, etc.) please follow this link http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/. The list of accepted papers has been published at the conference web site and is listed below for your convenience. In addition, STIL 2009 includes the following Invited Talks and Tutorials, along with other activities. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:01:06 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DRHA09 Registration now open Registration for Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2009 (DRHA) at Queen's University Belfast, is now open http://dho.ie/drha2009 . The Programme Committee has assembled an extremely strong programme and we are very much looking forward to a stimulating conference. I want to draw your attention to two items on the DRHA09 Website: --Early bird registration ends 31 July. Fees are significantly reduced for those registering before 31 July. For further details, please see http://dho.ie/drha2009/registration --Pre-conference workshops. There are three pre-conference workshops. To register for the workshops at the discounted price, and to ensure a place, you must register by 31 July. For workshop descriptions, please see http://dho.ie/drha2009/programme/workshops for pricing please see http://dho.ie/drha2009/registration For questions about the programme or local arrangements, please use the conference feedback form at http://dho.ie/drha2009/contact -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 0491966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` Susan.Schreibman@gmail.com http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:32:24 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Summer School wins praise from participants Over 60 humanities scholars from around the world participated in the second annual DHO Summer School. Co-sponsored by NINES and 18th Connect, the Summer School featured master classes and lectures from Dr Paul Ell, Professor Hans Walter Gabler, Dr Aaron Quigley, and Dr Andrew Stauffer. Thought-provoking and intense workshop streams in text encoding, text transformation, data modelling, and data visualisation were led by subject matter experts. This year's Summer School had twice as many participants as last year expanding from two to four workshop strands. Workshop attendees enthusiastically joined in wide-ranging discussions and were quick to praise the effectiveness of the blend of lectures, group work, and hands-on components. Delegates remarked that there was a great mix of theory and information on resources for immediate use as well as inspiration for future directions. [http://dho.ie/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif]In the data visualisation strand, an enterprising participant collected feedback as a class project on fellow students' views of the summer school. Utilising a visualisation, it is immediately apparent that the word 'useful' is the most common, reflecting the widely-held view that the summer school provided an immediate application of knowledge. However the word 'others' is also prominent, reflecting the sense of community and informal learning that took place during the week. See the visualisation at: http://dho.ie/node/177#visualisation Lectures subjected a wide variety of topics to lively discourse. Drs Susan Schreibman and Laura Mandell introduced the Summer School and presented a highly interactive session on the nature, mutability, and centrality of digital objects to digital humanities research. Dr Aaron Quigley (University College Dublin) examined the potential of cutting edge visualisation techniques for data analysis in a talk focusing on the challenges faced by researchers using these tools. Dr Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) provided a thoroughly engaging lecture that reconceptualised the nature of the archive in a digital age. Dr Paul Ell of Queen's University, Belfast, lectured on the challenge to sustainability that has faced digital projects over the past few years and generated fruitful discussion on ideas for the future. Professor Hans Walter Gabler (University of London) led the Summer School's signature master class in digital scholarly editions. This class also featured an illuminating demonstration, by Dr Luca Crispi, of the virtual Yeats exhibit which he co-curated at the National Library of Ireland. This master class sparked strong interest and allowed for in depth interaction between the audience and Professor Gabler. This year's Summer School featured two brilliant evening events. A wine reception on Monday night launched the DRAPIer portal of Irish research projects http://dho.ie/node/185 . On Wednesday night attendees were treated to a sparkling harp recital by Drs Emily and Benita Cullen that combined evocative performance with an illuminating lecture on the Celtic Harp as an Icon and Instrument. The Summer School this year was a resounding success and valuable feedback from attendees will make next year's even better. The 2010 Summer School will be held from 19 -23 July in Dublin. We look forward to seeing you there. There is a photo gallery from the Summer School Information on the Summer School programme, lectures, master class and workshop strands are available at the Summer School site http://dho.ie/ss2009 . --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:36:25 +0100 From: Mark Olsen Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers and Publication of the 2008Proceedings On behalf of the Program Committee of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), I am pleased to announce both the publication of the Proceedings of the 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu/) and our Call for Papers for the 2009 Colloquium, to be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, November 14–16, 2009. I hope you will consider submitting a proposal for the 2009 Colloquium and I look forward to seeing you in Chicago. Please circulate this announcement widely. CALL FOR PAPERS2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates: November 14 – 16, 2009 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The theme of this year's Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Critical Computing". We will explore how research collaborations between computer scientists and humanists can be made most effective. * How can computation provide new critical tools for humanists? * How can humanities scholarship help us understand the real meaning and import of computational analysis of human artifacts? We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. We welcome proposals for: * Paper presentations (20 minute talks) * Poster presentations (open session) * Software demonstrations (open session) * Panel discussions (60-90 minute session) * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars (1-4 hours) * Pre-conference “birds of a feather” technical meetings (1-4 hours) Last year's proceedings are available at: http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A small number of travel grants will be available to assist graduate students presenting at the colloquium with travel expenses. More information about the application process will be available soon. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement: Thursday, September 24 Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology, data mining, semantic web, and social informatics. Prof. Honavar's recent work focuses on information integration and knowledge discovery from diverse data sources, learning from biological and textual data, and modular ontologies. Other keynote speakers at DHCS-2009 will be announced shortly, once they are confirmed. Previous DHCS keynote speakers have included Gregory Crane, Stephen Downie, Oren Etzioni, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lewis Lancaster, Ben Schneiderman, John Unsworth, and Martin Wattenberg. DHCS-2009 is sponsored by: Illinois Institute of Technology The University of Chicago Northwestern University Program Committee: * Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University * Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago * Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago * Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference session the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering introductory tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text analysis/data-mining or 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, on Sunday, November 15 and Monday, November 16, will consist of several 1-1/2 hour paper presentation sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website. Contact Info: Please email dhcs2009@iit.edu for more information. Colloquium Website: http://dhcs.iit.edu Information about previous years' colloquiua is available at http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu. -- 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 Sun Jul 26 07:34:53 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 5D1C024769; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:34:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2ABD124757; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:34:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 190. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:29:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: making a difference > "An empirical proposition can be tested" (we say). But how? and > through what? What counts as its test? ... -- As if giving grounds > did not come to an end sometime. But the end is not an ungrounded > presupposition: it is an ungrounded way of acting. -- Ludwig > Wittgenstein, On certainty, ed. Anscombe and von Wright, 109-110 In Humanist 23.186 Martin Mueller relays a conversation with a colleague who wanted to know if all this digital stuff that we push on the world has made an important difference. Martin cited classical philology as a good test-case, perhaps the best we have for textual computing given the amount of work done for classicists and by classicists in the digital medium. He noted that there's no excuse easily cited to explain a negative answer: we have the resources and many tools; we've had the time to use and explore them. So what gives or has given? Martin is exercising a genre of questioning nearly as old as the activity being questioned: such callings-to-account began at least as early as 1962 -- not as prematurely as you might think -- and have recurred through the years many, many times. Tiresomely so, an impatient person would declare; curiously so, a more thoughtful person might. The answers have *never* been conclusive, but the questioning has not ceased. So is this questioning merely a nervous tic of a troubled field of enquiry? (One wonders, what field or discipline is not troubled these days?) A sign of a "degenerating research programme", to use Imre Lakatos' expression? A reminder that we really do need to develop our defensive rhetorical skills in the face of challenges? Or what? Let me ask another question instead: what exactly would serve as an acceptable, persuasive answer? What would be the kind of evidence we'd find conclusive? Martin wisely brushes aside the curiously recurrent claims to revolutionary effect. "I don't think", he says, "that significant change is necessarily measured in dramatic breakthroughs. It is more likely to happen in slow, subtle, and pervasive ways." Let's say, as I think too, that this is the case. Then what sort of studies would we need to bring these subtle ways of change to the fore? Histories in the sociology of knowledge, I'd think. Some of us have been saying for some time that what's happening in digital projects and departments needs to be studied sociologically, as the activities in scientific laboratories have been studied, by the likes of Steve Woolgar, Bruno Latour, Karin Knorr Cetina and others. We do need to know about the "epistemic culture" we've been creating and how we've been modifying the others. It seems the classicists would like to know whether they're different these days as a result. But sociological methods have their limits. Rather than get caught up solely in trying to measure whether a difference has been made, and if so what it is, I think we should simultaneously challenge the assumptions behind the statement that this difference "ought to be measurable in some fashion", as Martin says. Perhaps it can be measured. But is that the point, or the sole point? What difference has classics made to the world in the last 60 years? Do classicists, or scholars of any stripe, think that being evaluated by utilitarian measure is the right way to assess their worth to humanity? Are we so far gone down the downward path to the bottom line that we can think in no other way? What happened to wanting to know, to intellectual curiosity? What sort of conception of the human being are we left with if the only reason for opening the eyes is to find the food to feed the body? Or, worse perhaps, to feed someone else's and get a burp for thanks. This is not to say that the differences made by digital resources and tools are not important, even vital to know about. Part of the reason for needing to know about them is that they are hardly all positive differences. Some of them are seriously otherwise. Books such as Paul Edwards' The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT, 1996) and David Golumba's The Cultural Logic of Computation (Harvard, 2009) -- read them tonight -- chime with Joseph Weizenbaum's darkest assessments and give more reason to pay attention to Langdon Winner's warnings. One of the big problems we have is that professionally, in our accounting of our reasons for being, we pay attention only to our own little gardens, as if we were not citizens of this or that country, as if what is reported on the 7 o'clock news has nothing to do with us, as if we don't have lives. So scholarly curiosity becomes something not even we understand and value, since we're so busy packaging deliverables for the Man. We then don't teach being curious to our students, who have been told to expect "transferrable skills", and so assess us in those terms. Is it any wonder that they, faced *at best* with the prospect of being like their parents, get restless, or worse? Yes, we in the digital humanities are useful to others. We know this. What effects our usefulness has had needs to be studied, because these effects, or certainly the important ones, are long-term, quietly progressing, subtle. But WHY do we do what we do -- rather than something else for which utilitarian arguments don't need to be made, like investment banking? 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 Jul 27 07:54:02 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 C49EA327A8; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1F2F332779; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 191. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:20:48 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> The "What have we accomplished" question could be approached by asking what would happen if the humanities had to stop using computers. What would be lost? The answer I reach is that apart from dropping out of the current world of communications and information retireval and dissemination technologies, not much. Oh, there are some works whose existence depends upon computers for their display and those would be gone, but the progress of humanities thought would survive intact. The fancy computational techniques for text analysis could still be done by hand, but would just be much slower. Concordances made a publishing appearance long before they were computer-generated (and the impact of computer generated concordances seems to have been to supress the publication of print concordances because they are so readily produced upon demand). So, what one arrives at is that the humanities is merely riding the wave of technology and not a force within that wave. The real question is 'so what'? Why does adaptation to the use of a contemporary technology have to have advanced the field? Do physicists worry about how 'cell phones' have advanced the state of the art in physics? Or, if you'd like the other question... What isn't the humanities doing that 'could' affect the progress of humanities thought? One of the favorite questions of the folks with supercomputers at their disposal is what could your field do with supercomputing capability? If you had access to free unlimited super-fast computation, free data storage, world-wide networks of lightening fast communications, all free, what would you do with it? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:29:21 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I find it curious that you would call investment banking unproblematically utilitarian. Perhaps you missed the New York Times article this past week about high-frequency trading on Wall Street. In fact, the topic of the article seems to fit quite nicely with Golumba's thesis about computers mostly benefiting those who already have power in society. I suppose someone could argue that the use of powerful computers to beat out small investors in the stock markets is a useful thing. Goldman Sachs would certainly agree with that position. But I think some of us would question that view and advocate for a more egalitarian utilitarianism. Maybe I have misunderstood you. In your usage, utilitarian apparently has a negative connotation. It seems that you worry about the humanities being measured by the bottom line. Putting a price tag on the humanities would be foolhardy, I hear you saying. Moreover, I think you are urging us to move beyond lower-level measures and instead become truly curious and reach our full potential. For me, utilitarian has an additional meaning. Simply put, I think we should measure the value of our work by its usefulness. As I see it, the things that are most valuable are the things that are wanted or needed by the largest numbers of people or that can make the largest difference in their lives. And since not everyone agrees on who should have the most right to use things of value, politics ensue. I could be wrong, but it sounds like you hope for the emergence of a scholarly culture that operates with one foot in academia and the other in real-world politics. For too long, you say, scholars have carefully but narrowly tended to the gardens of their disciplinary niches. By extension, our "academic" discussions have too often been hypothetical or theoretical with little expectation of producing an immediate or practical result. We have too often ignored, you say, how our scholarly work could or should connect with the headlines of the day. Your prescription for these problems is intellectual curiosity. The ways of looking beyond the blinders of our professions, of questioning the established ways of doing things and being truly innovative, should be taught and cherished. Merely teaching skills, you say, will never do much to make the world a better place. I really wonder if we can have it both ways. Some humanists have told me they already know what kind of work is most valuable, or what kinds of scholarship they should produce, and they don't need the public to tell them what would be most useful. I don't think the public is fooled; I believe they can tell when a humanist is being paternalistic. Other humanists seem to value the isolation afforded by the ivory tower. They probably see value in incubating ideas for a decade or so before they appear as a published monograph. This is starting to change as digital publication makes much of our work available to the masses. But somehow I doubt humanists will start soliciting input and feedback from the public at various stages of their scholarly projects. You say that digital humanists are slowly and subtly making new contributions to knowledge. I wonder if the public sees this as an excuse for not being more innovative. You claim that changes wrought by the digital humanities are pervasive. Perhaps they are, but I am not sure we can continue producing those kinds of changes without measuring the extent of their effect. Measurement can be a curious thing. Consider a famous story from psychology. At some point in the 1980s, the College Entrance Examination Board decided to survey the nearly one million college-bound students who would take the SAT that year. The premise was simple: Students were asked to compare their abilities with those of typical Americans their same age. The results were quite interesting. For instance, 60% said their ability to get along with others put them in the top 10%, 0% rated themselves below average, and 25% said they were in the top 1%. This has since been identified as the self-serving bias. So the question I would raise is the extent to which we can trust digital humanists to determine whether their work has been successful or made an important difference. Obviously, opinion polls have their weaknesses. But surely measuring can be made more scientific. So maybe what we need to develop is a metrics of usefulness. Maybe only then will we better grasp the past, present, and future worth of the humanities. Best wishes, Sterling FluhartyUniversity of New Mexico On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 190. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:29:32 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 28 06:00:57 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 5A34A328E8; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82585328D6; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:00:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 192. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (55) Subject: prying apart the differences made and possible [2] From: renata lemos (6) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [3] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [4] From: Wendell Piez (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.186 what difference? digital editions? [5] From: John Walsh (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [6] From: "Mark LeBlanc" (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference [7] From: Melissa Terras (72) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? [8] From: OKELL E.R. (26) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? [9] From: Hugh Cayless (85) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:48:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: prying apart the differences made and possible Sterling Fluharty, in the last Humanist, has kindly brought tools to bear on my last note, asking some questions and offering other possibilities on which I'd like to comment. I'll do so in the order given. I called investment banking unproblematically utilitarian actually meaning that in broad strokes we as a society do not question the usefulness of the profession when it is done as it is supposed to be done. The world needs banks and investments, no question. I mentioned it, of course, in contrast to the academic professions, at least those in the humanities, the usefulness of which isn't at all clear to a majority of our fellow citizens, or indeed to many of us. My ironical intent was I suppose painfully obvious; it was meant to suggest that public judgements about what is truly useful, for the good of all, can be quite mistaken. I did use "utilitarian" negatively. Perhaps I should more accurately have avoided the looser adjective for the more philosophically or doctrinally specific noun, utilitarianism. I was intending to suggest that once one drops into the opposition of useful to useless our game is lost. Unless you have the wit of Oscar Wilde, which I don't, alas. Of course one wants one's work to have effects in the world, to be appreciated and used by others. But as a formalized criterion, usefulness runs afoul of misunderstandings, fashions, ignorance and fear. Again I ask, with tongue somewhat in cheek, of what USE is classics, or history, or whatever? We all are asked to come up with explanations these days, prose for the undergraduate prospectus etc. An important exercise, I think. But the task of such prose is in my view to seize the question of usefulness and make it into a much better question, e.g. what are we that we find certain things useful, others useless? How might we find more of the world relevant to our humane uses -- by becoming more magnanimous, more imaginative? I didn't really mean to suggest that we need a foot in politics. I, for one, would make a very poor politician, as some of my colleagues here know quite well. Rather I meant to suggest that our job as intellectuals makes much more sense if we can hook into the world and/or see what we do as having long-term positive consequences for what's happening beyond our specialisms. (I really do think we can make a profound difference, as the history of educational reform suggests.) Like many here, I suppose, I wouldn't want the public (e.g. my neighbours or anyone else, for that matter) telling me what to do. I'm hired to educate as the skilled joiner is hired to make a window; if the window won't open or rattles in its frame, then governor should intervene, but not otherwise. As for metrics, I do recommend Thomas Kuhn's paper, "The function of measurement in modern physical science", in The Essential Tension (1977) as a tool with which to pry into our all too easy acceptance of the notion that measuring provides a theoretically unladen way of arriving at The Truth. I have great respect for the skills with numbers that are sometimes manifested in statistically based studies, e.g. in sociology. But it's a very, very tricky business. So, I ask my old question in a new way: if our usefulness is measured by our paymasters, how should it be done, if at all? 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, 27 Jul 2009 09:22:37 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:20:48 -0500 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.190 making a difference > In-Reply-To: <20090726073451.2ABD124757@woodward.joyent.us> > > The "What have we accomplished" question could be approached by asking > what would happen if the humanities had to stop using computers. What > would be lost? > > The answer I reach is that apart from dropping out of the current > world of communications and information retireval and dissemination > technologies, not much. I´m sorry, but I couldn´t disagree more. What seems to be "not much" to you in fact is your own capability of spreading and discussing your ideas and getting live feedback from all over the world and the impact that has on the evolution of your own IDEAS - just like what is happening right now... This is definitely a MAJOR loss, if you took computers out of the equation. However this wouldn´t even be the true difference made by technology... this would be only a slight one. the real, important difference made by technology in the digital humanities field is that a technological society operates according to a technological logic, one that has infiltrated each and every social practice and milieu - particularly ours. so in fact, it is not a question of technological applications, which are (or may seem to be) indeed limited - but of technological IMPLICATIONS, which have and will continue to change our field of intellectual tecniques, just in the same way technology changes itself: fast, exponentially, convergently, pervasively. the reason why some of us have been complaining about how dull and boring a lot of the work being presented is lies in the fact that unfortunately 99% of the work has been focused on dry applications of technology, while very little work is focused on the wider implications of technology: the real interesting and fascinating stuff - but also the difficult, complicated stuff... to answer questions about what technologies are useful and how to make technologies useful to the field is easy. to answer questions about WHY technologies are or are not completely reshaping the field is something else entirely. renata lemos eletrocooperativa - são paulo, brazil puc sp, brazil --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:36:18 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> To weigh in on this subject, the previous remark from amsler: "The fancy computational techniques for text analysis could still be done by hand, but would just be much slower." This question of degree, it seems to me, can become large enough to verge on a question of kind. That is to say, the much slower could remain largely undone because it is so hard. Even before concordances, great Talmudic scholars could basically recite the basic tractates. And easily say what the most important 10 or 20 or 50 scholars had to say on any matter. So? Looking at this issue from the standpoint of a historian whose major digital humanities work has been done in the U.S. Early Republic, you have probably more than 300 volumes of paper editions of the founding fathers alone, not to mention other founders suc as John Jay. Then perhaps mix in women. At a certain point, if you want to know what they were all saying on a certain topic over a wide range of time the effort becomes intense. If you want to mix that in with insights that have been made in journal articles over the past 100 years, it becomes an even more difficult task. If you want to work in the 20th century, where evidence extends to sound and moving images, even more so. It seems to this scholar that the question of linking texts etc.(that have beeen well marked up etc.) lies at the heart of what digital can do for Humanities. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:43:13 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.186 what difference? digital editions? In-Reply-To: <20090725082137.DA4DE31F84@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, At 04:21 AM 7/25/2009, Martin Mueller writes, about digital classical scholarship (standing in for the inevitable wider question): >What difference has it made? What kinds of inquiry are possible now >that were not practicable then? How do books and articles benefit from >changed modes of access to the documentary base of classical >philology? (I am not talking here about changed modes of access to >secondary literature, because that is a phenomenon that applies with >more or less equal force to all disciplines). > >I am inclined to believe that it has made a difference. But does >anybody have evidence good enough to persuade my hard-nosed colleague >that my belief is well grounded? I agree that this is an important question to be asking. But I doubt we should know the answer, at least not yet. In order to clarify the question being asked, we need to consider what difference would count as a difference. The inevitable and well-worn comparison to the advent of print 500 years ago comes to mind. What difference did that make? How was that important? The answers to these questions may themselves be illuminating. Can we be sure that the 30 years Martin cites since the beginning of the TLG is an adequate time frame? Should we not be considering developments that will take much longer? One can certainly argue that the European Renaissance could only happen once. Yet just as its shape and direction were unimaginable to those in the midst of it, would we know what kind of renaissance was happening among us? That being said, any number of digital projects in the Classics show how deeply we are into a first phase. The outlines of the next one, I think, may become visible once we get the texts onto handheld devices, annotated with dynamic support for translation and morphological analysis (on the word, phrase and text level) that significantly changes the affordances for casual learning and reading of Greek and Latin in the original. On the other hand, even then I'm not sure we will see changes that are outwardly so dramatic, at least not in our lifetimes. Nor are the real changes necessarily going to be among the specialists. Audiences, one might hope, will both widen (as work becomes more accessible) and narrow (as niches become newly viable). Then too, the development of these resources may ultimately have more impact on the culture at large than within the Classics themselves, as technologies for Classical philology are then applied to other languages and literatures. Which is just what happened, arguably, the last time around. In other words, I think Martin's friendly interlocutor is looking in the wrong direction. It wasn't so much Philology that was changed by the Renaissance, although that happened, slowly but surely; it was also Philology -- amidst much, much more -- that changed everything else. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:58:37 -0400 From: John Walsh Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> amsler@cs.utexas.edu wrote: > > The "What have we accomplished" question could be approached by asking > what would happen if the humanities had to stop using computers. What > would be lost? > > The answer I reach is that apart from dropping out of the current > world of communications and information retireval and dissemination > technologies, not much. I think the "what would be lost?" approach is an interesting way of looking at the problem, but I disagree with the conclusion "not much." Dropping out of the current communications and information dissemination infrastructure would result in an incalculable loss and not only remove practical tools from our tool set but also separate the humanities from a vast swath of our culture. The question could have been posed similarly a few hundred years ago: "what would happen if the humanities had to stop using printed books?" Certainly in retrospect few of us would say, "not much." As communications technologies and media change, it is important for the humanities not just to keep up but to help lead the way and take a critical look at how the changes will impact past, present, and future literature, classics, art, etc. John -- | John A. Walsh | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science | Indiana University, 1320 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 | www: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/jawalsh/ | Voice:812-856-0707 Fax:812-856-2062 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:43:44 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.191 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090727075400.1F2F332779@woodward.joyent.us> >>The real question is 'so what'? [well, please interpret my reply as from someone from outside your discipline] so what? well, for one, as a computer scientist, i would not be listening in on this interesting thread; second, i would not be typing this from Newfoundland at the ISAS (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists) conference ... hanging out, sharing drinks and stories with scholars of ancient texts; they would not be listening to our research group share how as programmers and statisticians, we are amazed at the open questions asked of this corpus ... and how we can (in a modest way), do what John Burrows calls "playing the middle game" where (i) lots of scholarship occurs; (ii) we run experiments (the middle-game); and (iii) lots of scholarship must occur after; in short, without computers, we would miss these exciting multidisciplinary collaborations wandering in a sea of texts, mark --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:33 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? Hi everyone, I'd just like to chip in and say this is what the funding councils are calling "Evidence of Value" - and are asking us to show evidence for the value of digital humanities research. Its important, as funding cuts in this area (such as the withdrawal of funds for the AHDS) are based on the perceived lack of evidence of value. Unless we can articulate, as a community, the better/faster/more nature of digital, we will struggle even harder for funding in years to come. And no, I am not aware of any real quantitative research into the matter (save log analysis techniques, which are themselves not entirely transparent). It would be interesting to hear of anyone who knew of relevant research. Melissa Terras Martin Mueller wrote: > The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a friendly, > but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this digital stuff made > an important difference. It is still a good question. In the domain of > text-based scholarship, classical philology (broadly construed) is an > important test case. It is the only discipline of substantial generic, > linguistic, and diachronic scope of which it can be said that all or > most of the relevant documents exist in fairly good and moderately > interoperable form. There is no TLG or anything like it for English, > German, or any other language. There is All of Old English and All of > Old Norse, but those are boutique operations. > > Thus Classical philology on the face of it is a discipline where you > could no longer blame the absence of a good enough cyber infrastructure > for the lack of scholarly 'progress' (always a problematical word) or at > least significant difference. If it has not mattered much in Classics, > it is unlikely to matter much elsewhere. If there is good evidence about > significant and worthwhile change in Classics, it has deep implications > for other disciplines where the digital documentary infrastructure is > still much more fragmentary. > > Where is that difference and what do we know about it? I don't think > that significant change is necessarily measured in dramatic > breakthroughs. It is more likely to happen in slow, subtle, and > pervasive ways. But it ought to be measurable in some fashion. The TLG > has now been around almost 30 years and for close to 20 years access to > it has been within technical and financial reach of anybody who care. > > What difference has it made? What kinds of inquiry are possible now that > were not practicable then? How do books and articles benefit from > changed modes of access to the documentary base of classical philology? > (I am not talking here about changed modes of access to secondary > literature, because that is a phenomenon that applies with more or less > equal force to all disciplines). > > I am inclined to believe that it has made a difference. But does anybody > have evidence good enough to persuade my hard-nosed colleague that my > belief is well grounded? > -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:45:04 +0100 From: OKELL E.R. Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? In-Reply-To: A<4A6D953D.5070305@ucl.ac.uk> While this is perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, the HCA Subject Centre conducted a survey of digital resource use in teaching in 2005-06. 71% of respondents thought that their teaching practice had altered as a result of having access to digital resources, which they defined as things like e-journals, email and websites (inc. Perseus and spin offs like Diogenes but also Diotima and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri as well as online bibliographies), but also included things like the TLG/PHI. So the availability of reliable digital resources affects a) the materials used in teaching and b) the methods used to deliver teaching materials. As teaching is increasingly closely linked to research the use of digital resources for research is itself creeping into teaching, especially on research methods/skills modules. Cary MacMahon's report on "Using and Sharing Online Resources in History, Classics and Archaeology" is available to download from the page http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hca/themes/e-learning/resources (it's the link at the bottom of the top paragraph). The attitudes of classicists and multidisciplinary scholars (predominantly classics + history/archaeology or + both) towards such resources and to using such resources were very positive. Best, Eleanor --[9]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:45:32 +0100 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? I'd say the jury is still out. While digital corpora have been widely available for a couple of decades, and they have made a difference, I'm not sure it's an overwhelming one. Before there were the TLG and PHI, there had been print concordances for many authors available for a very long time. Digital concordances are much faster, but they aren't necessarily qualitatively different than their predecessors. Classics made a lot of progress by brute force and discipline before digital, so perhaps it was less of a revolution than it might have been. I've been on the periphery of classical philology for a decade (building digital tools and datasets), so I can't speak with any authority about how it may have changed recently, and I began grad school in the age of the CD-ROM and left in the age of the web, so I don't have much to contrast it with. I can say that the PHI and TLG got a great deal of use in my day, while the hefty concordance of Ovid (for example) was rarely taken off the shelf. But searching and concordance-generation are only first steps. When I was writing my dissertation (on rhetorical tropes in Hellenistic through Augustan praise poetry), the digital tools didn't really help me all that much (though the ability to grab digital copies of texts was a great boon and saved me a lot of typing). If I were undertaking the same project today, I would probably be attempting to use text- mining and automated classification techniques, but back then I didn't have the skills—and to be honest, I don't know whether anyone in the department would have been capable of evaluating it. I expect there will be a point at which text mining and statistical methods really take off in popularity, especially in dealing with corpora like inscriptions and papyri that are large enough to warrant that kind of technique, and this will mark a real change in the character of (some) classical scholarship, but to this point, I think a lot of what has been done simply makes aspects of the old kinds of investigation easier. What I would *hope* to see change due to digital sources, but can't really distinguish from my limited perspective, is more cross-disciplinary studies, since it's far easier to find evidence outside a narrow area of focus now. I would also hope to see less naïveté, such as (to give an egregious example) discussions of the cultures of the ancient Black Sea region that rely heavily on Ovid and exclude the evidence of inscriptions and archaeology. 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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, 27 Jul 2009 11:10:53 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: politics and thought Let me here put a case from Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, and then question its causal extension into the world we know best. Discussing the use of computing in the Vietnam War, Edwards argues as follows: > The political purpose of the electronic battlefield was to build a > deadly version of what Shoshana ZubofF has called an "information > panopticon." Zuboff's panopticons are offices and factories whose > central information systems allow their managers to record every > employee's activity at microscopic levels of detail. By relying on > the recorded database and its statistics rather than personal > observation to judge employees, these systems "create the fantasy of > a world that is not only transparent but also shorn of the conflict > associated with subjective opinion." They reflect a desire for "light > without heat," knowledge without confrontation, power without > friction. Ideally, panoptic power is self-enforcing: people who know > their every act is "on the record" tend to do and say what they think > they are supposed to do and say. On the pseudo-panoptic battlefields > of the Vietnam War, soldiers subjected to panoptic control -- managed > by computers -- did exactly what workers in panoptic factories often > do: they faked the data and overrode the sensors. The Americans made > up body counts and fabricated statistics. The NVA tape-recorded truck > sounds and carried bags of urine to confuse the McNamara Line's > sensors. Crippled by its own "regime of truth," the system faltered > and was finally defeated.... > > Pure information, "light without heat," would illuminate future war. > In its bright and tightly focused beam, the army of the information > age would finally discover certainty in command, combat without > (American) casualties, total oversight, global remote control. > Political leaders could achieve the ideal ofAmerican antimilitarism: > an armed force that would function instantly and mechanically, > virtually replacing soldiers with machines. The globe itself would > become the ultimate panopticon, with American soldiers manning its > guard tower, in the final union of information technology with > closed-world politics. (pp. 144-5) Let's say for purposes of argument here that the above is an historically accurate account (as I believe it to be). But consider what he says in the next chapter. In discussing cybernetics, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, he argues "that the cyborg discourse generated by these theories was from the outset both profoundly practical and deeply linked to [the] closed-world discourse" of techno-war. "Cognitive theories, like computer technology, were first created to assist in mechanizing military tasks previously transformed by human beings." (p. 147) As stated this causal connection between military purposes and cognitive theories seems profoundly misleading. The intent may work for Norbert Wiener, but most of what he made so well known had been around for some time, as David Mindell shows, in Between Human and Machine. For others, as far as their conscious intentions are concerned, this is simply not true, e.g. Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, John von Neumann. True, they were Americans in the midst of war and were involved in the war-effort like almost everyone whose research came anywhere near usefulness by the military. But a causal connection? Isn't history, real history, far more complex than that? 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 Jul 28 06:06:06 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 C416E32A41; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:06:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EAD5332A32; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060603.EAD5332A32@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.194 survey on sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 194. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:42:43 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: A reminder: ESD Survey Version 1.6 Following is a reminder concerning a survey on education for sustainable development, sent in the hope of getting more replies. But first an answer to the question, what is the connection with the digital humanities? The answer emerges from the following questions: 1. How can we show, via digital media, that humanity is at a turning point in its relationship to the human habitat? -- There are many excellent resources on this, with more emerging every day. 2. How can we motivate, via digital media, that citizens must support (via the democratic process) changes to the current system of economic incentives so as to remove/reduce incentives that lead to both short term gains and environmental damage, and replace them with a new system of economic incentives that lead to both short term well-being and long term sustainable development? -- There are practically no resources on this, and no prospects for more. We are seeking answers to question 2. In other words: We know that economic incentives work. We are researching for ways to redefine economic incentives so that they are more compatible with other goals such as human well-being (e.g., health of mind and body) as well as conservation of the human habitat. Most researchers are of the opinion that people will not change lifestyles and consumption priorities until they are hit in the pocketbook. If this is going to be the only way it works, it may be at the expense of much human suffering caused by environmental dislocations (e.g., global warming, climate change, etc.). Therefore, we need to learn how to use digital media to motivate/encourage people to support (thus making it politically viable) changing the current set of economic incentives to a new set on economic incentives pursuant to both short term well-being -- redefined as being more, not having more -- and the long term survivability of human civilization. And so the REMINDER. The survey on education for sustainable development (ESD) is online. Its objective is to gather an inventory of critical issuesthat frequently emerge in sustainable development. The eight UNESCO themes are as follows: 1. Education for gender equality 2. Education for health promotion 3. Education for environmental stewardship 4. Education for rural development 5. Education for cultural diversity 6. Education for peace and human security 7. Education for sustainable urbanization 8. Education for sustainable consumption The are 16 questions (2 questions per UNESCO theme) ... should take no more than 30 minutes ... this is the link .... http://tinyurl.com/movr9w Please forward this message to colleagues who might be interested. Take care, -- Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development This is a monthly, free subscription, open access e-journal. http://pelicanweb.org ~ pelican@pelicanweb.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 28 06:07:06 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 8FA4832AA9; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:07:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC49632A97; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:07:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060702.CC49632A97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:07:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.195 review of the Kindle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 195. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:05:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Kindle reviewed Some here will be interested in the review of the e-book reader Kindle in The New Yorker for 3 August 2009, Nicholson Baker's "Annals of Reading: A New Page. Can the Kindle really improve on the book?" (pp. 24-30). He finds problems that in time, perhaps in subsequent versions of the Kindle, will be solved. For e-book reading he prefers the iPod Touch or iPhone. But in the end, late one evening, the prose he is reading on his Kindle, The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, finally takes over and he forgets all about the device, with all its faults, extensively enumerated. 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 Jul 28 06:08:56 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 6896D32B45; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:08:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23FF632B35; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:08:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090728060853.23FF632B35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:08:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.196 events: Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 196. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:23:36 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (seminar) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Friday July 31st at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Elton Barker (Oxford) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton)* *Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive* ALL WELCOME HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the ways in which space is represented in Herodotus’ History, and that aims to capture the ‘deep’ topological structures of the text beyond the usual two-dimensional Cartesian maps of antiquity. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html for a fuller abstract; the audio recording will be posted at the same site shortly after the seminar. -- 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 Wed Jul 29 05:15:04 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 D462B1DD9A; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:15:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32F2D1DD67; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:15:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090729051502.32F2D1DD67@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:15:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.197 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 197. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stephen Ramsay (51) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference [2] From: Tim Finney (27) Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:47:19 -0500 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, > Again I ask, with tongue somewhat in cheek, of what USE is classics, or > history, or whatever? We all are asked to come up with explanations these > days, prose for the undergraduate prospectus etc. An important exercise, I > think. But the task of such prose is in my view to seize the question of > usefulness and make it into a much better question, e.g. what are we that > we > find certain things useful, others useless? How might we find more of the > world relevant to our humane uses -- by becoming more magnanimous, more > imaginative? I think many of my colleagues regard me as a kind of bomb-throwing radical, what with all this digital sorcery. But as I go on in this business, I find myself asking more and more what the purpose of humanistic study really is and arriving at startlingly traditional answers. There are many -- among them the redoubtable Stanley Fish -- who think "becoming more magnanimous" ("tolerance" would be the preferred term on my side of the Atlantic) is a deeply naive proposal for the project of humanist education, and that something like "pleasure" (the less serious half of Horace's maxim) comes closer to the mark. Even that is an astonishing claim in a field like mine (literary study) that hesitates to offer even the most basic apologia toward usefulness or definition. I am more and more convinced, though, that humanistic inquiry is a deeply ethical endeavor -- that it can and should lead to something that was once called "wisdom." Certainly, I believe that of the classroom. But I am also coming to believe that unless we put forth a basically ethical definition of what we do as researchers, we might well be doomed. The idea that the "liberal arts" so called would make you a more tolerant, compassionate, understanding individual -- that it would make you less prone to knee-jerk reactions and reductive generalizations -- is one that persisted for centuries, but it seems like an idea that embarrasses us today. That, at least, is the conclusion I draw from a yearly ritual in the U.S. in which the panels at the MLA are publicly mocked in the pages of prominent national magazines, and we respond with chilly silence. I suspect that our real response to such charges -- something like what I've briefly and tentatively outlined above -- feels a bit too conservative to us. But then I wonder *why* we regard such ideas as conservative, and not liberal in the positive, traditional sense. There are complex reasons for this feeling, of course -- quite legitimate ones that have to do with our legacy as an occupation of the wealthy and the leisured. But that doesn't itself make the idea of humanistic inquiry as an ethical endeavor illegitimate, and I, for one, would like to see this motive reclaimed by the academy. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:33:34 +0100 From: Tim Finney Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? Dear Martin, Here is an (unfinished) example of something I would not like to try without the help of computers: http://purl.org/tfinney/ATV/ The analysis has brought new things to light; there has been an advance in knowledge that would not have been achieved without digital assistance. Best, Tim Finney > On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Martin Mueller wrote: > > > The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a > > friendly, but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this > > digital stuff made an important difference. It is still a good > > question. In the domain of text-based scholarship, classical > > philology (broadly construed) is an important test case. It is the > > only discipline of substantial generic, linguistic, and diachronic > > scope of which it can be said that all or most of the relevant > > documents exist in fairly good and moderately interoperable form. > > There is no TLG or anything like it for English, German, or any > > other language. There is All of Old English and All of Old Norse, > > but those are boutique operations. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:16:27 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 96B6A1DE6E; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:16:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D84C01DE45; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:16:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090729051624.D84C01DE45@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.198 politics and thought X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 198. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:53 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.193 politics and thought In-Reply-To: <20090728060531.CA5FC329E5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:10:53 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:24:50 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 B3B861DFCE; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB7611DFBC; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090729052448.EB7611DFBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 199. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:53:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: old smells, new glitter and many speculations It is not surprising for anything by Anthony Grafton to get attention, and for something by him that touches on the fate of the codex book in this our digital age to be taken without even the tiniest grain of salt. The piece in question is "Codex in Crisis: The Book Dematerializes", chapter 15 in Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern World (Harvard, 2009), recently reviewed in the TLS as previously announced here (TLS for 15 July, "Google Books or Great Books?"). Grafton's essay is definitely worth reading, and a great pleasure to read, but I find it curiously unsatisfying. Other reactions to it would be welcome. Grafton is no Luddite of any variety. He has and exhibits deepappreciation of the pleasures as well as the practical benefits of the great collections of books found in the great libraries, chosen and grouped with intelligence. At the same time he recognizes the enormous benefits, e.g. of making it possible for an impecunious postgraduate student to enjoy the kind of access to sources previously at the command of very, very few. He soberly predicts that libraries have to change to remain afloat. But, in my reading, that is where his vision stops. At the end of the essay he quotes Jonathan Barnes' withering "description of the siren song of the TLG" (from "Bagpipe Music", Topoi 25, 2006, 17-20): > Load it into your laptop, and you have instant access to virtually > the whole of Greek literature. You cut and paste snippets from > authors whose very names mean nothing to you. You affirm -- and > you're right -- that a particular word used here by Plato occurs 43 > times elsewhere in Greek literature. And you can write an article -- > or a book -- stuffed with prodigious learning. (There are similar > things available for Latin.)... The TLG is a lovely little resource > (I think that's the word) and I use her all the time. But she's > strumpet-tongued: she flatters and she deceives. "What an enormous > knowledge you have, my young cock -- why not let me make a real > scholar of you?" And the young cock crows on his dung-hill: he can > cite anything and construe nothing. Barnes is not making this up; such really happens, and Grafton acknowledges the seriousness of the problem. But the picture painted is incomplete, and so the obvious guidance on what to do about the trivilization of scholarship (continue to offer a real education in the classics, and hope?) is incomplete. After duly ringing the hands more can follow than saying "on the other hand", which tends to be Grafton's response. We could ask, for example, "what happens (positively as well as negatively) when people skim surfaces more than they plumb depths?" Then we can ask, "how do we train students to take advantage of the good and shun the bad consequences?" Very interesting and consequential answers follow from going beyond questions of mere access to sources one would have reached for had they been there to reach for. What *actually* happens in consequence of that which mindless string-searches turn up that one never would have thought to ask for? What new understandings and techniques of winnowing do we need? What old value-judgements, based on metaphors implying a truth beneath, need to be set adrift? But it is very difficult indeed to think anew. Just try saying that something scholarly is as we would all wish it to be *without* using metaphors of depth (e.g. deep understanding, profound thought etc). And if that doesn't sober you up, try acting on the opportunities of going wide rather than deep without being trivial. But wait: what now can we now mean by trivial (a word that echoes with the thunder of a previous cognitive shift)? 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 Jul 29 05:28:26 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 102541E104; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:28:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 506CB1E0F1; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:28:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090729052823.506CB1E0F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:28:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.200 events: e-science; collaborative construction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 200. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Hedges (27) Subject: IEEE e-Science 2009 Call for papers deadline extension [2] From: Tania Tudorache (114) Subject: Last CFP: CK 2009 - Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge, collocated with ISWC 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:22:40 +0100 From: Mark Hedges Subject: IEEE e-Science 2009 Call for papers deadline extension ***IEEE eScience 2009 Submission Deadline Extended to 7th August 2009*** The fifth IEEE e-Science conference will be held in Oxford, UK from Dec 9-11. The following topics concerning e-Science are of interest, but not restrictive: 1.      Arts, Humanities and e-Social Science 2.      Bioinformatics and Health 3.      Physical Sciences and Engineering 4.      Climate & Earth Sciences 5.      Research Tools, Workflow and systems 6.      Digital Repositories and Data Management 7.      eScience Practice and Education Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the e-Science 2009 paper submission system It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates +++++++++++++++ Papers Due: ***Friday 7th August 2009, 23:59 BST*** Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday 7th September 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: Friday 18th September 2009 http://www.escience2009.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:15:23 +0100 From: Tania Tudorache Subject: Last CFP: CK 2009 - Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ========================================================== Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA Paper submission: August 10, 2009 (13 days from today) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ========================================================= Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 29 05:35:16 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 DB0471E32F; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 34A1C1E326; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090729053514.34A1C1E326@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.201 politics and thought (2nd try) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 201. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:53 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.193 politics and thought In-Reply-To: <20090728060531.CA5FC329E5@woodward.joyent.us> [The following is intended to replace the previously dispatched message from David Golumbia that somehow was radically truncated in processing. Apologies on behalf of unruly software. --WM] > > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:10:53 +0100 > > From: Willard McCarty > > As stated this causal connection between military purposes and cognitive > > theories seems profoundly misleading. The intent may work for Norbert > > Wiener, but most of what he made so well known had been around for some > > time, as David Mindell shows, in Between Human and Machine. For others, > > as far as their conscious intentions are concerned, this is simply not > > true, e.g. Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, John von Neumann. True, they > > were Americans in the midst of war and were involved in the war-effort > > like almost everyone whose research came anywhere near usefulness by the > > military. But a causal connection? Isn't history, real history, far more > > complex than that? > > > > Comments? > > As a basic believer in the paradigm Edwards establishes, I don't see him making quite such airtight causal claims. First PE writes: cyborg discourse was "profoundly and practically linked to" the closed-world, cold-war view; second, that "cognitive theories ... were first created to assist in mechanizing military tasks". Claim 1 is contextual but not by itself causal; these discourses are linked. Some of the larger linking material/context, from the vantage of which I would want to examine the emergence of cognitive science, is profoundly shaped by and linked to US militarism and in particular the think tanks associated with those policies (see McCumber, *Time in the Ditch*, and Amadae, *Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy*, among others, for these histories). This is not to say that militarism was the only cause for, or even a direct cause of, the emergence of cognitive science or "cyborg discourse"; but the many direct (funding) and indirect (think tanks, theoretical schools) links are hard to gainsay. I agree that real history is very complex; I only read PE making the claim that this is part, probably a big part, of it. Claim 2 insists on an historical sequence that I don't know in precise enough detail to verify. But on my view above, the actual sequence doesn't matter a great deal; PE's point is that many of the same people and same worldviews are found in "closed-world" computer thinking of the 1950s and in explicit political projects of the day; I find the conjunction too significant to put aside. Just one of the figures you mention, von Neumann, is surely an example of the very close association between political and with computational thought, even if his theories of the brain were not necessarily developed for military purposes. Of course vN's more famous contribution to politics, game theory, certainly does reflect how close computational and political thinking can get, and how much both can be of real influence in world political events. -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@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 Jul 30 05:05:09 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 0116A31627; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA01B31615; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730050505.DA01B31615@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.202 making a difference & the dematerializing book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 202. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (156) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book [2] From: John Laudun (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book [3] From: Wendell Piez (80) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.197 making a difference [4] From: Wendell Piez (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference [5] From: Peter Batke (16) Subject: Grafton --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:22:41 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book In-Reply-To: <20090729052448.EB7611DFBC@woodward.joyent.us> I am struck by easily the metaphor of 'whoring after false gods' still comes to our minds and how it is always right in some ways and wrong in deeper ways. A sixteenth-century Italian, whose name I don't recall, said that 'the pen is a virgin, the printing press a whore'. Plato was more polite about the disadvantages of writing. But the point is always the same: a tool that makes something easier and faster is seen as a threat because it replaces hard-earned wisdom with easy knowledge. Similar arguments apply to statistics, perhaps with greater relevance. I dimly remember an exchange in the New York Review of Books in which Ian Hacking (I think) argued that people shouldn't use statistical procedures if they don't understand the math. And perhaps we will all be ruined by those new thoughtless and split-second trading tools ... But barring that event, Barnes' complaint is just another version of a very old cost/benefit calculus. When an invention lowers the time cost and difficulty of doing X, the benefits of doing X more easily and cheaply will be offset to some extent by using X recklessly or without understanding. What Barnes says about the TLG is just as true of the Liddell and Scott print dictionary or of the OED, as you can see by varying the quotation The {TLG|LSJ|OED} is a lovely little resource (I think that's the word) and I use her all the time. But she's strumpet-tongued: she flatters and she deceives. "What an enormous knowledge you have, my young cock -- why not let me make a real scholar of you?" And the young cock crows on his dung-hill: he can cite anything and construe nothing. Behind all this is the nightmare of mechanized learning. In Pope's Dunciad and Goethe's Faust there are funny and eloquent evocations of it. On the other hand, some of the people that Pope poked fun at look quite good in retrospect. And everybody, including Barnes, proves by his behaviour that the benefits exceed the costs: "I use her all the time". I won't go into the gender aspects of all this: ancilla, handmaid, handbook . . . If we were all virtuous and living by the motto of 'per aspera ad astra', every scholarly act would be the Heraclean choice of climbing the mountain without rain gear or ropes. In the late fifties I was very briefly employed by British Railroads, and my task was to add up the milk and chocolate sales from vending machines. When I showed up in the office I noticed an adding machine on the top of a bookshelf. I asked "why don't you use this?" I was told sternly that it would ruin our math skills to use this machine and that the office used it only to check results. That never struck me as a very plausible policy. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:24:55 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.199 on Grafton's dematerializing book In-Reply-To: <20090729052448.EB7611DFBC@woodward.joyent.us> Dear All, It strikes me that both the ongoing discussion about what difference digital makes and McCarty's wonderment about Grafton and company really are two facets of the same jewel at which we all seem to keep staring, mistaking it, if I may continue the metaphor for just a moment more, for the light which it refracts. (I'm going to return to this Gothic moment later.) The point of reading, it seems to me, is to engage in better and more diverse kinds of dialogue. Wisdom does not flow from books, but from conversations between people. Perhaps this reveals my own deep indebtedness to philosophers like Karl Jaspers but such an idea is found in folk philosophies around the world. (E.g., the rural Irish concern for the man who keeps too much to himself.) Here, digital does make a difference, even if only that difference is, as other posters have noted, once of making things happen more readily. Still, the chance conversation between the scholar and the ordinary citizen is much more likely to happen in a place where both can be, if not simultaneously, at least in a deferred fashion. For this, I look no further than my own research with rice farmers and meta shop workers who regularly check my blog and my Flickr account to see what I've been up to and to wonder why I forgot to interview so- and-so. (I really should.) In turn, they submit to me, and to others, there own photographs and videos from their own archives, greatly expanding the historical record as they do so. I am fairly certain that many, many of us share this active difference that the digital makes possible -- and by active difference I mean an orientation by action. Some of this is born out by the analysis that I am currently doing looking at the narratives collected by Project Bamboo from a variety of scholars sprinkled across the nation. So far, the common themes are really things people want to be able to do: access, search, digitize, manage, collaborate, preserve, compute. (It's interesting that compute really amounts to the smallest percentage of actions people wish to perform.) They want all these actions to be pervaded by two properties: annotated (metadata) and authentic (authorized). What's interesting about these actions is that under "collaborate" a number of the narratives/scenarios are really about opening up the scholarly convention not only to students but also to just regular people, who have their own ideas and practices. (And, to answer from a folklorist's perspective an earlier conversation about is a prototype a theory? Yes, from my own experience as a field researcher, most folks do not have theories about why they do what they do. They don't need to. It's embedded in the doing. It can be drawn out to some degree, but not directly.) So I don't mind if the book dematerializes. Let it go. The codex is a particular manifestation of a much longer-lived idea: that marks in the physical can lead to conversations that lead to ideas. (And, yes, this probably resembles Heideegger's sense of "aletheia," but I did warn you with a reference to Jaspers up front where this note was headed.) All of this reminds me of the construction binge our good Abbott Suger kicked off and put a whole lot of masons to work, all of whom had competing senses of what the right proportions were. The legacy of the ideas they carried in their head can be glimpsed in the architectural mess that is Chartres, among other cathedrals. The advantage we now enjoy is that many of those same workers carry smartphones and regularly check e-mail and our blog pages, if we but invite them. john -- 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:39:26 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.197 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090729051502.32F2D1DD67@woodward.joyent.us> Hi again, I agree with Steve Ramsay's latest post so much, I wish I had written it myself. But of course, I couldn't have, not sitting in the same place. In any case, among other things, he writes: >I am more and more convinced, though, that humanistic inquiry is a deeply >ethical endeavor -- that it can and should lead to something that was once >called "wisdom." Certainly, I believe that of the classroom. But I am also >coming to believe that unless we put forth a basically ethical definition of >what we do as researchers, we might well be doomed. The idea that the >"liberal arts" so called would make you a more tolerant, compassionate, >understanding individual -- that it would make you less prone to knee-jerk >reactions and reductive generalizations -- is one that persisted for >centuries, but it seems like an idea that embarrasses us today. > >That, at least, is the conclusion I draw from a yearly ritual in the U.S. in >which the panels at the MLA are publicly mocked in the pages of prominent >national magazines, and we respond with chilly silence. I suspect that our >real response to such charges -- something like what I've briefly and >tentatively outlined above -- feels a bit too conservative to us. But then >I wonder *why* we regard such ideas as conservative, and not liberal in the >positive, traditional sense. It seems to me there are three related problems here: 1. The problem of understanding and affirming ourselves and our work. 2. The PR problem -- what Melissa Terras referred to when asking how we justify ourselves to the boards and bureaucrats, and what Steve refers to when pointing to the perennial dance in the media (here in the US) between journalists and their erstwhile classmates who have gone on to deliver papers at MLA. 3. The problem of embarrassment, which both encompasses and complicates both of these. Because, of course, it is proper to be embarrassed by what one is most proud of. See, the thing is, I (and perhaps many readers here) actually concur with the journalists that MLA panels have a ridiculous aspect. On the other hand, what the journalists don't allow is how they also have a deeply serious aspect. Really, MLA papers, taken together or individually (and they are always ridiculed individually), are no more ridiculous than the collections that appear seasonally on Paris fashion runways. Probably less so. But popular culture tolerates and even celebrates haute couture, for all its ridiculousness. Why is this? Well, for one, the core of the fashion industry, being as wealthy as the inner precincts of any other self-sustaining economic activity (which the humanities, blessedly, are not and never have been), need apologize to no one in our material world. But for another, their lack of embarrassment is reflected in the media, who somehow seem to understand and acknowledge that for all its ridiculousness to those of us unschooled in fashion -- indeed, inseparably from it -- these people who design clothes and handbags and sunglasses are actually legislators, in Shelley's great sense of that term. They teach us what to see and feel, what to regard. They lead us to renewal and self-acceptance. Although these might be frivolous goals in themselves, we understand they are also prerequisites of more positive and series engagement: that for all its childishness, this is also vital and hopeful. To return to the problem of the digital humanities as such, these issues then fall into themselves like Russian dolls, as Steve and Melissa try to justify their work with the digital to colleagues inside a profession, the academic humanities, which itself looks for justification and affirmation without finding much and without the means to buy it. So how can we respond but with boldness, like a fashion model, wearing a ridiculous getup, stepping in front of the lights and cameras? To this end, I think we need to recognize and affirm the ethical dimension that Steve discusses: the humanities are educative of the heart as well as the mind, and of both together, as each educates the other. We start by practicing identity politics, but in the inquiry into what makes our nation or tribe distinctive, we discover what connects us with our world and makes us human. The digital aspects of our work need to be recognized as an extension and instrument of this project. Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:48:06 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.192 making a difference In-Reply-To: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Hi again, Something else occurred to me not long after I sent my latest. At 02:00 AM 7/28/2009, Melissa wrote: >I'd just like to chip in and say this is what the funding councils are >calling "Evidence of Value" - and are asking us to show evidence for the >value of digital humanities research. Its important, as funding cuts in >this area (such as the withdrawal of funds for the AHDS) are based on >the perceived lack of evidence of value. Unless we can articulate, as a >community, the better/faster/more nature of digital, we will struggle >even harder for funding in years to come. One of the interesting questions at the heart of these concerns is whether the humanities in general or DH in particular need to justify themselves in terms of commodifiable output, or whether anything can ever be justified on the grounds that it is a good idea and someone should be doing it. By "commodifiable output" I mean the implicit or explicit premise that something offers a "skill" or "knowledge" that might enable a student to do something "productive" such as build a bridge, try a case in court, sell hosiery, or end world hunger. This is a problem in the sciences too, isn't it? Cheers, Wendell ========================================================= Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:17:03 +0100 From: Peter Batke Subject: Grafton In-Reply-To: <20090728060054.82585328D6@woodward.joyent.us> Another New Yorker article ["Future Reading," by Anthony Grafton. New Yorker, November 5, 2007] by the star humanities Professor Anthony Grafton gives a rather ambiguous view of the Google book digitization project. One fact cannot be escaped, when Professor Grafton speaks, the humanist profession listens. Professor Grafton is also suspicious of the profit motive of Google and others. He is also very correctly concerned with the poorest societies and non-Western texts. He is concerned with the lack of balance between population and library books in India and the UK. 1100/36 vs. 60/116 - population/library books in millions. He is appropriately concerned with the rights of the authors of out of print books (1923 to the present, but easily extendable by another fifty years some time soon). No one should accuse modern humanists of a narrow focus. Professor Grafton does not believe in a trend towards universally accessible knowledge representation; he knows the raw materials of such a project too well. Since he can demonstrate an encyclopedic knowledge of the handling of information in the past and uncounted well documented problems, which he is not loath to share in detail, we can assume that he sees only problems and no solutions in Google's efforts. Of course Professor Grafton's work in the history of scholarship is first rate, as is his involvement with high profile digital projects, that is not the issue. The problem is one of past vs. future. A highly trained humanist, working with texts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. familiar with the development of the text tradition in the last 2000 years will not succumb to hyped vaporware. Computer scientists not so encumbered will attempt to make vapor coalesce into an alpha version at the low end of functionality; the future, after all stretches before us, and alphas become betas become Version 3.0. The highly trained humanist will appreciate, use and offer improvements on specific, high-quality digital humanities projects; however, we can not expect unqualified support for tentative beginnings. It is not unlike trying to persuade a traffic cop at a Broadway and 34th in the year 1900 that at some point electric signals will replace his (I am pretty sure about this pronoun, historically speaking) function. Clearly at some point the traffic of the city will be controlled electronically by engineers monitoring the grid from satellites, but try to convince the cop at the turn of the previous century. Yet there are some minor chinks in Professor Grafton's armor, not in his history of humanisms, or in his history of printing, if there are chinks there I would be the last to know, but in his demonstration of familiarity with electronic methods and work flow. Hands on familiarity with electronic files would have affected his discussion of questionable (read: faulty, incorrect) OCR. It would also not have let him refer to Gutenberg texts as hand-keyboarded when in fact most files represent cleaned OCR. Cleaning OCR is in fact the main task before us. The history of scholarship cannot be considered complete if the main problem of electronic representation of text is not recognized as the main tasks before us, today. There was a time when producing copies of Aristotle was the main task. Nevertheless, projects are mentioned, the balance between skepticism and informed critique is maintained. Professor Grafton's notion that the road through the digital is easy and the road through books is narrow and hard, which concludes his article seems weak and contrived, although I suspect it is intended to be inspirational. Perhaps it is aimed at a younger generation that is all digital, perhaps he knows the readers of the New Yorker well, fair enough, but there are many laborers in the field of digital humanities that are trying to widen the access to texts and to take away some of the boulders in the road left by generations of pedants who became stewards of our textual heritage. I believe that the Google founders, who have benefited from the best American universities have to offer and who optimized their educational experience and that of their co-workers, are simply not willing to see humanists disappear down a rabbit hole to perform mysterious rites with their texts. With very few exceptions, the high-resolution color image of a medieval manuscript on a laptop is a superior resource than the vellum lying on a varnished table. Electronic transcriptions of a manuscript tradition side-by-side in table format are superior to a printed "normal" text with variant readings in the footnotes. Photographing a 16th century folio and working with the color images of the 500 pages is far superior to trying to prop open the book on foam rubber wedges and hold down the pages with velvet bags of marbles. We can confidently expect libraries to keep busy and digitize their holdings and let us work with the images, OCR the text and clean it and let us develop data structures and statistical routines to organize textual communication. The smell of the parchment can be an entry in the metadata provided by the archivist if must be, I suspect it smelled differently in the 16th century. I am sure we can look forward to more star humanists entering the lists urged by the increased functionality of the hyper-vapor, to quote Professor Grafton: "It is hard to exaggerate what is already becoming possible month by month and what will become possible in the next few years." One might respond humbly: "It is hard to know what that means, Professor Grafton, but we assume you also Google." Peter Batke batke_p@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 30 05:07:04 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 39C77316AD; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00F803169D; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730050701.00F803169D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.203 politics and thought, continued X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 203. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:18:19 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on politics and thought Thanks to David Golumbia (whose book, The Cultural Logic of Computation, should, let me say, be sitting on your desk too) for his defense of Paul Edwards' central notion of the "discourse", to which I gave insufficient treatment in my previous note. In my usual style, my criticism was an attempt to bring an idea I am worrying to your attention, hoping for help with it. Golumbia is quite right: Edwards is deliberately trying to avoid anything as simplistic as a straight causal explanation. But still permit me to wonder about the causal force of things constituting a discourse, and by doing so to probe that which constitutes in our eyes an explanation. When I read some of the authors whose ideas get caught up in the powerful maelstrom of World War II -- how can we even begin to imagine what it was like then? -- what I get from their writings is the kind of desire to know, the hunger for knowledge, that started me off about the time that Senator McCarthy, in the paranoid wake of that war, was doing his worst. So I wonder, what does it mean, as Mindell writes, for so many people from so many different disciplines, all to be trying to see the human being as a machine? McCulloch is my favourite example because he was anything but "nature red in tooth and claw" in human form. Anything but an anal reductionist thirsting for central control. He was *curious* -- about why the mind is in the head, about what is a man that he should know a number, about many other aspects of the human, as he said. What does it mean for ideas, things and people to be found together? Am I wrong to hear hints if not declarations of "you are known by the company you keep" in the idea of discourse that Edwards uses? I can understand how it is that people get caught up in a discourse as in war, when it becomes cosmological, as behaviourism once was. Is that what we're talking about -- that bundle of stuff by which people get caught up? In "The Ontology of the Enemy" (Critical Inquiry 21, Autumn 1994), Peter Galison poses the question of relationship for the devices and designs of the time. In Image and Logic (1997) he speaks of the partial dis-encumberance of meaning that devices suffer as they pass from one cultural setting to another, say cybernetic devices invented to shoot down planes, then resurfacing in human-computer interaction research and in devices, such as the GUI. Others, us included, speak of "thing knowledge" and perhaps could speak of something less neutral which things carry with them. But what happens to these ideas about ideas and things when we look at them from the perspective of those who made them? Some of these people, such as Wiener, did want guns to destroy planes and worked very hard to make the guns better at their job. Others were working where they lived, necessarily enveloped in the culture of warfare but focused on ideas with a larger or at least different purpose. Ethically one might ask, how deeply are we implicated in all this? A biblical answer would be, root and branch, and this remains a useful answer to keep us in check, I suppose. But from an historical point of view, what appeals to me particularly is Mindell's or Mahoney's historiography, depicting strands or trajectories converging and diverging and demanding of us that we look out from where historical individuals were standing. 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 Jul 30 05:11:27 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 AC88231787; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:11:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 114E33176E; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:11:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730051122.114E33176E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:11:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.204 new publication: experimental literary education X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 204. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:47:30 +0100 From: eln2 Subject: ELN 47.1 "Experimental Literary Education" Spring/Summer 2009 English Language Notes 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009) Special Issue: “Experimental Literary Education” Editor: Jeffrey C. Robinson ELN 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009), a special issue on “Experimental Literary Education,” brings together twenty-four essays by nationally and internationally recognized scholars and writers reporting on a wide range of new possibilities for higher education in the literary arts. Some essays address the dramatic changes in aspects of “the field,” that imply a radical reshifting of educational experience; others assume such changes in detailed testimonials about learning activities within and beyond or in revised versions of the traditional classroom. And still others note reverberations of educational change at the institutional level in universities and colleges. From this collection emerges a call for a serious re-thinking of the paradigms governing literary education in the 21st century. There is, to our knowledge, no comparable intervention presently available; “Experimental Literary Education” ought to stimulate the imaginations of anyone deeply involved in literary education—from students, to administrators, to teachers. Jeffrey C. Robinson (special editor) jeffrey.c.robinson@colorado.edu 303-440-6923 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 30 05:14:36 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 5C69D3184F; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:14:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3250F31840; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:14:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090730051433.3250F31840@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:14:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.205 events: ontologies; publishing & editing; space/text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 205. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Øyvind_Eide (18) Subject: TEI Ontologies SIG workshop [2] From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" (88) Subject: CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) [3] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (30) Subject: Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (seminar) [4] From: Peter Robinson (21) Subject: September workshops in: XML publishing, metadata, collaborativeediting --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:29:29 +0200 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: TEI Ontologies SIG workshop Dear all, There will be a workshop organised by the TEI Ontologies SIG on November 9-11 in connection with the TEI annual meeting. The aim of the workshop is to develop guidelines for how to create TEI documents that easily may be mapped to ontologies. More information can be found on the webpage: http://www.edd.uio.no/tei/teiontsig/ws2009.html The workshop is supported by the TEI Consortium through the SIG Grant Fund, so we have some funding specific for this workshop. Please see the webpage for details. There is also a possibility for funding available for young European researchers. See http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/bursaries.html for details. Please send an email to oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no by August 1 if you are interested in participating in this workshop. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore Workshop organisers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:00:29 +0100 From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" Subject: CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:54:28 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (seminar) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Friday July 31st at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Elton Barker (Oxford) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton)* *Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive* ALL WELCOME HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the ways in which space is represented in Herodotus’ History, and that aims to capture the ‘deep’ topological structures of the text beyond the usual two-dimensional Cartesian maps of antiquity. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html for a fuller abstract; the audio recording will be posted at the same site shortly after the seminar. -- 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: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:31:33 +0100 From: Peter Robinson Subject: September workshops in: XML publishing, metadata, collaborativeediting The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editions, Birmingham, is hosting three workshops from September 22 to September 25 this year. Two are these are one day workshops: 1. Tuesday 22 September: ‘SDPublisher: a new and different XML publishing system’ This workshop will present a hands-on introduction to SDPublisher, the new XML publishing system developed by people associated with ITSEE and Scholarly Digital Editions: see www.sd-editions.com/SDPublisher. 2. Wednesday 23 September: ‘The Virtual Manuscript Room: linking resources and scholarship on the web’. This workshop will introduce the concepts behind the Virtual Manuscript Room project, and their implementation in the project, with particular emphasis on the use of metadata in the project to link together manuscript images, transcripts and resources related to them. More details of both workshops can be found at http://itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/ITSEEworkshops.htm. The third is a two day workshop, on the subject of "Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web", on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September. The first day, "Actions: the State of the Art" on Thursday 24 September, will be open to all: in this, representatives of projects around the world will give presentations on what they have done, are doing, or plan to do, to develop tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the Web. The second day, 'Problems and Futures' on Friday 25 September, will be a series of discussions on, firstly, three key emerging problem areas (intellectual property/scholarly authority; sustainability and interoperability), and, secondly, on the possible shapes of scholarly editing in the world to come. Attendance at this second day will be by invitation only, with numbers restricted. More details of this workshop can be found at http://itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm. Attendance at all workshops is open to all (with the restriction to invitees for the Friday 25 September). We have funding from the JISC (the Virtual Manuscript Room) and from the European Science Foundation (through the InterEdition project) and so are able to offer the workshops without charge. We are interested in hearing from anyone who would like to present work they are doing in relation to collaborative editing tools on Thursday 24th, and from anyone who believes that they have something to contribute to the discussions on Friday 25th. Limited cheap accommodation is available close to the workshop venues (in the Orchard Learning Resource Centre, Selly Oak) for those who act quickly. We may be able to offer assistance with travel and accommodation, particularly to people giving presentations on Thursday 24th and taking part in the discussions on Friday 25th. To register, or learn more, please contact either Peter Robinson p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk (the workshops leader) or Richard Goode r.goode@bham.ac.uk (the workshops organizer). (Apologies for cross posting)... 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.uk http://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 Fri Jul 31 05:08:48 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 4B97F33204; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 532BD331FC; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090731050846.532BD331FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.206 ELN special issue on experimental literary education X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 206. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:05:27 +0100 From: Jeffrey C Robinson Subject: "Experimental Literary Education" with Table of Contents [Following is a more complete account of ELN 47.1 than was given in Humanist 23.204. Clearly there are items of direct interest to many of us here. --WM] English Language Notes 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009) Special Issue: “Experimental Literary Education” Editor: Jeffrey C. Robinson ELN 47.1 (Spring/Summer 2009), a special issue on “Experimental Literary Education,” brings together twenty-four essays by nationally and internationally recognized scholars and writers reporting on a wide range of new possibilities for higher education in the literary arts. Some essays address the dramatic changes in aspects of “the field,” that imply a radical reshifting of educational experience; others assume such changes in detailed testimonials about learning activities within and beyond or in revised versions of the traditional classroom. And still others note reverberations of educational change at the institutional level in universities and colleges. From this collection emerges a call for a serious re-thinking of the paradigms governing literary education in the 21st century. There is, to our knowledge, no comparable intervention presently available; “Experimental Literary Education” ought to stimulate the imaginations of anyone deeply involved in literary education—from students, to administrators, to teachers. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Experimental Literary Education Jeffrey C. Robinson, University of Colorado at Boulder I. The State of the Profession The Dream Department Lyn Hejinian, University of California, Berkeley Digital Humanities and Academic Change Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara What Can Race Theory and Queer Theory Teach Us about the State of Literary Studies? Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia The State of the Profession: Work, the Humanities, and Transformation Melissa Mowry, St. John’s University Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University English Studies, Transnationalism, and Form William Keach, Brown University Uncertainty David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University II. Reports on Experiments in Literary Education Poverty, Representation, and the Expanded English Classroom Kate Crasson, Lehigh University Re-contextualizing Literary Education: A Multi-Variable Experiment in Learning and Performance Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mapping Literature Courses with Google Docs and “the GRID” Lejla Kucukalic, Columbia University On Game Playing and the Uses of Uncertainty Eric S. Mallin, The University of Texas at Austin A Sotyl Thinge withouten Tonge and Teeth: Soul’s Dialogue with Body, and Literature’s Dialogue with Philosophy Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado at Boulder Teaching Unstable Animal Identities in Medieval Narrative Timea Szell, Barnard College “You May Have Changed My Life” Marjorie Curry Woods, The University of Texas at Austin Experimental What? Gerald Graff, University of Illinois at Chicago Sound and Song in Poetry: Music as a Form of Explication Elissa S. Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder Recitation Considered as a Fine Art Jerome McGann, University of Virginia An Aesthetic of Glimpses Elizabeth Robinson, Naropa University Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago David B. Morris, University of Virginia Tales from the Cutting-Room Floor Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Pomona College The Global Middle Ages: An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities, or Imagining the World, 500-1500 C. E. Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin Poetry and the Digital World Stephanie Strickland, Independent Scholar Designing Doctoral Education after Katrina Molly Anne Rothenberg, Tulane University Jeffrey C. Robinson Professor Emeritus of English Department of English University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0226 303-492-7381 jeffreycrobinson.com "Thinking is not worrying." Barbara Guest "Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them." Laura Riding _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 31 05:09:45 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 6BA2C332C8; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:09:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BFDB3332BC; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:09:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090731050943.BFDB3332BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.207 events: automating genre classification X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 207. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:15:56 +0300 (EEST) From: dobreva@math.bas.bg Subject: workshop on Automated Document Genre Classification In-Reply-To: <20090728060603.EAD5332A32@woodward.joyent.us> DCC and Robert Gordon Joint Workshop: Automated Document Genre Classification - Supporting Digital Curation, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Extraction 9 September 2009 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/genre-classification-2009/ In co-operation with the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) and Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Robert Gordon University are holding a one day workshop on Automated Document Genre Classification. This workshop is intended as a brainstorming session for building a research agenda for automated genre classification, identification and recognition that will enhance and support work flows within: -Digital curation and preservation -Information management -Information seeking, search, and retrieval -Information extraction and knowledge discovery There is a lack of consensus in the genre classification research community on methods of genre taxonomy generation, evaluation, and applications of the study in existing systems. This event is intended to open up a discussion forum and identify: -How to constructively establish a useful genre taxonomy -How to integrate and apply genre classification within existing information systems -How to evaluate and consolidate its usefulness and effectiveness within these target systems. This workshop will bring together core people within genre classification research and the areas of research mentioned above to establish a research road map for bringing genre classification research to applicable maturity. Motivation The automation of metadata extraction is crucial to digital curation activities, as information deluge is likely to result in enormous costs in manual extraction. The organisation of documents into their genre classes that indicate the physical and conceptual structure of the text, could serve as a starting point for both automatic and manual extraction by narrowing down the possible areas within the text from which to extract the required information. Collection profiling is an important aspect of risk assessment and data audit within organisational collections. Each organisation focuses on document genres strongly associated to the activities and services central to the organisation: e.g. a research article as a part of experimental research at a research centre; a report as part of a news coverage in a newspaper corporation; a financial budget report as part of a business venture in a company. The identification of core document genres could form building blocks for defining criteria for identifying risks to the collection that are cognizant of procedural context of the organisation. Information retrieval techniques mostly rely on relevance measures calculated on the basis of the document's topical content. However, a document with the same topic may be created with different objectives and as part of different processes (e.g. research as opposed to product promotion) resulting in different levels of relevance, depth, usefulness, and reliability as a source of information. Genre classification (i.e. distinguishing an advertisement about a camera from a product review of the same camera) may be an effective method of supporting finer levels of granularity in relevance judgements. Tentative Programme The workshop will consist of four sessions. The first three sessions will comprise three presentations each from selected speakers, followed by discussion. The fourth session will take the format of open discussion. 09:00 – 09:30 Registration 09:30 – 11:00 Session I: Understanding genre classification — building a taxonomy 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee 11:15 – 12:45 Session II: Role of genre classification in existing information systems 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 Session III: Viability of evaluating the effectiveness and usefulness of genre classification 15:30 – 15:45 Coffee 15:45 – 16:45 Session IV: Building a research road map — open discussion and summary of previous sessions 16:45 – 17:00 Close Costs This event will cost £75.00. Registration Registration is available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/genre-classification-2009/register Best regards, Joy Davidson DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu british.editor@erpanet.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 Jul 31 08:11:07 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 A562F32A1D; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C07C32A11; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090731081105.1C07C32A11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.208 making a difference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 208. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:08:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: closing down the world To repeat a bit: in the book that I have just finished reading, The Closed World, Paul N Edwards describes a "cyborg discourse" constituting "the entire field of signifying or meaningful practices" related to computing, "a way of knowledge, a background of assumptions and agreements about how reality is to be interpreted and expressed, supported by paradigmatic metaphors, techniques and technologies and potentially embodied in social institutions" (34). He argues persuasively that this discourse closed down, indeed sealed off the world of those committed to it. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (a.k.a. Star Wars), publically proposed in 1983, supplies quite a good example. In June or July 1985 Brian Cantwell Smith (now at Toronto) read a paper, "The Limits of Correctness", to the Symposium on Unintended Nuclear War, Fifth Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, in Budapest. In it he argues that the fundamental problem and danger is the very notion of correctness, that is, of the possibility that the world might be captured in a computational model of it. In other words, as many have warned, models are as dangerous as they are powerful: the good ones tend to seduce us into forgetting the difference in principle and practice between any model and the thing modelled. We slip down the slippery slope from "as if" to "is", many of us without feeling a thing. The history of computing, one might say, is a chronicle of models being mistaken for and replaced by that which they model, i.e. of the world being closed down by our mistaking constructions of it for reality. Our research, one might say, consists in defamiliarizing those constructions as soon as we ourselves make them. And that is the exit-door from the closed, boring world, is it not? In "Circular causality: The beginnings of an epistemology of responsibility", Heinz von Foerster looks back at activities in the decade from 1943-1953, during which -- WWII coming to its bloody end and the Cold War beginning) the Macy Conferences on cybernetics took place. (See Cybernetics/Kybernetik: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953, vol 1, ed. Claus Pias, Diaphanes, 2003, pp. 11-17). "It is the decade", he wrote, of a con-spiracy, a »breathing together«, amongst a score of curious, fearless, articulate, ingenious and pragmatic dreamers who conformed in letting diversity be their guide. I am fascinated by the stream of concepts and insights, of invented relations and of others discovered, of perceptions, thoughts and ideas, of questions unanswered and answered that poured forth from these people." He writes about arriving in New York in 1949 with very little English and some copies of a monograph he had written, which he then proceeded to send to obvious places in hopes of a job. He was summoned to Chicago, to the Department of Neuropsychiatry of the Medical School, where "I meet the man who wanted to know more: tall, lanky, a greyish beard, an inviting grin, and the eyes; eyes to support the Greek notion of vision: it is not the light that enters into, but sight that beams forth from the eyes, touching with joy what they see. I meet Warren McCulloch." (11-12) Now that is not a world closing down -- for that we must turn to his account of Vienna in the mid 1940s -- but a world opening up. The same people and same ideas are involved here as in Edwards' account of quite the opposite situation. Wherein lies the difference? 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 Aug 1 05:48:05 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 B86CA33F4E; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A548933F32; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090801054802.A548933F32@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.209 a review of a book on the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 209. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:31:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Paul Duguid on the book & e-book Those who follow the polemic and argument about the future of the codex book, open publishing &c will be interested in Paul Duguid's review, of Gary Hall's Digitize this Book!, in the Times Literary Supplement for 31 July, "Saving paper". Unfortunately this isn't one of the articles the TLS has decided to let circulate freely. 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 Aug 1 05:49:01 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 0CCDD33FC4; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:49:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C60D633FAC; Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090801054857.C60D633FAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:48:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.210 events: TEI-mss seminar; GIS workshop funding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 210. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (42) Subject: ESF funded bursaries for GIS workshop 5-6 Sept 2009 [2] From: Julia Flanders (63) Subject: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding: call for participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:50:59 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: ESF funded bursaries for GIS workshop 5-6 Sept 2009 The DRHA Programme Committee is delighted to announce that the European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) has generously funded three bursaries for early stage researchers to attend the GIS pre-conference workshop (5-6 September 2009) of the DRHA 2009 conference . The bursaries will be awarded to a maximum of EUR 1000 each to cover workshop registration fees and accommodation at the Elms Residence (€600 with three nights accommodation), as well as a contribution towards travel and subsistence. If participants would like to use any excess funds up to EUR 1000 to attend the DRHA conference, registration will be made available at the postgraduate delegate rate. To apply for these fellowships, candidates must be: * an emerging scholar, which is defined by the ESF as someone who has not been in an established position for more than five years, with exceptions for parental, medical, and national service leaves. The ESF notes that ‘students, post-doctorate researchers and lecturers within 5 years of appointment would be amongst those included in this definition’. * you are affiliated to a an institution in a country in which ESF has a member organisation ' If you fit these criteria and would like to apply for consideration, please send no more than two pages that include the following: a brief CV showing your career history and current academic affiliation, how this workshop will intersect with your research, and a short statement describing any planned involvement in DRHA 2009 to susan.schreibman[AT]gmail.com and Paul.Ell[AT]qub.ac.uk by 15 August. -- 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: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:21 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding: call for participation Please note extended deadline! Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar on manuscript encoding, being held at the University of Maryland, January 20-22, 2010, hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Application deadline is August 10, 2009. Participants will be notified by September 1. This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They 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 will be assumed. Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ . The full seminar schedule is as follows: University of California, Santa Barbara Hosted by the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Transliteracies Project September 14-16, 2009 This seminar is now full. University of Maryland, College Park Hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities January 20-22, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. Application deadline (extended): August 10, 2009 Applicants will be notified by September 1. Brown University Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship April 8-10, 2010 This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Application deadline: November 1, 2009 Applicants will be notified by December 1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities July 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University at Buffalo Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo October 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials. University of Maryland January 2011 (precise date and deadlines TBA) This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 2 07:44:35 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 68A911284D; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B67412842; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:44:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090802074433.7B67412842@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:44:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.211 figures of the cybernetic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 211. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Figures of the Cybernetic Willard, I was wondering if your explorations of the discourse of cybernetics and machine-human comparisons could benefit from the consideration of three figures: homeostasis, encoding and the supermarket. Below are some very sketchy notes. You might be able to trace the evidence for how the feedback mechanism as a pattern for describing human interaction with artefacts becomes deployed in more and more domains. How does it lead to a theory of reading? How does it influence the teaching of rhetoric and composition? Encoding and decoding are of course the beginning and end points of a communication chain as envisioned in information theory. But what I have in mind here is the Cold War fascination with the transmission of secrets. (*) The supermarket is a distribution machine concerned with the shelf life of products. By analogy it can become a figure for the evaluation of cultural wares. There is likely a relation of interdependence between these figures. A feedback mechanism usually involves the transmission of information from one modality to another, i.e. it relies on transcoding. If feedback required coding, coding requires standardization for which the supermarket is a suitable emblem. What I am attempting to suggest is that the man-machine discourse can be sifted by using three figures -- standardization, coding, feedback. I am willing to venture that the three are also associated with a range of values along a human-machine continuum (i.e. that standardization is construed as machinic and feedback as close to the human). (*) What got me thinking along these lines was an interesting example from World War II Vdiscs. The King Sisters produced a novelty item by recording a message at 33 1/2 and splicing it into a song to be played at 78 rpm thus supplying a "secret message". [source CBC radio November 1998 featuring the collection of Dr. Stephen Bedwell] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-largehttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 2 07:54:08 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 C26B612A5F; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:54:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3178512A58; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:54:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090802075407.3178512A58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:54:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.212 events: text-analysis; music & art; creativity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 212. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Juola (34) Subject: Announcing T-REX 2010 [2] From: Amilcar Cardoso (64) Subject: CfP: Computational Creativity 2010 [3] From: Amilcar Cardoso (61) Subject: EvoMUSART 2010: 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 01:34:16 +0100 From: Patrick Juola Subject: Announcing T-REX 2010 Dear colleagues, ANNOUNCING T-REX 2010! TADA (the Text Analysis Developers' Alliance) and Duquesne University welcome your participation in T-REX 2010, the TADA Research Evaluation eXchange. Following the success of T-REX 2008 at Digital Humanities 2009 (University of Maryland), we are happy to continue the tradition of a multifaceted, multicategory "best ideas" forum for the development and exchange of ideas in the field of "text analysis" (broadly defined). We invite all interested participants to share in the next round and to help us expand our offerings. The only hard and fast rule at this point is : ''All participants must participate!'' T-REX is modelled after both competitions (such as TREC) as well as less formal idea exchanges(such as MIREX). We hope to stimulate creative competition and the exchange of ideas about questions such as what we can do with texts, how to do it best, and why we would want to do it in the first place. To do this, we hope to generate a set of collaborative "challenges" to which participants will submit ideas/solutions. All ideas will be "judged" by a panel of judges (to be determined); this judging may involve the actual running of code provided by participants or peer-review by volunteer experts. Entries judged to be the best will receive valuable Pittsburgh-themed prizes (such as bottles of Heinz products). At this stage, we are looking for participants (people willing to take part), sponsors (organizations and groups willing to support T-REX), challenge problems, and creative input in general. Please help support T-REX, text analysis, and the digital humanities. Simply go to the wiki at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TREX, register yourself, and start contributing! Patrick Juola TREX 2010 Organizer Duquesne University juola at mathcs dot duq edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:08:31 +0100 From: Amilcar Cardoso Subject: CfP: Computational Creativity 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 January 2009 ---> Submission deadline: 21 September website: http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx Although it seems clear that creativity plays an important role in developing intelligent computational systems, it is less clear how to model, simulate, or evaluate creativity in such systems. In other words, it is often easier to recognize the presence and effect of creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of computational creativity in a cross-disciplinary setting. It will bring together people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related to the notion of creativity as it relates to computational systems. This focus on creativity in the context of computational systems has the potential for increasing innovation in existing fields of research as well as for defining new fields of study, including 1. Artificially Creative Systems: development of computational systems that produce or simulate creativity. These systems may be inspired by human creativity or by the possibilities of artificial systems beyond human capabilities. 2. Computational Models of Human Creativity: construction of cognitive models of human creativity that can be the basis for computational creativity. 3. Computational Systems for Supporting Creativity: production of user interfaces, interaction design, decision support, and data modeling techniques that lead to the development of intelligent assistants that support the user in being more creative. -------------------------- Topics -------------------------- Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity, including but not limited to: 1. computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and re-representation; 2. metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems; 3. perspectives on creativity, including philosophy of computational creativity, models of human behavior, intelligent systems, and creativity-support tools; 4. the role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and other pursuits; 5. factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity, knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies; 6. social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and simulating creativity in social settings; 7. specific applications to music, language and the arts, to architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education and to entertainment; 8. detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts produced, and applications of the system. The conference will include traditional paper presentations, will showcase the application of computational creativity to the sciences, creative industries and arts, and will incorporate a "show and tell" session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of computational systems exhibiting behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans. In addition the conference will provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research on [computational] creativity and promising practices concerning the development of creative computational systems. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:06:34 +0100 From: Amilcar Cardoso Subject: EvoMUSART 2010: 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design EvoMUSART 2010 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 7-9 April, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.evostar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EvoMUSART 2010 is the eight workshop of the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2010 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area. The workshop will be held from 7-9 April, 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the EvoStar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EvoMUSART 2010 important dates are: Submission deadline: November 4, 2009 Conference: 7-9 April, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques (Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc.) in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generation o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Making Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound-Generators and Music-Systems that create music, aggregate sound, or simulate instruments, voices, effects, etc; o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; o Other related generative techniques; - Theory o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; o Representation techniques; o Comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o New biologically inspired computation models in art, music and design; - Computer Aided Creativity o New ways of integrating users into evolutionary computation art and music frameworks; o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; - Automation o Techniques for automated fitness assignment; o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to analyze artistic objects and artifacts; [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 3 08:17:14 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 46FB432E09; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0377232DD4; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:17:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090803081712.0377232DD4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:17:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.213 new journal: Informatica Umanistica X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 213. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:13:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Informatica umanistica 1-2009 If one had to choose an historical place and time for the beginnings of humanities computing, it would be (and conventionally has been) Italy in the late 1940s, with the work of Fr Roberto Busa. The choice is an historiographical act, not an indisputable fact -- earlier work in machine translation, for example, demands attention, Edward Vanhoutte has pointed out. Indeed, as the scope of disciplines to be considered expands, choice is made more and more difficult, to the point that choosing becomes problematic. Nevertheless the Italian tradition in informatica umanistica remains, like Fr Busa himself, vital, vigorous, venerable and brilliant. For that reason alone the new Italian journal Informatica Umanistica, now in print and online at www.ledonline.it/informatica-umanistica/, is more than worth our attention. Its appearance is to be celebrated. Fortunately for those many of us whose Italian is not up to the task, Massimo Parodi's editorial, "Cercare di capire / Trying to understand", has been translated into English (by Philip Grew). In it Parodi considers the commonplace impatience with any systematic effort to *understand* our practice philosophically. As Richard Hamming and others have remarked for computer science, one can sympathize with the desire to stop arguing and just get on with *doing* it. But when we consider what tends to happen when "just doing it" rules -- uncritical adoption of technologies and amnesia of the reasons for doing, i.e. narrow focus on means to the detriment of ends, and in academia a social demotion to the level of mere service -- the impatience becomes much harder to maintain. Achieving a balance between practicing and theorizing isn't a simple matter and excluding either ultimately crippling. But now, as things are, esp in a methodologically orientated field that builds things and is institutionally fragile where it exists at all, the danger is that we will be forced to ignore critical, long-term thinking in order to devote resources to short-term projects. But since Parodi's editorial is online and provided bilingually, I'll let you spend your time reading his better argument. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 3 08:18:49 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 3ECE832E9B; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55C0932E8A; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090803081846.55C0932E8A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.214 events: XML Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 214. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:48:30 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: XML Summer School in Oxford, 20-25 Sept The XML Summer School returns this year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 20th-25th September. As always, it provides high quality technical XML training for every level of expertise, from the Hands-on Introduction through to special classes devoted to XSLT, Semantic Technologies, Open Source Applications, Web 2.0 and Web Services. The Summer School is also an opportunity to experience what life is like as a student at one of the world's oldest Universities. Classes are taught by some of the most renowned XML experts, including Eve Maler, Michael Kay, Jeni Tennison, Michael Sperberg McQueen, Norm Walsh and Bob DuCharme. Details are at http://www.xmlsummerschool.org/ ///Peter [Flynn] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 4 05:11:41 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 DC6F432D50; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:11:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 409BC32D37; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:11:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090804051139.409BC32D37@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.215 MA & funding for semantic web studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 215. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:00:39 +0100 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - scholarships for Europeans *** Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - Computer Science *** http://www.semantic-web-academy.eu/msc/ 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 launching a Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - a curriculum part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer. The Semantic Web and its technology are increasingly becoming a central element of many activities in computer science. The main topics of the Master's degree on "Semantic Web" are the up-to-date technologies in the Semantic Web area. The goal of the Master's degree on "Semantic Web" is to build a new generation of Semantic Web experts, and up-skill the European workforce with ideas that point to the future. Students will be prepared for a future PhD, will come in contact with the international research community, and will be integrated into ongoing research projects; in addition, students will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Students enrolled in the Semantic Web curriculum will be able to exploit synergies with the highly successful European Masters Program in Computational Logic http://www.computational-logic.eu and the European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/lct which are run in parallel by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. LAST APPLICATION DEADLINE: - 21 AUGUST 2009: last deadline *only* for EUROPEAN students; http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/mcs/admission/Pre_Enrolement_Master.html SCHOLARSHIPS: 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 may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. European students may also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. The IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Rome supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. The BIT Mobility Programme supports students to do their project and/or their thesis with a scholarship (up to 500€ per month) at the nearby universities Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck - with a large expertise on Semantic Web topics) or Università degli Studi di Trento. THE SEMANTIC WEB: Society is moving from being information-based to knowledge-based. Work is increasingly collaborative, and business and scientific endea- vours are conducted in a global networked way. Knowledge is no longer held locally but is globally distributed. Data and information is growing exponentially in all sectors of society. Communities generate, model, augment, exchange and transform information so the information pool rapidly changes its content and structure. Most of the major scientific aims to achieve an all inclusive information society, networked business and government depend on distributed knowledge- based systems. Knowledge is the object of this Master's degree on "Semantic Web". The Master's degree on "Semantic Web" will provide the technological basis for easier and efficient knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation: technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy. Although the World Wide Web has resulted in a revolution in informa- tion exchange among computer applications, it still cannot provide easy interoperation and information exchange. In the next generation of the Web (the Semantic Web), web resources will be more readily accessible by both human and computers with the added semantic information in a machine-understandable and machine-processable fashion. In this context, knowledge in the form of ontologies plays a pivotal role by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be understood and processed by machines. THE STUDY PROGRAMME: Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is a curriculum part of the Master in Computer Science, 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. * 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 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 multi- lingual, 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 labora- tory 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 opportu- nities 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: For any info please write to fub@semantic-web-academy.eu Master's degree on "Semantic Web" - Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Università 1 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0471 016 009 Email: fub@semantic-web-academy.eu Web site: http://www.semantic-web-academy.eu/msc/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 4 05:12:25 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 B813D32DB0; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:12:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4949932DA6; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:12:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090804051224.4949932DA6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:12:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.216 blog for the TILE project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 216. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:07:08 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Launch of TILE project blog In-Reply-To: <96f3df640908030804i7e52048ch42c1c1f84518076@mail.gmail.com> TILE: Text-Image Linking Environment is pleased to announce the launch of its public blog and informational site: http://tileproject.org Our first blog posting includes a description of anticipated TILE functionality. http://mith.info/tile/2009/07/20/welcome/ Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available. Visit often, or subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest news on TILE. http://mith.info/tile/feed/ TILE is a collaborative project between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), and Indiana University Bloomington, funded through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). Over two years TILE will develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, TILE will turn to the user community for testing. If you are interested in participating, or in learning more about the project, please contact us at TILEPROJECT@listserv.heanet.ie. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Tue Aug 4 05:13:29 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 EB62532E5A; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4D6432E52; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090804051326.B4D6432E52@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.217 events: doctoral consortium, KR2010 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 217. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:40:03 +0100 From: Joost Vennekens Subject: CFP KR 2010 Doctoral Consortium This message was originally submitted by joost.vennekens@CS.KULEUVEN.BE 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 (61 lines) ------------------ KR 2010 Doctoral Consortium http://kr.org/KR2010/ 1) Aims and Scope The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with research similar interests. The aims of the consortium are: - to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers - to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas - to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium may apply for some financial support for partly covering their KR-2010 conference travel expenses. Details will be announced later. 2) Application Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials: - Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in double column format like the papers in previous KR proceedings. - Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and letter of recommendation into a single PDF document. If you cannot do that, archive the two documents into a single zip file. 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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: ubiquity (14) Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT [2] From: Carolyn Kotlas (180) Subject: TL Infobits -- July 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:27:44 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: August 4 - 10, 2009 In Search of the Real Network Science: An Interview with David Alderson http://www.acm.org/ubiquity Since Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz published "Collective Dynamics of Small-World Networks" in Nature in 1998, there has been an explosion of interest in mathematical models of large networks, leading to numerous research papers and books. These works have given us new measures of large networks including hub nodes, broker nodes, connection path length, small-world phenomena, six degrees of separation, power laws of connectivity, and scale-free networks. The National Research Council carried out a study evaluating the emergence of a new area called "network science", which could provide the mathematics and experimental methods for characterizing, predicting, and designing networks. The new area has its share of controversies. An example is whether the power law distribution of number of nodes of given connectivity leads to valid conclusions for real networks. The power law distribution predicts that the network will have hubs - a few nodes with high connectivity - and has led to the claim that such networks are vulnerable to attacks against the hubs. The Internet has been reported to follow power law connectivity but its design resists hub failures. How might we explain this anomaly? 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NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue and all back issues at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Are Online Students More Likely to Drop Out? College Students in 2020 Cellphones as Instructional Tools Ten Higher Education IT Issues for 2009 Being There for Online Students Insights from Learning Leaders Recommended Reading ...................................................................... ARE ONLINE STUDENTS MORE LIKELY TO DROP OUT? "The accelerated growth of online instruction has been accompanied by questions of quality in terms of outcomes. One measure of program quality and effectiveness is program completion rates. Although studies have shown the effectiveness of instruction in the online environment to be comparable to that of the traditional classroom environment, studies and anecdotal evidence indicate high attrition rates for online courses, often much higher than for campus courses." In "Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs" (OJDLA, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 2009), East Carolina University researchers Belinda Patterson and Cheryl McFadden report on their study comparing online and face-to-face students in two graduate-level programs. The authors concluded that "attrition in online program formats remains an issue and challenge warranting the attention of educational leaders in program planning and development." They also believe that "[d]ropout seems to result from an interaction of many complex variables that are difficult to delineate and determine, particularly in online environments, hence making it difficult for one comprehensive theory of dropout to fully explain the phenomenon in all situations or settings." The paper is available at http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/summer122/patterson112.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/ ...................................................................... COLLEGE STUDENTS IN 2020 "The College of 2020: Students" is the first of the Chronicle Research Services' three-part series of reports on what higher education will look like in 2020. The report addresses such questions as What will change in how students view higher education and how to get it? How will colleges have to change to address students' expectations? What will be the make-up of the student body? The complete report is available for purchase; a three-page Executive Summary is available at no cost online at http://research.chronicle.com/asset/TheCollegeof2020ExecutiveSummary.pdf?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Chronicle Research Services is part of the company that publishers THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. For more information go to http://research.chronicle.com/ ...................................................................... CELLPHONES AS INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS "Cellphones have been called 'the new paper and pencil' or 'the new laptop,' and they could be in the hands of as many as 10 million to 15 million schoolchildren in the next few years." EDUCATION WEEK's webinar "Cellphones as Instructional Tools" makes a case for using cellphones as "mobile computers" that can be used for students' learning activities both in and outside the classroom. Although the presenters use examples from the K-12 educational environment, instructors in higher education may find the presentation of interest. A link to the archive of the webinar is available at http://www.edweek.org/ew/marketplace/webinars/webinars.html (Registration is required to access the broadcast; registration is free.) Education Week's webinars are sponsored by Editorial Projects in Education, the non-profit organization that founded The Chronicle of Higher Education. For more information, contact: Editorial Projects in Education Inc., Suite 100, 6935 Arlington Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-5233 USA; tel: 800-346-1834; Web: http://www.edweek.org/ See also: "50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom" Online Colleges, June 6, 2009 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/ ...................................................................... TEN HIGHER EDUCATION IT ISSUES FOR 2009 In December 2008, the tenth annual EDUCAUSE Current Survey asked participants to select the "five most-important IT issues out of a selection of thirty-one in each of 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 six years, funding IT, administrative/ERP information systems, and security rank at the top of the list of college and university CIOs' concerns. This year, funding IT is the number one concern, reflecting the economic downturn that most institutions are experiencing. The survey results and other materials, including readings related to each of the ten issues, are available at http://www.educause.edu/2009IssuesResources 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/ ................................................... BEING THERE FOR ONLINE STUDENTS "Instructors who are new to online teaching often fear that their courses will be impersonal and that connecting with their students will not be possible in an online environment. Online students also fear this 'missing instructor,' and feel isolated if they don't sense that others are out there sharing their learning journey." In "Increasing Instructor Presence in an Online Course" (EDUCATOR'S VOICE, vol. 10, no. 4, July 8, 2009), Gail E. Krovitz provides tips to help online instructors connect and stay connected with their students. Her suggestions include "paying attention to the frequency and tone of communication, having a strong presence in threaded discussions, providing feedback and expectations. . . ." Krovitz also recommends "increased instructor personalization" by posting instructor bios, pictures, voice recordings, and the use of first person in communications. The article is available at http://www.ecollege.com/Educators_Voice.learn Educator's Voice is published monthly by the eCollege Instructional Design Team. For more information contact eCollege, eCollege Building, 4900 S. Monaco Street, Denver, CO 80237 USA; tel: 888-884-7325; fax: 303-873-7449; Web: http://www.ecollege.com/ ...................................................................... INSIGHTS FROM LEARNING LEADERS "Today's learning leaders face more challenges than ever before. How do they deal with the economic and business climate we are all facing? How should they make decisions? How should they effectively interface with business leaders? How can they build (or re-build) a team for success? All of these questions have become even more critical and challenging." The LEARNING LEADER FIELDBOOK (The MASIE Center, 2009), edited by Bill Byron Concevitch ,is "designed to bring you insight into the worlds and daily realities of a prestigious group of learning leaders. We've captured their thoughts and some guiding principles and actions that they believe have aided their success." The book includes texts and podcasts from nine learning officers in corporate and government organizations. The book is available for free downloading at http://www.masie.com/fieldbook and, under a Creative Commons License, can be distributed and duplicated. The MASIE Center is an international e-lab and think tank located in Saratoga Springs, NY. The Center is dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology. For more information, go to http://www.masie.com/ ...................................................................... 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. "The Impending Demise of the University" By Don Tapscott EDGE, June 4, 2009 http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/tapscott09/tapscott09_index.html "Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people. "Meanwhile on campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi of the University -- the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital best learn." Responses/rebuttals to Tapscott's essay by Marc D. Hauser, Harvard University and James O'Donnell, Georgetown University http://www.edge.org/discourse/demise.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 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:39:08 +0100 From: Lemaire Pascal Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? In-Reply-To: <1248831157.4845.25.camel@vostro.bcwanet.local> Hi everyone, I'm currently finishing my graduation paper for a MA in sciences and technologies of information and communication and my research topic is the use of new computer technologies in epigraphy and papyrology. My main conclusion on the topic raised here is that what's been built is a foundation, an infrastructure which is not yet fully complete but on which we can begin to build the tools that will be the real game changers. For example the greek and latin papyri have been digitized a long time ago and those resources are now the building blocks on which the papyrological navigator is built, a kind of mashup making a lot of informations comming from various projects availlable in a single place. I've also seen projects in various places where chronological and geographical data are used to display dynamically informations on a map and have an animation of the evolution of, for exemple, a personal name through the ages. It's been done both for medieval and classical research projects. But despite all this we still have to face some serious issues which we'll only be able to deal with if we do more new digitalisation projects and if we can overcome some publishers' refusals. For example the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri holds a lot of information but a lot of it is old, dated and obsolete and putting it up to date would take a massive amount of time and ressources. But solutions like a digitalisation of the Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten could help since it lists all new editions of already published texts and the new data could be added automaticaly to the Papyrological navigator's data and allow the researchers to always work on the latest edition of the texts. Otherwise we'll probably see an increase of mistakes based on the use of digitized but out of date ressources. But what I also see is a growing distance between those who use the digital ressources and those who don't due to either lack of skills or of ressources. In many universities with smaller staff you may find specialists working alone in their office without any support, even whole departments lacking any kind of IT staff to help them with their research. One may maybe go as far as saying that one of the main result of digital humanities is not a more widespread diffusion of knowledge but rather in the birth of a somewhat more exclusive group of researchers, those with the know-how and the resources. With increased books prices and tightening budgets this could really exclude some from the cutting edge of research and make them "second rate" not through lack of professionalism but due to economic exclusion. The answer for that would be to have more collaborations, more inter-university projects, more international projects with shared ressources but in order to promote those it is also needed to tell those not so computer litterate colleagues that such project do exist and have a real use and tell them where to go for more informations because they may simply not know that places like this mailing list exists. For example I myself became involved because, as an undergraduate student in classical history, an assistant came one day to ask me "how does one make a web site" because he wanted to put online his research. It is only by chance that we learned about TEI and then EpiDoc (which better suits our needs) and that we decided to go in this direction. No one we knew in the university was interested in thoses topics when we started and it is only now that computer use in historical and classical philologic researches is (very) slowly growing. Pascal Lemaire Université Libre de Bruxelles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 6 05:06:48 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 D1BE31DE5E; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 529FD1DE3D; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:06:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090806050646.529FD1DE3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:06:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.220 events: manuscript studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 220. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:43:29 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Fwd: 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age In-Reply-To: <96f3df640908050837i12289802xa4b79661cd4baa9@mail.gmail.com> [apologies for cross posting] I attended this last year and it was fabulous! Dot ************* 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age October 30-31, 2009 Lex scripta: The Manuscript as Witness to the History of Law In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Biddle Law Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 2nd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium is dedicated to the history of handwritten law and legal documents in Western Europe and the Middle East up to the early modern period in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of Henry Charles Lea, whose library containing a significant collection of works on ecclesiastical legal history was conveyed to the University in 1926. Nine speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of handwritten law and legal documents. The symposium will conclude with a panel of digital humanities scholars who will discuss specific  projects and issues related to the digitization of legal manuscripts and documents. Participants include:    * Jonathan E. Brockopp, Penn State University    * Hugh Cayless, New York University    * Simon Corcoran, Projet Volterra, University College London    * Gero Dolezalek, University of Aberdeen    * Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky    * Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania    * Kathleen E. Kennedy, Penn State University-Brandywine    * Susan L'Engle, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University    * Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University    * Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania    * Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University    * Georg Vogeler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich    * Anders Winroth, Yale University The symposium will be held at the University of Pennsylvania and the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.  For locations, schedule, and program details: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium2_program.html Registration is $35 (Free to students with valid student ID).  To register: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium.html -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Fri Aug 7 05:53:34 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 7EF7934C1C; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:53:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 73EC534C14; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:53:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090807055332.73EC534C14@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:53:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.221 digital differences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 221. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:09:49 +0100 From: "Joshua D. Sosin" Subject: Re: What difference does digital make? Pascal: You might be interested to read about the current Integrating Digital Papyrology project, which aims among other things to start building a bit of superstructure on top of the foundation that is more or less in place already: http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/DDBDP (see link at bottom of page: http://www.duke.edu/~jds15/IDP2-FinalProposalRedacted.pdf). What you say about the BL is of course absolutely correct. Several papyrologists have talked for years about the value of a digitized BL. The online papyrological texteditor that we are building now will be able both to accommodate collaborative entry of existing BL entries as well as permitting (peer reviewed) proposal and introduction of corrections directly to the databank. But it will also allow the community of scholars to take direct control of bringing up to date the core data, which are, as you say, in places woefully out of date. All best wishes for what sounds like a stimulating thesis! Josh Sosin Lemaire Pascal wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently finishing my graduation paper for a MA in sciences and > technologies of information and communication and my research topic is > the use of new computer technologies in epigraphy and papyrology. My > main conclusion on the topic raised here is that what's been built is > a foundation, an infrastructure which is not yet fully complete but on > which we can begin to build the tools that will be the real game > changers. > > For exemple the greek and latin papyri have been digitized a long time > ago and those ressources are now the building blocks on which the > papyrological navigator is built, a kind of mashup making a lot of > informations comming from various projects availlable in a single > place. I've also seen projects in various places where chronological > and geographical data are used to display dynamicaly informations on a > map and have an animation of the evolution of, for exemple, a > personnal name through the ages. It's been done both for medieval and > classical research projects. > > But despite all this we still have to face some serious issues which > we'll only be able to deal with if we do more new digitalisation > projects and if we can overcome some publishers refusals. > > For exemple the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri holds a lot of > information but a lot of it is old, dated and obsolete and putting it > up to date would take a massive amount of time and ressources. But > solutions like a digitalisation of the /Berichtigungsliste der > griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten/ could help since it lists > all new editions of already published texts and the new data could be > added automaticaly to the Papyrological navigator's data and allow the > researchers to always work on the latest edition of the texts. > Otherwise we'll probably see an increase of mistakes based on the use > of digitized but out of date ressources. > > But what I also see is a growing distance between those who use the > digital ressources and those who don't due to either lack of skills or > of ressources. In many universities with smaller staff you may find > specialists working alone in their office without any support, even > whole departements lacking any kind of IT staff to help them with > their research. > > One may maybe go as far as saying that one of the main result of > digital humanities is not a more widespread diffusion of knowledge but > rather in the birth of a somewhat more exclusive group of researchers, > those with the know how and the ressources. With increased books > prices and tightening budgets this could really exclude some from the > cutting edge of research and make them "second rate" not through lack > of professionalism but due to economic exclusion. > > The answer for that would be to have more collaborations, more > inter-university projects, more international projects with shared > ressources but in order to promote those it is also needed to tell > those not so computer litterate colleagues that such project do exist > and have a real use and tell them where to go for more informations > because they may simply not know that places like this mailing list > exists. > > For exemple I myself became involved because, as an undergraduate > student in classical history, an assistant came one day to ask me "how > does one make a web site" because he wanted to put online his > research. It is only by chance that we learned about TEI and then > EpiDoc (which better suits our needs) and that we decided to go in > this direction. > > No one we knew in the university was interested in thoses topics when > we started and it is only now that computer use in historical and > classical philologic researches is (very) slowly growing. > > Pascal Lemaire > Université Libre de Bruxelles > -- Associate Professor, Classical Studies, Duke University Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Editor, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies Co-Director, Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri www.duke.edu/~jds15 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 7 05:57:44 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 E5F3034D1C; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB34334D0B; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:57:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090807055741.AB34334D0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:57:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.222 events: art; web semantics; language; VR X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 222. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Robert W. Lindeman" (27) Subject: cfp: IEEE Virtual Reality 2010. [2] From: "Reimer, Torsten" (94) Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science [3] From: Beryl Graham (78) Subject: CRUMB curating events in Belfast in August, Liverpool in September [4] From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" (165) Subject: LATA 2010: call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:04:44 +0100 From: "Robert W. Lindeman" Subject: cfp: IEEE Virtual Reality 2010. In-Reply-To: <11f4a83e0908031929q6ac686a7i7f700fe9901e4af1@mail.gmail.com> *** Call for Participation *** IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 *** March 20-26, 2010 *** Waltham, MA, USA *** http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2010/ IEEE VR 2010 is the premier international conference and exhibition on virtual reality. You will find the brightest minds, the most innovative research, the leading companies, and the most stimulating discussions in the fields of virtual environments, augmented reality, 3D user interfaces, and haptics, all gathered March 20-26, 2010 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (just west of Boston). We invite you to submit your work, show your products, and join us for a fascinating week of presentations, exhibits, workshops, and special events. The greater Boston area is home to over 50 video-game companies. At this year's conference, we will promote the cross-fertilization of gaming and VR through several efforts. In addition to traditional VR topics, if your work lies at the intersection of VR and gaming, e.g., Serious Games for Education or Health, or MMO design and implementation, we look forward to your contributions. Once again, IEEE VR 2010 is pleased to be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (http://conferences.computer.org/3dui/3dui2010/), which will share the opening weekend (March 20-21) with the VR Tutorials and Workshops, and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems (http://www.hapticssymposium.org/), which will follow VR on March 25-26. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:47:40 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Chairs: - Annamaria Carusi, OeRC, University of Oxford - Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School and Massachussets General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease - M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam, & co-chair of HCLS Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination. This workshop intends to explore the questions that arise as Semantic Web applications are increasingly grounded within the actual lifecycle of scientific research, from observation and hypothesis formulation to publication, dissemination and criticism. We aim to bring together researchers across the disciplines, to discuss the use, development and embedding of these technologies in varied research domains and contexts. We will discuss the actuality of Semantic Web technologies in use and the emergent practices through which they are being developed and deployed. We aim to encourage vigorous discussion around aims, methods, applications and pragmatics. This workshop will look at the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic issues of grounding the development, deployment and evolution of ontologies and applications in Semantic e-Science in practical scientific problems and activity. How do we ground deductive Semantic Web information management and retrieval in the practical conditions of evolving sciences based on experiment, observation and induction? How do we bridge gaps and conflicts in approach between computer scientists developing research tools, and research practitioners using those tools? Is it possible to develop Semantic Web practices in e-Science that deal explicitly with hypothesis formulation, testing, challenge and refinement? Semantic Web applications have the potential to substantially accelerate research. Are all domains of research equally promising for the development of targeted semantic web applications? Are “semantic” domains defined by particular areas of research, by a particular form of scientific question, by discipline or sub-discipline or by particular aspects or stages of the scientific process? Are there types of enquiry which are intractable to the solutions offered by the Semantic Web, and if so, why? What are the specific challenges of Semantic Web applications in different disciplines, and how might Semantic Web applications shape and be shaped by them? The incorporation of semantic technologies with existing social web practices – "Web 3.0" – promises to change the scientific research, publication and discussion model we now have to a much more fluid, "higher-velocity" model. It also poses many questions for technologists and researchers alike. Can abstract and formal understandings of the underlying ontologies be supplemented or even replaced by more informal social conceptions of ontologies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of top-down or bottom-up development processes? What are best practices regarding user engagement and usability; what are the different roles of stakeholders in the process of development and deployment? What if any changes in scientific practice may be required to exploit the promise of semantic e-Science? Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * Semantic Web applications in use by researchers in specific domains with issues raised and lessons learned in practice; * Requirements engineering for Semantic Web; * Spectrum and evolutionary models of ontology development; * Relations in practice between taxonomies, vocabularies, and ontologies; formal versus informal ontologies; * Social studies of Semantic Web in action; * Activity theory and other HCI approaches as applied to Semantic Web. * Semantics of things, processes and discourse; * Formal approaches to ontology development in e-Science, and practical outcomes; * Research questions, methods and methodologies particularly suited or unsuited to being addressed by semantic web applications; * Semantics of Hypotheses, evidence and relationships; * Humanities and e-Social Science approaches and applications in Semantic Web. 500 word proposals are invited, on any one of these topics or a related topic. Proposals should reach us by September 1, 2009, and should be sent to annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk or tim_clark@harvard.edu. Programme Committee will include: Anita de Waard (Elsevier) William Hayes (Biogen Idec) Dave Randall (Manchester Metropolitan University) Simon Buckingham Shum (Open University / Knowledge Media Institute) David Shotton (University of Oxford) Susie Stephens (Johnson & Johnson) Mark Wilkinson (University of British Columbia) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:31:38 +0100 From: Beryl Graham Subject: CRUMB curating events in Belfast in August, Liverpool in September In-Reply-To: <11f4a83e0908031929q6ac686a7i7f700fe9901e4af1@mail.gmail.com> CRUMB announce two forthcoming events: 1. Workshops at ISEA in Belfast 27th-29th August. 2. Conference ‘Real-time: Showing Art in the Age of New Media’ in Liverpool 24th September. 1. THREE CRUMB WORKSHOPS at ISEA in Belfast 27th-29th August 2009 No booking necessary, further details from http://www.isea2009.org/ Open Bliss is a series of workshops illuminating new media art and the practice of curating hosted by CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media art (www.crumbweb.org). CRUMB excels at creating informal, dialogical social settings for professional development, often involving a nice cup of tea. For ISEA09, each workshop will involve special guests. CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop 1: Participatory Practices Thursday 27th August 3:00pm-4:30pm at Interface, University of Ulster Will use the online and object-based Random Information Exchange project (http://ptechnic.org) in order to document a range of knowledge concerning participative art projects. CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop 2: Protective Zones Friday 28th August 3:00pm-4:30pm at the Linen Hall Library. It will take the form of a discussion of curating as working with/in (instead of ‘on’) 'zones of disturbance'. Is curating always creating a 'protective zone'? What about the equality of territories? A 'daily paper' will be produced. CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop 3: Local/Global Saturday 29th August 3:00pm-4:30pm at Golden Thread Gallery. Will take the form of a conversation between practicing curators, bringing together contemporary art and new media art concerning local, site-specific and global, networked practices. 2. REAL-TIME: SHOWING ART IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA One-day conference as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival 23-27 September 2009 Thursday 24th September 2009. 9:30am-4:30pm. The Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, Off Brownlow Hill, Liverpool Showing time-based art is very different to showing art objects. But how is art which uses the Internet, interactivity, social systems, or real-time computing different from video, live art, or performance? Rather than progressing along a smooth curve of development, art practices ‘other’ than those traditionally supported by the mainstream often seem to lurch along a rollercoaster-like path from avant-gardism to hyperbole, rejection to appropriation. New and emerging forms of art, such as online art, can go from being cutting edge to out-of-fashion shockingly quickly, without ever establishing the longevity necessary to garner a critical vocabulary and appreciation around the work. Which histories, whether from the field of art or technology, could inform the life-cycle of 'art after new media'? Which histories might allow for a more reflective approach to newly emergent forms of art, and could help viewers with short-attention spans to see beyond the hype? This one-day conference aims to share the knowledge of those involved in exhibition practices beyond the object of art, and asks, should we abandon ‘normal’ curating practices, or adapt these modes to integrate ‘the new’? This event draws experts and researchers from the fields of art making, curating, history and criticism to confront the slippery question of time -- including the timelines of production, of showing, and of participation. Speakers and workshop leaders include: -Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York. -Gavin Wade, director of Eastside Projects in Birmingham. -Mark Nash, Head of Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art (TBC). -Franz Thalmair, co-founder of CONT3XT.NET collaborative curatorial group in Vienna with Michael Kargl (aka carlos katastrofsky) and Sabine Hochrieser. -Kelli Dipple, Curator, Intermedia, at Tate Modern in London. Tickets £18.50/ £15.50 to be purchased from http://shop.fact.co.uk/ For updates of the programme check http://www.andfestival.co.uk For more info contact hello@andfestival.org.uk This event is a collaboration for AND between CRUMB the resource for curators of new media art, and Charlie Gere of University of Lancaster. CRUMB has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Arts Council England. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:37:32 +0100 From: "carlos.martin@urv.cat" Subject: LATA 2010: call for papers 1st Call for Papers 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2010) Trier, Germany, May 24-28, 2010 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2010/ ********************************************************************* 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 Rovira i Virgili University (the host of the previous three editions and co-organizer of this one) in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2010 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 - cellular automata - combinatorics on words - computability - computational complexity - computer linguistics - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - descriptional complexity - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - 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 artificial intelligence and artificial life - neural networks - parallel and regulated rewriting - parsing - pattern matching and pattern recognition - patterns and codes - power series - quantum, chemical and optical computing - semantics - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - symbolic dynamics - term rewriting - text algorithms - text retrieval - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 8 08:17:22 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 7CB82349DA; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:17:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 79679349C5; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:17:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090808081719.79679349C5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:17:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.223 events: web semantics; collaborative knowing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 223. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Reimer, Torsten" (86) Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science [2] From: Tania Tudorache (48) Subject: Deadline extension: ISWC Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge - CK 2009 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:47:40 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Call for proposals: Workshop on Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Chairs: - Annamaria Carusi, OeRC, University of Oxford - Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School and Massachussets General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease - M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam, & co-chair of HCLS Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination. This workshop intends to explore the questions that arise as Semantic Web applications are increasingly grounded within the actual lifecycle of scientific research, from observation and hypothesis formulation to publication, dissemination and criticism. We aim to bring together researchers across the disciplines, to discuss the use, development and embedding of these technologies in varied research domains and contexts. We will discuss the actuality of Semantic Web technologies in use and the emergent practices through which they are being developed and deployed. We aim to encourage vigorous discussion around aims, methods, applications and pragmatics. This workshop will look at the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic issues of grounding the development, deployment and evolution of ontologies and applications in Semantic e-Science in practical scientific problems and activity. How do we ground deductive Semantic Web information management and retrieval in the practical conditions of evolving sciences based on experiment, observation and induction? How do we bridge gaps and conflicts in approach between computer scientists developing research tools, and research practitioners using those tools? Is it possible to develop Semantic Web practices in e-Science that deal explicitly with hypothesis formulation, testing, challenge and refinement? Semantic Web applications have the potential to substantially accelerate research. Are all domains of research equally promising for the development of targeted semantic web applications? Are “semantic” domains defined by particular areas of research, by a particular form of scientific question, by discipline or sub-discipline or by particular aspects or stages of the scientific process? Are there types of enquiry which are intractable to the solutions offered by the Semantic Web, and if so, why? What are the specific challenges of Semantic Web applications in different disciplines, and how might Semantic Web applications shape and be shaped by them? The incorporation of semantic technologies with existing social web practices – "Web 3.0" – promises to change the scientific research, publication and discussion model we now have to a much more fluid, "higher-velocity" model. It also poses many questions for technologists and researchers alike. Can abstract and formal understandings of the underlying ontologies be supplemented or even replaced by more informal social conceptions of ontologies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of top-down or bottom-up development processes? What are best practices regarding user engagement and usability; what are the different roles of stakeholders in the process of development and deployment? What if any changes in scientific practice may be required to exploit the promise of semantic e-Science? Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: * Semantic Web applications in use by researchers in specific domains with issues raised and lessons learned in practice; * Requirements engineering for Semantic Web; * Spectrum and evolutionary models of ontology development; * Relations in practice between taxonomies, vocabularies, and ontologies; formal versus informal ontologies; * Social studies of Semantic Web in action; * Activity theory and other HCI approaches as applied to Semantic Web. * Semantics of things, processes and discourse; * Formal approaches to ontology development in e-Science, and practical outcomes; * Research questions, methods and methodologies particularly suited or unsuited to being addressed by semantic web applications; * Semantics of Hypotheses, evidence and relationships; * Humanities and e-Social Science approaches and applications in Semantic Web. 500 word proposals are invited, on any one of these topics or a related topic. Proposals should reach us by September 1, 2009, and should be sent to annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk or tim_clark@harvard.edu. Programme Committee will include: Anita de Waard (Elsevier) William Hayes (Biogen Idec) Dave Randall (Manchester Metropolitan University) Simon Buckingham Shum (Open University / Knowledge Media Institute) David Shotton (University of Oxford) Susie Stephens (Johnson & Johnson) Mark Wilkinson (University of British Columbia) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:09:39 +0100 From: Tania Tudorache Subject: Deadline extension: ISWC Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge - CK 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS ========================================================= Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge October 25, 2009 Collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA ******* DEADLINE EXTENSION TO: August 13, 2009 ******* http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ========================================================== Objectives ----------- Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques: collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle. Topics of interest ------------------- They include (but are not limited to): - Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge - Collaborative creation of ontology mappings - Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively - Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance - Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web. - Metadata management - User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge - Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies - Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge - Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 9 06:14:48 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 6DDD335C47; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C39135C37; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:14:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090809061446.2C39135C37@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:14:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.224 events: geospatial computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 224. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:23:24 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CfP: Geospatial computing workshop at 5th IEEE InternationalConference on e-Science With apologies for cross-postings Workshop at 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Oxford, UK, 9-11 December 2009 www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/workshops/geospatial/ Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage References to time and location pervade the human record, both past and present: an oft-quoted statistic is that some 80% of all online information is in some way georeferenced. It is unsurprising therefore that as researchers in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage become more fully engaged with e-infrastructures, their disciplines’ engagement with, and use of, spatial and temporal data gives rise to new and interesting research questions in this area. How, for example, can heterogeneous academic data resources which fall into the 80% of georeferenced information – including, for example, historical texts, archaeological databases or museum collections - be linked and cross-queried without dictating the research process or methods used? How can geo-temporal data be visualized, both geographically and non-geographically? What is the role of ‘virtual globes’ such as Google Earth as platforms for the expression of such data? What can digital tools and methods in geospatial computing contribute to the use and understanding of space and time in the practice-led arts, creative industries and galleries (e.g. for documenting performances or visitor pathways)? How can issues of scale that are common to both time and space be usefully explored in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage sectors? This workshop seeks contributions from which might further these, and similar, questions. Contributors might (not exhaustively) include: * Academics in the arts, humanities or cultural heritage who are making use of spatial and/or temporal data in their research * Researchers with relevant interests in HCI or related disciplines * Researchers, curators, practitioners etc. from outside the academic sector (e.g. museums and galleries) * Developers or information scientists working on geospatial or temporal tools or applications Short contributions (up to four pages, including images, references and notes), in IEEE format (see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers/formatting-guidelines) are invited. Deadlines are: September 25th: Submission of first drafts October 2nd: Notification of acceptance and reviewers' comments October 14th: Final submission of camera-ready papers Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geospatialworkshopieee09 Stuart Dunn (King's College London) Fredrik Palm (University of Umeå) Workshop co-chairs -- ----------------------- 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 Aug 11 07:19:46 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 F3C12340DD; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:19:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 173C0340C9; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:19:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090811071942.173C0340C9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.225 text-analytic macros X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 225. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:45:13 -0400 From: "Goldfield, Joel" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.177 new text-analytic macros; transcription system Cool, David. I'll try these as soon as I return from Germany mid-month. --Joel ________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Tue 7/21/2009 4:32 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 11 07:21:36 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 E013034159; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:21:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB0DD34152; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:21:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090811072134.BB0DD34152@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:21:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.226 events: Fall Institute cancelled; cfp for textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 226. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Cunningham (17) Subject: FIDLH 2009 cancellation [2] From: Christian Wittern (58) Subject: CFP International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship"(Saitama/Tokyo, Japan) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:54:26 -0300 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: FIDLH 2009 cancellation To Interested Readers of Humanist, I'm very sorry to inform you that we have had to cancel the Fall Institute for Digital Libraries and Humanities for 2009. The organizers have found that there are too many things working against the meeting as currently configured and scheduled. We plan to make this into a more formal, larger conference, with a call for papers and with workshops clearly demarcated (pre- / post-conference). We apologize for not being able to pull this particular rabbit out of our hat, but in the absence of applied for and hoped for financial support, the hat was simply too small to produce enough rabbit to feed this year's set of workshops. We intend to continue planning for and improving the configuration of FIDLH so that we will be able to offer Eastern Canada a viable local venue for discussing and improving our digital library and humanities projects and skills. With regrets, Richard Cunningham & Erik Moore Acadia University University of New Brunswick --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:01:16 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: CFP International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship"(Saitama/Tokyo, Japan) CALL FOR PAPERS International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship" March 26, 2010 Saitama University, JAPAN March 27, 2010 Printing　Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN As a result of increasingly widespread use of the internet, the basis of research in the humanities has witnessed a dramatic shift from a dependence on primarily print-based research materials to a heavy reliance on digital resources. This poses a whole new set of problems that in turn necessitate a reassessment of the very foundations of textual scholarship. In discussions of these problems, numerous voices from the Anglo-American and German scholarly traditions have offered significant contributions and advanced the discourse in innovative new ways. Unfortunately, this crucial topic remains virtually absent from scholarly debates in Japan. It is therefore with great pleasure that we announce an upcoming international symposium dedicated to these issues, to be held over March 26 and 27 at Saitama University and the Printing Museum in Tokyo, Japan. As the first conference in Japan to address these key issues, we hope to stimulate a discussion that will not only convey the timeliness and energy of these debates to Japan, but moreover contribute to the advancement of textual scholarship in a global context. We are particularly honored to have keynote addresses by two of the most distinguished scholars of the field, Peter Shillingsburg and Bodo Plachta, each of whom has fundamentally informed the ongoing development of the Anglo-American and German traditions of textual scholarship. This conference is multi-lingual; the primary languages will be English, German, and Japanese. The Programme Committee invites submission of abstracts of between 500 and 750 words on the following aspects of humanities research, especially in relation to topics and/or issues pertaining to textual scholarship: * Globalization * Digitalization * Interdisciplinarity Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length. In addition to the abstract itself, parants should provide their name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. The deadline for submission of papers to the Programme Committee is September 25, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance during early November. Publication of a conference volume is also planned. Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to the Programme Committee at: textjapan@gmail.com For conference updates and information, please consult our website: http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapantest/ Sincerely, Kiyoko Myojo kmyojo at mail dot saitama-u dot ac dot jp Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University Fax: +81(0)48-858-3056 Christian Wittern wittern at kanji dot zinbun dot kyoto-u dot ac dot jp Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University Tel: +81(0)75-753-6966 -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 11 08:45:10 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 2738134B51; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 678E234B41; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090811084507.678E234B41@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.227 events: URL correction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 227. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:08:13 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: CFP International Symposium,New Directions in Textual Scholarship(URL correction) Dear Humanists, There has been a mistake in the URL for the conference posted earlier. The correct URL is: http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/ Sorry for the confusion and thank you for your interest! Christian -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 12 05:51:30 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 AFC0B34157; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53D9334147; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090812055128.53D9334147@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.228 new publications: games & action; digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 228. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mats Dahlström" (52) Subject: Human IT 10.1 - Games and action 2 [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: CLIR on the digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:14 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Human IT 10.1 - Games and action 2 Dear all, A new issue (10.1) of Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/index.htm This issue marks the start of the 10th volume of Human IT, a journal that is now commencing its 13th calendar year. 9.3 was the first Human IT issue devoted to the theme of "Games and action". This (10.1) is the second and concluding issue on that theme, 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. We are very happy to see the twin issues finally setting sail, and would like to thank all the authors, reviewers and Jonas Linderoth for excellent pieces of work and collaboration on this large project. Enjoy your reading! Table of contents: * Louise Madden Online Gaming and Embodied Subjectivities: Methods to Reach Women’s Social Story of Gaming (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/lm.htm * Elisabet M. Nilsson & Gunilla Svingby Gaming as Actions: Students Playing a Mobile Educational Computer Game (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/engs.htm * Ingrid Kjørstad Taming the Game: Children's Constructive Use of Social and Communicative Context When Playing Scary Computer Games (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/ik.htm * Paul Pivec & Maja Pivec Immersed, but How? That Is the Question (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/ppmp.htm * Luca Rossi Property Practices in "World of Warcraft" (Open section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/lr.htm * Maria Åresund & Staffan Björk The Importance of Being a Player (Refereed section) http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//1-10/masb.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/ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:44:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: CLIR on the digital humanities Many here will be interested to know of the latest report published by the U.S. Council on Library and Information Resources (www.clir.org), "Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship" (CLIR Publication 145, www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf). It contains chapters on the research agenda, digital philology, American studies, automated language processing, visualisation, art history, access to information and digital humanities centres. Read it tonight! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 12 05:56:58 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 D217C3421F; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:56:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 802E83420F; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:56:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090812055656.802E83420F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:56:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.229 events: LLCC's 45th; visual arts & trade X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 229. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Dawson (8) Subject: LLCC 45th Anniversary Celebration, 2 October 2009 [2] From: Kayleigh Merritt (34) Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts and Global Trade in the Early American Republic --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:22:47 +0100 From: John Dawson Subject: LLCC 45th Anniversary Celebration, 2 October 2009 [As announced in Humanist 22.483, the Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre of Cambridge is staging a celebration of its 45th year of operations and of John Dawson's retirement after 35 years there. --WM] Please see http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/jld1/llcc-celebration.html, which gives details about the LLCC 45th Anniversary Celebration. John Dawson --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:34:12 -0400 From: Kayleigh Merritt Subject: Call for Papers: Visual Arts and Global Trade in the Early American Republic Salem, Massachusetts Tentative Date: March 6, 2010 *Deadline Extended* American participation in global trade increased dramatically during the Early Republic. American ships ventured beyond the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to expand direct contact with China, India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific world. This trade brought widespread access to Asian arts and other visual materials and profoundly influenced American visual arts. While much of the literature on the arts of the Early Republic has focused on building nationalism in the wake of the Revolution, this conference investigates the state of early American internationalism. How did global trade contribute to knowledge and culture in the Early Republic, particularly in the arts? We invite papers and proposals that examine the impact of global trade from the 1780s to the 1840s on all aspects of visual art production: painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpaper, textiles, fashion, and other media. We also invite papers on the transmission of artistic ideas—through eyewitness accounts, illustrated books and prints, imported images and objects, museum collections, patronage, art markets, and other topics. Honoraria and travel support for speakers are available through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Organizing institutions include Salem State College, the Salem Maritime Historical Site (National Park Service), and the Salem Athenaeum. The conference will provide opportunities to tour Salem’s magnificent Federalist architecture and museum collections. To submit proposals for papers, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a brief c.v. via email to pjohnston@salemstate.edu. Proposals may also be submitted by mail to Visual Arts and Global Trade conference, c/o Patricia Johnston, Art Department, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem MA 01970. Proposals must be received by September 10, 2009. Speakers should be willing to revise their papers for later publication. Texts and visuals for the presentations are due in December 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 Aug 18 05:11:34 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 9DC7535A44; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:11:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9178835A35; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:11:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090818051132.9178835A35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:11:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.230 gene poetry and the artist's attitude X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 230. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (22) Subject: gene poetry [2] From: Willard McCarty (38) Subject: the artist's attitude --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:52:20 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: gene poetry The Poetry and Revolution of the Human Genome 8/11/2009 2:48:06 PM Researchers unlocking the secrets of our DNA may be sparking a new Romantic Age http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=22955 , Freeman Dyson writes for the *New York Review of Books*.* *The years between 1770 and 1830, often referred to as the Romantic Age, were characterized by an explosion of both scientific and artistic achievements. Dyson wonders if that billionaire technocrats—like Craig Venter, who led the charge to map the first human genome, and Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway—might play a role similar to “the lightened aristocrats of the eighteenth century.” What today's revolution lacks, according to Dyson, is poetry. “Poetry, the dominant art form in many human cultures from Homer to Byron, no longer dominates.” He suggests that biology could become today’s dominant art form, and that creating new kinds of plants and animals could combine art with science. at: http://ow.ly/jPFG -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the artist's attitude > Re-enactment has lived on the technological borders of pure science > for a long time -- the planetarium is an astronomer's reenactment of > the solar system, the model is an engineer's pre-enactment of his > structure, the wind tunnel is an aeronautical re-enactment of the > atmosphere -- but it has usually played a supporting role. If a > description is correct and accurate, re-enactments based upon it > should closely resemble the natural phenomenon that was described. > Now, however, re-enactment is emerging as a scientific alternative in > its own right. The development of modern computing machines, more than > anything else, has given scientists the tools required to re-enact, > or simulate, on a large scale, the processes they want to study. The > program for a computer that re-enacts a process is becoming just as > acceptable a theory of that process as would be the equations > describing it. There is still much that needs to be clarified in this > new application of the artist's ancient attitude, but clarification > will not lag far behind application. And as the understanding of > these complex systems grows, the need to distinguish between > introspectively derived and behaviorally derived concepts should > decline -- until eventually both our experience and our behavior will > be understood in the same terms. Then, and only then, will > psychologists have bridged the gap between the Image and Behavior. This is the concluding paragraph of a quite astonishing and beautifully written book: George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter and Karl H. Pribram, Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960). Much has happened in psychology since then, as Donald Broadbent remarks in his Forward to a reprinting of the book 25 years later, and that is of course a considerably greater qualification today, at twice that distance in time. The problem of re-enactment, or simulation, in much of the humanities is, I'd say, a much greater problem, and so it makes sense that we'd be finding this statement fresh now with regards to our interpretative work. Note especially the reference to "the artist's ancient attitude" -- how much there is for us to ponder. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 18 05:12:33 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 9514835AB4; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:12:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4881835AA3; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090818051230.4881835AA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.231 short-visit grants X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 231. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:20:36 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Call for applications for short visit grants ESF Humanities Unit For wide dissemination: Call for applications for short visit travel grants I have the pleasure to inform you that the European Science Foundation funded Research Networking Programme on EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS IN EUROPE has opened a call for applications for short visit travel grants which can be found at the following link for more details: http://www.euro-xprag.org the deadline for application is September 15th, 2009 Decisions will be announced by October 1st 2009 Best regards Madelise Blumenroeder ***************************************** Madelise Blumenroeder Senior Administrator for Research Networking Programmes Humanities Unit mblumenroeder@esf.org European Science Foundation BP 90015 1, Quai Lezay Marnesia 67080 Strasbourg France Tel: + 33 3 88 76 71 51 http://www.esf.org/human _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 18 05:13:51 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 68F4C35B28; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EECA935B21; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:13:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090818051348.EECA935B21@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:13:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.232 audio workshop survey? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 232. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:51:59 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: RIA/DHO Audio Workshop Survey Request Audio Workshop Date: 19 October 2009 Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 [Note: this is a request to complete a survey, not a registration announcement. Registration for the workshop will commence in mid-September.] The RIA Library and the DHO are planning a one-day audio workshop on 19 October 2009 devoted to online audio web publication and archiving of audio files. The workshop is aimed both at those who are currently engaged in digital audio archival work as well as those who are interested in doing so. The main focus of the workshop will be the implementation of metadata within audio projects. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for those working in the area to meet and learn from each other and to explore current practices. To enable us to offer a workshop tailored to the needs of the participants we ask those of you who may be interested in attending to please complete the online survey linked below. The survey is anonymous, and as such attendance of the workshop is not dependent on your completing the survey, nor does completing the survey guarantee you a spot in the workshop. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lfRzNpU3UBrXa7vK0wJExg_3d_3d The survey will be open through August 31. If you have questions or comments, please contact Eoghan O Raghallaigh (E.ORaghallaigh@ria.ie) or Dot Porter (d.porter@dho.ie) -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Tue Aug 18 05:15:34 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 8E7F135BA0; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE1ED35B99; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090818051531.AE1ED35B99@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.233 new publications: Historical Thesaurus; Human IT; African CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 233. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: African Journal of Mathematics Computer Science Research (41) Subject: Call for Papers [2] From: "Jean Gilmour Anderson" (17) Subject: Historical Thesaurus of English coming soon [3] From: "Mats Dahlström" (49) Subject: Human IT 10.2 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:58:57 +0100 From: African Journal of Mathematics Computer Science Research Subject: Call for Papers *African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research* www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR Introducing *‘‘**African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR) ”*** * * Dear Colleague, The *African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR)* is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR ). AJMCSR is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. *Call for Papers* AJMCSR will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes thesubmission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish: · Original articles in basic and applied research · Case studies · Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to jmcsr@academicjournals.org , jmcsr.acadjourn@gmail.com for publication in the Monthly Issue. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website; http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR/Instruction.htm AJMCSR is an Open Access Journal One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience larger than that of any subscription-based journal and thus increases the visibility and impact of published works. It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to reproduce and distribute content.JGRP is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon as they are published. *PS: Pls. show interest by mailing **jmcsr@academicjournals.org** , ** jmcsr.acadjourn@gmail.com > ready soon.* Best regards, Tuoyo Mene,Editorial Assistant, For Prof. Mohamed Ali Toumi, Editor, African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR) E-mail: jmcsr@academicjournals.org , jmcsr.acadjourn@gmail.com http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:48:08 +0100 From: "Jean Gilmour Anderson" Subject: Historical Thesaurus of English coming soon The Historical Thesaurus of English project at Glasgow University presents the vocabulary of English from Old English to the present arranged in semantic categories. It will be published in two volumes as the Historical Thesaurus of the OED by Oxford University Press on October 22, 2009. Further details (including a special introductory price) are available at http://www.oup.com/online/ht/ _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:23 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Human IT 10.2 Dear all, A new issue (10.2) of Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/index.htm . Although properly speaking a non-thematic collection of articles, the contributions in this issue share a common interest in communicative practices. We have two articles on texting (Iversen and Balakrishnan), one on chatting (Otnes), and one on mediation between technology design and use (Iivari et al.). Together they provide diverse and invigorating examples of just how many different ways there are to use, study, and understand some of the latest forms of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that have come to permeate our lives and social interactions, such as the mobile phone, MSN Messenger, and the endless parade of information systems entering and exiting most of today’s organisations. The perspectives applied range from treating the ICTs and their uses as generators of text corpora; as tools for remediated conversations; as knowledge resources for technology design and development; and as characterised by gaps between communities and contexts that need to be bridged. Enjoy your reading! Table of contents: * Harald M. Iversen Tekstmeldinger som norskfaglig potensial: En tekstanalytisk og didaktisk tilnærming [Text Messages' Potential for Norwegian Classroom Teaching: A Textual Analytical and Didactical Approach] [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/hmi.htm * Hildegunn Otnes Er nettsamtaler samtaler? En kommunikasjonsteoretisk drøfting av fenomenet chat [Are Internet Conversations Conversations? A Communication Theoretical Analysis of the Chat Phenomenon] [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/ho.htm * Vimala Balakrishnan A Look into SMS Usage Patterns among Malaysian Youths [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/vb.htm * Netta Iivari et al. Mediation between Design and Use: Revisiting Five Empirical Studies [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//2-10/nihktmjssalseh.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 and Veronica Johansson, editors _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:30:44 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 67F803647D; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:30:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 86C0436475; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:30:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043042.86C0436475@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.234 fellowships at Stanford; CPU hours for supercomputing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 234. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Robert Barrick (16) Subject: Stanford Humanities Center 2010-2011 Fellowship Opportunities [2] From: I-CHASS (11) Subject: 2,000,000 CPU Hours to Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Projects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:44:50 +0100 From: Robert Barrick Subject: Stanford Humanities Center 2010-2011 Fellowship Opportunities We would appreciate if you would share this information with colleagues or others who may be interested: Announcement of Faculty Fellowship Opportunities at the Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships 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. Open to scholars from humanities departments as traditionally defined and to other scholars seriously interested in humanistic issues. Fellowship term: September 2010 - June 2011 Online application deadline: October 15, 2009 The online application for 2010-2011 faculty fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center is now available. Please visit http://shc.stanford.edu/ for complete information and a link to the online application. 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. How to Apply: To access the online application or for additional information, please see our website: http://shc.stanford.edu/ Questions? Please email shc-fellowships@stanford.edu or call (650) 723-3054. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:28:14 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: 2,000,000 CPU Hours to Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Projects Urbana, Illinois. The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville today announced that they are making available two million additional hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. This collaboration is an extension of a pilot program between I-CHASS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois, that recently saw the allocation of a total of one million CPU hours to a diverse group of projects at the leading-edge of humanities research. Supported projects included work in music information retrieval, analysis of aggregated census data, and state-of-the-art economic modeling. “At NICS, we are excited to be able to support the I-CHASS efforts with this contribution of computational resources,” said Phil Andrews, NICS Project Director. This new donation by NICS will increase the available resource to three million hours of supercomputing time. “I-CHASS is excited that supercomputing centers across the globe recognize the mutual beneficial synergies that the intersection of high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social science communities brings to knowledge discovery and scholarship,” said Kevin Franklin, executive director of I-CHASS. “Easy access to this type of resource allows scholars to apply advanced computing to their work and explore new paradigms of research.” Any humanities, arts, and social science scholar or collaborative research group may apply to this program for supercomputing resources to advance their computationally intensive work. Supported activities could include: * mining large textual and image datasets, morphological analysis, manipulations, and transformations. * analysis of geographical information systems data, maps, etc. * computationally demanding visualization, modeling, or pattern recognition and analysis. Selected researchers will be given access to NICS’s high-performance systems and allotments of up to 500,000 CPU hours. Resources will be available from January 2010 to December 2010, with the opportunity for successful projects to apply for a one-year renewal. Applications can be submitted online at the I-CHASS website starting September 15, 2009; applications are due November 1, 2009 and applicants will be notified by December 1, 2009. A complete description of the application process and required materials is available online at: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/Guidelines.html. Before submitting a proposal, applicants are encouraged to consult with I-CHASS staff on the scope of the project, the computational readiness of their data and software, the humanities, arts, and social science content, and other matters to ensure the appropriateness of the proposal. To discuss your project with I-CHASS staff, email chass@ncsa.uiuc.edu or call 217-244-1988. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:32:22 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 A3391364D6; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A7C97364CF; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043220.A7C97364CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.235 survey on digital media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 235. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:54:01 +0100 From: Paradoxographer Subject: Survey for research project on digital communciation media Hello, Apologies if this is too removed from the purposes of the list; I am posting it on behalf of a colleague, Elizabeth Lomas, who is engaged in a trans-disciplinary research project on the use and management of records, information and data stored in communication systems. She is interested in engaging with as diverse a range of groups as possible, and given that most on this list are probably digital natives (or at least long-term immigrants!) you may be interested in taking part in the survey detailed below. Kind Regards, Rachel Hardiman ======================= Continued Communication is a Northumbria University led research project developing knowledge about the purposes and ways in which people currently use different forms of communication media. We would be really grateful with help completing and disseminating a survey which is at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=INqEzhQ1Rk7KRwz36qwiBQ_3d_3d The results of this survey will be used to inform a communication best practice paper and additional papers on communication behaviors of different groups within society and business. The second part of the survey is an optional personality test (you need not complete this), which looks at communication traits such as extroversion etc. This will help inform us whether personality traits influence communication choices and also whether different professional roles are chosen by people with certain personality traits. This takes 10-15 minutes. You may opt to receive a copy of your personality profile. This will subsequently be retained anonymously and then destroyed at the end of the research. We know that you are busy and appreciate your time - it is possible to log in over time and fill in the survey. If you complete the survey you can opt to have your name entered in a prize draw for $100 in Amazon vouchers (which can be used from anywhere in the world). The reports of the Continued Communication project will be disseminated via a website that is being launched in Autumn 2009 at www.continuedcommunication.org. The survey closes on the 31 August 2009. If you do have any queries regarding the survey then please contact the Project Manager: Elizabeth Lomas Tel: ++44 (0)1582 762726 elizabeth.lomas@northumbria.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:33:11 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 2D69036527; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:33:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C94136511; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:33:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043308.5C94136511@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:33:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.236 new Perseus & two events X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 236. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:36:51 +0100 From: Helma Dik Subject: new Perseus; DHCS Colloquium; TEI workshop Dear all, I am delighted to announce several items: -A new release of Perseus under PhiloLogic. Please update your bookmarks to read: http://perseus.uchicago.edu The new release features morphological and lemma searching in Greek and Latin. For more background, see http://perseus.uchicago.edu/about.html -Call for Papers, DHCS colloquium, November 14-16, 2009. This will the 4th annual Chicago colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, organized jointly by Northwestern, IIT, and Chicago - hosted at IIT this year. URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Deadline for abstracts: August 30. We've just had confirmed that Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Alpha will be one of the keynote speakers. -TEI 'After Encoding' workshop, November 11. Mark Olsen and I will do a full-day workshop on using PhiloLogic, PhiloLine and PhiloMine with TEI-encoded collections on Wednesday, November 11 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as part of the TEI conference that weekend (yes, the Midwest is a happenin' place mid-November, who'd have thought..:-)). Note: this is for projects thinking about installing PhiloLogic as a/the basic search and retrieval database for a collection, not a how-to for end-users! In addition to presentations on the system and its extensions, participants will be walked through modifying basic Philologic loads and installing PhiloLine, the sequence alignment extension. With sufficient advance notice, we will do a basic load of people's TEI docs on a server at our end or help out with installation issues at their end. Since PhiloMine install (the textmining extension to PhiloLogic) is rather more involved, we cannot walk through an installation at the workshop, but can help troubleshoot installs ahead of time. Participants doing their own installation should not be completely new to the command line. Workshop URL: http://cybergreek.uchicago.edu/philotei.html Conference URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09 Yours with best wishes, Helma Dik Dept. of Classics University of Chicago _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 19 04:34:29 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 B700436595; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:34:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC92636588; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:34:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090819043427.AC92636588@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:34:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.237 events: digitization; geospace; DH & CS; text; Europe X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 237. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (120) Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers andPublication of the 2008 Proceedings [2] From: Lydia Horstman (47) Subject: CfP: Geospatial computing workshop at 5th IEEE InternationalConference on e-Science [3] From: Michael Day (49) Subject: Free workshop on OCR and Mass Digitisation, Bath, 24 September [4] From: Humanities (61) Subject: Call for papers final conference Inventing Europe [5] From: Barbara Bordalejo (70) Subject: cfp: New Directions in Textual Scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:19:06 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers andPublication of the 2008 Proceedings From: Mark Olsen On behalf of the Program Committee of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), I am pleased to announce both the publication of the Proceedings of the 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu/) and our Call for Papers for the 2009 Colloquium, to be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, November 14–16, 2009.   I hope you will consider submitting a proposal for the 2009 Colloquium and I look forward to seeing you in Chicago.  Please circulate this announcement widely.                           CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)                         Critical Computing:      Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration                       URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates:    November 14 – 16, 2009 Location:            Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The theme of this year's Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Critical Computing".  We will explore how research collaborations between computer scientists and humanists can be made most effective. * How can computation provide new critical tools for humanists? * How can humanities scholarship help us understand the real meaning  and import of computational analysis of human artifacts? We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. We welcome proposals for: * Paper presentations  (20 minute talks) * Poster presentations (open session) * Software demonstrations (open session) * Panel discussions (60-90 minute session) * Performances * Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars (1-4 hours) * Pre-conference “birds of a feather” technical meetings (1-4 hours) Last year's proceedings are available at: http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Graduate Student Travel Fund: A small number of travel grants will be available to assist graduate students presenting at the colloquium with travel expenses. More information about the application process will be available soon. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions:   Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement:  Thursday, September 24 Registration opens:         Tuesday, September 29 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery.  His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology, data mining, semantic web, and social informatics. Prof. Honavar's recent work focuses on information integration and knowledge discovery from diverse data sources, learning from biological and textual data, and modular ontologies. Other keynote speakers at DHCS-2009 will be announced shortly, once they are confirmed.  Previous DHCS keynote speakers have included Gregory Crane, Stephen Downie, Oren Etzioni, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lewis Lancaster, Ben Schneiderman, John Unsworth, and Martin Wattenberg. DHCS-2009 is sponsored by: Illinois Institute of Technology The University of Chicago Northwestern University Program Committee: * Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois  Institute of Technology * Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago * Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute  of Technology * Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute  of Technology * Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near  East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library * Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics,  Northwestern University * Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University  of Chicago * Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of  Technology * Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of  Chicago * Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of  Technology * Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute  of Technology Preliminary Colloquium Schedule: Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference session the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering introductory tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text analysis/data-mining or 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, on Sunday, November 15 and Monday, November 16, will consist of several 1-1/2 hour paper presentation sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions. There are no parallel sessions. For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website. Contact Info: Please email dhcs2009@iit.edu for more information. Colloquium Website:  http://dhcs.iit.edu Information about previous years' colloquiua is available at http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu. -- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:51:50 +0100 From: Lydia Horstman Subject: CfP: Geospatial computing workshop at 5th IEEE InternationalConference on e-Science With apologies for cross-postings Workshop at 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Oxford, UK, 9-11 December 2009 Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage References to time and location pervade the human record, both past and present: an oft-quoted statistic is that some 80% of all online information is in some way georeferenced. It is unsurprising therefore that as researchers in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage become more fully engaged with e-infrastructures, their disciplines’ engagement with, and use of, spatial and temporal data gives rise to new and interesting research questions in this area. How, for example, can heterogeneous academic data resources which fall into the 80% of georeferenced information – including, for example, historical texts, archaeological databases or museum collections - be linked and cross-queried without dictating the research process or methods used? How can geo-temporal data be visualized, both geographically and non-geographically? What is the role of ‘virtual globes’ such as Google Earth as platforms for the expression of such data? What can digital tools and methods in geospatial computing contribute to the use and understanding of space and time in the practice-led arts, creative industries and galleries (e.g. for documenting performances or visitor pathways)? How can issues of scale that are common to both time and space be usefully explored in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage sectors? Further details: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/workshops/geospatial/ This workshop seeks contributions from which might further these, and similar, questions. Contributors might (not exhaustively) include: * Academics in the arts, humanities or cultural heritage who are making use of spatial and/or temporal data in their research * Researchers with relevant interests in HCI or related disciplines * Researchers, curators, practitioners etc. from outside the academic sector (e.g. museums and galleries) * Developers or information scientists working on geospatial or temporal tools or applications Short contributions (up to four pages, including images, references and notes), in IEEE format (see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers/formatting-guidelines) are invited. Deadlines are: September 25th: Submission of first drafts October 2nd: Notification of acceptance and reviewers' comments October 14th: Final submission of camera-ready papers Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geospatialworkshopieee09 Stuart Dunn (King's College London) Fredrik Palm (University of Umeå) Workshop co-chairs --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:03:49 +0100 From: Michael Day Subject: Free workshop on OCR and Mass Digitisation, Bath, 24 September *** Apologies for cross-posting *** Workshop: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text 24 September 2009 - UKOLN, University of Bath - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009/ FREE one-day workshop for * Collection holders in HE and Cultural Heritage organisations * Users of digitised content for teaching, learning and research This workshop is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of a series of workshops & seminars on "Achievements & Challenges in Digitisation & e-Content." More information on these can be found at: http://www.jisc.org.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports/workshops.aspx Summary ========= The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about the current state-of-the-art in the digitisation of historical texts, to look at improvements in digitisation techniques currently being explored in research projects such as the EU-funded IMPACT project, and to explore how Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is used in practical digitisation contexts and workflows. There will also be an opportunity for participants to investigate the opportunities and challenges of the scholarly use of what is an ever-increasing range of digitised content, supporting new interdisciplinary ways of exploring cultural and social history, philology, and the history of ideas. For further information and an online booking form, please go to: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009/ Places are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Workshop leaders ================= Each session will be led by a member of the international IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project, a large-scale integrating project funded by the European Commission as part of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). One of the aims of the project is to develop tools that help improve OCR results for historical printed texts. The presenters are therefore well-placed to provide information and advice on the current state-of-the-art in text digitisation tools and techniques, and in particular on OCR technologies. For more information on the IMPACT project, see the project website at: http://www.impact-project.eu/ Michael Day ------------------------------------------------------------ Research Officer and Team Leader, Research and Development UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1225 383923 Fax: +44 (0)1225 386838 E-mail: m.day@ukoln.ac.uk Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:32:52 +0100 From: Humanities Subject: Call for papers final conference Inventing Europe ESF Humanities Unit For wide dissemination: Call for papers for the Closing ESF EUROCORES Inventing Europe Conference & 4th Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference June 17-20, 2010 at Sofia University (Bulgaria) Technology & East-West relations: Transfers, parallel histories, and the European laboratory Deadline paper abstracts: December 18, 2009 The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands are jointly organizing the final and closing conference of the ESF EUROCORES program Inventing Europe and the bi-annual conference of the Tensions of Europe network (ToE). Inventing Europe and ToE strive, through collaborative research and coordinating efforts, to promote studies of the interplay between technical change and European history. Instead of focusing on national histories, the emphasis of both initiatives is on transnational technological developments that have shaped and are shaping Europe. We encourage scholars from all disciplines who study subjects related to the overall conference theme or the Inventing Europe/Tensions of Europe intellectual agenda to submit abstracts for the research sessions, roundtables and research collaboration sessions. Overall Theme of the Conference The main theme of the conference applies to papers, which treat processes of circulation and appropriation of technologies between Eastern and Western Europe as an entry point into the contested practice of Europeanization. During the Cold War, for instance, Europe has been one of the central laboratories for the experimentation with ideological and political regimes, which deeply infected traditional paths of knowledge and technology transfer in Europe. While the history of the Cold War has mainly been told as a history of discontinuity and fragmentation, we would especially welcome papers and sections dealing with examples of successful co-operation or “hidden continuities” in inter-European technology transfer during the 20th century.. Despite the fact that the focus of the conference will be on the post-World War II period, we will welcome session proposals and individual papers referring to the practices of appropriation and circulation of ideas, skills and people in Europe from the mid-19th century onwards – thus from the period before the notions of Eastern and Western Europe were coined. This results from our conviction that one should look for the roots of the European integration and fragmentation in a “longue durée” perspective. General areas to be explored are: Changing times: Continuities and discontinuities in the transfers of knowledge and technology between Eastern and Western Europe from the mid-19th century to the present. Negotiating identities: spaces and places of co-operation or confrontation before, during, and after the Cold War. Parallel histories: alternative processes of European integration and fragmentation in Eastern and Western Europe. Blurred boundaries: spill-over effects and holes in the Iron Curtain Europe as a trading zone, a symbolic battle field, and the diplomatic playground for world hegemony. Chilling effects: Technologies at war & wartime technology Contested approaches: the merits and pitfalls of concepts like Americanization, Sovietisation, Westernization for European historiography. In addition, the program committee welcomes papers that want to contribute to the general Inventing Europe/Tensions of Europe intellectual agenda. This agenda treats technological change as an entry point into the contested practice of Europeanization. Five general areas to be explored are: Building Europe through Infrastructures, or, how Europe has been shaped by the material links of transnational infrastructure. Constructing European Ways of Knowing, or, how Europe became articulated through efforts to unite knowledge and practices on a European scale. Consuming Europe, or, how actors reworked consumer goods and artefacts for local, regional, national, European, and global use. Europe in the Global World, or, how Europe has been created through colonial, ex-colonial, trans-Atlantic, and other global exchanges. Synthetic methodological or historiographical explorations of the role of technology in transnational European history. Sessions formats The Program Committee welcomes proposals that address the overall conference themes in the following four formats: Individual paper proposals Research sessions with three papers based on original research, and an invited commentator. Because the conference encourages debate, appropriate time for discussion should be allocated to the commentators as well as the members of the audience. The papers will be pre-circulated to all conference participants. Conference participants are expected to have read the papers thus presentations should be brief. Roundtable sessions with an open agenda or one paper to start-off the discussion. The sessions will host no more than six discussants including the organizer and the chair. The organizer is responsible for preparing a dialogue paper to stimulate debate, and if relevant, supplementary material. Ideally, the dialogue paper will be a brief piece that poses a number of historical problems and/or questions related to the conference theme that will be addressed in the debate. While the organizer should propose discussants, the Program Committee may make additional suggestions. The chair may decide either to limit the conversation to invited roundtable discussants or to allow the audience to ask questions and enter the debate. Research collaboration sessions which are meant to present results of a specific project to the conference. The session could be paper based, but could also focus on a discussion of the framing and wider implications of the specific project. The Program Committee may make additional suggestions for commentators. Research sessions and research collaboration session will be allotted a minimum time slot of one and a half hours, and roundtable discussions one hour. Deadlines and Time-line The deadline for proposals is DECEMBER 18, 2009. The research session abstracts (maximum 600 words) should be submitted by the organizers together with the abstracts for the individual presentations (maximum 500 words each). To propose a roundtable, please submit a list of invited participants and an abstract (maximum 600 words). Note: When giving the proposal a digital file name, please include the organizer’s last name, and either RS for research session, RT for round table or RCS for Research Collaboration Session. So Fickers_RS for example. The abstracts should be sent to the Program Committee by email to TOE@tue.nl .. Please direct queries to the Program Committee Chair, Andreas Fickers (A.Fickers@maastrichtuniversity.nl ). The Program Committee will inform the session organizers about its decisions no later than February 15, 2010. Inventing Europe & Tensions of Europe programs are seeking to provide a contribution towards travel and/or accommodation costs for those who have no opportunity to participate otherwise. Papers and roundtable discussion texts must be submitted to the Program Committee by May 1, 2010 because they will be distributed to all conference participants before the conference on a CD and made available on the website. For the Program Committee for the Fourth Plenary Conference of Tensions of Europe, Andreas Fickers, Chair, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Helena Durnova, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Valentina Fava, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland Ivan Tchalakov, Plovdiv University & Institute of Sociology, BAS, Bulgaria Sponsors This conference is made possible by: European Science Foundation Foundation for the History of Technology Technical University Eindhoven University of Sofia Bulgarian Academy of Science ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:16:22 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: cfp: New Directions in Textual Scholarship > CALL FOR PAPERS > > International Symposium "New Directions in Textual Scholarship" > > March 26, 2010 Saitama University, JAPAN > March 27, 2010 Printing Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN > > As a result of increasingly widespread use of the internet, the > basis of research in the humanities has witnessed a dramatic shift > from a dependence on primarily print-based research materials to a > heavy reliance on digital resources. This poses a whole new set of > problems that in turn necessitate a reassessment of the very > foundations of textual scholarship. In discussions of these > problems, numerous voices from the Anglo-American and German > scholarly traditions have offered significant contributions and > advanced the discourse in innovative new ways. Unfortunately, this > crucial topic remains virtually absent from scholarly debates in > Japan. > > It is therefore with great pleasure that we announce an upcoming > international symposium dedicated to these issues, to be held over > March 26 and 27 at Saitama University and the Printing Museum in > Tokyo, Japan. As the first conference in Japan to address these key > issues, we hope to stimulate a discussion that will not only convey > the timeliness and energy of these debates to Japan, but moreover > contribute to the advancement of textual scholarship in a global > context. We are particularly honored to have keynote addresses by > two of the most distinguished scholars of the field, Peter > Shillingsburg and Bodo Plachta, each of whom has fundamentally > informed the ongoing development of the Anglo-American and German > traditions of textual scholarship. This conference is multi- > lingual; the primary languages will be English, German, and Japanese. > > The Programme Committee invites submission of abstracts of between > 500 and 750 words on the following aspects of humanities research, > especially in relation to topics and/or issues pertaining to > textual scholarship: > > * Globalization > * Digitalization > * Interdisciplinarity > > Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length. In > addition to the abstract itself, participants should provide their > name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. > > The deadline for submission of abstracts to the Programme Committee > is September 25, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters > will be notified of acceptance during early November. > > Publication of a conference volume is also planned. > > Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to the > Programme Committee at: > textjapan@gmail.com > > For conference updates and information, please consult our website: > http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/ > > > Sincerely, > > Kiyoko Myojo > kmyojo@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp > Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University > Fax: +81(0)48-858-3056 > > Christian Wittern > wittern@kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp > Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University > Tel: +81(0)75-753-6966 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 20 04:27:38 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 0CA4035EBA; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E79035EA2; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090820042736.7E79035EA2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.238 the artist's attitude X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 238. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:27:46 -0700 From: Randy Radney Subject: [Humanist] 23.230 gene poetry and the artist's attitude In reference to your comment: ..."The problem of re-enactment, or simulation, in much of the humanities is, I'd say, a much greater problem, and so it makes sense that we'd be finding this statement fresh now with regards to our interpretative work."... I assume that the twin factors of choice and intentionality (especially when multiple individuals are engaged in group activities) supply cause for your claim that simulation is a 'greater problem' in the humanities. The context of human action (in my speciality, linguistics) can be simplified (as in, say, transformational- generative linguistic theory), but guarantees that such simplification has captured the essentials of context in a way that makes simulation genuine are hard to come by. One possibility (that many, admittedly, have rejected) is that Husserlian phenomenology in practice (i.e. as a method of observation regarding human experience) could provide the supplement to pre- enactment, re-enactment, and other abstractions of actual human experience for humanities scholars. If readers are unaware of phenomenology and would be interested in supplementing their humanities research using the phenomenological method, I would recommend the excellent introduction to phenomenology by Stewart and Mickunas, as well as Harry Reeder's (more practice-oriented) _Theory and Practice of Husserl's Phenomenology_. Regards, J. Randolph Radney, Ph. D. 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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: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:53:47 +0100 From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY - NEW ISSUE ALERT This Week in Ubiquity: August 17-23, 09 Virtualizing the Datacenter Without Compromising Server Performance http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i9_kamoun.html By Faouzi Kamoun Virtualization has become a hot topic. Cloud computing is the latest and most prominent application of this time-honored idea, which is almost as old as the computing field itself. The term "cloud" seems to have originated with someone's drawing of the Internet as a puffy cloud hiding many servers and connections. A user can receive a service from the cloud without ever knowing which machine (or machines) rendered the service, where it was located, or how many redundant copies of its data there are. The cloud realizes the old dream of a computer utility, first articulated at MIT in the early 1960s. One of the big concerns about the cloud is that it may assign many computational processes to one machine, thereby making that machine a bottleneck and giving poor response time. Faouzi Kamoun addresses this concern head on, and assures us that in most cases the virtualization used in the cloud and elsewhere improves performance. He also addresses a misconception made prominent in a Dilbert cartoon, when the boss said he wanted to virtualize the servers so as to save electricity. 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 Thu Aug 20 04:30:27 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 0854635FC2; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:30:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2664F35FB5; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:30:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090820043024.2664F35FB5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.240 events: handwriting & editing; mathematics & engineering methods X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 240. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (43) Subject: CFP: Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing [2] From: Jan Staudek (44) Subject: MEMICS 2009 - CFP - abstract registration Sep 7th --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:52:37 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: CFP: Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009 (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/). See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:20:55 +0100 From: Jan Staudek Subject: MEMICS 2009 - CFP - abstract registration Sep 7th 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadlines: abstract registration: September 7, 2009 submissions: September 14, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Four invited talks by distinguished researchers from the different areas of interest of the workshop will be a part of the programme: * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland): Automata for XML. * Michael Fellows (University of Newcastle, Australia): The Lost Continent of Polynomial Time: Meta-theorems About FPT Kernelization. * Günther Raidl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria): Combining Metaheuristics with Mathematical Programming Techniques for Solving Difficult Network Design Problems. * Andrey Rybalchenko (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany): Automated methods for proving program safety and liveness. 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. Moreover, selected regular papers from MEMICS 2009 will be published in the External Workshops series of Dagstuhl DROPS, http://drops.dagstuhl.de/, and a further possibility of publishing some of the papers in an electronic journal is under negotiation. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 21 05:46:07 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 B05A134BCB; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E58C34BA4; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090821054605.1E58C34BA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.241 new on WWW: the Panjab Digital Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 241. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:16:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Panjab Digital Library > Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab > > For the first time ever a searchable collection of millions of rare > pages on the Sikhs and the region of Panjab has been made available. > Panjab Digital Library (PDL) will include texts of manuscripts, > books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and will be available to > anyone with Internet access at www.PanjabDigiLib.org. This launch was > made possible in part by The Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research > Institute (SikhRI). > > PDL has been in development since 2003, charged with a mission to > select, collect, preserve, digitize and make accessible the > accumulated wisdom of Panjab. Texts were included without distinction > as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other human > condition. > > “Since long, preservation of heritage, research and education have > been a victim of apathy in Panjab; more so, in the last century. With > the launch of the online digital library, we have tried to fill some > of that gap. PDL is a humble offering to the community what it lost > 25 years ago,” said Harinder Singh, co-founder and executive director > of SikhRI who also serves on PDL board. “Scholars will be able to > access a wide variety of information concealed in the manuscripts and > other literature of the region with the click of a mouse sitting in > the comfort of their homes. This is essential to the growth of Sikh > and Panjab studies and its meaningful representation in the > fast-changing modern world.” > > Digitization technology brings with it untold benefits for heritage > preservation and access. Once a document has been properly digitized > it becomes immortal and can remain accessible long after the original > has ceased to exist. The option of digital access further aids in > preservation of originals through reduced need for physical handling. > The central digital archive which the PDL has developed over the last > six years allows for wide electronic access to the public and will > help the researcher to search, browse and sift through vast amounts > of data in seconds. > > According to Davinder Pal Singh, PDL’s co-founder and executive > director, “PDL will break many barriers which currently restrict a > conventional library. Information is decentralized, through its > shared storage and access model, thus enabling utilization of a > single resource concurrently by multiple users all over the world. On > a local note, assuming that every household will possibly have a > computer within the next ten years, PDL holds great promises for the > people of Panjab especially.” > > “To date, PDL has been instrumental in digitally preserving over 2.5 > million folios from 3,400 manuscripts, 2,200 books, 1,990 issues of > periodicals, 5,578 issues of newspapers, 3,152 photographs, 248,000 > legal documents and some 168 hours of video recordings,” commented > Gurvinder Singh, PDL’s US Coordinator. The current collection of data > amounts to about 15,000 GB of available information. > > Among others, major institutional collections digitized to date > include SGPC, DSGMC, Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, > Chief Khalsa Diwan, Panjab Languages Department, and Kurukshetra > University . Critical works of significant importance from the > personal collections of Prof. Pritam Singh, Dr. Man Singh Nirankari, > Dr. Kirpal Singh, Dr. Madanjit Kaur and Prof. Gurtej Singh are also > available at PDL. > > "PDL is the only non-profit, non-governmental organization to have > initiated a digitization project for the preservation and upkeep of > Panjab archives, and perhaps the only one in India ” said Gurnihal > Singh Pirzada Director, PDL’s board member. “PDL has undertaken > rigorous research and laid solid ground work in order to be in the > best possible position for this launch. Projects around the globe > were closely studied as models for establishing a successful > digitization project. Internationally recognized benchmarks were > referred to and complied with,” he further said. > > PDL is an ongoing project in its early stages and the collection will > grow substantially in coming years. New titles are being digitized > everyday and the Web site will be updated with new features and > titles on monthly basis. PDL staff will be adding at least 50,000 > pages per week to the Web site’s collection. > > Contact Person: Davinder Pal Singh davinder.singh@panjabdigilib.org | > +91-98141 13 -- 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 Aug 21 05:46:59 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 B736D34C4F; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C55A434C3E; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 242. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: boredom comes with maturity? Dear colleagues, Here's a question for you. It came to me while I was gazing at the announcement of the Panjab Digital Library and another announcement, of a printed publication containing nothing directly, or even indirectly as far as I could tell, about computing. I found myself questioning the decision to circulate the former but not the latter. Have we reached the point, I wonder, at which the once new is now so commonplace that it's no longer interesting? Of course someone who is already interested in Panjab literature and culture will want to know about this digital library, but failing that interest, and immediate evidence that the makers have done something technically and/or formally new, is it something you'd like to see? Please note: I am not asking for personal likes and dislikes, which are not the business of this group. I'm asking, rather, about a possible stage of development that we may have reached, a kind of maturity, in which to be noticed formally a digital object has to possess certain properties reflecting a degree of technical progress. Some time ago there was a comment about conference papers in the digital humanities being less than riveting, being (I think it was) rather more reports from the factory floor than intellectual wake-up calls. Since I think that staying awake is important, I am paying rather alot of attention to this latest jolt. In his paper for the Hixon Symposium (1948), "Why the Mind is in the Head", Warren McCulloch expressed it this way: > When we run to catch a baseball we run not toward it but toward the > place where it will be when we get there to grab it. This requires > prediction.... The earmark of every predictive circuit is that if it > has operated long uniformly it will persist in activity, or > overshoot; otherwise it could not project regularities from the known > past onto the unknown future. That is what, as a scientist, I dread > most, for as our memories become stored, we become creatures of our > yesterdays – mere has-beens in a changing world. This leaves no room > for learning. We're not running to catch baseballs, but we are developing, quite successfully, habitual behaviours and standard products. While I do take the argument about standards etc., I worry about research in this utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry about what happens when one reaches a promised land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. 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 Sun Aug 23 05:47:09 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 5E82E37FC4; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:47:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1E4237FBC; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:47:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823054708.C1E4237FBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.243 at the BBQ X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 243. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (32) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [2] From: Wendell Piez (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [3] From: Alan Galey (103) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:02:05 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Williard -- Digital humanities is never about computing. It's about the product of computing -- what we can do with these texts, and how accessible we can make these texts, now that they have been digitized. In other words, it's about the dissemination of the text, and what that dissemination allows us to do with it. Much more time is involved in doing word searches in physical books than in digitized ones, so digitizing a book facilitates, say, word studies. But if the material qualities of the work itself are an object of study, as in the case of William Blake's illuminated books, then digitizing it still does not provide a substitute for the physical presence of the text. If a digitized version of Blake's illuminated books came out that was in highly detailed and closely rendered 3D, so that I could zoom in and rotate the image 360 degrees, front to back, to see the depth of impressions, gouge marks left on the paper, the texture left by the practice of color printing, etc....that'd really be something. Otherwise, it's just another flat image of a Blake print -- same thing I'd get in a reproduction of the print in a book, by the way -- and to get the rest of it I need to see the originals. So, no,for most people, why talk about computing at all beyond telling us about the texts now made more widely available and the functionality of their presentation? If I were involved in digitizing texts at the moment and could learn a few tricks to increase speed and simplicity, the details would matter then. Jim R > Have we reached the point, I wonder, at which the once new is now so > commonplace that it's no longer interesting? Of course someone who is > already interested in Panjab literature and culture will want to know > about this digital library, but failing that interest, and immediate > evidence that the makers have done something technically and/or formally > new, is it something you'd like to see? > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:35:12 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, At 01:46 AM 8/21/2009, you wrote: >... I found myself questioning the decision to >circulate the former but not the latter. Have we >reached the point, I wonder, at which the once >new is now so commonplace that it's no longer >interesting? Of course someone who is already >interested in Panjab literature and culture will >want to know about this digital library, but >failing that interest, and immediate evidence >that the makers have done something technically >and/or formally new, is it something you'd like to see? Subject to your excellent judgement and discretion, yes, by all means. I don't take technical progress to be the only sort of progress worth notice on HUMANIST. >... Since I think that staying awake is >important, I am paying rather alot of attention >to this latest jolt. In his paper for the Hixon >Symposium (1948), "Why the Mind is in the Head", >Warren McCulloch expressed it this way: > When >we run to catch a baseball we run not toward it >but toward the > place where it will be when we >get there to grab it. This requires > >prediction.... The earmark of every predictive >circuit is that if it > has operated long >uniformly it will persist in activity, or > >overshoot; otherwise it could not project >regularities from the known > past onto the >unknown future. That is what, as a scientist, I >dread > most, for as our memories become stored, >we become creatures of our > yesterdays ­ mere >hhas-beens in a changing world. This leaves no >room > for learning. We're not running to catch >baseballs, but we are developing, quite >successfully, habitual behaviours and standard >products. While I do take the argument about >standards etc., I worry about research in this >utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry >about what happens when one reaches a promised >land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. Comments? What's to worry? Either you want the nice house, or you don't. Maybe you think you don't, but then discover you do. Maybe the idea that settling in should be avoided is just a prejudice and a habit, formed in an earlier time, and not appropriate to the present. I am reminded of an observation by the biologist Bernd Heinrich in one of his amazing books about ravens, namely that young ravens are very curious creatures, but old ones are quite the opposite. This shift from curiosity to stodginess is the result of a fine adaptation in adaptability. It is beneficial to young ravens to be curious since they discover new things and new opportunities. But once a raven has grown into its environment, as long as that environment does not change more quickly than the raven does, it becomes counter-adaptive for it to continue in curiosity, since the chances of finding truly new opportunities diminish compared to the risks. (Ravens are interesting creatures because they are very smart and very curious, like us, but their life span is enough shorter than ours that we can observe, in a foreshortened time frame, what may happen to us.) To be curious when young is good for a species that seeks to inhabit new niches. But one can subsist very comfortably in an old niche, if the niche remains viable. And what's wrong with that? In view of this, I suggest our question shouldn't be how do we avoid stodginess and continue in curiosity. We approve of curiosity because we enjoy it, and its rewards. But deprive us of those rewards and burn us a few times instead, and we might rather have that house in suburbia. Rather, we should ask how do we fit our curiosity to the changeability of our world, to assure the rewards of curiosity continue to be worth its risks, and reduce the risks of stodginess? And the world is changing. Maybe there's nothing technically "new" in yet another digital library initiative. But there may be something remarkably new in that fact, even at the same time as you do us all a service to alert us to something potentially very interesting -- and surely quite new -- to its own proper constituency. It might even make a few of us more curious about matters Panjabi. In short, don't fret. I appreciate why you are restless. But your curiosity and your graciousness -- and not just regarding technical matters -- have served you well: please continue in them. In the meantime, it's when things seem to slow into utilitarian age that revolutions start brewing. Cheers, Wendell ========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:20:42 -0400 From: Alan Galey Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Your question seems to be about how we define or categorize the qualities we value. I agree that we've reached the point of maturity you describe, though I'd use the less teleological metaphor of equilibrium (one can lose one's balance again). Perhaps it's a sign of the field's equilibrium that it's becoming harder, not easier, to do digital humanities work that stands out somehow. It's no longer innovative simply to be a humanist with a digital project that meets defined goals -- there has to be some kind of surplus or surprise in the research process. Maybe that's been the case all along. Either way, I've found myself putting it this way in conversations about future research directions: we shouldn't support digital humanities research, categorically speaking; rather, we should support *good* digital humanities research -- or, better still, we should simply support good research, recognizing that it comes in many forms, digital and otherwise. That distinction also involves reclaiming the word "good" from the admin-speak that's replaced it with "excellent," which is usually defined tautologically if at all. One still has to define "good," but putting it this way at least makes the definition contestable. About categories and innovation: maybe you've heard the apocryphal story about Duke Ellington being asked by an interviewer how he'd define jazz -- this was back when jazz was considered the progressive music of the day. Supposedly Duke's reply was something like "there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. I play both kinds." Best, Alan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 05:49:02 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 0BB302D02C; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 167B42D025; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823054900.167B42D025@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.244 new publications: Writing Systems Research; LLC 24.3 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 244. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:28:58 +0100 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for September 2009; Vol.24, No. 3 *************************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 *************************ANNOUNCEMENT**************************** Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: September 2009; Vol. 24, No. 3 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol24/issue3/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian Rahtz and Susan Schreibman Introduction Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 249-251; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp014. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/3/249?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fotis Jannidis TEI in a crystal ball Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 253-265; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp015. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/253?etoc Andrea Zielinski, Wolfgang Pempe, Peter Gietz, Martin Haase, Stefan Funk, and Christian Simon TEI documents in the grid Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 267-279; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp016. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/267?etoc Christian Wittern, Arianna Ciula, and Conal Tuohy The making of TEI P5 Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 281-296; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp017. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/281?etoc Melissa Terras, Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 297-306; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp018. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/297?etoc James Cummings Converting Saint Paul: A new TEI P5 edition of The Conversion of Saint Paul using stand-off methodology Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 307-317; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp019. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/307?etoc Malte Rehbein Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 319-327; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp020. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/319?etoc Luigi Siciliano and Viviana Salardi The digital edition of the Statuta comunis Vicentie of 1264 Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 329-338; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp021. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/329?etoc Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine The TEIViewer: Facilitating the transition from XML to web display Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 339-346; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp022. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/339?etoc Peter Boot Towards a TEI-based encoding scheme for the annotation of parallel texts Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 347-361; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp023. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/347?etoc Andreas Witt, Georg Rehm, Erhard Hinrichs, Timm Lehmberg, and Jens Stegmann SusTEInability of linguistic resources through feature structures Lit Linguist Computing 2009 24: 363-372; doi:10.1093/llc/fqp024. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/363?etoc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 05:54:26 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 01E732D0DC; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:54:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B156D2D0D5; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:54:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823055423.B156D2D0D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:54:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.245 events: geospatial scholarship; science in use X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 245. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joseph Gilbert (18) Subject: Reminder: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship [2] From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal (40) Subject: ESF-LIU Conference on 'Philosophy for Science in Use' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:05:16 -0400 From: Joseph Gilbert Subject: Reminder: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship Reminder: DEADLINES for the Scholars' Lab/ NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship are fast approaching: Tracks 1 & 2 (Stewardship & Software, to be held November 15-18, 2009), deadline: September 1st Track 3 (Scholarship, to be held May 25-28, 2010), deadline: December 1st To learn more about the Institute and to apply for funding to attend, please visit: http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/ *** IMPORTANT NOTE: If you applied between August 13 and August 21 you should confirm that we have received your application by emailing us at nehgisinstitute@collab.itc.virginia.edu *** -- Joseph Gilbert Head, Scholars' Lab Digital Research & Scholarship University of Virginia Library 434.243.2324 | joegilbert@virginia.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:45:57 +0200 From: Corinne Wininger - Le Moal Subject: ESF-LIU Conference on 'Philosophy for Science in Use' Final Call for Applications/Papers - Closing date: 31 August 2009 PHILOSOPHY FOR SCIENCE IN USE ESF-LiU Conference Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden 28 September - 2 October 2009 Chaired by: Matthias Kaiser, National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology, NO & Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics, UK http://www.esf.org/conferences/09272 This conference is to discuss how current philosophy of science can be brought more in line with the need to understand, analyze and contribute to scientific endeavours in its various practical and socially relevant uses. It follows a call from Philip Kitcher (in Science, Truth and Democracy, 2001) for aiming at a well-ordered science, i.e. a science that produces the right answers to the right questions in the right ways. Implicit in this call is the insight that value judgements are intertwined with methodological issues. Nancy Cartwright (in Philosophy of Science, 2006 vol.72, #5) has followed up by making the claim that epistemological warrants (evidence) are in large parts also use- and context-specific, contrary to the prevailing tradition in philosophy of science. Hitherto the major philosophical attention has been directed towards justifications of theoretical claims to establish stable unambiguous results, while the justificationary demands on contextual and specialized uses of theoretical insights has been largely neglected. However, it is also in regard to these uses of sciences that value dilemmas affect the practice of science in a very direct way, and where science needs to reflect on its social and ethical justification. The conference will ask for contributions that explore in greater detail philosophical aspects of science and evidence in practical use, and in particular contributions that can provide frameworks of analyses that move philosophy of science closer to policy issues of managing scientific knowledge. In general, the task of the conference is to discuss a re-orientation of current philosophy of science towards what Kitcher called well-ordered science. The conference specifically addresses young European researchers, both from within philosophy of science and related fields, and encourages them to participate and possibly present a poster on their current work. Invited Speakers will include: . Nancy Cartwright - London School of Economics, UK Evidence, causal models and evidence-based policies - new insights . Matthias Kaiser - NENT, NO Evidence for precaution . Philip Kitcher - Columbia University, US Well-ordered science - the challenges for philosophy of science . Eleonora Montuschi - London School of Economics, UK On relevant evidence . Thomas Potthast - Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, DE Hybrid judgements: integrating scientific and ethical evidence . Felix Reed-Tsochas - Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK Moving between ecological and organisational models . Julian Reiss - Erasmus University, NL Causation for use . Matti Sintonen - Helsinki University, FI Understanding, explaining and prediciting . Jeroen van der Sluijs - Utrecht University, NL Knowledge quality asessment: tools for reflexive science Full conference programme and application form accessible online from http://www.esf.org/conferences/09272 A good number of grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form. Closing date for applications: 31 August 2009 ESF Contact for further information: Jean Kelly - jkelly@esf.org European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 50 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 clemoal@esf.org www.esf.org/conferences http://www.esf.org/conferences _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 23 06:04:35 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 D70D32D244; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A52E42D22F; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090823060430.A52E42D22F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:04:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.246 EAC-CPF schema and tag library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 246. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:09:59 +0100 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: EAC-CPF Final Draft Announcement The SAA EAC Working Group is pleased to announce the release of the EAC-CPF schema and tag library. The EAC-CPF site is hosted by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in partnership with the Bundesarchiv and is accessible at: http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ This release consists of a "final draft" version of the EAC-CPF schema and Tag Library. The final draft version is being released to provide the international archival community an opportunity to test the schema and review the Tag Library in order to provide corrections, comments, and suggestions for considering to the EACWG before the final release. The final draft version of EAC-CPF is available for review for 75 days (deadline October 30th, 2009), and the final version is scheduled to be released on November 15th, 2009. Please take the time to test the schema, review the Tag Library, and provide the EACWG with your findings. The final draft version of the EAC-CPF should be used for REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY. The Tag Library and examples are working draft documents and thus NOT NORMATIVE. The schema will continue to be revised to fix errors and inconstancies, and to refine controlled constraints on some elements and attributes. No major structural changes are anticipated. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 24 05:36:37 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 A38CB374F3; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A446B374E3; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090824053634.A446B374E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.247 at the BBQ X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 247. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Randy Radney (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [2] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: clever raven [3] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: patience and impatience --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:25:41 -0700 From: Randy Radney Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In my (actual) experience, the sort of events that best keep us from mature-boredom are in the category of "terrifying changes". In my case the perfect job and location (not suburbia, but then, I'm a bit of a "farm boy", myself) were reached, Canadian citizenship (finally!) obtained, and all was well (if a bit predictable). Suddenly, the university I was working for decided to cancel the online classes I was teaching, the local university decided that my doctorate in humanities was not suitable certification to teach any of the (English, Anthropology, Sociology, etc.) courses it offers, and the economy "went south" (or went west, for those of you in the UK). After sending my CV everywhere I was willing to move to, I decided to start a small business offering face-to-face educational support for local people taking online courses at university. The learning curve has been steep, but boredom is very much a thing of the past. (I'm trying to keep a record of some of my reflections and thoughts as this business develops at http://thelearningcoach.blogspot.com) Regards, J. Randolph Radney, Ph. D. Paradox Educational Services bclearningcoach@me.com "Get the Education You Want in the Community You Love" On 20 Aug 2009, at 22:46, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 242. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: boredom comes with maturity? . . . >> > > We're not running to catch baseballs, but we are developing, quite > successfully, habitual behaviours and standard products. While I do > take > the argument about standards etc., I worry about research in this > utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry about what happens > when > one reaches a promised land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. > > 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: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:36:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: clever raven Clever raven, curious when young and acquiring the programming to survive and make more ravens, just truckin' along when old, waiting to die -- or contemplating existence in ravenish quietude, perhaps. But we're talking about humans here, and so a distinction I'd introduce between the peripheral and the central. Northrop Frye's (very Canadian, one might say) solution was to make his own life as uninteresting to an observer as possible so all his energies could go where they went. Or as my partner said earlier today, with reference to our exciting, largely working-class neighbourhood, "I want everything middle-class and boring so that I can do my work". It's that work -- and the disciplinary field where where it finds its society -- that needs the never-ending curiosity and for which being settled in, suburban, all standardized and conformant is spiritually fatal. To get back to the raven as a guide to our mental life. I give you Norbert Wiener's comparison of the human to the great apes. "It has frequently been observed", he writes in The Human Use of Human Beings, "that man is a neoteinic form: that is, if we compare man with the great apes, his closest relatives, we find that mature man in hair, head, shape, body proportions, bony structure, muscles, and so on, is more like the newborn ape than the adult ape. Among the animals, man is a Peter Pan who never grows up" (1954: 58). And so the Paradise within us, happier far than (we know, thanks to Freud et al and to ruthless introspection) actual childhood actually was? Yours, PP (alias 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: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:19:49 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: patience and impatience We have before reflected on our quite understandable impatience that after all these years since Busa met IBM (1949-2009) we are still mostly playing our own games in a corner of the room, largely ignored by the Major Players. So I offer some bracing solace from the clinical psychiatrist Henry W. Brosin, who in 1948 at the Hixon Symposium was asked to summarize and comment on the papers given there (by John von Neumann, Warren McCulloch and others). Looking over the contributions from the areas of inter alia mathematics and formal logic, neuropsychiatry, primate biology, psychology and medicine, he saw no philosophical differences that would stand in the way of their forming a coherent way of talking about the one subject on which these diverse fields were convergent. "At least we are often talking to the same point," he said. "However, this isn't enough. We must learn a common vocabulary by living and working together. Reading and experimenting in isolation are inadequate. It may take a century for men working at the molecular and neuronal levels to become thoroughly and intimately acquainted with the world view of a person whose days and nights are steeped in the concepts of man as a social unity" (Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior. The Hixon Symposium, ed. Jeffress, p. 291). The solace - we're still 40 years shy of that century - is bracing not only because the gap of silence or at least inadequate vocabulary between the interpretative humanities and such sciences is so much wider than the one he envisioned. It's more bracing because Brosin was thinking in terms of people such as von Neumann and McCulloch, who were wholly dedicated to asking the hardest of questions they could imagine -- indeed, being employed and supported to do exactly that. So few of us are thus employed, and so perhaps it's not surprising that question-asking in their mode seems rather thin on the ground. Of course it's hardly surprising that people whose work happened to coincide with the well-funded purposes of warfare would be given the keys to the city and allowed to wander in and out as they wished. But then (as Jim O'Donnell says) we're a cheap date. The real problem, it seems to me, is our conception of what we're here for. Without the focus of McCulloch and von Neumann, 40 years will find us more or less in the same place. 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 Aug 24 05:37:43 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 871AE37546; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BC913753E; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090824053742.5BC913753E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.248 events: DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 248. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:42:00 -0500 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: FINAL CFP: Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2009 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates: November 14 – 16, 2009 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. Last year's proceedings can be downloaded from http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu 2009 Keynote Speakers: * Stephen Wolfram (http://www.stephenwolfram.com/), the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. * Vasant Honavar (http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/), professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. * Roger B. Dannenberg (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/), Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement: Thursday, September 24 Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29 Contact: Email: dhcs2009@iit.edu Website: http://dhcs.iit.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 Aug 25 07:22:30 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 83D23370E7; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:22:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C411370DF; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:22:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090825072228.4C411370DF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.249 saying everything that needs to be said? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 249. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:16:58 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: saying everything that needs to be said The following is from John von Neumann, "The General and Logical Theory of Automata", in Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior. The Hixon Symposium, ed. Lloyd A. Jeffress (1951), pp. 33-4, more specifically in the discussion that followed his paper. Possibly very few here are interested in the theory von Neumann argued we don't have, and not at all in neurophysiology. I quote von Neumann's comment, rather, for its much broader suggestiveness toward a theory of textual computing. Think, in particular, about markup. > The first task that arises in dealing with any problem -- more > specifically, with any function of the central nervous system -- is > to formulate it unambiguously, to put it into words, in a rigorous > sense. If a very complicated system -- like the central nervous > system -- is involved, there arises the additional task of doing this > "formulating," this "putting into words," with a number of words > within reasonable limits -- for example, that can be read in a > lifetime. This is the place where the real difficulty lies. > > In other words, I think that it is quite likely that one may give a > purely descriptive account of the outwardly visible functions of the > central nervous system in a humanly possible time. This may be 10 or > 20 years -- which is long, but not prohibitively long. Then, on the > basis of the results of McCulloch and Pitts, one could draw within > plausible time limitations a fictitious "nervous network" that can > carry out all these functions. I suspect, however, that it will turn > out to be much larger than the one that we actually possess. It is > possible that it will prove to be too large to fit into the physical > universe. What then? Haven't we lost the true problem in the process? > > Thus the problem might better be viewed, not as one of imitating the > functions of the central nervous system with just any kind of > network, but rather as one of doing this with a network that will fit > into the actual volume of the human brain. Or, better still, with one > that can be kept going with our actual metabolistic "power supply" > facilities, and that can be set up and organized by our actual > genetic control facilities.... > > The problem, then, is not this: How does the central nervous system > effect any one, particular thing? It is rather: How does it do all > the things that it can do, in their full complexity? What are the > principles of its organization? How does it avoid really serious, > that is, lethal, malfunctions over periods that seem to average many > decades? When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. What do you suppose is that question? 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 Aug 25 07:24:11 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 83FAA37172; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 797D937161; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:24:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090825072408.797D937161@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:24:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.250 Calling all text encoders! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 250. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:51:58 +0000 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Calling all Text Encoders! Colleagues, As part of our ongoing efforts to understand text encoding, we are embarking on a small case study that will investigate different approaches to encoding a single text (a guestbook from a historically significant estate house located in Ireland). We would like to invite text encoders to participate in the study, by volunteering to encode 5 sample pages from the text. All encoders will receive the same sample. Participants will have the freedom to encode the text using any XML- based approach that they consider to be appropriate. We are happy to answer any questions about the text to help you with your encoding. Following submission of your encoding, you will be invited to complete a short questionnaire. All encodings and questionnaire responses will be fully anonymised. Ideally we would like to have participants return their encodings prior to 15 September 2009. We plan to disseminate the results of the study to the text encoding community as soon as possible after this date. Please email myself (john.keating@nuim.ie) or Aja Teehan (aja.teehan@nuim.ie) for a preview page if you are interested in participating. If you know someone who would like to participate, please forward this message. Best wishes, Aja Teehan and John Keating. Dr. John G. Keating, Associate DirectorAn 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 Wed Aug 26 05:14:07 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 16574346F0; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0ADF346DA; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090826051405.E0ADF346DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.251 saying everything X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 251. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:13:39 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.249 saying everything that needs to be said? In-Reply-To: <20090825072228.4C411370DF@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Your latest post asking about cognition, computation and markup certainly requires a response. First, von Neumann's statement of his premises: At 03:22 AM 8/25/2009, you wrote: > > The first task that arises in dealing with any problem -- more > > specifically, with any function of the central nervous system -- is > > to formulate it unambiguously, to put it into words, in a rigorous > > sense. ... but I simply don't think that's true. It is true in very narrow circumstances, maybe. It's true to a large extent in my own work, where in order to perform a set of logical operations on sets of abstract symbols, those operations and their organization must be formulated unambiguously. But if it were generally true, I don't see how any of us could get out of bed in the morning. The problem of applying muscle power to neck, back and legs would be intractable. Nor is it necessary to suppose that the brain must have a functionally complete and unambiguous model of the body, when it has the body itself (as well, perhaps, as an incomplete and ambiguous model of it). I am afraid that von Neumann's generalization is based on a false assumption that problem-solving in the world must be like the application of logical algorithms to abstract information processing. As a counter, I would offer the work of Andy Clark, whose amazing book Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again (1997), effectively refutes this entire premise and suggests many other ways that minds (both "natural" and "artificial") might proceed to work with the world, which do not entail such impossible notions as complete and unambiguous problem specification. I can't paraphrase the work adequately here. But the Wikipedia page on Clark does offer a suggestive account. ... > > The problem, then, is not this: How does the central nervous system > > effect any one, particular thing? It is rather: How does it do all > > the things that it can do, in their full complexity? What are the > > principles of its organization? How does it avoid really serious, > > that is, lethal, malfunctions over periods that seem to average many > > decades? > >When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a >similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. >What do you suppose is that question? I think the question is not how do we fully specify a problem and avoid ambiguity, but rather, how do we take advantage of the ambiguity that is inevitable and cultivate the ambiguity that is useful? The answer lies somewhere in the neighborhood of "feedback" and in the recognition that while markup has logical dimensions especially in its application, the correct locus for a comprehensive account of markup is not in logic but in rhetoric. Cheers, Wendell Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 26 05:14:54 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 37F483476F; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D37C534728; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090826051451.D37C534728@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.252 events: interfaces; final DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 252. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shlomo Argamon (40) Subject: FINAL CFP: Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2009 [2] From: Li CHEN (79) Subject: cfp: 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'10) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:42:00 -0500 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: FINAL CFP: Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2009 In-Reply-To: <20090823054708.C1E4237FBC@woodward.joyent.us> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009 Colloquium Dates: November 14 – 16, 2009 Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. Last year's proceedings can be downloaded from http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu 2009 Keynote Speakers: * Stephen Wolfram (http://www.stephenwolfram.com/), the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. * Vasant Honavar (http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/), professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery. * Roger B. Dannenberg (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/), Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30 Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14 Full Program Announcement: Thursday, September 24 Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29 Contact: Email: dhcs2009@iit.edu Website: http://dhcs.iit.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:15:18 +0100 From: Li CHEN Subject: cfp: 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'10) In-Reply-To: <20090823054708.C1E4237FBC@woodward.joyent.us> CALL FOR PAPERS IUI 2010: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 7-10 February, 2010 Hong Kong, China http://www.iuiconf.org/ * *Paper Submission Deadline: September 25, 2009 ************************************************************ We are very pleased to invite you once again to participate in 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We're also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc.. ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES Long & Short Paper submissions: Friday, 25 Sept. 2009, 11:59pm US PDT Long paper review notification: Monday, 2 November 2009 Rebuttal process starts Long paper rebuttals due: Monday, 9 November 2009 Rebuttal process ends Long and Short Paper final notification: Friday, 23 November 2009 Long & Short Paper camera-ready due: Friday, 11 December 2009 ************************************************************ Why submit to IUI? Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we're more willing to consider solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge, heuristics, and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding or gesture recognition. The IUI conference gives you a chance to present and to see work in an intimate, focused, no-nonsense event. It is large enough to be diverse and lively (we expect around 200 people), but small enough to avoid the circus-like atmosphere of conferences with thousands of people. The vast majority of the attendees are actively involved with conceiving and developing cutting-edge interfaces leading to a high and fast impact of research results presented at IUI. It brings together people from academics, industry, and nonprofits. As an ACM conference, papers appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. There will also be a journal publication path for selected papers. It's a single track conference, so you don't have to miss anything. And it's always in a beautiful place! ************************************************************ TOPICS OF INTEREST IUI topics include, but are not limited to: Processing of user input Processing and integration of multimodal input Natural language and speech processing Gesture and handwriting processing Generation of system output Smart visualization tools Intelligent generation of multimedia presentations Generation of situation-specific output (e.g., on mobile devices, wall-size displays, multi-touch screens, meeting accessibility criteria) Ubiquitous computing Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing Smart environments Help intelligent assistants for complex tasks Support for collaboration in multiuser environments Intelligent information and knowledge management Novel, intelligent interaction system Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces User-adaptivity in interactive systems Personalization and recommender systems Modeling and prediction of user behavior Planning and plan recognition IUI design Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction Example-based and demonstration-based interfaces User studies User studies concerning intelligent interfaces Evaluation methods and evaluations of implemented intelligent user interfaces [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 27 05:24:34 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 A671D335BB; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 037AA335B2; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090827052433.037AA335B2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.253 jobs: pre- & postdocs; fellowship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 253. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (22) Subject: Fellowship in Digital Community History: applications welcome [2] From: "Brey, Gerhard Andreas" (52) Subject: Predoctoral Fellowship at the MPI for the History of Science, Berlin [3] From: Ray Siemens (41) Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:53:23 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Fellowship in Digital Community History: applications welcome Fellowship in Digital Community History - please forward to interested students and colleagues Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage are seeking individuals to apply for a fellowship to direct the digital aspects of the Fox Point Community History Project. The digital fellow will work with faculty and staff in both the CDS and JNBC as well as other Brown faculty and students undertaking related work to develop an online public history resource that incorporates oral history, primary documents (photographs, letters, clippings), geospatial data, documentary film, statistical data and other materials. This multidimensional, interactive framework will provide avenues for both scholarly and public engagement. This fellowship is contingent upon funding from the NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers program (http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fdhc.html Interested individuals should provide a 2 page curriculum vitae as well as a statement of interest that provides an overview of relevant experience by September 5. Please submit applications and/or any questions to Patrick Yott, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship, at Patrick_Yott@brown.edu. More information at http://proteus.brown.edu/jnbc/819 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:28:06 +0100 From: "Brey, Gerhard Andreas" Subject: Predoctoral Fellowship at the MPI for the History of Science, Berlin > From: Jochen Schneider > Date: 26 August 2009 12:47:19 BST > To: Mersenne > Subject: Predoctoral Fellowship at the MPI for the History of > Science, Berlin > > The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept I (Prof. > Dr. Jürgen Renn), announces a two-year doctoral scholarship (with a > one-year renewal option) for an outstanding graduate student. > Applicants should submit a project proposal that addresses issues > raised in the context of the Archimedes Project. For more information: > > http://archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates > > This project consists of two main elements: an extensive corpus of > digitized sources on the history of mechanics and a series of > sophisticated computer tools that allow scholars to pursue research > requiring the thoughtful evaluation of large bodies of source > materials. Projects of interest may address technical terminology, > the historical reconstruction of lines of transmission, or similar > inquiries. We also welcome project proposals that relate to the > database on machine drawings (dmd) developed at our Institute. For > more information: > > http://dmd.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/home > > Applications may be submitted in German or English. The fellowship > should start preferably at the beginning of 2010. The monthly > stipend is 1365 € or 50% of the E13 (TVÖD) salary for research > scholars. > > Applicants should send the following materials by October 31, 2009: > > 1. Curriculum vitae > 2. A project outline (ca. 750 words) explaining how the digital > resources mentioned above will be employed in the candidate’s > doctoral thesis. > 3. List of publications, if applicable > > to > Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte > Abt. Personal - Predoc I > Boltzmannstr. 22 > 14195 Berlin > Germany > > or by e-mail to Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration: paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de > > The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped > people and especially encourages them to apply. The Max Planck > Society seeks to increase the number of women in areas of under- > representation. Applications from women are especially welcome. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:04:38 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on Information Management (2009-10, renewable) [Note: This position has re-opened. Please feel free to pass this message on to any suitable candidates.] The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in information management. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate will work closely with team members at U Victoria, the Digital Humanities Observatory, U Toronto, U Montreal, Nipissing U, U Alberta, McMaster U, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with production-focused and experimental corpora, datastores, and analytical technologies, collaborating with those associated with INKE's information management team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research, corpora, datastores, and computational analysis tools, including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related INKE 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 and similar 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 computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to etcl.apply@gmail.com . The contract can begin as early as Fall 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 27 05:26:05 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 55E2A33657; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3A1F3364E; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090827052603.F3A1F3364E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.254 books for a DH library? collaborative landscape? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 254. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (18) Subject: Digital Humanities - building up a library [2] From: "Bellamy, Craig" (32) Subject: Survey: Virtual Research Environment Collaborative Landscape Study --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:43:34 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Digital Humanities - building up a library Dear Humanists, if money was suddenly available how much would you be able to spend on printed Digital Humanities books? Which books would you buy? Your help is much appreciated. Elisabeth Burr ---------- Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:05:37 +0100 From: "Bellamy, Craig" Subject: Survey: Virtual Research Environment Collaborative Landscape Study With apologies for cross-postings. We invite you to participate in the VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project that is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in Virtual Research Environments (VREs). The focus of our study is to scope developments in VREs around the world and set them in relation to the activities in the UK. The study aims to stimulate debate about the benefits of research collaboration facilitated by Virtual Research Environments so as to assist the JISC to provide services and strategies to support it. The project is being undertaken by the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London and the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford. What is a VRE? "...a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices...." If you are a user, developer, or provide technical support for VREs, your input would be most welcome . http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/kcl/vrelandscape -- Dr Craig Bellamy Digital Humanist Centre for eResearch (CeRch) King's College, London ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 http://www.arts-humanities.net/project _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 29 07:11:52 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 4D80636065; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:11:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0D4136053; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:11:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090829071149.E0D4136053@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:11:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.255 saying everything X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 255. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:06:07 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: saying everything my favorite topics again, combined in a new way i think by two especially thoughtful commentators...i can't resist. first, Willard quotes some really fascinating statements of von Neumann, whose subtlety on these topics has rarely been matched even today: > >The first task that arises in dealing with any problem -- more > > specifically, with any function of the central nervous system -- is > > to formulate it unambiguously, to put it into words, in a rigorous > > sense. If a very complicated system -- like the central nervous > > system -- is involved, there arises the additional task of doing this > > "formulating," this "putting into words," with a number of words > > within reasonable limits -- for example, that can be read in a > > lifetime. This is the place where the real difficulty lies. > > > > In other words, I think that it is quite likely that one may give a > > purely descriptive account of the outwardly visible functions of the > > central nervous system in a humanly possible time. Unless I'm misreading, von Neumann's point is not what is happening IN the nervous system--it is providing a rigorous model of the operations of the nervous system, presumably based on the neural network results of McCulloch & Pitts (see the word "imitating" below) > >I suspect, however, that it will turn > > out to be much larger than the one that we actually possess. It is > > possible that it will prove to be too large to fit into the physical > > universe. What then? Haven't we lost the true problem in the process? Here is vN's first remarkably prescient comment, in my opinion. The rough computational approach to cognitive problems--to break it down into its 'most atomic' ingredients and then use combinatorial rules to implement a system of 'grammar'--entails an *explosion* of description because everything is not merely a pointer, but a "labeled" pointer--in Sausserian terms, a signified plus a signifer plus a 2nd-level signifier pointing at the first. And as you start to process these entities you end up adding 3rd-order labels, etc... Clearly the brain is not doing this--and in this rough sense but one I find consonant with other of vN's writing, the brain is not a computer, at least not in the typical sense of the word "computer." > > Thus the problem might better be viewed, not as one of imitating the > > functions of the central nervous system with just any kind of > > network, but rather as one of doing this with a network that will fit > > into the actual volume of the human brain. Or, better still, with one > > that can be kept going with our actual metabolistic "power supply" > > facilities, and that can be set up and organized by our actual > > genetic control facilities.... > > > > The problem, then, is How does the brain do all > > the things that it can do, in their full complexity? What are the > > principles of its organization? How does it avoid really serious, > > that is, lethal, malfunctions over periods that seem to average many > > decades? > > When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a > similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. > What do you suppose is that question? I'm not sure I know what you mean by "the problem of markup" here, Willard, but I'm inferring it's something like this: when approached with any sort of digital object, but particularly a textual object, what is our "ultimate" goal in marking it up? what are "all" the elements we need to mark up--what is the general schema according to which we do it? i have been posed this problem by people who should know better in the form: here is a poem on a page, now "mark it up." there is no comprehensive answer to this question. markup is not doing what language is doing, even if we believe cognition is using language altogether (which i find doubtful). the brain does not need to markup everything in the linguistic environment to "use" it, because that causes a computational explosion. So then Wendell replies: > Dear Willard, > > I am afraid that von Neumann's generalization is based on a false > assumption that problem-solving in the world must be like the > application of logical algorithms to abstract information processing. exactly--except that I hope vN's point is exactly yours, and even further, which is evident from other of vN's writing, that the brain is largely analog--that the abstract info processing model doesn't look like it's what the brain is doing "in reality," even if it can mimic many cognitive operations. > As a counter, I would offer the work of Andy Clark, whose amazing > book Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again > (1997), effectively refutes this entire premise and suggests many > other ways that minds (both "natural" and "artificial") might proceed > to work with the world, which do not entail such impossible notions > as complete and unambiguous problem specification. I can't paraphrase > the work adequately here. But the Wikipedia page on Clark does offer > a suggestive account. i could not agree more. note that Clark is a connectionist, deeply aware of and invested in research about and using technology, and in fact has a very recent and wonderful (maybe his best) book, Supersizing the Mind (Oxford 2008) which goes into an amazing amount of detail about technical augmentation of the mind, the very real and material ways in which "the mind" continues to reach outside of our heads, while completley resisting the Kurzweilian (and imo almost entirely inchoate) belief in the brain-as-computer, with its bizarre and (imo self-contradictory) consequence of "uploading ourselves." > I think the question is not how do we fully specify a problem and > avoid ambiguity, but rather, how do we take advantage of the > ambiguity that is inevitable and cultivate the ambiguity that is > useful? The answer lies somewhere in the neighborhood of "feedback" > and in the recognition that while markup has logical dimensions > especially in its application, the correct locus for a comprehensive > account of markup is not in logic but in rhetoric. so back to the "markup problem." i'll suggest that there is no problem, in a Wittgensteinian sense. markup is a kind of language game--a game with a set of rules, meaningful only with regard to the set of rules being invoked, and in that sense domain-, context- and use-specific. "mark up this poem to go in our archive of 18c English lyric": done and done--and relevant to the way we use language, but probably not to the way the actual neurons work "mark up this poem": give me a break David _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 29 07:20:24 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 8718E36142; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDFCA36131; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090829072021.EDFCA36131@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.256 events: ontology; iSchools; perception X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 256. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maeve Reilly (78) Subject: Call for Participation, iSchools Conference, Feb. 3-6, 2010 [2] From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" (34) Subject: CFP #2: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) [3] From: Claudia Knauber (31) Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Workshop on perception --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:13:29 -0500 From: Maeve Reilly Subject: Call for Participation, iSchools Conference, Feb. 3-6, 2010 Please forward widely. The Fifth Annual iConference, Feb. 3-6, 2010 at the University of Illinois, brings together scholars, professionals and students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working at the nexus of people, information and technology. The 2010 iConference theme addresses iMPACTS. As the Obama administration brings new potential for our field to affect change, particularly through investments in education, broadband and scientific research, it also is providing a moment for critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research, teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside our community. In this theme, we thus consider such questions as: What are the broad impacts (actual and potential) of the iSchool movement? How can impact be defined, identified, measured and communicated to key audiences? This Call for Participation solicits contributions that reflect on the core activities of the iSchool community, including research, design, methods and epistemologies, educational practices and engagement between the iSchools and wider constituencies both in the United States and abroad. Contributions are also solicited that reflect more broadly on complex interrelationships among people, information and technology in the iSociety, particularly those focusing on public and private sector settings. With invited speakers, paper and poster sessions, roundtables, wildcard sessions, workshops and ample opportunities for conversations and connections, the iConference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary and diverse research communities drawing on the interest and expertise of people across disciplinary and organizational boundaries. Sessions will feature completed and early cutting-edge work. The iConference will also include a doctoral student workshop and a mentoring session for untenured faculty and post-doctoral researchers. In addition to the conference theme, areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * IT infrastructure development and sustainability in the home, organizations, communities, society; * Diversity in the iSociety: inclusion of underrepresented groups—women, youth, the aging, people with disabilities, indigenous communities, racial and ethnic minorities, etc.; * Information behavior: theoretical, empirical and methodological advances in everyday life settings, eScience and eResearch, information literacy, etc.; * Information management: life cycle, personal information management, digital asset management, technologies of remembering and forgetting; * Digital libraries: preserving digital information, information quality, security and privacy; * Information organization: metadata, ontologies, the Semantic Web, social tagging; and/or * eGovernment: information policy, economics, ethics, law, technologies of privacy and trust; * Critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research, teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside of our community. Research Track The Associate Deans for Research of the iSchools are coordinating a special research track on "measuring research impact." The difficulty associated with measuring the impact of research efforts is not limited to information science. The key is to distinguish indicators/measures of outcomes and impacts from indicators/measures of inputs or resources expended. Papers submitted in this track could discuss: * Conceptual and theoretical to empirical and data driven research impacts; * Overview of the micro level (impact of individual researchers and contributions) to the meso (impact of individual communities or schools) to the macro (the impact of the iCaucus or the whole of information science research); and/or * The philosophy of measurement to the practical issues of conveying the significance of information science research to non-scientists. Example topics include: * Measuring and comparing the methods and effectiveness of cross-, inter-, or trans-disciplinary research with research within a particular discipline; * Bibliometric measures of impact; * Indicators of scholarly impact; and * Indicators of professional, social and policy impacts. Submission information and more at ischools.org. -- Maeve Reilly iSchools communications coordinator mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 ischools.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:02:12 +0100 From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" Subject: CFP #2: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) In-Reply-To: 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:35:45 +0100 From: Claudia Knauber Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Workshop on perception In-Reply-To: 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. Manfred Fahle (Universität Bremen/London) Dr. Frank Hofmann (Universität Tübingen) 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. 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 September 25 2009. Acceptance will be announced by October 1 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. v _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 1 05:10:57 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 4E31337DA6; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:10:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A7F137D80; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:10:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090901051051.8A7F137D80@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.257 job at Michigan X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 257. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:39:51 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Assistant Professor, Digital Environments, University of Michigan Program in American Culture Assistant Professor, Digital Environments University of Michigan Program in American Culture Ann Arbor DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS. As part of a cluster hire that involves similar hires in the Departments of English and Communication Studies, and the School of Information, the Program in American Culture (AC) at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track university-year assistant professorship in “Digital Environments” beginning September 1, 2010. Scholars examining all aspects of digital media are encouraged to apply. AC is interested in how new technologies and information cultures intersect with questions of migration, immigration, class, community, identity, political democracy, social networking, race, gender, projections of American power, and/or citizenship. Ph.D. required prior to employment. Candidates should send a letter of application and a placement dossier consisting of a curriculum vitae, writing sample, and at least three letters of recommendation in addition to a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence, and a statement of current and future research plans. Applications should be addressed to Chair, Digital Environments Search Committee, c/o Mary Freiman, Program in American Culture, 505 S. State Street, 3727 Haven Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045. Screening of applications will begin October 15, 2009 with plans to conduct interviews at the American Studies Association annual meeting in November 2009. Women and minority applicants are especially encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Contact Info: Applications should be addressed to: Chair, Digital Environments Search Committee c/o Mary Freiman UMich Program in American Culture 505 S. State Street 3727 Haven Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:02:10 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 1CFB33623E; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:02:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5FAC36228; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:02:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090902050206.E5FAC36228@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:02:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.258 saying everything X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 258. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.249 saying everything that needs to be said? Willard Inspired by John von Neumann you invite us to meditate on the activity of marking up as a path towards a theory of textual computing: When you drive the problem of markup to its breaking point, isn't a similar realisation to be had -- that the real question is being missed. What do you suppose is that question? In approaching this question, would we benefit from a history of the types of markup and the ways document instances are validated. [COCOA Markup, SGML and DTDs, XML and schema]? The succession of types of markup represent different ways of reading. They also make different demands on memory. It would be interesting to trace the succession of various types of markup with the technical advances in available memory to process text. However, I am suggesting a different tack that need not lead us into the shoals of techno-determinism. I am suggesting that markup prepares the way for an emulation of human reading with all its contingencies and vagaries. The time of reading has, in narratological studies, been approached as a difference between narrating time and narrated time. The narrating time has been measured in pages and lines. Other measurements are possible based on other ways of segmenting a document instance. Markup provides the segmenting. The machine can then be instructed to process the segments in the context of a uniform unfolding of time. However as theorists have recognized, the Lesetempo of actual readers does not unfold uniformly. Reading time is composed of starts and halting and variable speeds. It is possible through markup to incorporate processing instructions into a document instance. Through such processing instructions one can cause the appropriate program to select a variable that affects the speed of traversal for a given set of segments. Consider this if you will as a design for trip wires. Of course such behaviour can be achieved as part of the processing software and not through markup or in the document instance. The advantage of using the processing instruction in the markup is that we are given a human-readable trace -- the markup acts like pseudo-code. I raise this example because markup is usually considered as a description of a textual instance. The resources for embedding processing instructions provide an opportunity for commenting upon the traversal of a given description. In a sense then any markup whether it is an explicit processing instruction or not is about a hoped for processing. The question then becomes can we align the markup and the machine to create surprise. The aim of markup is not simply to create a description and invoke a predictable processing. It can be used to model the contingent. For more on machines, emulation and how instructions and descriptions are isomorphic , see Linkname: Sense: Emulations URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4.HTM -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-largehttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:05:23 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 6F7C536326; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AFD0B3631E; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:05:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090902050521.AFD0B3631E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:05:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.259 postdoc in language technologies at CELCT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 259. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:02:04 +0100 From: Ido Dagan Subject: FW: Post-doc grants at CELCT FYI – CELCT is the major evaluation center for language technologies in Europe. I had very good experience with them in running the textual entailment challenges. Ido Dagan ________________________________ From: Oliviero Stock [mailto:stock@fbk.eu] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:52 PM To: Ido Dagan; Shuly Wintner Cc: Emanuele PiantaVeronica Giordano (CELCT secretary) - e-mail: vegiordani@celct.it _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 2 05:06:17 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 29837363B8; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:06:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EC56363B0; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090902050614.9EC56363B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.260 beliefs behind method? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 260. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:28:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: belief behind method The following is from Soshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (New York: Basic Books, 1984), p. 423: > Behind every method lies a belief. Researchers must have a theory of > reality and of how that reality might surrender itself to their > knowledge-seeking efforts. These epistemological fundamentals are > subject to debate but not to ultimate proof. Each epistemology > implies a set of methods uniquely suited to it, and these methods > will render the qualities of data that reflect a researcher's > assessment of what is vital. I believe that researchers ought to > indicate something about their beliefs, so that readers can have > access to the intellectual choices that are embedded in the research > effort. So what are our epistemologically relevant beliefs about the objects we study? 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 Sep 2 05:07:51 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 0369436472; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE2FB36445; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:07:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090902050748.EE2FB36445@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:07:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.261 cfp: special issue on interactive experiences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 261. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:27:19 +0100 From: Teresa Romão Subject: cfp: IJART Special Issue on "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments" International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) Call For papers Special Issue on: "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments" (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1232) Guest Editors: Prof. Teresa Romão and Prof. Nuno Correia, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Novel interaction techniques and devices provide users with new experiences, which may have impact on their feelings, behaviors, knowledge acquisition process, performance and/or enjoyment. Innovative multimedia and augmented reality environments push the user interface beyond the digital into new physical and social contexts, affording a variety of dynamic, context-dependent and also subjective user experiences. Currently, there is an immense interest in user experience (UX) in academia and industry. This special issue invites contributions which report original interactive experiences in multimedia and augmented reality environments. Subject Coverage This special issue aims at publishing papers that provide a clear and comprehensive view of the state of the art in interactive experiences in multimedia and augmented environments. The main topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to the following areas of study: • User experience design and evaluation • Digital games and entertainment • Tangible interfaces • Augmented reality applications • Smart objects • Digital art and storytelling • Mobile and ubiquitous computing • Persuasive technologies • New output modalities, devices and interactions Deadline for full paper submission: 4 November, 2009 Review results returned to authors: 20 February, 2010 Deadline for camera-ready papers: 20 April, 2010 Editors and Notes You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following: Prof. Dr. Teresa Romão Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Sciences and Technology New University of Lisbon Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Tel: +351 212948536 E-mail: tir@di.fct.unl.pt Prof. Dr Nuno Correia Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Sciences and Technology New University of Lisbon Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Tel: +351 212948536 E-mail: nmc@di.fct.unl.pt with a copy to: Editorial Office E-mail: editorial@inderscience.com Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest 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 Wed Sep 2 05:08:22 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 5091A364FE; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:08:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6D0E364AA; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:08:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090902050818.A6D0E364AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:08:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.262 events: LLCC at 45 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 262. 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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: Stan Ruecker (91) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ [2] From: Willard McCarty (55) Subject: where's the fire? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:28:27 -0600 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.242 yet another BBQ In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I sometimes turn for solace, as I'm sure others do, to Lewis Thomas, who so cleverly brought public attention to any number of useful insights in the 1970s. I'd like to quote him here on the subject of the rightful business of science, which I realize is not quite what we all think of ourselves as doing, but nonetheless it has a certain inspirational quality, especially if you read it, as I did, by substituting "digital humanities" wherever he says "science." "The essential wildness of science as a manifestation of human behavior is not generally perceived. As we extract new things of value from it, we also keep discovering parts of the activity that seem in need of better control, more efficiency, less unpredictability. We’d like to pay less for it and get our money’s worth on some more orderly, businesslike schedule…. It needs thinking about. There is an almost ungovernable, biologic mechanism at work in scientific behavior at its best, and this should not be overlooked. The difficulties are more conspicuous when the problems are very hard and complicated and the facts not yet in. Solutions cannot be arrived at for problems of this sort until the science has been lifted through a preliminary, turbulent zone of outright astonishment. Therefore, what must be planned for, in the laboratories engaged in the work, is the totally unforeseeable. If it is centrally organized, the system must be designed primarily for the elicitation of disbelief and the celebration of surprise." Thomas, Lewis. “Natural Science” in *The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.* NY: Penguin Books Ltd, 1974. p. 100. yrs, Stan Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 242. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: boredom comes with maturity? > > Dear colleagues, > > Here's a question for you. It came to me while I was gazing at the > announcement of the Panjab Digital Library and another announcement, of > a printed publication containing nothing directly, or even indirectly as > far as I could tell, about computing. I found myself questioning the > decision to circulate the former but not the latter. > > Have we reached the point, I wonder, at which the once new is now so > commonplace that it's no longer interesting? Of course someone who is > already interested in Panjab literature and culture will want to know > about this digital library, but failing that interest, and immediate > evidence that the makers have done something technically and/or formally > new, is it something you'd like to see? > > Please note: I am not asking for personal likes and dislikes, which are > not the business of this group. I'm asking, rather, about a possible > stage of development that we may have reached, a kind of maturity, in > which to be noticed formally a digital object has to possess certain > properties reflecting a degree of technical progress. Some time ago > there was a comment about conference papers in the digital humanities > being less than riveting, being (I think it was) rather more reports > from the factory floor than intellectual wake-up calls. Since I think > that staying awake is important, I am paying rather alot of attention to > this latest jolt. > > In his paper for the Hixon Symposium (1948), "Why the Mind is in the > Head", Warren McCulloch expressed it this way: > >> When we run to catch a baseball we run not toward it but toward the >> place where it will be when we get there to grab it. This requires >> prediction.... The earmark of every predictive circuit is that if it >> has operated long uniformly it will persist in activity, or >> overshoot; otherwise it could not project regularities from the known >> past onto the unknown future. That is what, as a scientist, I dread >> most, for as our memories become stored, we become creatures of our >> yesterdays – mere has-beens in a changing world. This leaves no room >> for learning. > > We're not running to catch baseballs, but we are developing, quite > successfully, habitual behaviours and standard products. While I do take > the argument about standards etc., I worry about research in this > utilitarian age sunk to its bottom line. I worry about what happens when > one reaches a promised land, buys a house in suburbia and settles in. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:41:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: where's the fire? In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear colleagues, You may recall some time back an assertion I reported to you that our conference papers are dull, lacking in the zip-zap of fundamental questioning. Since then, from three other, separate sources I have heard similar things. Most recently it was from a member of a national committee deliberating on what to do about our sort of work officially, i.e. how to begin concerted efforts in it. This assertion I take more seriously because a committee of government, with funding I would suppose, is poised to act but is questioning how to do so, what flavour to support from those on offer or dreamt of. The particular statement of discontent I received had reached the point of discriminating between (a) work that comprises merely implementation of pre-existing stuff in service of research interests coming from elsewhere, and (b) genuine research, i.e. into the unknown, for purposes originating with the researcher him-/herself -- recognizing that the self in question may be plural and so collaboratively constituted. It seemed to be the judgement of this committee that what usually gets done in our shop is of the first rather than the second kind, and so the committee in question was looking in the direction of computer science for inspiration. My response was to make a further distinction between what's done in CS and what's done in humanities computing, which is to say, I argued that the latter exists and does genuine research. You may well regard the analysis on which I report to have mistaken what we mostly do for what we are attempting to be seen not to do. In that, more charitable case, there's something seriously wrong with how we represent our work. How is it that someone could think all we're doing is to put in a day's labour on the assembly line? What are we doing wrong, or not doing? My own guess is that we're falling down by failing to communicate the genuine research we're doing in such a way that it can be understood *as research*. We don't sport the label of a *science*, and so no one will come to what we do with a flattering assumption about it. There may also be a problem for us with the label that seems now to have taken over, i.e. "digital humanities". It comfortably convers anything a humanist does involving digital stuff, most of which isn't research except in the field of application, if there. So blanketing everything we do is a thick, muffling carpet of trivial applications dressed up in trendy colours. It certainly doesn't help that yet again we're told that since quite soon everything in the humanities will be digital, the term is more or less tautological and us specialists are reaching our point of professional obsolescence -- though some will continue to be needed to do the XML equivalent of fix the printer. What can we point to that is both intellectually exciting and not the property of computer science? How would you attract an intellectually exciting person who wanted to do his or her own research (as opposed to get a job doing someone else's)? Have we forgotten what it is to be ourselves excited by the radiant energy of our primary materials? 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 Sep 3 05:01:55 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 171B238451; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:01:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F22FD38441; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:01:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090903050152.F22FD38441@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:01:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.264 BBQ and fire X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 264. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Øyvind_Eide (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire,or the joy of negative entropy [2] From: Sterling Fluharty (229) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy [3] From: Shane Landrum (82) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:18:51 +0200 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire,or the joy of negative entropy > -- > [2 > ]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:41:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: where's the fire? > In-Reply-To: <20090821054656.C55A434C3E@woodward.joyent.us> > > Dear colleagues, > [...] > There may also be a problem for us with the label that seems now to > have > taken over, i.e. "digital humanities". It comfortably convers > anything a > humanist does involving digital stuff, most of which isn't research > except in the field of application, if there. So blanketing everything > we do is a thick, muffling carpet of trivial applications dressed up > in > trendy colours. It certainly doesn't help that yet again we're told > that > since quite soon everything in the humanities will be digital, the > term > is more or less tautological and us specialists are reaching our point > of professional obsolescence -- though some will continue to be needed > to do the XML equivalent of fix the printer. > > What can we point to that is both intellectually exciting and not the > property of computer science? How would you attract an intellectually > exciting person who wanted to do his or her own research (as opposed > to > get a job doing someone else's)? Have we forgotten what it is to be > ourselves excited by the radiant energy of our primary materials? I sometimes wonder about my arguments for doing my work in Digital Humanities and not somewhere else. I build computer tools to help me doing my research, but if I needed wooden tools to assist me, I would make them as well. Would I then call my research Wooden Humanities? Or starting from the term Humanities Computing, Humanities Carpentry? Maybe what I am doing is cross-thematic or general humanities research. Because that does not exits in the organisations relevant to me, or in my mind, I go where I find a structure for it - Humanities Computing. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:44:13 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy Willard, I suspect the work of scholars in computer science counts of "research" for two reasons: 1) it follows a long tradition of abstract, logical, and mathematical theorizing, and 2) it is often an interdisciplinary enterprise that transforms and extends the methodologies of the disciplines it engages. If scholars in the digital humanities or humanities computing wish to have their work similarly counted as research, they need to either stress the theoretical nature of their research and/or actually create new methodologies for humanistic disciplines. And I don't believe the pursuit of applications needs to be perceived as a weakness in DH/HC. It seems to me that there exists a healthy synergy between the production of applications and the pursuit of theoretical inquiry in CS. CS didn't vanish or lose its identity when large numbers of mathematicians, economists, physicists, linguists, and cognitive scientists incorporated computational methods into their research. DH/HC has a chance to stick around if it sets its own research agenda and becomes the pacesetter in the humanities. Some disciplines (like education and math) spend a lot of their time serving other disciplines; I don't think CS is beholden to other disciplines and I am not sure how wise it is for DH/HC to serve the interests of the traditional humanities overlords. Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:03:08 -0400 From: Shane Landrum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.263 the BBQ and the fire, or the joy of negative entropy Willard wrote: > What can we point to that is both intellectually exciting and not the > property of computer science? How would you attract an intellectually > exciting person who wanted to do his or her own research (as opposed to > get a job doing someone else's)? Have we forgotten what it is to be > ourselves excited by the radiant energy of our primary materials? I can hardly generalize about such questions, but a personal narrative (by way of introduction) may shed some light on your question. Probably like many on this list, I have an unusual background for a humanities Ph.D.: an undergraduate double-major in computer science and American studies. After half a decade of being a software engineer in the early dot-com boom (c.1998-2004), I went for a history Ph.D. partially because of reasons you mention: I wanted to do my own work rather than be someone else's tool of production. Also, I love working with primary sources-—particularly the letters and personal-papers collections that are staples of US women's/gender/sexuality history. I'm currently finishing a dissertation that straddles a bunch of historical subfields-- legal/political history, women/gender/sexuality, public health, history of technology. My use of fulltext searching in newspaper archives lets me answer some hard and interesting questions. If the research funding I've received is any indication, people find the project "intellectually exciting." I think I'm a kind of person that "digital humanities" as a specialty/community wants to attract, but I'm a latecomer for a few different reasons: 1) Scarcity of available formal training or mentoring. In graduate school, I've received excellent training within my discipline. On the other hand, "digital methods for historians" isn't something one can just take a class in anywhere, and I wasn't in a position to pick and choose a graduate program just because of the program's (or a single faculty member's) reputation for doing interesting digital-methods work. Like most technologists, I can RTFM all day long if I need to know how software works, but autodidacticism has its limits. 2) Limited time/funding for digital work at the graduate level. I'd love to be doing more digitally-intensive work with my sources-—in particular, a major publicly-accessible collection of women's history materials which I use extensively-—but I'm busy trying to write a dissertation in a limited time with limited funding. Most of my digital materials are photographs of archival materials--largely letters and government documents. I've spent substantial time developing my own ways of filing and adding rudimentary metadata to thousands of JPGs and PDFs. Mostly, I've made things up as I go along, because nothing I've found online has offered more than generalized suggestions. This issue-—how to manage gigabytes of personal photographs of archival materials-- is something that trips up *every single historian* I've talked to about it. The Center for History and New Media at GMU is doing some amazing work, but Zotero isn't the right tool for everything. Consumer-level photo management software (affordable by graduate students) isn't either. My Americanist-historian peers are comfortable with a whole range of online archival materials-- with metadata and search systems built by someone else-- but we don't have easy access to training or best-practices descriptions on how to build our own metadata-based filing systems. For the intellectual questions I want to ask about my sources, tags aren't good enough. I'd happily build a tool that does what I think I want in this regard, but there's only so much time in a day. 3) The spectre of tenure lurking in the distance. Students at top graduate programs usually want to aim for tenure-track faculty positions, which are scarce to begin with. Once we get a position, the three pillars of tenure--teaching, research, and service-- don't leave much room for spending 20 hours a week hacking on software tools. (I could make an argument that open-source software development is a valid form of service, but it's not as visible within a department as sitting on a faculty committee.) I can't imagine any faculty member having time to teach even 2 classes, work on her own humanities-discipline research, and participate in a community-run software project to any substantial degree. (At least not with any degree of work-life balance, but that's already an issue with faculty careers.) If there are alternative career paths that are specific to the digital humanities--positions which combine technology/toolsmithing with one's own research-— then graduate students and undergraduates need to know about them far enough in advance to seek training in both a humanities discipline and computer science. Also, the opportunities need to be there in enough quantity to be visible on H-Net and other major jobs lists. Otherwise, I think, Willard's "intellectually exciting" people will tend to fall out of the digital humanities pipeline, whether towards private-sector software engineering or towards a more traditional humanities faculty path. Shane Landrum Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis 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 Fri Sep 4 08:22:08 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 AF30A374E1; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 793B8374D2; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:22:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090904082207.793B8374D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:22:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.265 BBQ and fire X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 265. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:03:38 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.264 BBQ and fire In-Reply-To: <20090903050152.F22FD38441@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, This thread reflects a familiar anxiety that afflicts this list like a bad knee. But I think to critique the label as problematic (be it "digital humanities", "humanities computing" or anything else you might imagine) misses the point that *any* label will be problematic as long as it is burdened with the task of justifying one's work, in a label, to those who are skeptical of it. For that, any label will do, or none, since what passes for justification is not in the label itself or what it ("literally") denotes, but in the aura it brings with it. A glamorous aura can be useful and I suppose we all want to be glamorous. But it is treacherous. Ten or more years ago, I decided that the institutional suspicion of "digital humanities" (or "humanities computing" as it then was) had nothing to do with what we were doing, the legitimacy or interest of it or lack thereof. It was (is) simply a structural problem. In a system where resources (budgets, faculty lines) are constrained and the organization is pyramidal (more pawns than knights, only one king), win/win games are hard to find, and discriminations have to be made: there will always be someone who is not hired or whose work isn't supported. But since to discuss this is taboo, reasons have to be offered for excluding someone or something. If the something is at all threatening to the status quo, there's a reason to find a reason. And by its nature, any pursuit will be threatening that threatens disciplinary boundaries (raising questions of integrity and control), or that calls on talents or skills or interests different from those that a discipline has hitherto cultivated. To the digitally uneasy academic, to say "digital humanities is important" is to suggest that what he does may be less so, and there's a threat. On the other hand, to say to a theory-steeped literary critic that archives might be interesting, or pedagogy, or close reading, or anything at all that falls outside the domain of her theory-making, might also be to make a threat despite oneself, even allowing that there is also theory of archives and pedagogy and close reading. So it's not really about "digital humanities" at all. Accordingly, and not looking forward to a career trying to find common ground with those who thought of me as a threat, I dealt with this by finding a line of work where it wasn't an issue, where I didn't have to run a gauntlet of justifying myself constantly and at intervals. The consulting business is sustainable only because (and as long as) there are organizations out there to whom our work is valuable enough that they are willing to pay us up front to do it. The work is justified before I'm ever hired. So I don't have to fight those battles. Note that this doesn't mean that the problem isn't there. It just alters the structure of the calculation, putting the question "is the work worth it" up front. The gauntlet is still there: it's just that the client and I get through it mostly before I ever hear about it. There is usually a bidding process, but after that we're done, and by the time the work itself starts we are committed together to its success. I still face the problem of defining work that is both valuable to others and interesting and satisfying to me, but fortunately that hasn't proven to be very difficult. You see, much as academics might doubt it, the work of "digital humanities" is actually both very valuable and very interesting in the world at large, especially when you reduce confusion and placate anxieties by taking the label off. Now, I don't believe this solution is available within the academic context, which is structured as it's structured. On the other hand, it does suggest something about the outlines of the problem. I think that if a dean or a tenure committee is asking "is the work of Assistant Professor X worth it?", the battle is already lost. There's little or nothing Prof X can do, since it amounts to a popularity contest, and the very possibility that the answer is "no" hangs in the air. And of course the same thing is true of casual conversations in the hallways about projects or research initiatives. Accordingly, the solution to Prof X's problem is not to have an answer to the question "why is your work important?". The question must already have been answered, and the dean and the tenure committee should *already know* the work is important. How Prof X brings that about is less a matter of influencing the dean or faculty directly, than it is of bringing about change in the intellectual climate and culture such that the dean and faculty are already convinced, first, that the work is complementary and consistent with their own commitments and goals, not a threat or even a diversion, and secondly, that it has a constituency, and is valued by the interests that they themselves serve. It won't raise doubts among those themselves answer to, but instead will strengthen them. Ideally, of course, this is done by having made a commitment long ago that has created such a constituency. "Let's have a department where we study English novels and poetry." A label like "digital humanities" can be a rallying point for a sort of PR campaign, but the point isn't ultimately PR: it's a problem of demonstrating value and of including people in such a way that they become that constituency. Indeed, if the effort is treated like PR, it is likely to run its course, and any label will eventually become a liability. This year's fashion is next year's object of satire. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 4 08:23:12 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 427B737543; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:23:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3839F37531; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:23:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090904082309.3839F37531@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:23:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.266 new on WWW: on arts-humanities.net X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 266. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:42:13 +0100 From: "Reimer, Torsten" Subject: new on arts-humanities.net arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. Join over a thousand individual members, a dozen expert centres and various projects. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ arts-humanities.net gives you access to a wide range of resources, including an extensive catalogue of digital arts and humanities projects; a calendar of workshops, conferences and other events; a taxonomy of research methods for creating digital resources; and other materials such as a bibliography, case studies and briefing papers. Registered members can use the site to feature their own research; blog and discuss issues with others; and search a directory of over 1,100 members. We also provide customisable email updates on new content and news from the community. FEATURED: EVENTS CALENDAR The events calendar lists about 100 upcoming events related to the digital arts and humanities. You can also access an archive of several hundred past events. We provide a RSS feeds and an iCal feed that you can plug directly into your calendar or website. http://www.arts-humanities.net/events http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/ical/ FEATURED PROJECT Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) The project aims to assemble an online corpus of all the material gathered by Prof Joyce Reynolds during her numerous visits to Libya. The project consists in the digitisation of some 2000 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica, nearly a third of which have never previously been published. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_roman_cyrenaica_ircyr OTHER NEW PROJECTS Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/integrating_digital_papyrology_idp Inscriptions of Aphrodisias http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_aphrodisias NEW USER GROUPS Digital Classicist The Digital Classicist is a community interested in the application of innovative digital digital methods to research on the ancient world. http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist Social Software in the Digital Humanities A group that discusses the theoretical and practical application of social software within the digital humanities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/deliberative_humanism_social_software_digital_humanities FORUM / DISCUSSIONS DRHA 2009 meet and greet Meet some of the delegates of the DRHA 2009 conference and learn about their interests, projects and activities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/drha_2009_meet_greet Discussing Digital Humanities 2009 A live-blog from the DH09 conference in June 2009. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 arts-humanities.net is hosted by the Centre for e-Research at King's College London and is developed in collaboration with several groups and projects, including the UK Network of Expert Centres. It is funded by the JISC. -- Dr. Torsten Reimer Development Manager http://www.arts-humanities.net Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ +44 (0)20 7848 2019 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 4 08:24:33 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 1389A375F6; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82A28375EE; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:24:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090904082430.82A28375EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:24:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.267 events: handwriting & editing; transforming culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 267. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (43) Subject: Kzoo 2010: CFP Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing [2] From: Ivo Volt (87) Subject: Transforming culture in the digital age: CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:39:04 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: Kzoo 2010: CFP Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing *FINAL REMINDER, DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 15* The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009. See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:15:12 +0100 From: Ivo Volt Subject: Transforming culture in the digital age: CFP Dear list, I pass on the CFP for an international conference that will take place in April 2010. I hope at least some of you find this inreresting. I'm not one of the organizers, so please refer to the conference home page for any further information. Best regards, Ivo Volt University of Tartu, Estonia ---------------------------------- Transforming culture in the digital age Call for papers Tartu, Estonia, 14-16 April, 2010 http://www.transforminculture.eu Increasingly, we see new forms of culture being born in the variety of online environments. Users have become producers taking over production of online content and traditional hierarchies of users and producers are collapsing. At the same time, traditional memory institutions like museums, archives, libraries and acknowledged artists struggle to make sense of the transformations that are coming together with new technologies. In this interdisciplinary conference we aim to look at the questions as how such developments influence culture - how is culture transformed in the digital age with a specific focus on the intersection of individuals and institutions. We hope to look at the notion of culture and transformations of the cultural heritage through a variety of disciplines ranging from arts and history to heritage studies and from museum studies to sociology and from media and literature studies to archival studies. The conference calls for variety of people both researchers and practitioners to discuss and analyze how digital culture is produced and consumed both in traditional and new forms. CONFERENCE THEMES I ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL IN THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION 1. Changing User · User, consumer, creator, producer? · User as a creator of the content · Role of the user in the heritage world · Cultural participation · Using globalised content · Global or local user practices? · Digital libraries and user preferences · User in the archives: practices and expectations · Museum collections in the hand of the visitor 2. Re-Mediating Personal Memory · New forms of storytelling and expression · Blogging your own history · Digital photos and videos as part of self · Re-imaging self in the digital age II CULTURAL MEMORY AND MEMORY INSTITUTIONS 3. Rewriting Cultural Memory · Rewriting the histories of arts · Changing hierarchies: canon, centre and periphery · New cultural history and the reception strategies · Role of the audiovisual archives · Archive as a creator of the content of memory · Digital resources of the cultural memory 4. Cultural Heritage · Questioning and interpreting the concept of heritage · From national to global: collections as a determining power · Collecting heritage today · The role and the future of the original · Future perspectives on different memory institutions · Making digital content available · Cultural heritage and Web 2.0 strategy III LANGUAGE OF ART 5. Digital Literature · The perspectives of digital literature · Hypertext and cybertext theory · Author and the cyberspace · Reader and the cyberspace · Electronic poetry and electronic narratives · Blogging and literature · Fan culture in Internet · Creating new canons: questioning the borders of literature 6. Digital Art · Digital creativity · Immaterial art and real artists · Creativity in surveillance environment · Artworks between locations · New media art and problems of reception · Digital art and authorship · New media art education For participating: please submit a 500-word abstract with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker (mailing address & email address) through conference website. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 5 07:35:38 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 3318E38CF6; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:35:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 231E338CE4; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:35:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090905073535.231E338CE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:35:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.268 BBQ and fire X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 268. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:21:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.265 BBQ and fire In-Reply-To: <20090904082207.793B8374D2@woodward.joyent.us> I agree with your final paragraph, Wendell, but don't with much of what leads up to it. Budgets for the study of humanities are already in place. They're being cut, but they're there. And yes, it's perfectly legitimate to ask if a professor's work is "worth it." That's what the tenure review process is for. An answer of "no" is sometimes possible and, sometimes, required. Hiring someone doesn't mean you're obligated to grant him/her tenure, so it doesn't mean your obligated to accept every proposal. Here, as elsewhere, asking for -additional- budget money requires that the request be justified within the context of the institution's goals, mission, strengths, etc. I agree that digital humanities is a good thing. That does not mean every single institution needs to directly fund its development just because someone has an idea. Jim R > A label like "digital humanities" can be a rallying point for a sort > of PR campaign, but the point isn't ultimately PR: it's a problem of > demonstrating value and of including people in such a way that they > become that constituency. Indeed, if the effort is treated like PR, > it is likely to run its course, and any label will eventually become > a liability. This year's fashion is next year's object of satire. > > Cheers, > Wendell > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com > Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >   Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML -- James Rovira Tiffin 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 Sep 5 07:36:41 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 50C5D38D66; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7770D38D5D; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090905073639.7770D38D5D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:36:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.269 new on WWW: TL Infobits for August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 269. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:46:01 +0100 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2009 TL INFOBITS August 2009 No. 38 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 at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Report on Online Education Study Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools Mashups Study Finds that Online Education Beats the Classroom Future of Scholarly Publishing Recommended Reading ...................................................................... REPORT ON ONLINE EDUCATION STUDY "More than one-third of public university faculty have taught an online course while more than one-half have recommended an online course to students . . . . In addition, nearly 64 percent of faculty said it takes 'somewhat more' or 'a lot more' effort to teach online compared to a face-to-face course. However, a large majority of faculty cited student needs as a primary motivator for teaching online, most commonly citing 'meet student needs for flexible access' or the 'best way to reach particular students' as the reason they choose to teach online courses." The two-part report, "Online Learning as a Strategic Asset," published by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, summarizes the results of the APLU-Sloan National Commission on Online Learning Benchmarking Study conducted in 2008 and 2009 that surveyed 45 public institutions across the U.S. The study was "designed to illuminate how public institutions develop and implement the key organizational strategies, processes, and procedures that contribute to successful and robust online learning initiatives." Volume I: "A Resource for Campus Leaders" reports the results of 231 interviews conducted with administrators, faculty, and students on online learning programs and initiatives. http://www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=1877 Volume II: "The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences with Online Learning" reports on the results of a survey of over 10,700 faculty respondents which included a mix of tenure and non-tenure track, full- and part-time, and those who have and those who have not taught online. http://www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=1879 The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), formerly the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), was founded in 1887 and represents 186 public research universities in the United States. For more information, contact: APLU, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005-4722 USA; tel: 202-478-6040; fax: 202-478-6046; Web: http://www.aplu.org/ Articles providing an overview and summary of the study: "Strong Faculty Engagement in Online Learning APLU Reports" A PUBLIC VOICE: APLU'S ONLINE NEWSLETTER, August 31, 2009 http://www.aplu.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1347 "Going For Distance" INSIDE HIGHER ED, August 31, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/31/survey "Professors Embrace Online Courses Despite Qualms About Quality" THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, August 31, 2009 http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-Embrace-Online/48235/ ...................................................................... TEACHING WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS MASHUPS "It would be foolish to ignore the tremendous opportunities the Social Web offers to education. Societal growth is profoundly dependent upon the success of teaching and learning. Societies are founded on the propagation and dissemination of knowledge, and formal learning has become the prime gateway to knowledge. Teachers should therefore continue to explore new and dynamic ways of providing excellent pedagogical opportunities, with emerging social software tools assuming greater importance." In "Learning Space Mashups: Combining Web 2.0 Tools to Create Collaborative and Reflective Learning Spaces" (FUTURE INTERNET, vol. 1, no. 1, 2009, pp. 3-13), Steve Wheeler reports on two studies "where tools [wikis and blogs] used for different pedagogical purposes were brought together in combinations to create even more dynamic and interactive experiences for learners." Students in the studies viewed the wiki as a community collaboration space and the blog as their personal reflective space. Wheeler argues that, despite the differences in the two tools, such "mashups" of Web 2.0 tools warrant further research. The paper is available at http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/1/1/3/pdf Future Internet [ISSN 1999-5903], a quarterly Open Access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, is published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI). For more information, contact: Future Internet Editorial Office, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Kandererstrasse 25, CH - 4057, Basel, Switzerland; tel: +41 61 683 77 34; fax: +41 61 302 89 18; email: futureinternet@mdpi.org; Web: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet ...................................................................... STUDY FINDS THAT ONLINE EDUCATION BEATS THE CLASSROOM "Earlier studies of distance learning concluded that these technologies were not significantly different from regular classroom learning in terms of effectiveness. Policy-makers reasoned that if online instruction is no worse than traditional instruction in terms of student outcomes, then online education initiatives could be justified on the basis of cost efficiency or need to provide access to learners in settings where face-to-face instruction is not feasible. The question of the relative efficacy of online and face-to-face instruction needs to be revisited, however, in light of today’s online learning applications, which can take advantage of a wide range of Web resources, including not only multimedia but also Web-based applications and new collaboration technologies." The U.S. Department of Education's report, "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies" (2009), provides a summary of a literature search of more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning published from 1996 through July 2008. Analysis of these studies found that "on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." The report is available at http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf As a publication of the U.S. government, the report is in the public domain; authorization to reproduce this report in whole or in part is granted. ...................................................................... FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING In 2006, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) created a task force to assist in "exploring issues related to scholarly journal publishing in [U.S.] humanities and social science (HSS) associations." Each of the eight collaborating associations selected a representative journal for detailed review. Among the study's findings was that "a shift to an entirely new funding model in the pure form of Open Access (author/producer pays) in which the costs of publishing research articles in journals are paid for by authors or a funding agency, and readers have access free online, is not currently a sustainable option for any of this group of journals based on the costs provided." The report of the study, "The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations," is available at http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf Founded in 1981, the National Humanities Alliance is a non-profit organization to "advance national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation and public programs." For more information, contact: National Humanities Alliance, 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-296-4994; fax: 202-872-0884; Web: http://www.nhalliance.org/ See also: "Reinventing Academic Publishing Online. Part I: Rigor, Relevance and Practice" by Brian Whitworth and Rob Friedman FIRST MONDAY, vol. 14, no. 8, August 3, 2009 http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2609/2248 "While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding 'top' academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration." ...................................................................... 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. "Perishing Without Publishing" By Rob Weir INSIDE HIGHER ED, August 12, 2009 http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/instant_mentor/weir11 "As one who has served (and is serving) as an associate editor for actual paper journals, let me share some bad practice observations that could sandbag your career -- and this advice almost all applies to any online peer-reviewed journal too." -- Rob Weir "How to Generate Reader Interest in What You Write" By Philip Yaffe UBIQUITY, June 23 - 29, 2009 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i7_yaffe.html " Unfortunately, most would-be authors cling to the myth that if they just put in enough effort, people will automatically want to read what they write." -- Philip Yaffe ...................................................................... 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 Sat Sep 5 07:50:41 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 139EE38F3D; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B2CB38F2D; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:50:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090905075039.1B2CB38F2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:50:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.270 events: NEH Summer Institute on networking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 270. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:30:07 -0700 From: Annelie Rugg Subject: NEH Institute at UCLA, Summer 2010 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1252099819_2009-09-04_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_19865.2.octet-stream Dear Humanists, I am attaching an announcement and call for applications for "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities", a summer 2010 institute to be hosted by UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and Center for Digital Humanities (CDH). This is an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. Deadline for applications is November 5, 2009. For more information email: hum2010@ipam.ucla.edu. Sincerely, Annelie Rugg -- Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO UCLA Center for Digital Humanities [To get to the document to which the above URL points, you have two choices: (1) use this URL to download the file, then rename it with a .pdf extension and go from there; OR (2) simply go to http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/hum2010/. I recommend the latter. --WM] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 6 08:07:05 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 0893A38ED4; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:07:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB73238EC8; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:07:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090906080702.BB73238EC8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:07:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.271 BBQ and fire (on the knee) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 271. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:06:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: not a bad knee In reply to Wendell's Humanist 23.269: my point about which label we use amounts to the argument that words have meaning, and that words which say what something is, i.e. categorise it, affect how we think about it. In its strong form, the argument I am making says that such a label indeed constitutes what the labelled thing becomes for us. This is not to say that the label is the only reality, rather that has a very powerful shaping influence, and that if those influenced are the ones creating it through what they do, then what that label says is what the labelled thing is. I am put in mind of Laura Otis' very useful book, Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century, in which she argues convincingly along with Tim Lenoir that the metaphors scientists used to understand neurophysiology in the 19C, > are not simplified translations used to communicate complex or > abstract ideas to the public, nor are they decorative rhetorical > figures added to engage readers. As can be seen by studying > comparisons between organic and technological communications systems, > metaphors do not "express" scientist' ideas; they *are* the ideas. (2001: 47f) So, the question I am asking is, what do we think we are conjuring with our words? Is the conjured practice strain to leap beyond what is currently possible, or is it compromised down to a poor second-best? I agree wholeheartedly with Wendell about the politics, about the threat (and what we do IS a threat to the impoverished thing we have) and about how reactions are handled by the reactionaries. That's as always has been. But what worries me far more is our own compromising with ourselves. Desiring better is problematic to be sure, but so is making do. Wendell's solution is fascinating, admirable (if I may say so), fortunate, fitting by virtue of no small amount of wisdom -- but not mine. I'm where that doesn't work because my world isn't structured that way, as he says. Unfortunately the battle is often lost just as he describes: a candidate for tenure loses a popularity contest. Or wins it but is scarred for life. Or what may be worst, the candidate conforms so convincingly for so long that he or she becomes something less than once was. But this doesn't always happen. There are survivors one can admire, indeed many of them. What I think all this amounts to in our particular circumstance is the duty on those who have survived one way or another -- e.g., Wendell's way, my way -- to imagine, reflect and argue to the best of our abilities in public. And, of course, to do the best work we can, writing, coding, designing and so forth. But also yammering on in places like this, repeatedly. I maintain (as the quality of Wendell's contribution demonstrates) that such yammering isn't the Bad Knee of Humanist but the very function that got it going in the first place and has sustained it for quite a long time. 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 Sep 7 05:44:11 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 3295E38234; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:44:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E32938225; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:44:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090907054408.7E32938225@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.272 thanks for input: education for sustainable development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 272. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:29:03 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Essay on integral human development I want to say "thank you" for all the responses received to the survey on education for sustainable development (ESD). There is a consensus that the exclusion of women from roles of religious authority is an obstacle to the integral human development of both men and women. Consider the evidence: PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development ~ September 2009 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv05n09page1.html In brief, this article includes: * Section 1, a brief progress report on the ESD surveys. * Section 2, clarification of sustainable development terminology. * Section 3, an essay on integral human development. * Section 4, an overview of sustainable development indicators * Section 5, an essay on religious traditions and human development. * Section 6, a review of survey-based evidence. * Section 7, a review of recent scholarly research. * Section 8, a review of some real life examples. * Section 9, suggestions for prayer, study, and action. I look forward to continue this research and would be grateful to receive additional feedback. Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org ~ pelican@pelicanweb.org 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 Mon Sep 7 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 302AD3828D; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1918A38284; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090907054524.1918A38284@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.273 new publication: TEI in LLC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 273. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:01:56 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Proceedings of the TEI MM 2007 published Colleagues -- we are delighted to announce that the proceedings of the 2007 TEI MM has been published by L&LC. It is a rich and varied collection of articles that show the range and complexity of research in the TEI community. The full volume is available at http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl The issue contains articles by keynote speakers Fotis Jannidis and Melissa Terras (co-authored with Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte). The full TOC is listed below: Fotis Jannidis: TEI in a crystal ball Andrea Zielinski, Wolfgang Pempe, Peter Gietz, Martin Haase, Stefan Funk, and Christian Simon: TEI documents in the grid Christian Wittern, Arianna Ciula, and Conal Tuohy: The making of TEI P5 Melissa Terras, Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte: Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example James Cummings: Converting Saint Paul: A new TEI P5 edition of The Conversion of Saint Paul using stand-off methodology Malte Rehbein: Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript Luigi Siciliano and Viviana Salardi: The digital edition of the Statuta comunis Vicentie of 1264 Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine: The TEIViewer: Facilitating the transition from XML to web display Peter Boot: Towards a TEI-based encoding scheme for the annotation of parallel texts Andreas Witt, Georg Rehm, Erhard Hinrichs, Timm Lehmberg, and Jens Stegmann: SusTEInability of linguistic resources through feature structures -- 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 Mon Sep 7 05:46:18 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 B8411382E7; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:46:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 587E5382DE; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:46:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090907054617.587E5382DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:46:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.274 visions of virtual history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 274. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:17:30 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: virtual history World Center For Arts, Cultures & Technology http://johnmarkscientistpolymath.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-center-for-arts-cultures.html A complete 3D reconstruction of each person in tele-immersion will be presented at each and every pavilion theme according to each civilization, or nationality at various locations in the world by using multi telepresence cameras that take rapid, sequential shots of the same object, continuously performing distance calculations, and projecting them into high-end, computer-simulated environment to replicate real-time images and movement. As a result, visitors and audiences at The World Center for Arts, Cultures & Technology will be able to physically shake hands with Christopher Columbus, Winston Churchil, Copernicus, Goethe or whomever they like depending on whatever they select for their cultural insights from the Center's super-computer database. http://ow.ly/oc3O -- 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 Mon Sep 7 05:47:24 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 A850E3834F; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:47:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF9533833F; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:47:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090907054722.BF9533833F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:47:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.275 events: NEH Institute on networking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 275. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:19:03 +0100 From: "Tangherlini, Timothy" Subject: NEH Summer Institute ANNOUNCEMENT: "Networks and Network Analysis for Humanities". Call for Applications. Applications are currently being accepted for an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities at UCLA, August 15-27, 2010. Applications must be submitted online no later than November 5, 2009. For more information, and for the online application, please visit http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/hum2010 In recent years, attention has been drawn in both the academic and popular press to the ubiquity of networks in everyday life, from communications networks to investment networks to power transmission networks to social networks. As a result of this increasing awareness, the study of the different types of networks that link us together, and the analysis of the structure of those networks has risen to greater and greater prominence not only in the mathematical and social sciences but also in the Humanities. Despite this increasing awareness of the importance of networks for theoretical advances in the Humanities, there is a considerable gap between recognizing in the broadest strokes the existence of these complex, dynamic systems and the very hard work of the consistent application of rigorous theoretically sound methods to the study of networks. Computational tools for the discovery and analysis of networks offer the promise of bridging this gap; unfortunately, many of these tools are as complex to work with as the underlying data itself. A main goal of this institute is to teach Humanities scholars some of the most accessible of these techniques. In broadest terms, the topics to be addressed in the Institute are: (a) the science of networks and networks in Humanistic inquiry (b) preparing and cleaning Humanities data for network analysis (c) internal networks in Humanistic data: networks of characters, networks of texts, networks of language (d) external networks in Humanistic data: networks of influence, networks of production, networks of reception. Timothy R. Tangherlini Professor / Director NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities" August 15-27, 2010 at UCLA neh2010@humnet.ucla.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 Sep 8 05:22:54 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 14FA739267; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:22:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 683DF3925E; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:22:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090908052252.683DF3925E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:22:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.276 an ethical problem X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 276. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:55:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an ethical problem Allow me to pass on to you, below, quite a long quotation, from the end of the Introduction to Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Cambridge MA: The Technology Press, 1947), pp. 36-9. I find it very moving, and although many of our social conditions have changed, and our predicaments are somewhat different, I also find myself wanting to be in a seminar in which this text was under sustained discussion. Comments are, as usual, most welcome. WM ----- > It has long been clear to me that the modern ultra-rapid computing > machine was in principle an ideal central nervous system to an > apparatus for automatic control.... > > Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb, it > had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another > social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil. > The automatic factory, the assembly-line without human agents, are > only so far ahead of us as is limited by our willingness to put such > a degree of effort into their engineering as was spent, for example, > in the development of the technique of radar in the second world war. > > I have said that this new development has unbounded possibilities for > good and for evil. For one thing, it makes the metaphorical dominance > of the machines, as imagined by Samuel Butler, a most immediate and > non-metaphorical problem. It gives the human race a new and most > effective collection of mechanical slaves to perform its labor. Such > mechanical labor has most of the economic properties of slave labor, > although, unlike slave labor, it does not involve the direct > demoralizing effects of human cruelty. However, any labor that > accepts the conditions of competition with slave labor, accepts the > conditions of slave labor, and is essentially slave labor. The key > word of this statement is competition. It may very well be a good > thing for humanity to have the machine remove from it the need of > menial and disagreeable tasks; or it may not. I do not know. It > cannot be good for these new potentialities to be assessed in the > terms of the market, of the money they save.... > > Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present > situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the > revolution of the «dark satanic mills», was the devaluation of the > human arm by the competition of machinery. There is no rate of pay at > which a United States pick-and shovel laborer can live which is low > enough to compete with the work of a steam shovel as an excavator. > The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the > human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions.... > [T]aking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human > being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is > worth anyone's money to buy. > > The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values > other than buying or selling.... > > Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybenetics > thus stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very > comfortable. We have contributed to the initiation of a new science > which, as I have said, embraces technical developments with great > possibilities for good and for evil. We can only hand it over into > the world that exists about us, and this is the world of Belsen and > Hiroshima. We do not even have the choice of suppressing these new > technical developments. They belong to the age, and the most any of > us can do by suppression is to put the development of the subject > into the hands of the most irresponsible and most venal of our > engineers. The best we can do is to see that a large public > understands the trend and the bearing of the present work, and to > confine our personal efforts to those fields, such as physiology and > psychology, most remote from war and exploitation. As we have seen, > there are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of > man and society which is offered by this new field of work may > anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to > the concentration of power (which is always concentrated by its very > conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I > write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight > hope. Norbert Wiener, Instituto Nacional de Cardologia, Cuidad de Mexico, November 1947. -- 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 Sep 8 05:26:28 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 75A7A392DD; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:26:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BEDA0392CE; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:26:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090908052625.BEDA0392CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:26:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.277 events: the past's digital presence; XML X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 277. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Flynn (14) Subject: XML Summer School [2] From: Sara Schmidt (41) Subject: Re: CFP for a Graduate Student Symposium at Yale --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:42:02 +0100 From: Peter Flynn Subject: XML Summer School For those who may have been away and missed the earlier announcements, the XML Summer School returns this year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 20th-25th September. As always, it provides high quality technical XML training for every level of expertise, from the Hands-on Introduction through to special classes devoted to XSLT, Semantic Technologies, Open Source Applications, Web 2.0 and Web Services. The Summer School is also an opportunity to experience what life is like as a student at one of the world's oldest Universities. Classes are taught by some of the most renowned XML experts, including Eve Maler, Michael Kay, Jeni Tennison, Michael Sperberg McQueen, Norm Walsh and Bob DuCharme. Details are at http://www.xmlsummerschool.org/ ///Peter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:14:56 -0500 From: Sara Schmidt Subject: Re: CFP for a Graduate Student Symposium at Yale http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/ Call For Papers The Past’s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University February 19th and 20th, 2010 How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? We invite graduate students to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities. The graduate student panels will be moderated by a Yale faculty member or library curator with a panel respondent. The two-day conference will take place February 19th and 20th, 2010, at Yale University. Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Potential paper topics include: * The Future of the History of the Book* Public Humanities * Determining Irrelevance in the Archive * Defining the Key-Word * The Material Object in Archival Research * Local Knowledge, Global Access * Digital Afterlives * Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive * Database Access Across the Profession * Mapping and Map-Based Platforms * Interactive Research Please email a one-page proposal along with a C.V. to pdp@yale.edu. Deadline for submissions is September 10th, 2009. Accepted panelists will be notified by October 1st, 2009. We ask that all graduate-student panelists pre-circulate their paper among their panels by January 20th, 2010. Please contact Molly Farrell and Heather Klemann at pdp@yale.edu with any additional inquiries. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:01:07 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 E8FC338D00; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:01:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC0B038CEE; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:01:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050103.EC0B038CEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:01:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.278 ethics and profession X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 278. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: renata lemos (123) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.276 an ethical problem [2] From: Wendell Piez (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.271 BBQ and fire (on the knee) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:27:37 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.276 an ethical problem In-Reply-To: <20090908052252.683DF3925E@woodward.joyent.us> dear willard, I believe that the scenario described by wiener would be what jamais cascio is calling *robonomics*. below are links to his articles on possible futures, which are very related to wiener´s ideas: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/three-possible-economic-models-part-1 http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/three-possible-economic-models-part-ii I find it very interesting, and not as pessimistic as wiener´s position. best regards, -- renata lemos http://www.eletrocooperativa.org http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/ On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 276. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:55:17 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: an ethical problem > > > Allow me to pass on to you, below, quite a long quotation, from the end > of the Introduction to Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, or Control and > Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Cambridge MA: The > Technology Press, 1947), pp. 36-9. I find it very moving, and although > many of our social conditions have changed, and our predicaments are > somewhat different, I also find myself wanting to be in a seminar in > which this text was under sustained discussion. > > Comments are, as usual, most welcome. > > WM > > ----- > > It has long been clear to me that the modern ultra-rapid computing > > machine was in principle an ideal central nervous system to an > > apparatus for automatic control.... > > > > Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb, it > > had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another > > social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil. > > The automatic factory, the assembly-line without human agents, are > > only so far ahead of us as is limited by our willingness to put such > > a degree of effort into their engineering as was spent, for example, > > in the development of the technique of radar in the second world war. > > > > I have said that this new development has unbounded possibilities for > > good and for evil. For one thing, it makes the metaphorical dominance > > of the machines, as imagined by Samuel Butler, a most immediate and > > non-metaphorical problem. It gives the human race a new and most > > effective collection of mechanical slaves to perform its labor. Such > > mechanical labor has most of the economic properties of slave labor, > > although, unlike slave labor, it does not involve the direct > > demoralizing effects of human cruelty. However, any labor that > > accepts the conditions of competition with slave labor, accepts the > > conditions of slave labor, and is essentially slave labor. The key > > word of this statement is competition. It may very well be a good > > thing for humanity to have the machine remove from it the need of > > menial and disagreeable tasks; or it may not. I do not know. It > > cannot be good for these new potentialities to be assessed in the > > terms of the market, of the money they save.... > > > > Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present > > situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the > > revolution of the «dark satanic mills», was the devaluation of the > > human arm by the competition of machinery. There is no rate of pay at > > which a United States pick-and shovel laborer can live which is low > > enough to compete with the work of a steam shovel as an excavator. > > The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the > > human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions.... > > [T]aking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human > > being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is > > worth anyone's money to buy. > > > > The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values > > other than buying or selling.... > > > > Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybenetics > > thus stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very > > comfortable. We have contributed to the initiation of a new science > > which, as I have said, embraces technical developments with great > > possibilities for good and for evil. We can only hand it over into > > the world that exists about us, and this is the world of Belsen and > > Hiroshima. We do not even have the choice of suppressing these new > > technical developments. They belong to the age, and the most any of > > us can do by suppression is to put the development of the subject > > into the hands of the most irresponsible and most venal of our > > engineers. The best we can do is to see that a large public > > understands the trend and the bearing of the present work, and to > > confine our personal efforts to those fields, such as physiology and > > psychology, most remote from war and exploitation. As we have seen, > > there are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of > > man and society which is offered by this new field of work may > > anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to > > the concentration of power (which is always concentrated by its very > > conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I > > write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight > > hope. > > Norbert Wiener, Instituto Nacional de Cardologia, Cuidad de Mexico, > November 1947. > > -- > 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, 08 Sep 2009 13:01:51 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.271 BBQ and fire (on the knee) In-Reply-To: <20090906080702.BB73238EC8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I'm sorry I touched a sore spot by describing our preoccupation with the label as like a bad knee. Please understand that I don't think a bad knee has to be a bad thing! :-) It just hurts sometimes, is all. Of course you are right that the label conjures something. But the nature of conjuring is that one doesn't really quite control whatever spirit one calls up. Indeed, that's the idea. In the best case, the name you use inspires listeners to project their own positive feelings onto what you are naming. You can't do this by controlling either the language or them, or not absolutely: rhetoric is not a science but an art. (To the extent it's a science, I think it's a dark one and likely to be very pernicious.) In fact, I think the best label raises as many questions as it offers answers. That's part of the reason I think "digital humanities" has gained traction. I mean, no label is a good one, for reasons you have suggested, but any label is better than none, isn't it, if one is to distinguish something? (Keep in mind how many names have started as insults and ended as boasts.) And can't I say this while concurring that the label matters, and that there are times when the metaphor becomes the thing? Personally, I think "digital humanities" was an improvement over "humanities computing", if only because: * It's vaguer, which befits the field better as it grows into interests that used to be inconceivable; * It avoids the term "computer", to which many of our humanistic peers had developed an allergy; * It allows not just for the application of computers to humanities, but for the application of humanistic study to digital/computational/technological culture and media, and I regard this combination as a very fruitful synergy. This isn't to say that I think "digital humanities" is perfect. But I don't think that any name is perfect until it becomes so, which requires time and the growth or building of the thing -- in this case, that constituency I was writing about. Cheers, Wendell =========================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML =========================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:03:48 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 BCE5638D86; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:03:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 580C438D76; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:03:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050345.580C438D76@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:03:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.279 on learning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 279. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:01:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: learning Here is a typically inspirational passage from an after-dinner speech by Warren McCulloch -- multi-authored, but his is the voice speaking -- "The Fun of Failures", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 156.0 (April 1969): 963-8, most of which I find head-breakingly difficult to follow. But the first bit, an anecdote about Norbert Wiener and commentary on it, is not. > A quarter of a century ago, when a handful of us hazarded time and > reputation on guesses about the behavior of closed loops, including > computers, none of us dreamed of the proliferation of these ideas, > which Norbert Wiener christened "Cybernetics." He and I guessed that > his book would sell about one thousand copies in the first year, and > John Wiley & Sons took a chance on what turned out to be a best > seller. Like us, the gods must have loved Norbert, for he died > between lectures on two new themes. He taught his students how to > build theories and invent new theorems; many of whom have said, "He > taught me my business." One day, he came splayfoot and triumphant > from one of his inspiring lectures, but stopped abruptly in the hall, > took his cigar from his mouth, and with a look of astonishment said, > "My God! I’ve proved too much. There are no prime numbers," and > returned to the blackboard before his students had departed, to try > to find his mistake. They did. Such was the teacher who considered > the proofs of theorems in the textbooks "a way of hiding how > mathematics is made." Our proofs are afterthoughts and have little to > do with the art of conjecture and discovery. Teaching and learning > are not what Donald MacKay calls competitive monologue, but dialogue > in which each exposes the inadequacies of his map of the world for > his partner to complete or correct. (963) 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 Sep 9 05:05:35 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 7C24338E19; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:05:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 738B338E07; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:05:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050531.738B338E07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.280 professorship at Darmstadt X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 280. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:27:54 +0200 From: Sabine Bartsch Subject: Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) at TU Darmstadt The Department of German at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Technische Universität Darmstadt invites applications for a vacant Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) (ID-No. 295) The prospective postholder is expected to teach courses in German linguistics or literary studies as well as humanities computing at undergraduate and graduate level (Bachelor/Master of Arts Germanistik, Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, teaching degrees). The postholder must have research interests and a proven track record of excellent research in at least two of the following areas: • Text technology • History and theory of literature and media • Text linguistics • Media and communication (e.g. Conceptual History "Metaphern- und Begriffsgeschichte") • Digital editions Formal requirements are the Habilitation ("Second book") or equivalent qualification and an excellent record of teaching at university level. Postholders are expected to actively engage in cooperative interdisciplinary research within the faculty of History and Social Science as well as the natural sciences and engineering disciplines. They should have a record of attracting external research funding. The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualifications, following the German "W-Besoldung". The regulations for employment are specified under §§ 70 and 71 HHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz). Candidates who already hold a civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis) can be reappointed under the same status. Nonpermanent contracts can be made permanent after positive evaluation. The Technische Univesität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply. In case of equal qualifications severely disabled applicants will be given preference. Applications referring to the Identification Number (ID-No. 295) (including a CV, list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, a record of teaching activities and scientific accomplishments) are to be sent to the Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Science, Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmiede, Residenzschloss 64293 Darmstadt. Deadline for applications: October 8th, 2009 Official URLs of this text: German: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295.tud English: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295englisch.tud -- Dr. Sabine Bartsch Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - Englische Linguistik Hochschulstr. 1 64289 Darmstadt Fon: +49-6151-16 4570 Fax: +49-6151-16 3694 http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=bartsch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 9 05:06:23 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 5FEAF38ED2; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:06:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1A8F38ECA; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:06:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090909050620.C1A8F38ECA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:06:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.281 events: talks at MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 281. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:13:39 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: fall 2009 talks at MITH MITH's fall 2009 Digital Dialogues schedule is out! We're looking forward to another great semester of talks, and as always we welcome any and all colleagues, either from the DC area or (if you're just passing through) beyond. Matt Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Digital Dialogues Schedule Fall 2009 Tuesdays @12:30-1:45 in MITH’s Conference Room B0135 McKeldin Library, U. Maryland (unless otherwise noted) 9.15 Rachel Donahue (iSchool), “A Glance at the Current State of Videogame Preservation” 9.29 Zita Nunes (English and Comparative Literature), “The Harlem Renaissance in Second Life” 10.6 Brad Pasanek (Virginia), "A Dictionary, a Database, and a Desultory Reader: Metaphors for the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature" 10.13 Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins), "An Abundant Humanities Library" 10.20 If/Then 101: Teaching Programming at Maryland (Roundtable led by Doug Reside) Mon 10.26 Bruce Sterling (location and time TBA) 10.27 Mark Sample (George Mason), "The Open Source Professor: Teaching, Research, and Transparency" 11/3 The Great Ebook Throwdown (with Ben Bederson, Nick Chen, and Matt Kirschenbaum) Wed 11/11 Greg Crane (Tufts), "From the First Year Through Tenure: New Pathways for Humanities in a Digital Age” (time TBA) 11/17 Jennifer Fleeger (Catholic), "Archiving America: The Vitaphone, the DVD, and Warner Bros. (re)Store Jazz History" All talks are free and open to the public! -- 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 Sep 10 05:21:06 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 D12B3394E3; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7AE36394D4; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052104.7AE36394D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.282 EEBO usage poll X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 282. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:54:17 -0400 From: "McCollough, Aaron" Subject: Usage Poll for EEBO full-text users Dear Members of the Humanist Discussion Group- My name is Aaron McCollough, and I am the new Project Outreach Librarian for the Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership. I'm writing to ask those of you who have used EEBO's full-text searching tools in your work as a scholar or a student to take a brief online poll. Since research in the humanities is typically a fairly solitary business, and research methods are often under-discussed, the impact of resources like EEBO-TCP can be a challenge to measure. I'm hoping the poll will offer me (and others) a glimpse of how the tools produced by EEBO-TCP are being used now that the project has reached it's most significant landmark to date (25,000 converted texts). As EEBO-TCP forges ahead with its second phase (converting the remaining 44,000 unique monographs in the EEBO image collection), I am aiming to build more community around the array of projects currently using TCP texts. I'm also looking for new ways of thinking about the research possibilities opened by an ever-growing database of books. I've set this poll up through surveymonkey.com, a standard tool for usage and usability studies of all sorts. The questions are simple and open-ended (boxes for name, position, institution, email address, comments on EEBO texts in research, in teaching, in learning, identification of publications or projects that have benefited from EEBO texts, and 'other comments' box). The more specific you can be the better, obviously, but none of the poll's categories is required. If you'd prefer to answer the questions with a direct email to me, that would also be welcome. (amccollo@umich.edu) I'm excited to learn what people are working on. I hope you will consider participating. The survey is located at the following address: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UscIZ611wnI40iWeziicww_3d_3d Sincerely- Aaron -- Dr. Aaron McCollough Text Creation Partnership (TCP) Outreach Librarian University of Michigan 300 Hatcher North 920 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 (734) 615-0038 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 10 05:22:08 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 B80B339549; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 52EE73953C; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052205.52EE73953C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.283 cfp: Digital Human Faces X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 283. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:05:12 +0100 From: Catherine Pelachaud Subject: special issue IEEE CG&A - Digital Human Faces: fromCreation to Emotion Special Issue on Digitial Human Faces: From Creation to Emotion /IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications /Submission deadline: 23 Nov. 2009 Target publication date: July/Aug. 2010 Faces are an important vector of communication. Through facial expressions, gaze behaviors, and head movements, faces convey information on not only a person’s emotional state and attitude but also discursive, pragmatic, and syntactic elements. The expressions result from subtle muscular contractions and wrinkle formation, and we perceive them through the complex filter of subsurface scattering and other nontrivial light reflections. Lately, there has been much interest in modeling 3D faces and their expressions. Research has covered automatic or interactive generation of 3D geometry as well as rendering and animation techniques. This research has numerous applications. One type of application involves the creation and animation of virtual actors in films and video games. New rendering techniques ensure highly realistic skin models. Motion capture with or without markers is applied to animate the body and the face. The quality can be precise enough to capture real actor performances as well as the slightest movements in emotional expressions. Another type of application involves the creation of autonomous agents—in particular, /embodied conversational agents/ (ECAs), autonomous entities with communicative and emotional capabilities. ECAs serve as Web assistants, pedagogical agents, or even companions. Researchers have proposed models to specify and control ECA behavior. This special issue will broadly cover domains linked to 3D faces and their creation, rendering, and animation. In particular, it aims to gather excellent work from the computer graphics and ECA communities. Possible topics include, but aren’t limited to, the following: * /Facial animation/. * /Face and performance capture/ (marker based or markerless). * /Geometric modeling of faces/ (automatic or interactive). * /Face and skin rendering techniques/ (subsurface scattering and real-time methods). * /Expressing emotion/. How do you go beyond the expression of the six basic emotions? How do you represent the large palette of facial expressions of emotions? How do you model dynamic expressions? How do you model the expression of empathy? * /Complex expressions/. Expressions can arise from the blending of emotions such as the superposition of emotions or the masking of one emotion by another. Expressions can simultaneously convey different messages. * /Communicative expressions/. Faces don’t solely portray emotions; they convey a variety of communicative functions such as visual prosody and performative functions. How do you model and represent such expressions? How do you capture subtle variations in the production of them? How do you model mechanisms that are synchronous with speech? * /Social signals/. Communication is socially embedded. Agents and virtual actors must be socially aware. People often use smiles and eyebrow flashes to signal their attitude toward others. How do you model facial social signals? Submission Guidelines Articles should be no more than 8,000 words, with each figure counting as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to 10. Visit /CG&A/ style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html http://www.computer.org/cga/author.html . Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category “Manuscript Type.” Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer review coordinator at cga-ma@computer.org . Questions? Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors: * Catherine Pelachaud, catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr * Tamy Boubekeur, tamy.boubekeur@telecom-paristech.fr -- ---------------------------------------------------------- CNRS - LTCI UMR 5141 Institut TELECOM - TELECOM ParisTech 37 rue Dareau 75014 Paris FRANCE tel: +33 (0)1 45 81 75 93 http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~pelachau catherine.pelachaud@telecom-paristech.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 Thu Sep 10 05:23:26 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 05528395E2; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:23:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FBF5395BB; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:23:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052325.3FBF5395BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:23:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.284 new on WWW: e-pub bibliography; arts & humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 284. 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." Subject: Version 76, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography [2] From: Lydia Horstman (60) Subject: New on arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:57:26 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 76, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 76 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,480 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: 2008 Annual Edition is available as a paperback book from Amazon and other sources. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.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 A backup Digital Scholarship server is available at: http://digital-scholarship.com/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 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://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/rss2/ (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 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/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/rss2/ http://twitter.com/DigitalKoans (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (6/29/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 4 (7/15/2009) 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 Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyearsbrief.htm ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:33:02 +0100 From: Lydia Horstman Subject: New on arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities With apologies for cross-posting. This round-up of the latest news from arts-humanities.net, an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities, might be of interest to readers. arts-humanities.net enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ arts-humanities.net gives you access to a wide range of resources, including an extensive catalogue of digital arts and humanities projects; a calendar of workshops, conferences and other events; a taxonomy of research methods for creating digital resources; and other materials such as a bibliography, case studies and briefing papers. Registered members can use the site to feature their own research; blog and discuss issues with others; and search a directory of over 1,100 members. We also provide customisable email updates on new content and news from the community. FEATURED: EVENTS CALENDAR The events calendar lists about 100 upcoming events related to the digital arts and humanities. You can also access an archive of several hundred past events. We provide a RSS feeds and an iCal feed that you can plug directly into your calendar or website. http://www.arts-humanities.net/events http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/ical/ FEATURED PROJECT Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) The project aims to assemble an online corpus of all the material gathered by Prof Joyce Reynolds during her numerous visits to Libya. The project consists in the digitisation of some 2000 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica, nearly a third of which have never previously been published. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project. http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_roman_cyrenaica_ircyr OTHER NEW PROJECTS Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/integrating_digital_papyrology_idp Inscriptions of Aphrodisias http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_aphrodisias NEW USER GROUPS Digital Classicist The Digital Classicist is a community interested in the application of innovative digital digital methods to research on the ancient world. http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist Social Software in the Digital Humanities A group that discusses the theoretical and practical application of social software within the digital humanities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/deliberative_humanism_social_software_digital_humanities FORUM / DISCUSSIONS DRHA 2009 meet and greet Meet some of the delegates of the DRHA 2009 conference and learn about their interests, projects and activities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/drha_2009_meet_greet Discussing Digital Humanities 2009 A live-blog from the DH09 conference in June 2009. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 arts-humanities.net is hosted by the Centre for e-Research at King's College London and is developed in collaboration with several groups and projects, including the UK Network of Expert Centres. 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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 Thu Sep 10 05:24:03 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 D3D9B39649; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 554D63962F; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052402.554D63962F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.285 network of digital humanities centres X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 285. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:51:25 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: centerNet: cyberinfrastructure for the digital humanities We are pleased to announce that the centerNet steering committee has received a Digital Humanities Start Up Grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities to help it develop a robust and sustainable organizational infrastructure and to run a World Summit of digital humanities centers directors and funders this July in London, immediately preceding DH 2010. centerNet currently has over 200 members from centers across the globe. The grant will enable it to play a larger role on the world stage beginning with the Summit, which is intended to facilitate collaborations on a global level among centers, among funders, and between both groups--with the ultimate goals of building international cyberinfrastructure for the digital humanities and developing centerNet regional affiliate groups in other parts of the world. More information about the Summit and centerNet's other new initiatives will be forthcoming on this list. The co-chairs of the centerNet steering committee, Katherine Walter (CDRH, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Neil Fraistat (MITH, University of Maryland) are co-principal investigators for the grant. Other members of the steering committee are Dan Cohen (CHNM, George Mason University); Julia Flanders (Brown University Women Writers Project); Matt Kirschenbaum (MITH); Dean Rehberger (Matrix, Michigan State University); Geoffrey Rockwell (TAPoR, University of Alberta); Raymond Siemens (SDH/SEMI, University of Victoria, British Columbia); and John M. Unsworth (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). Neil Fraistat -- 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 Sep 10 05:27:14 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 76C8039701; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:27:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 643A9396EE; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:27:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090910052711.643A9396EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:27:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.286 events: social implications; graduate student colloquium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 286. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "institut@uvic.ca" (46) Subject: cfp: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium [2] From: Katina Michael (41) Subject: cfp: IEEE ISTAS 2010 : The Social Implications of EmergingTechnologies (NSW, Australia) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:54:19 +0100 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: cfp: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium June 8-11, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities." Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, including, but not limited to, the graduate student's role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for their own research and pedagogy, etc. The colloquium begins on the second day of the Summer Institute and takes place over four days (Tuesday through Friday) during morning sessions prior to the start of classes. Three graduate students will present at each session. Presentations will be informal and strictly limited to ten (10) minutes per presenter, with time for Q&A reserved at session's end. The sessions will be open to all DHSI attendees. We invite 300 word proposals for these presentations. Successful abstracts for the 2010 colloquium will focus on the individual student's role in digital humanities research and application, as opposed to general issues pertaining to digital humanities. Presenters must currently be enrolled as MA or PhD students in an accredited graduate program, or currently hold a post-doctoral fellowship in an academic program focused on digital humanities work. Please send abstracts to . Deadline for submissions is November 27, 2009. All who have submitted an abstract will be notified by mid-December 2009. For more information, contact Cara Leitch or Diane Jakacki . ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. This year's Summer Institute will be held June 7-11, 2010. For more information and to register for courses see www.dhsi.org. REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage students interested in attending the DHSI to register early. SCHOLARSHIPS: All those whose work is accepted for presentation at the 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium will receive a tuition scholarship. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 17:18:29 +0100 From: Katina Michael Subject: cfp: IEEE ISTAS 2010 : The Social Implications of EmergingTechnologies (NSW, Australia) 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2010) THEME: “Social Implications of Emerging Technologies” When: Jun 7, 2010 - Jun 9, 2010 Where: Wollongong, NSW, Australia Submission Deadline: Nov 13, 2009 Notification Due: Feb 26, 2010 Final Version Due: Mar 26, 2010 link: http://ieeessit.org/uploaded_documents/ISTAS10CFP.pdf ISTAS’10 will be held at the University of Wollongong The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is an annual international forum sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). ISTAS`10 in Wollongong, NSW, Australia, will bring together participants sharing research, projects, and ideas about: Automatic Identification Automatic identification technologies including biometrics (DNA), RFID Surveillance, dataveillance, sousveillance, anti-surveillance, uberveillance National security, emergency response, border control, e-tollways, e-passports Location-Based Services Geographic information systems, digital mapping, geotagging, street view, CCTV Location-based services, global positioning systems (GPS), tracking, monitoring Social Networking Social networking applications, blogs, glogs, cyberstalking, collaboration Data collection, data merging, data matching, data mining, disclosure Mobile comms, wearable computing, ubiquity, context-aware applications Nanotechnology Microchip implants, biomedical solutions, diagnostics, drug delivery Nanotechnology, bionics, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs Privacy, Security & Human Rights Cyberethics, privacy, data protection, trust, control, consent, transborder flows Security, law enforcement, covert/overt policing, laws, regulations, public policy Social implications, registers, human rights, intellectual property, social equity Additional papers on other traditional fields of interest to SSIT also are welcome. ISTAS ‘10 will be a multi-disciplinary event for engineers, scientists, researchers in the social sciences, arts/law and humanities, and decision makers in the public and private sectors. Important Dates Abstract submission (200 words) October 2, 2009 Full/Short paper submission (5000/2000 words): November 13, 2009 Author notification: February 26, 2010 Final camera-ready copy: March 26, 2010 All submissions to Katina Michael at: katina@uow.edu.au. For more information visit: www.ieeessit.org or www.uow.edu.au http://www.uow.edu.au . Sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology Organizing Committee and Program Committee Chairs: Dr. Holly Tootell and Dr. Katina Michael, School of Information Systems and Technology, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong. * Wollongong is less than an hour away from Sydney by car/train/bus. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 11 06:11:59 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 6C4563A93F; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:11:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A7F03A933; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:11:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090911061156.1A7F03A933@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:11:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.287 studentships for gaming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 287. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:15:19 +0100 From: "Georgios N. Yannakakis" Subject: PhD Scholarships - Center for Computer Games Research, ITU Fall 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/VIP/Stillingsopslag%202009/FINAL_PhD%20call_fall%202009.pdf Areas of research interest include : - computational intelligence (CI) and games - game artificial intelligence (AI) and AI, CI approaches to topics including (but not limited to): - player (user) modeling - human game interaction - affective modeling - multimodal interaction - procedural game content -- Georgios N. Yannakakis Associate 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 4B05, 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 Fri Sep 11 06:14:29 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 A08833AA02; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B0ECE3A9FB; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090911061426.B0ECE3A9FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:14:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.288 how we keep becoming different? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 288. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:08:41 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how we keep becoming different? I've asked this question before, but let me try again from a slightly different angle: who has studied historical challenges to human identity? One of these, or a whole series of them, happened when human-like creatures were discovered, e.g. the orangoutan and other great apes, leading to a frightened or at least nervous attempt to draw a line in the biological sand, and to worry the notion of a "missing link". Darwin's arguments come in the wake of this nervousness and made the refiguration of human identity an irresistible force. Freud's work did much the same psychologically. Laura Otis, in her book Networking, says that "perhaps because of the popularity of automata", Babbage et others took great pains to distinguish them from the human brain. As I've noted before, when digital computing began to emerge in the mid 20C, we see a very similar nervous defensiveness, often accompanied by energetic attempts to define the purpose of the new machines as servants for the performance of drudgery, i.e. distinguished in principle from the higher powers of human thought. Of course there was, and remains, drudgery, from which liberation is hard for us to see as anything but good. But to say that anything or anyone is *for* drudgery is a different matter. We all (I assume...) clean house, but (I suppose) few of us would like to be told we're housecleaners by nature. One way of handling the Darwinian and Freudian revelations, along with the Copernican et al., is to talk about blows to the human ego, Man (as in all of the writings until very recently) successively displaced from successively lower perches. This is a popular line of argument, and it often gives strong moral force to those arguing for the superiority of scientific method. But this argument does assume that "human" is one objective thing from which layers of pretense have been stripped, rather than, say, a self-made construct that from time to time needs to be reconstructed. What I'm asking about, in order to throw light on computing's effects on us, are those historical moments of reconstruction, considered historically, i.e. from the perspective of those who found themselves in need of a new suit of psycho-cultural clothing. Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman is relevant to this sort of questioning, but I am specifically after historical analyses with a focus on such reconstructions (if that's a fair metaphor) prior to the one we're currently in the midst of. Thanks for any suggestions. 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 Sep 11 06:15:32 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 DB7B93AA69; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55E0C3AA62; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090911061529.55E0C3AA62@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.289 events: Museums and the Web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 289. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:13:09 +0100 From: j trant Subject: Museums and the Web 2010: CFP: Sept 30 Deadline MW2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2009 Museums and the Web 2010 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 13-17, 2010 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ Museums and the Web explores the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web. * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * 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/mw2010/papers/mw2010.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. *SESSION FORMATS * MW sessions vary in format - from formal Papers to informal Birds of a Feather lunches, and from structured Professional Forums to timely Unconference Sessions. Find the best format for your idea, by reviewing the session formats at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/sessions/sessionFormats.html * DEADLINES * Proposals due September 30, 2009 - for papers, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2010) Proposals due December 31, 2009 - 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/ideas_mw2010_program * NEED FURTHER DETAILS? * Review the MW2010 Call for Participation on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/call.html Contact the MW2010 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics mw2010@archimuse.com We hope to see you in Denver. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2010 produced by April 13-17, 2010, Denver, Colordo Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2010@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 Sat Sep 12 08:09:29 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 2C218423D; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF6A84234; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090912080926.CF6A84234@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.290 becoming different X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 290. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:01:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.288 how we keep becoming different? In-Reply-To: <20090911061426.B0ECE3A9FB@woodward.joyent.us> Well, my book _Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety_ forthcoming from Continuum in late Spring 2010, addresses these questions somewhat. These ideas are much older than Darwin and Freud, of course, both having adapted longstanding traditions and restated them for their time. The two major currents here are panentheism, as we might find in hermetic thought -- the universe as a vast, growing, evolving organism of which human beings are a part -- and the classical model of human personality in which a human being is a synthesis of body, soul, and spirit. Being a synthesis, we are subject to constant reconfiguration of the constituent parts of the self, each reconfiguration producing a different kind of self. Belief in the soul did not necessarily mean belief in a fixed self or nature, really, until after the Reformation. So any author writing within either of these traditions will emphasize change, transformation, etc. I argue that Blake and Kierkegaard especially did so because they lived at the cusp of a transition from monarchy to democracy, felt they were witnessing the dominance of artifice over nature, and lived in the middle of a battle between two rival scientific phenomenologies (mechanical and organic, the former proceeding from Newtonian science and the latter a new permutation of hermeticism). Both scientific phenomenologies were religious in nature in their respective times and places. Darwin's and Freud's innovation was to combine mechanical and organic models within strictly materialist and empirical presuppositions. Jim R . What I'm asking about, in order to throw light on > computing's effects on us, are those historical moments of > reconstruction, considered historically, i.e. from the perspective of > those who found themselves in need of a new suit of psycho-cultural > clothing. Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman is relevant to this > sort of questioning, but I am specifically after historical analyses > with a focus on such reconstructions (if that's a fair metaphor) prior > to the one we're currently in the midst of. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > 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 Sep 12 08:09:58 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 391474293; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 028664278; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090912080955.028664278@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.291 usage rights for images? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 291. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:35:45 -0400 From: "Markus Wust" Subject: Recording usage rights for images in digital projects Dear list members, a project that I am working on (http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu) is using many images provided to us by third parties (other institutions, private contributors, etc.). I wanted to ask those of you who are (or have been involved) with similar projects about how you are handling the management of rights, i.e., keeping track of who provided the images, any restrictions they have imposed on image usage, etc. What tools are you using (spreadsheets, databases, ...) and are you using any specific encoding standards to records this information (e.g., METSRights)? Thank you, Markus Wust Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian NCSU Libraries _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 12 08:10:31 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 65FEE42F2; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0810342DE; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090912081030.0810342DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.292 events: Graduate Student Colloquium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 292. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:46:29 +0100 From: "institut@uvic.ca" Subject: cfp: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium [Updated to clarify eligibility for this conference. Potential presenters should be enrolled in a PhD or MA program, or hold a post-doctoral fellowship, at the time of abstract submission. We welcome abstracts from current students who will graduate before June 2010.] Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium June 8-11, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities." Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, including, but not limited to, the graduate student's role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for their own research and pedagogy, etc. The colloquium begins on the second day of the Summer Institute and takes place over four days (Tuesday through Friday) during morning sessions prior to the start of classes. Three graduate students will present at each session. Presentations will be informal and strictly limited to ten (10) minutes per presenter, with time for Q&A reserved at session's end. The sessions will be open to all DHSI attendees. We invite 300 word proposals for these presentations. Successful abstracts for the 2010 colloquium will focus on the individual student's role in digital humanities research and application, as opposed to general issues pertaining to digital humanities. Potential presenters should be enrolled in a PhD or MA program, or hold a post-doctoral fellowship, at the time of abstract submission. We welcome abstracts from current students who will graduate before June 2010. Please send abstracts to . Deadline for submissions is November 27, 2009. All who have submitted an abstract will be notified by mid-December 2009. For more information, contact Cara Leitch or Diane Jakacki . ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. This year's Summer Institute will be held June 7-11, 2010. For more information and to register for courses see www.dhsi.org. REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage students interested in attending the DHSI to register early. SCHOLARSHIPS: All those whose work is accepted for presentation at the Graduate Student Colloquium will receive a tuition scholarship. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:02:45 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 DC4BA38AE7; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:02:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 911C438AD5; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:02:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050242.911C438AD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.293 becoming different X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 293. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:38:47 -0500 From: "Devin S. Griffiths" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.290 becoming different Dear Willard, It's probably obvious, but in the Victorian period, you could do well to look at Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy, which struggles with cultural transformation and definition vis a vis the past, particularly in response to technological change and mechanization, or, at an earlier period, but in much the same spirit, Carlyle's Signs of the Times. Best, Devin Griffiths ----- Original Message ----- From: Humanist Discussion Group Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:09 am _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:04:57 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 6594C38BA2; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C181638B97; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050454.C181638B97@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.294 PhD studentships at Bolzano X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 294. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:06:33 +0100 From: Diego Calvanese Subject: Call for PhD positions at KRDB Centre, Free Univ. Bolzano CALL FOR PhD POSITIONS - DEADLINE October 23, 2009 6 fully funded PhD positions at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ==================================================== The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy, offers an opening for 14 positions for its 3-year PhD program. Some of these positions have a PhD studentship, others have a research contract. *** 2 PhD positions with studentship, and 4 PhD positions with a research contract are offered by the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. *** The application deadline is Oct. 23, 2009. For information about the PhD program, the studentship, and the application, please visit http://www.unibz.it/en/inf/progs/phdcs/default.html and click on "PhD Course 25th cycle". Additional information about the PhD program at FUB is at http://www.unibz.it/en/public/research/phd/default.html . A PhD studentship as well as a PhD research contract amounts roughly to 51,000 Euro over the three years of the PhD. Substantial extra funding is available for participation in international conferences, schools, and workshops. The faculty of Computer Science and its PhD program are entirely based on the English language. RESEARCH TOPICS The KRDB Research Centre http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/ invites applicants to get in touch with the research group as soon as possible (see CONTACT PERSON below), in order to have a better understanding of the possible research activities in which the applicants may be involved. Relevant research topics in the centre are the following: * Logics for Knowledge Representation * Intelligent Access to Databases * Controlled Natural Language * Temporal Aspects in Data and Knowledge * Advanced Database Technologies The topics require good knowledge of Logic, Foundations of Databases, some knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, and of Knowledge Representation. Other research topics are listed in the personal web pages of the members of the KRDB Research Centre, see http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/staff.php . CONTACT PERSON 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 . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:06:05 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 CE39338C58; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F188738C10; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050602.F188738C10@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.295 new publication: textology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 295. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:25:10 +0100 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 3 Just published ( Juli 2009 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 3: "Aspects of Word Frequencies" 195 pages ISBN: 978-3-9802659-6-6 Published by: RAM-Verlag ( www.ram-verlag.de ) Authors: Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Jan Macutek, Gabriel Altmann The book contains analyses of selected themes concerning textology. It consists of nine chapters treating problems of text theory, sampling, homogeneity, h-point, arc length, hapax legomena, diversity and nominal style and presents a new view of Zipf´s law as well as some new aspects of language typology associated with word-form frequencies. RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 2351/ 973070 Fax: +49 (0) 2351/ 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de http://www.ram-verlag.de/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 14 05:07:16 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 C2F0438CC1; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 046F138CAF; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090914050713.046F138CAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.296 new on WWW: Google Book Search Bibliography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 296. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:48:34 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 5 Version 5 of the Google Book Search Bibliography 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. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt) from the University of Houston Libraries, see Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (7/15/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (7/10/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 76 (9/8/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Brief Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyearsbrief.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 15 05:27:06 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 8291B302AF; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF493302A6; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090915052703.AF493302A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.297 on peer-review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 297. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:15:38 +0100 From: Bryn Mawr Classical Review Subject: from the BMCR: O'Donnell on Lamont, How Professors Think [The following book-review will, I suspect, interest many here. Although the conclusions at which the author of the book arrives may not be terribly surprising to anyone doing academic work outside the older disciplines, it is certainly better to have a careful study to hand than merely one's own hunches. And it is very good indeed to have a review of this study by such a distinguished member of Humanist. Allow me, however, to question as well as to recommend and to praise. How many of us here have given up applying for grants because of the prejudices built into the reviewing system? --WM] Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.09.42 ________________________________ Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 330. ISBN 9780674032668. $27.95. ________________________________ Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell, Georgetown University (provost@georgetown.edu) Word count: 732 words As a reasonable and thoughtful academic of some experience, I judge that I am a skilled reviewer of other people's work, well able to take into account my own biases and render a fair and objective judgment for the benefit of the profession whenever I am called upon to do so. I am wrong. Those of you who entertain similar opinions of yourselves are equally wrong. Not, I am happy to say, disastrously wrong, but certainly wrong enough to be embarrassing and a source of concern for us all. Michèle Lamont is a sociologist and Faculty Advisor on Development and Diversity at Harvard, melding in this book her professional skill and her administrative concern. The title and subtitle of the book rather overstate what the book delivers, which is a shame inasmuch as it might leave a reader disappointed with a study that does not in fact disappoint. What Lamont has done is study in detail the workings of peer review panels (the limitation is important, inasmuch as an entirely separate study would be needed of the ways journal and university press peer reviewing work, when the reviewers work alone and not in groups) for a group of important funding agencies in the humanities and social sciences: the American Council of Learned Societies, the Society of Fellows at "a top research university" (Lamont is at Harvard, recall), the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and an unnamed foundation in the social sciences. She did detailed interviews with program officers, panelists, and program chairs. The findings will be variously striking to various readers. For example, she teases out well the cultures of some representative disciplines: English, History, Anthropology, and Political Science. The historians come across phlegmatic, the literature scholars edgy and uncertain, and the anthropologists curiously isolated: but no summary in one or two adjectives is a fair representation of her discussion. She is perhaps best, though, on the way reviewers bring to the table a host of judgments, expectations, and anecdotes that are not to be found in the folders they read, but that strongly influence their judgment. A sociologist admits, for example, that a good proposal on the table gets a better judgment because of the institution from which it comes. That institution is strong in that field, so this is more likely to be good work than if it came from (the sociologist's patronizing words) "some tiny little hole-in-the-wall college" (227). One grid that many bring with them has much to be said for it: "significance" and "originality" stand high on the list of things that reviewers seek in proposals, and I think I can live with that. But Lamont identifies as well a curious overlay of ethical inquiry and judgment: "humility," "determination", and "authenticity" are judged well, while "cultural ease" and "elegance" score points as well. How many of these categories are screens for finding "people like us" is a difficult question with no ultimate resolution. For there is, on the one hand, some relationship between the recognized quality of the institution and the work that is likely to be done there, given the effort and resources that go into recruitment and selection of students and faculty; on the other hand, a bias that intrudes between the particular qualifications of the scholar and the merit of the proposal runs a real risk of unfairness. The book that has resulted from these inquiries is not lively reading, but worth serious attention. At the same time, it will not be widely read or easily digested by many. Lamont's best prescription for improving the quality of the work that is done by many conscientious people is to raise the issue and focus the attention of scholars on their own practices and expectations. "Know thyself" remains good advice. An administrator reading the volume thinks about ways in which the unacknowledged forces that influence judgment can be made part of broader discussion, the better to improve the quality of judgment within institutions and beyond their walls. The topic deserves to remain open and remain the subject of continuing discussion. Table of Contents: 1. Opening the black box of peer review 2. How panels work 3. On disciplinary cultures 4. Pragmatic fairness: customary rules of deliberation 5. Recognizing various kinds of excellence 6. Considering interdisciplinarity and diversity 7. Implications in the United States and abroad. BMCR, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 15 05:28:06 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 6025730329; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C5D9C30316; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090915052802.C5D9C30316@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.298 events: storytelling; medieval editing; happenings at the DHO; editing Ulysses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 298. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Bonnett (21) Subject: cfp: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association [2] From: Shawn Day (48) Subject: DHO Autumn 2009 Event Schedule [3] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (13) Subject: Colloquium on editing Ulysses - CFP [4] From: Dot Porter (44) Subject: FINAL CFP: Collaborative Editing and Handwriting Recognition inmedieval studies, Kzoo 2010 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:50:23 +0100 From: John Bonnett Subject: cfp: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Hello, For those who are interested, the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association generally runs at the same time as the annual meeting of SDH-SEMI, and presents an added opportunity to present a paper during the Congress. If anyone is interested in proposing a panel for the Concordia conference, the Canadian Committee for History and Computing would be happy to sponsor it. Contact myself (jbonnett@brocku.ca) or Kevin Kee (kkee@brocku.ca), and we will submit the panel proposal on your behalf and indicate that we are sponsoring it. Please note that the deadline for proposals is much earlier than it is for SDH-SEMI, 30 October 2009. With best wishes, -- John Bonnett LE FRANÇAIS SUIT Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Concordia University 2010 “TELLING STORIES/STORYTELLING” Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of communication. In telling stories about the past, historians, novelists, playwrights, teachers, museum curators, film makers, artists, illustrators, musicians, and public historians (to name just a few) engage in the task of making sense of “histories” that are often violent, always contradictory, and endlessly fascinating. These stories matter; for what is being told, how it is being told, and what is being left unsaid shapes our sense of place, community and nation, indeed our very sense of self. What was the place of stories and storytelling in the past? To whom were these stories told, and why? Whose stories were they? How do people construct stories about themselves and others? In what voice are these stories being told? How are stories passed through the generations? Which narrative conventions govern the process of storytelling? How does storytelling draw lines of inclusion and exclusion? What is the relationship between storytelling and collective memory? How does audience shape what is said and not said? How do we as historians tell stories about the past and to whom? In which ways can stories of the past be told in art, documentary media and practice, performance, museum exhibition, classroom pedagogy, and other digital environments? When, and how, can the act of “telling stories” become a catalyst for political action and social change? The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association invites proposals in French and English from a broad range of disciplines and projects. In keeping with the Congress theme for 2010 “Connected Understanding/Savoir branché,” we are interested in connecting scholars working in different fields and in exploring the ties between university researchers and public audiences beyond the academic world. Panel proposals for sessions that forge connections between disciplines are particularly welcome, as are proposals that embrace unconventional ways of “telling stories” about the past (such as historical displays, performances, storytelling circles, audioscapes, and memoryscapes) or bring together scholars at different stages of their careers. You are invited to submit a 250-350 word proposal and a one-page curriculum vitae. In your submission, please indicate if you are proposing an individual presentation or a panel session, or intend to communicate your research findings in another way. We welcome session proposals, but do reserve the right to break up panels. Prospective presenters are encouraged to become members of the CHA. Please submit your proposal at shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 30 October 2009. For further information, please contact Barbara Lorenzkowski, Co-Programme Chair, 2010 Annual Meeting of the CHA at shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. (In the preliminary schedule of the Congress 2010, the CHA has been scheduled to meet from Sunday, 30 May to Tuesday, 1st June. The final conference dates will be posted on the CHA website by early October.) Congrès annuel de la Société historique du Canada Université Concordia 2010 « RACONTER DES HISTOIRES / L’ART DE CONTER » Raconter des histoires est un des plus anciens modes de communication. En racontant des histoires sur le passé, les historiens, les romanciers, les dramaturges, les enseignants, les conservateurs de musée, les cinéastes, les artistes, les illustrateurs, les musiciens, et les historiens publics, pour n’en nommer que quelques-uns, participent tous à la tâche de donner du sens aux « histoires » qui sont parfois violentes, toujours contradictoires et qui n’en finissent pas de nous fasciner. Ces histoires ont de l’importance car, ce qu’elles racontent, comment elles sont racontées, et ce qui est non-dit, définissent notre place dans le temps, notre sentiment de communauté, notre appartenance nationale et même notre identité proprement dite. Quelle place réservait-on aux histoires et à l’art de conter dans le passé? A qui racontait-on ces histoires et pourquoi? A qui appartenaient-elles? Comment les gens construisent-ils des histoires d’eux-mêmes et des autres? Quelle tonalité leur donne t’on? Comment transmet-on une histoire d’une génération à l’autre? Quelles conventions narratives dictent l’approche par laquelle on se raconte? Comment ces histoires déterminent-elles les normes d’inclusion et d’exclusion? Quel rapport y a-t-il entre le fait de se raconter et la mémoire collective? Comment l’auditoire transforme-t-elle ce qui est dit et ce qui est laissé sous silence? Nous, historiens, comment et à qui racontons-nous les histoires du passé? Quelles méthodes pourraient être utilisées afin de raconter les histoires du passé par le biais des arts, de la pratique médiatique du documentaire, de la performance, des expositions de musée, de la pédagogie scolaire, et de tout autre moyen digital? Quand et comment est-ce-que raconter des histoires devient-il un catalyseur d’action politique et de changement social? Les organisateurs du congrès 2010 de la Société historique du Canada lancent une invitation à ceux qui sont impliqués dans une variété de projets dans diverses disciplines, en français et en anglais, à nous soumettre leurs idées. En accord avec le thème du congrès pour 2010 « Connected Understanding /Savoir branché », nous cherchons à créer des connections entre les érudits qui travaillent dans divers domaines et à explorer les liens entre les chercheurs universitaires et le grand publique au-delà du milieu académique. Nous apprécierions particulièrement les soumissions pour des ateliers de discussions qui formeraient de nouvelles connections entre les diverses disciplines, celles qui offriraient des moyens moins conventionnels de raconter les histoires du passé (tel que les expositions, les performances, les cercles de raconteurs, des montages audio et numériques) et celles qui rassembleraient les érudits qui en seraient à divers stades dans leur carrière. Vous êtes invité à envoyer une soumission de 250 à 300 mots et un curriculum vitae d’une page. Veuillez indiquer sur votre soumission s’il s’agit d’une présentation individuelle, d’un sujet pour un atelier de discussion ou si vous avez l’intention de présenter les conclusions de vos recherches d’une autre façon. Bien que nous apprécions toutes les soumissions, nous nous réservons le droit de restructurer les groupes de discussions. Nous encourageons ceux qui voudraient faire une présentation à s’enregistrer comme membre de la SHC. Veuillez soumettre votre proposition au shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. La date de tombée pour les soumissions est le 30 octobre 2009. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez contacter Barbara Lorenzkowski, coprésidente de la programmation du Congrès annuel 2010 de la Société historique du Canada au shc_cha@alcor.concordia.ca. (Le programme préliminaire du Congrès 2010 indique que la Réunion annuelle de la SHC aura lieu du dimanche 30 mai au mardi 1 juin. Les dates exactes de la réunion seront affichées sur le Web de la SHA au début du mois d’octobre.) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:02 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DHO Autumn 2009 Event Schedule The Digital Humanities Observatory is pleased to announce its Autumn 2009 Event Series. Please browse to http://dho.ie/events for more information on the following lectures, workshops and symposia. Where registration is required or recommended, a link will be available on our event pages when registration opens. We hope to see you out at any of these events. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at: http://dho.ie/contact The Digital Humanities Observatory Autumn Event Schedule October 5 DHO Digital Humanities Symposium Location: St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin Time: 16:00 - 17:30 This symposium will explore current trends in digital humanities research within Ireland and abroad. The symposium will demonstrate the role of the Digital Humanities Observatory and ways that it can assist digital humanities scholarship. Current digital projects will be showcased and challenges shared to encourage discussion. ******************************** October 14 Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Science and the IRCHSS DARIAH Steering Committee Present: Digital Humanities - New Frontiers In conjunction with Dublin Innovation Week, the IRCHSS presents Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice-President of Research, Microsoft followed by a panel discussion with Professor Martin Curley, Director, Intel Labs Europe and Dr. MArie Wallace, Senior Development Manager, IBM. There will also be a poster session and presentations from Irish higher-education digital humanities projects. This is a ticket-only event. Please contact Maria O'Brien (mobrien@irchss.ie) to register. ******************************** October 16 Innovation Week Dublin: Recreating Research, Art and Education in Shared Virtual Worlds Location: Dublin City Council, Wood Quay, Dublin Time: 15:00 - 17:00 This thought-provoking lecture by Dr Hugh Denard of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London will explore how Shared Virtual Environments are stimulating innovative research, educational and artistic practice, engendering new kinds of interactions, engaging new audiences and posing new challenges. This talk will be presented as part of Innovation Week Dublin and will be simultaneously presented in Second Life. ******************************** October 19 Digital Workshop: Audio Digitisation and Metadata Location: Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Time: 10:00 - 16:00 The RIA Library and the DHO offer a one-day audio workshop devoted to online audio web publication and the archiving of audio files. The workshop is aimed at those currently engaged in digital audio archival work and those interested in doing so. It focuses on the implementation of metadata within audio projects. ******************************** November 5 DHO Workshop: Using Databases for Humanities Research Location: Trinity College Dublin Time: 9:30 - 15:30 Humanities scholarship increasingly relies on the gathering and analysis of large amounts of data. Choosing the most appropriate means to contextualise, organise and store data is a key challenge facing digital humanities researchers today. This workshop will provide an introduction to the concepts, techniques and technology for using the entity-relationship model to organise and manage humanities research data. Participants will gain a basic understanding of data architecture and management principles. ******************************** November 12 NIVAL Symposium in Conjunction with IVARO and the DHO: Art and Design, Digitisation and Intellectual Property Symposium Location: NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Time: 10:15 - 17:00 This seminar will explore issues surrounding the acquisition, retention and dissemination of art and design digital content, which is within the copyright term, by archives, libraries and repositories, and its use in teaching, learning and research. It will provide a forum where the practical requirements of artists and designers and the wider research community can be explored by bringing together a group of experts in the field of intellectual property in the Irish context . Digital Humanities Observatory Regus Pembroke House, 30 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2 +353 1 234 2518 Fax +353 1 234 2400 In most cases advance registration is required. Please see the DHO website for more details on these and other upcoming events -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:50:10 +0100 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Colloquium on editing Ulysses - CFP The Institute of English Studies (University of London) is hosting “Ulysses: 25 Years of the Critical and Synoptic Edition – a One-Day Colloquium” on Friday, 6 November 2009. Confirmed speakers include Hans Walter Gabler, J.C.C. Mays, Luca Crispi and Alistair McLeery. If anyone is interested in giving a paper at this event, they should send their suggestions to me off-list at wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk. The purpose of the colloquium is to evaluate the 25 years since the publication of this edition, which was heralded as a radically new. What has been the effect of its editorial rationales on textual scholarship? Has the edition lived up to its reputation? What has been the effect on the (non-)appearance of other editions by John Kidd, Danis Rose, Jeri Johnson? Speakers are encouraged to address in the first instance the editorial aspects of Gabler’s three-volume edition but any other aspect of the textual, bibliographical and book-historical makeup of James Joyce’s Ulysses can be discussed as well. For more information about the colloquium, and on how to register, please visit the Institute website at ies.sas.ac.uk/events, where details will be posted shortly. Wim Dr Wim Van Mierlo Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House, Rm 237 Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:44:46 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: FINAL CFP: Collaborative Editing and Handwriting Recognition inmedieval studies, Kzoo 2010 In-Reply-To: <96f3df640909140242y59c4676bx1edd0e5e4ba79d07@mail.gmail.com> **We are still looking for papers for both sessions, please respond ASAP if you are interested in participating in either session** The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009. See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies.  Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies.  This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration.  Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Wed Sep 16 05:23:00 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 964362F393; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDB2C2F380; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:22:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090916052256.BDB2C2F380@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.299 announcements: I-CHASS awards; HASTAC doings X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 299. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (71) Subject: Look what's happening at HASTAC.org! [2] From: I-CHASS (14) Subject: Peter Bajcsy and I-CHASS Awarded Two NSF Grants --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:19 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: Look what's happening at HASTAC.org! /NancyKimberly has sent you a group e-mail from HASTAC./ *If you haven't been to www.hastac.org [1] recently, here's what you're missing: * --Over 100 HASTAC Scholars and other HASTAC network members blogging and posting information about the latest in their research and region. [2] And informed commentary too. --Progress reports by Digital Media and Learning Competition Winners [3] from around the globe. --Information about jobs, fellowships, [4] conferences, [5]publications across many fields, in and outside the academy --and more. Our energetic community (nearly 3000 strong) is making www.hastac.org [6] the place to post and find information. Any network member can post. Browsers welcome! * * * A sampling of recent blog posts on www.hastac.org [7]: Breakthrough on Open Access [8] How to Crowdsource Grading [9] Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? [10] Respecting and Perspectivizing the Humanities [11] Interactive Audience Measurement [12] Digital Storage as Environmental Nightmare? [13] Viral Sounds [14] New Project: A Script for Distant Reading [15] Organizing Playpower Volunteers Around Open Technology [16] Facebooking Your Way In and Out of Tenure [17] The Highs and Lows of Social Media for Children [18] Reasons Facebook Beat MySpace [19] The President and the "YouTube Age" [20] Five Computer Skills for the Aspiring Digital Humanist [21] In Your Dreams: Timothy Burke's 21st Century College [22] Linux, Learning, and Sugar Kids [23] Reactions to Emergence [24] A Blog-o-festo: The Engaged Humanities Scholar as Public Intellectual [25] I Want a Wingnut Alert --And One for Moonbats Too [26] [1] http://www.hastac.org [2] http://www.hastac.org/blog [3] http://www.hastac.org/dml-competitions/2009 [4] http://www.hastac.org/news_opportunities [5] http://www.hastac.org/events [6] http://www.hastac.org [7] http://www.hastac.org [8] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/breakthrough-open-access [9] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/how-crowdsource-grading [10] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/gerrycanavan/it-ok-be-luddite [11] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michaelkramer/respecting-and-perspectivizing-humanities [12] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/etussey/interactive-audience-measurement [13] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/lisa-klarr/digital-storage-environmental-nightmare [14] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/matt-straus/viral-sounds [15] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/jed/new-project-script-distant-reading [16] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/jeremydouglass/organizing-playpower-volunteers-around-open-technology [17] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/gerrycanavan/facebooking-your-way-and-out-tenure [18] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/juneahn/highs-and-lows-social-media-children [19] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michael-widner/reasons-facebook-beat-myspace [20] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/mikenutt/president-and-youtube-age [21] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/visconti/five-computer-skills-aspiring-digital-humanist [22] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michaelkramer/your-dreams-timothy-burkes-21st-century-college [23] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michael-widner/linux-learning-and-sugar-kids [24] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/harrisonhastac/reactions-emergence [25] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/michaelkramer/blog-o-festo-engaged-humanities-scholar-public-intellectual [26] http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/i-want-wingnut-alert-and-one-moonbats-too -- [1] http://HASTAC.org/user --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:02:07 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Peter Bajcsy and I-CHASS Awarded Two NSF Grants [http://hosting.bronto.com/9193/public/i-chass-logo.png] The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that two projects have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation. The projects are led by the principal investigator, Dr. Peter Bajcsy, I-CHASS’s Associate Director for Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and co-principal investigators, Dr. Anne D. Hedeman, professor of Art and History in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Dr. Kevin Franklin, the Executive Director of I-CHASS, and Dr. Karen Fresco, associate professor in French and Medieval Studies at UIUC. Awarded $128,381, the Virtual Vellum project is a collaboration between I-CHASS, NCSA, the Art History, French and Medieval Studies programs at the University of Illinois, the Worldwide Universities Network, and the United Kingdom’s University of Sheffield. The team of scholars and researchers are working together to develop cyber tools for analyzing the visual imagery embedded in several early manuscripts of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, which have been successfully digitalized and mounted on the web, and to develop cyber tools for analyzing the visual imagery embedded in these manuscripts. Their goal is to provide insight into both the construction of these specific Froissart manuscripts, and more broadly, the functioning of the medieval Parisian book trade. They will make the tools developed available on a website shared by NCSA and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, with Virtual Vellum at the University of Sheffield, and with the Worldwide Universities Network. The project team will be working with collaborators Dr. Peter Ainsworth and Dr. Michael Meredith from the University of Sheffield to establish a unique cross-Atlantic resource for the community of humanists. Funding of $24,845 has also been awarded for I-CHASS to host a workshop on Imaging and Image Analyses. Designed to facilitate education, training and information exchange among multiple scientific disciplines, this workshop will bring together representatives from academic institutions in the United States and abroad. Humanists, social scientists, and artists will be paired with computer scientists at the workshop in order to present complementary views on topics related to imaging and image analyses of historical objects. The intent of the workshop is to examine the process of going from actual physical objects to digital objects made available via the Internet and the related process of enabling computer assisted learning over large digital collections for education and research. The overarching goal of the workshop will be to understand the challenges associated with imaging and image analyses that are inherent in this process, as well as solutions, needs and opportunities for further research. ________________________________ This email was sent to willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk by Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) National Center for Supercomputing Applications | Urbana Forward to a friend | Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe [http://appstatic.bronto.com/poweredby.gif] ______________________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:54:24 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: September/October 2009 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The September/October 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, two conference and workshop 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 Volunteer Voices, courtesy of Kenneth Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University, and Tiffani Conner, Lincoln Memorial University. The articles include: Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR) Gail Steinhart and Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University; and Ann Green, Yale University Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs Ioannis Papadakis and Michalis Stefanidakis, University of Ionio; and Konstantinos Kyprianos and Rosa Mavropodi, University of Piraeus Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives Bart Ooghe, Heritage Cell Waasland; and Dries Moreels, Flemish Theatre Institute (BE) OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany Uwe Mueller, Robin Malitz, and Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin; and Thomas Severiens, Universitat Osnabruck Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula R.S.R.Varalakshmi, Andhra University The Conference and Workshop Reports are: Report on OAI 6: CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva 17-19 June 2009 Elena Giglia, University of Turin Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions: The Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival 2009 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 September/October 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 Sep 16 05:26:15 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 B31212F48B; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:26:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ED1F22F477; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:26:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090916052611.ED1F22F477@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:26:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.301 "Graceful Degradation" survey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 301. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:29:03 +0100 From: Dot Porter Subject: "Graceful Degradation" survey - reminder SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Graceful Degradation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects in Times of Transition and Decline First announced at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference and presented at Digital Humanities in the Resources and Arts conference, the "Graceful Degradation" survey is now open through the end of September at: http://graceful-degradation.questionpro.com/ This is a survey of the digital humanities community -- broadly conceived -- on project management in times of transition and decline, and what we see as the causes and outcomes of those times. We invite participation by anyone who has worked on a digital project in or related to the humanities. Decline is a pressing issue for digital scholarship because of the tendency of our projects to be open ended. One could argue that digital projects are, by nature, in a continual state of transition or decline. What happens when the funding runs out, or the original project staff move on or are replaced? What happens when intellectual property rests with a collaborator or an institution that does not wish to continue the work? How, individually and as a community, do we weather changes in technology, the patterns of academic research, the vagaries of our sponsoring institutions? "Graceful Degradation" is being conducted by Bethany Nowviskie of the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab in the United States and Dot Porter of the Digital Humanities Observatory in Ireland. The survey will run through September 2009. Full summary results will be presented and published in summer 2010. All responses are held confidential, unless specific permission to identify people and projects has been granted. Participants will have the option to grant this permission at the end of the survey. We encourage your participation and look forward to sharing the results of the survey! Please contact degrade.gracefully@gmail.com if you have any questions. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Wed Sep 16 05:57:06 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 6B3322F731; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA6542F729; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090916055704.EA6542F729@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 302. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:56:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: fears and desires Some here may have read earlier this year an attention-grabbing story in the New York Times, for 26 July, "Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man", www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html. It reports on a conference of AI folks, held at the Asilomar conference site in California, in February 2009, a preliminary report of which may be found on the AAAI site, www.aaai.org/Organization/Panel/panel-note.pdf. Whatever else one may say about this, the mere fact that it would happen is significant. I ran across the report of this event thanks to Pamela McCorduck, whose book, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979; rev edn 2003), is very much worth the candle -- not only for the transcripts of interviews she held with some of the major figures in AI all those years ago but also for the balance she strikes between documentary and reflective writing. Her chapters entitled "Us and Them" (8) and "L'Affaire Dreyfus" (9) shed more light than most attempts I've encountered to deal with people's fears and articles of faith concerning what computing machines are capable of. That the fears are not generational, not an artefact of the time when machines were first coming into public view and getting so thoroughly involved in the Cold War, is strongly suggested by the Asilomar event. I'd say we have simply dozed off in our comfortable chairs with our warm laptops silently at the ready. The polarization among smart people as well as not so smart, between those who wave the garlic and those who embrace the faith, makes me wonder what happened to true agnosticism. Must we commit to advance? 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 Sep 18 05:49:39 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 B60F43AE66; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB83C3AE58; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090918054936.DB83C3AE58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:49:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.303 fears and desires X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 303. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sterling Fluharty (85) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires [2] From: renata lemos (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:24:53 -0600 From: Sterling Fluharty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires In-Reply-To: <20090916055704.EA6542F729@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, In light of your recent discoveries, are you exploring popular culture for evidence of how fears of and faith in intelligent machines have been fueled throughout and since the cold war? Why should scientists and the public be agnostic about the goals of artificial intelligence? Is the pace of technological advancement over the last century not reason enough to expect that scientists are moving closer to making machines intelligent? Or should we be skeptical when scientists put their faith in hypotheses which are not yet based on observable phenomenon? What is the difference between ambivalence and agnosticism when it comes to evaluating the hopes and dreams of the artificial intelligence community? Lastly, can we afford to remain armchair digital humanists when the well being, if not the very lives, of some humans may be at stake? Best wishes, Sterling Fluharty University of New Mexico --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:23:50 -0300 From: renata lemos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.302 fears and desires In-Reply-To: <20090916055704.EA6542F729@woodward.joyent.us> agnosticism is sounding buddhist to me! : ) On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 302. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:56:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: fears and desires > > Some here may have read earlier this year an attention-grabbing story in > the New York Times, for 26 July, "Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart > Man", www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html. It reports on a > conference of AI folks, held at the Asilomar conference site in > California, in February 2009, a preliminary report of which may be found > on the AAAI site, www.aaai.org/Organization/Panel/panel-note.pdf. > Whatever else one may say about this, the mere fact that it would happen > is significant. > > I ran across the report of this event thanks to Pamela McCorduck, whose > book, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and > Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979; rev edn 2003), is very much > worth the candle -- not only for the transcripts of interviews she held > with some of the major figures in AI all those years ago but also for > the balance she strikes between documentary and reflective writing. Her > chapters entitled "Us and Them" (8) and "L'Affaire Dreyfus" (9) shed > more light than most attempts I've encountered to deal with people's > fears and articles of faith concerning what computing machines are > capable of. > > That the fears are not generational, not an artefact of the time when > machines were first coming into public view and getting so thoroughly > involved in the Cold War, is strongly suggested by the Asilomar event. > I'd say we have simply dozed off in our comfortable chairs with our warm > laptops silently at the ready. > > The polarization among smart people as well as not so smart, between > those who wave the garlic and those who embrace the faith, makes me > wonder what happened to true agnosticism. Must we commit to advance? > > 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. > -- 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 Fri Sep 18 05:50:25 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 6E26F3AEFE; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F3363AEF6; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090918055023.8F3363AEF6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.304 usage rights for images X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 304. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:49:19 -0500 From: William Allen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.291 usage rights for images? In-Reply-To: <20090912080955.028664278@woodward.joyent.us> I use PhotoShop and the Bridge function allows lengthy annotation; even has a special block for copyright notice. Were I doing your project that is what I would use. In Windows file browser I think that you can see the exif information for an image (usually name of camera, date, etc.) but I think that you may add information of your own. My Mac "Finder" has a place to add a Spotlight comment. These are ways of putting information with or inside the image file. For a publishing project a database or spreadsheet might be easier to use. The challenge would be to have precise location/file name information for each image. _____ William Allen Prof. Art History On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 291. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:35:45 -0400 > From: "Markus Wust" > Subject: Recording usage rights for images in digital projects > > > Dear list members, > > a project that I am working on (http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu) is using > many images provided to us by third parties (other institutions, private > contributors, etc.). I wanted to ask those of you who are (or have been > involved) with similar projects about how you are handling the management of > rights, i.e., keeping track of who provided the images, any restrictions > they have imposed on image usage, etc. What tools are you using > (spreadsheets, databases, ...) and are you using any specific encoding > standards to records this information (e.g., METSRights)? > > Thank you, > Markus Wust > Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian > NCSU Libraries > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 18 05:52:34 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 9D0AB3AF9A; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:52:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42B493AF93; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:52:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090918055233.42B493AF93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:52:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.305 new publications: communicating knowledge; vision X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 305. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing" (54) Subject: GLIMPSE vols 2.1 and 2.2, "China Vision, Parts I and II" now available [2] From: "Gentleman, Sarah" (19) Subject: Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:58:33 -0700 From: "GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing" Subject: GLIMPSE vols 2.1 and 2.2, "China Vision, Parts I and II" now available GLIMPSE vols 2.1 and 2.2, "China Vision, Parts I and II" are now available at http://www.glimpsejournal.com GLIMPSE is a quarterly, interdisciplinary 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 essays,interviews, and reviews spanning the physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. "China Vision, Part II" vol 2.2, summer 2009 -The Dandelion School Transformation Project: A Conversation with Lily Yeh -Politically and Geographically Colorful: Revolution, Regime and Color in China, by Han-Teng Liao, D.Phil. candidate -What Will Happen Next? Envisioning a Personal Future in China, Dr. Charles Stafford -Myth and Modernity, Mary Ting, artist -Retro(spect): On Chinese Divination by Dissecting Written Characters, by J.J.M de Groot -Situ Panchen, 1700-1774: Tibetan Encampment Revivalist Painter, Glimpse interviews Dr. David Jackson -Seeing History: Rediscovering the Art of Tibet Through Modern Imaging Technology, by Dr. Chandra Reedy -(Re)View:"Mahjong" at the Peabody Essex Museum (art exhibit), by Lauren Cross -(Re)Views: "Not One Less" and "Green Snakes" (films), by Ivy Moylan "China Vision, Part I" vol 2.1, spring 2009 -Between Text and Image: The Ambiguity of Chinese Written Characters, by Dr. Yuehping Yen -Are Chinese Characters Modern Enough? An Essay on Their Role Online, by Han-Teng Liao, D.Phil. candidate -Retro(spect): Chinese Magic Mirrors in "Chinese Art, Volume I" (1914), Dr. S.W. Bushell -Harvesting Cosmic Spectra: China's Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), by M. Hurst with C. Arcabascio and N. Giroux -East Meets West, by Yang Liu, graphic designer -Show Me the Yuan, Dr. Alan Baumler -Design for Commerce: Chinese Label Art for Common Goods, by Andrew Cahan, collector -Desire of the Other: Perceptions of Beauty in Modern China, by Dr. William Jankowiak and Dr. Peter Gray -(Re)View: "Chinese Ghost Story" and "Frozen" (films), by Andy Hughes -Chinatown, Boston, MA, 1993, Anthony Owens, photographer ________________________________________ Contribute your work Upcoming issues: o Visions (due 10.15.09) o Cartography (due 11.15.09) o http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:05:39 +0100 From: "Gentleman, Sarah" Subject: Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings A new report Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings. The report highlights the need for more consistent and effective guidance from funders and higher educational institutions. If they wish to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must give stronger and more positive messages about how those channels will be valued when it comes to assessing researchers’ performance they must give stronger and more positive messages about how those channels will be valued when it comes to assessing researchers’ performance. The rise in investment in research over the last ten years has been accompanied by an increasing emphasis on measuring, assessing and evaluating research, its outputs and impact. Commissioned by the RIN in conjunction with JISC, this report investigates how researchers’ perceptions of how they are being assessed affects their decisions on when, where and how to publish and disseminate their findings. It demonstrates the significant variations between researchers in different disciplines not only in the dissemination channels they use, but also in their patterns of collaboration (and how they acknowledge the contributions that members of a team have made), and in how they decide cite the work of others. All these patterns of behaviour are changing, in part as a result of technological developments. And there are signs that the citation practices, for example, of younger researchers are different from those of their more senior colleagues. But the readiness with which outputs in the form of scholarly journal articles can be assessed and measured has underpinned their increasing dominance over all other forms of publication and dissemination. Researchers’ perceptions and understanding of the messages they receive from funders and from universities may often be mistaken, but they influence what researchers publish and how, and they give rise to real concerns. Many researchers see a damaging tension between their desire to communicate via channels which enable them to reach and influence their intended audiences – often beyond academia – as rapidly as possible, and the pressures to publish in high-status journals. Changes in assessment procedures, whether via the Research Excellence Framework (REF) or from other sources, will change researchers’ behaviour further. Many are already considering citing their colleagues’ work more often. The report provides important evidence for funders and policy makers, as well as for the research community, in the continuing consultations about the future mechanisms for assessing research performance. It also shows that it is necessary for this to be an ongoing process to keep monitoring the changes in technology and research practices. It is important that changes in those mechanisms are based on a detailed understanding of both the behaviours and the motivations of researchers across the full range of disciplines and subjects. The report and a briefing are available at www.rin.ac.uk/communicating-knowledge A short podcast interviewing Michael Jubb, Director of the RIN and Neil Jacobs, Programme Manager Information Environment at JISC is also available at www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/09/podcast88communicatingknowledge.aspx ------------ Sarah Gentleman Communications Officer Research Information Network 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB telephone: 020 7412 7241 Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/research_inform RIN Facebook group http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/City-of-London-United-Kingdom/Research-Information-Network/29441497954 email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk website: www.rin.ac.uk Listen to our podcasts at www.rin.ac.uk/podcasts _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 18 05:54:56 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 BAB433A034; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:54:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AFB2E3A027; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:54:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090918055454.AFB2E3A027@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:54:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.306 events: language; ontology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 306. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" (99) Subject: Final CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009): Papers due 25September 2009 [2] From: Carlos Areces (103) Subject: Call for Bids, ESSLLI 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:47:28 +0100 From: "Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au" Subject: Final CFP: Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009): Papers due 25September 2009 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009) 1 December 2009 Held in Conjunction with the 22nd Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009 AOW 2009 is the fifth in a series of workshops on ontologies held in the Australasian region. The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontology models and theories - Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Interoperability in ontologies - Ontologies and Multi-agent systems - Description logics for ontologies - Reasoning with ontologies - Ontology harvesting on the web - Ontology of agents and actions - Ontology visualisation - Ontology engineering and management - Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval - Ontology merging, alignment and integration - Web ontology languages - Formal concept analysis and ontologies - Ontologies for e-research - Linking open data - Significant ontology applications The proceedings of the four previous workshops were published as volumes in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series (http://crpit.com/), and this will again be the case for AOW 2009. As with the previous workshops, we are investigating the possibility of extended versions of selected papers appearing in a special issue of a suitable journal. Submission information such as format etc. can be found on the CRPIT website: http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. The page limit is 10 pages. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 25 September 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 October 2009 Camera-ready copies due: 13 November 2009 AOW 2009: 1 December 2009 [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:41:30 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: Call for Bids, ESSLLI 2011 ************************************************ * Call for Bids to Host the 23-th ESSLLI, 2011 * ************************************************ www.folli.org/ The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 23-nd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), to be held in August 2011. *** 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 500 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 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 20 08:18:29 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 1B8703BB74; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7A3F3BB58; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090920081826.D7A3F3BB58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.307 new on WWW: TextGrid Newsletter X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 307. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:22:48 +0100 From: "Neuroth, Heike" Subject: TextGrid Newsletter 06 *** English version below *** Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des TextGrid Summits, wir freuen uns Ihnen heute den neuen TextGrid-Newsletter präsentieren zu können: http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter.html TextGrid startet mit neuen Fachcommunities in eine zweite Projektphase bis Mai 2012. In diesem Newsletter möchten wir Sie sowohl über den TextGrid Summit und die Veröffentlichung der TextGridLab Beta informieren, als auch einen Ausblick auf die kommende Projektlaufzeit geben, die am 1. Juni 2009 begonnen hat. Diese Ausgabe enthält Informationen zu folgenden Themen: * Zweite Projektphase von TextGrid bewilligt * Rückblick TextGrid Summit * TextGridLab Beta Release * Kooperationen * Veranstaltungsberichte * Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen Der Newsletter wird von den TextGrid-Partnern kooperativ erstellt. Sie können ihn auf der TextGrid-Homepage unter http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter/abonnieren.html abonnieren, bzw. sich davon abmelden. Dort haben Sie auch Zugriff auf alle früheren Newsletter (http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter/archiv.html). Freundliche Grüße, Heike Neuroth ********************************** Dear Colleagues, dear participants of the TextGrid Summit, today, we are pleased to present you the sixth TextGrid Newsletter: http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter.html TextGrid has just begun a second project phase through May 2012 with new interdisciplinary communities. In this Newsletter we want to inform you about the TextGrid Summit and the release of our software TextGridLab Beta, as well as to give you a preview on the new project phase which has started on June 1 2009. In this edition you will find information on the following topics: * Second project phase of TextGrid funded * A Look Back at the TextGrid Summit * TextGridLab Beta Release * Cooperation * Latest Events * Recent Publications The newsletter is a joint effort of all TextGrid partners. You can subscribe to it on the TextGrid website (http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter/subscribe.html). This page also contains an archive of past newsletters (http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter/archive.html). Sincerely, Heike Neuroth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 20 08:31:27 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 1FC5A3A256; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 18E213A247; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090920083124.18E213A247@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:31:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.309 "digital" = "hot"? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 309. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:28:51 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "digital" = "hot"? Recently, while walking up the local high road (main street) of the working-class suburban London village where I live, I spotted a sign that reads as follows: DIGITAL CAMERAS DIGITAL BATTERIES DIGITAL MEDIA A photo of this sign is, of course, already in the Dictionary of Words in the Wild, as http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~dictionary/show/4634. But I draw your attention to it for philological reasons, for the middle phrase, "digital batteries". Ok, we do know what this actually means in technically defensible terms, i.e. "batteries for digital devices". But that is not what it actually says. As far as I know, batteries cannot be digital, and in any case, if they were, the folks in this neighbourhood wouldn't have a clue. What I sense is the use of "digital" as a transcendental virtue, synonymous with "hot", say, in the vernacular sense. Are there other occurrences anyone here has noticed of "digital" being used in that way? 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 Sep 21 05:51:07 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 42E493BA35; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8004E3BA23; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:51:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090921055104.8004E3BA23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:51:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.310 digital/hot X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 310. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:15:04 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.309 "digital" = "hot"? > folks in this neighbourhood wouldn't have a clue Really? Really? Have we really come no distance at all in humanistic work that we still manage to cast dispersions on people we don't even know? I would have thought that digital humanities, which at its best opens up possibilities for a larger, more inclusive study of human meaning-making, would be the first to trample over the usual stereotypes about working-class this or rural that. I recognize that the term "digital humanities" is an awkwardly pitched tent that includes within its flaps not only what was/is humanities computing but also the various emergences of digital media in humanities research and communications. For this reason, I would hope that we would recognize at least the utility, cum expediency, of being inclusive if not the principled reason for being so. As I continue my own work into a group of men who invented an amphibious folk boat 25 years ago, I spend a lot of time thinking about tools, their uses, and their meanings. I had hoped that all these discussions about tools and prototypes as theories would have opened up our own imaginations to thinking about how tools create possibilities, offer the possibility for revising a worldview. It seems, in our own case, that our tools and our discussions about them have failed us. Our world seems no larger than it was before. -- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 laudun@louisiana.edu http://johnlaudun.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 Sep 22 05:58:50 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 41B963B0A6; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E66163B097; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090922055848.E66163B097@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 311. 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: digital/hot [2] From: Peter Organisciak (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.310 digital/hot --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:32:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital/hot Thanks to John Laudun for pointing out that my remarks could be read as insensitive if not inhumane. Hence my apologies for what they might seem to imply about an attitude toward the people here. What I intended to say as groundwork for the question I asked about the current meaning of "digital" was that in this particular village (which has been working-class since the great change in population that followed the coming of the railroad in the late 19C), socio-economic conditions are as good as one could get in this country to study commonly accepted meanings of words. The chances that anyone here would read signs with the peculiar mindset I take myself to have are as close to nil as possible. I know the people who run the camera and photocopy shop whose sign I referred to, and they, being asked, had no idea what I was going on about. I daresay that if a linguist were to stroll about in central London looking for the multiple connotations of words on signs, he or she would be hard pressed to find anyone who had a clue. Right now I am wondering about how little clue my colleagues will have when I tell them about the Dictionary in a formal lecture I am due to give in the early Spring.... "Working class" is a commonly accepted term in these parts for an evident and not by any means always negative designation of how the folks here sort demographically. It was very interesting for me to discover on moving to this village 12 years ago how comfortable, indeed proud some of my neighbours were with that social designation. I expected quite otherwise. Life, it seems, is more complex than one thinks, or at least as I tend to think until corrected. So, this is a great place to study language in the mode of the Dictionary of Words in the Wild. And collecting for that Dictionary opens one's eyes to the relation between location and demography, for the appeals made to what various kinds of people desire. Advertising in Heathrow, for example, plays on a different scale of wants by means of much more consciously sophisticated language and graphics -- the designers responsible are, I would suppose, the best in the business. But the most interesting environment by far (at least to my taste) is the one I live in. In terms of the density of words it is far more literate than the posh neighbourhoods of the West End. (What, exactly, do we mean by literate?) For us digital humanists what's interesting is the world of others' words we are now able to construct. The words ARE others', the construction is the photographers'. So the philosophical problem framing this activity and the study that comes from it grows rapidly more interesting too. So what about "digital"? 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, 21 Sep 2009 14:26:18 -0600 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.310 digital/hot In-Reply-To: <20090921055104.8004E3BA23@woodward.joyent.us> John, I appreciate your passionate defense of the general population. However, it seems to be a bit misplaced in this context. The main question is whether "digital" has become an empty buzzword, intended to make the product it precedes sound more exciting. Willard's aside that there is, in fact, no such thing as "digital batteries" seems more to be proof of the throwaway nature of the word than a slanderous rumination on whether said imaginary product would be recognized by the general populace. (Of course, if there were such a thing, then the awareness that Willard and I lack would be telling...) Peter Organisciak On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 310. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:15:04 -0500 > From: John Laudun > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.309 "digital" = "hot"? > > > > folks in this neighbourhood wouldn't have a clue > > Really? Really? Have we really come no distance at all in humanistic > work that we still manage to cast dispersions on people we don't even > know? I would have thought that digital humanities, which at its best > opens up possibilities for a larger, more inclusive study of human > meaning-making, would be the first to trample over the usual > stereotypes about working-class this or rural that. I recognize that > the term "digital humanities" is an awkwardly pitched tent that > includes within its flaps not only what was/is humanities computing > but also the various emergences of digital media in humanities > research and communications. For this reason, I would hope that we > would recognize at least the utility, cum expediency, of being > inclusive if not the principled reason for being so. As I continue my > own work into a group of men who invented an amphibious folk boat 25 > years ago, I spend a lot of time thinking about tools, their uses, and > their meanings. I had hoped that all these discussions about tools and > prototypes as theories would have opened up our own imaginations to > thinking about how tools create possibilities, offer the possibility > for revising a worldview. It seems, in our own case, that our tools > and our discussions about them have failed us. Our world seems no > larger than it was before. > > -- > John Laudun > Department of English > University of Louisiana > Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 > laudun@louisiana.edu > http://johnlaudun.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 Sep 22 06:00:46 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 15B3F3B119; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CCF143B10C; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090922060043.CCF143B10C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.312 why ideas don't catch on X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 312. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:26:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: why ideas don't catch on Reviewing the crucial transition in the history of AI between comparing two sets of hardware (brain vs computer) to comparing to sets of functions (thinking vs information processing), Pamela McCorduck considers why the information processing model didn't catch on in the U.K. until the mid 1960s: > That's a curiosity, for it might seem now that the information > processing model for formalizing intelligent behavior had been > anticipated by workers in the 1940s, and was just waiting to be > seized by anyone with open eyes. Indeed, how was this approach to be > avoided? Those concerned were open-eyed people -- the Ratio Club in > London, the Teleological Society, and the Macy meetings in the United > States -- all devoted to the mathematical analysis of the nervous > system (and as Wiener notes, you cannot study the nervous system > without studying the mind), and the digital computer was at hand, a > medium for realizing all those formalisms shimmering with promise. > Surely psychologists and physiologists sang hosannas to celebrate the > possibility of a scientific solution to the mind-body problem and, > metaphorically speaking, hoisted to their shoulders these heroic > pioneers. She concludes, > No. Science is a human institution, and things don't work that way. > While some did leap at the new ideas and wanted to apply them to > everything under the sun, the evidence of the scientific journals is > that the new thinking was a long time being adopted, and that in fact > cybernetics had all but disappeared as a field by the time its > contributions were coming to be widely applied. (Machines Who Think, p. 68) I certainly hope that we don't all disappear by the time our ideas and institutional structures are widely adopted. But there is here a useful caution, that just because the ideas don't catch on does not mean that the fault lies with them! We pride ourselves with work which fundamentally changes things (or so we believe, and say). It's not surprising, I suppose, that there should be considerable resistance, esp from those who have the most to lose. 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 Sep 23 05:00:59 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 C4C873B65F; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 674EB3B63B; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20090923050055.674EB3B63B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.313 digital hot X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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. 23, No. 313. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: robert delius royar (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot [2] From: Wendell Piez (14) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:23:00 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot In-Reply-To: <20090922055848.E66163B097@woodward.joyent.us> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:26:18 -0600 Peter Organisciak wrote > > Willard's aside that there is, in fact, no > such thing as "digital batteries" seems more to be proof of the throwaway > nature of the word than a slanderous rumination on whether said imaginary > product would be recognized by the general populace. > > (Of course, if there were such a thing, then the awareness that Willard and > I lack would be telling...) Perhaps there is or will be. A Google search for "digital batteries" turned up the following (among 37,000+ hits): http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APS..MARY27013H Digital Batteries Hubler, Alfred American Physical Society, 2009 APS March Meeting, March 16-20, 2009, abstract #Y27.013 The energy density in conventional capacitors is limited by sparking. We present nano-capacitor arrays, where - like in laser diodes and quantum wells [1] - quantization prevents dielectric breakthrough. We show that the energy density and the power/weight ratio are very high, possibly larger than in hydrogen [2]. Digital batteries are a potential clean energy source for cars, laptops, and mobile devices. The technology is related to flash drives. However, because of the high energy density, safety is a concern. Digital batteries can be easily and safely charged and discharged. In the discharged state they pose no danger. Even if a charged digital battery were to explode, it would produce no radioactive waste, no long-term radiation, and probably could be designed to produce no noxious chemicals. We discuss methodologies to prevent shorts and other measures to make digital batteries safe. [1] H. Higuraskh, A. Toriumi, F. Yamaguchi, K. Kawamura, A. Hubler, Correlation Tunnel Device, U. S. Patent No. 5,679,961 (1997) [2] Alfred Hubler, http://server10.how-why.com/blog/ -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:46:38 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.311 digital hot In-Reply-To: <20090922055848.E66163B097@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, I'm not even sure there's no such thing as a "digital battery", and I was trained to be an "English professor". Cheers, Wendell ======================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 23 05:02:31 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 265773B6CC; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1BB843B6C3; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090923050227.1BB843B6C3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.314 resistance to new ideas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 314. 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 (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.312 why ideas don't catch on [2] From: Willard McCarty (23) Subject: more on resistance to new ideas --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:34:51 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.312 why ideas don't catch on In-Reply-To: <20090922060043.CCF143B10C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Maybe somewhat over provocative put: I thought this was kind of standard practice in academia? Isn't the whole sluggish peer system intended to stop good ideas from getting adopted unless welcomed by establishment - certainly in our field where the concept of 'proof' is still a hazardous contemplative area to go? I have a rather Darwinian take on this: if ideas fit a particular context they will eventually be adopted and maybe even practiced. So ideas that find large response might not actually be the best ideas (depending on your viewpoints and interests), but they certainly are most fitting their environment. The nice addition then is (in Darwinian sense) that ideas don't necessarily go extinct when not meeting their proper context immediately. Like seeds they may only be activated after numerous years. Until their time comes they just wait with everlasting patience on the paper of some journal in some forgotten corner of some library. And for all other practical purposes, until the survival of the fittest idea shows what actually is usable and of value, anyone doing research should regard his ideas as fundamentally brilliant to further the discussion. Best -- Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute IT R&D Team Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://snipurl.com/jvz_hi_en --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:13:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on resistance to new ideas In-Reply-To: <20090922060043.CCF143B10C@woodward.joyent.us> Nothing particularly new, or surprising, but perhaps useful just the same: more from Pamela McCorduck, specifically addressing the resistance to AI, and so to new ideas in science, but applicable quite generally. > What moves [science], what opens the universe for us, is a dogged > pursuit by committed individuals of a hunch, a theory, a feeling. If > this hunch runs against the prevailing beliefs, the theoretician can > expect skepticism, even such penalties as being removed from > committees or denied funds or a job. If lucky, our theoretician can > at least expect attack. If unlucky, he or she will be ignored > altogether. It takes an astonishing strength of personality or an > unusual disregard for social approbation to be original in science, > or anywhere else. More often than not, an astonishing strength of > personality is a pain to put up with. As a consequence, scientific > arguments transform themselves into feuds that are painful, comical, > unedifying, but scientifically energizing. (Machines Who Think, p. 172) Where are our feuds? 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 Sep 23 05:06:18 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 666423B78F; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92A1C3B77E; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090923050614.92A1C3B77E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.315 events: democratizing knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 315. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:34:35 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: Join HASTAC Scholars' forum on Democratizing Knowledge /NancyKimberly has sent you a group e-mail from HASTAC./ Dear colleagues, Many of you are perfect examples of, and experts on, our newest HASTAC Scholars' forum: Democratizing Knowledge (to see the first posts, scroll down). Public scholarship, community collaboration, action research, civically engaged pedagogy -- I know the HASTAC community would love to hear from you. Here's the link: http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/democratizing-k... [1] Organizations like HASTAC [2], Imagining America [3], the Obermann Graduate Institute for Public Engagement at the University of Iowa [4], the Center for Teaching at the University of Iowa [5], and the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington [6] aim to democratize knowledge to reach out to "publics," share academic discoveries, and invite an array of audiences to participate in knowledge production.  Of course, emerging technologies and media offer the potential to widen even further the reach of public scholarship and the breadth of community partnerships. More specifically, in the context of the digital humanities, democratizing knowledge often refers to making scholarship public, to opening access to university resources and research through, for example, the creation and preservation of digital archives and journals. For scholars, these projects afford rich possibilities for deep collaborative work that is ongoing and historically absent from the humanities' scholarly paradigm. Yet practitioners of the digital humanities can also democratize knowledge by collaborating with their community partners to produce public scholarship, often through action research, experiential learning, and civically engaged pedagogy, all of which ultimately re-situate and reformulate expertise. According to Teresa Mangum (faculty at University of Iowa and co-director of the Obermann Institute on Public Engagement), as with new information technologies, public scholarship can radically redefine who finds, owns, and gives knowledge.  Put this way, the goal is for practitioners to forward research and pedagogy while serving the community in a way that is a truly reciprocal partnership. With democratizing knowledge and the digital humanities in mind, we are interested in learning more about people's varying experiences in (and theories on) the use of emerging technologies and media to make scholarship public and/or produce public scholarship. We invite you to join us as we discuss + The requirements, terms, goals, practices and hopes for public scholarship or engaging with public(s) vary depending on the project and groups interacting. What are your best practices for developing and implementing projects with your community? + What are the benefits and risks to consider when developing community-driven or joint academic-community projects? + How are terms like "democracy," "public," and "scholarship" mobilized in digital humanities projects, for whom, and to what effects? What are the assumptions, definitions, and desires attached to each of these terms? + How do community partnerships affect perceptions and deployments of expertise? Does the notion of "the expert" change or collapse?" + How do you evaluate different forms of technology for your public knowledge projects? Have some forms of technology been more useful or productive than others? Best, Nancy Kimberly HASTAC Project Manager [1] http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/democratizing-knowledge-digital-humanities [2] http://www.hastac.org [3] http://www.imaginingamerica.org/ [4] http://www.uiowa.edu/obermann/ [5] http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecenteach/ [6] http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/index.php -- HASTAC Announcements are sent to all members of HASTAC.org. 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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 Sondheim (93) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.313 digital hot [2] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: batteries digitalized --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.313 digital hot Just want to point out that many batteries have electronics in them that, among other things, often register the degree of discharge; these are made specifically for digital devices, and I've heard them referred to as digital batteries accordingly. - Alan == current text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qg.txt sondheim mail-text archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com == --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:26:46 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: batteries digitalized I stand corrected on the electronics of modern batteries, even as I use one of them. I was still thinking in the manner of Volta, of the battery I made from blotting paper and a couple of coins when I was very young. So, the linguistic situation is even more interesting than I had supposed. Here is an interesting question about context: what tells us which meaning of "digital" (zeroes & ones vs hot) in any given instance? Certainly not the transcribed words. 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 Sep 24 05:22:47 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 BB9DB3CB28; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D56DA3CB11; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090924052245.D56DA3CB11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.317 student bursaries? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 317. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:12:29 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Student bursaries? Hi Everyone, Over at ACH, we're trying to collate a list of bursaries that are available for students/young schoalrs to help them attend events in Digital Humanities events. For example - the student bursaries available from ADHO to go to the Digital Humanities Conferences - the bursaries available to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at Victoria Are there any others out there that we should know of? Any pointers gratefully received! Melissa -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication Department of 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/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Digital Images for the Information Professional. Available now through all good bookshops, or from Ashgate at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=324&title_id=8986&edition_id=9780 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 24 05:24:06 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 BC99A3CBC6; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DB0E3CBBE; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090924052404.7DB0E3CBBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:24:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 23.318 recommendations for field laser scanners? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 318. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:11:51 +0100 From: Dan O'Donnell Subject: Field Laser Scanning Hi all, For a grant application, I need to submit quotes on field laser scanning. We need to scan the Bewcastle, Ruthwell, and perhaps Brussels crosses to a very high degree of detail. Ruthwell is in a church, Bewcastle exposed in a field, and Brussels in a cathedral treasury. Ruthwell and Bewcastle are stone and around 15 feet tall; Brussels is partially gilt, and a couple of feet tall at most. We may use a different technique on Brussels. In the past we've used Archaeoptics, but my understanding i